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• Name: Samuel Hemphill
• Born: 1760 in Tipperary, Ireland
• Father: unkown
• Mother: unknown
• Married:
• Spouse: Isabella Mercer
• Children:
• Robert J. Hemphill
• James A. Hemphill
• Thomas Hemphill
• Elizabeth Hemphill
• Died: 1840 in Danielsville, Madison County, Georgia
• Buried: unknown

Sources:

• 1820 US Census, Georgia, Madison County. Samuel Hemphill; Free white males under 10, 1; Free white males 10–15, 1; Free white males 45 and over, 1; Free white females under 10, 1; Free white females 45 and over, 1; Number of persons engaged in agriculture, 2; Free white persons under 16, 3; Free white persons over 25, 2; Total free white persons, 5; Total all persons, 5.
• https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/hemphill/167/ by Diane Goutchkoff April 01, 1999 gives children but no sources.

• https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/hemphill/1329/ by Diane Goutchkoff September 21, 2002 gives more information about Samuel immigrating from Ireland and mentions a letter from 1785 and a family bible record but no additional source details.

  "[Samuel] left his home in Tipperary, sailed from Cork, and settled near present-day Danielsville, GA,in 1785, according to a letter dated May 1785 written to his brother John in Cashel. Although the ship Samuel came over on (left Cork Dec 1783, arrived SC Feb 1784), put in to Charleston, that is not where it was bound. It was bound for Philadelphia, but all the northern ports were closed due to bad weather. The[ ]crossing took only 3 weeks, but they spent 5 more weeks looking for an open harbor. Charleston was the first port they were able to access. [...] Nancy was remarried to a Mr. Benton. Two of Nancy's sons were living in other households, probably the people they were apprenticed to. Story is that Willis did not like Mr. Benton, so he left GA and went to MS to live with his mother's brother, Thomas Deen/Dean, who was a JP in Rankin Co."

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/195788966/robert-jefferson-hemphill