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• 1638 - Hamilton is settled
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
• 1793 - Hamilton is incorporated
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
• 1839 - Hamilton
  Hamilton, Massachusetts
  Essex county. This is a beautiful farming town, and most of the inhabitants are engaged in cultivating it. There are some vessels built here, and some manufactures of leather, boots, and shoes. The town is quite small. Population, 1837, 827. Taken from Ipswich in 1793. It lies 8 miles N. by E. from Salem.
  The New England Gazetteer containing descriptions of all the states, counties and towns in New England: also descriptions of the principal mountains, rivers lakes, capes, bays, harbors, islands and fashionable resorts within that territory. Alphabetically arranged. By John Hayward, author of the Columbian Traveller, Religious Creeds, &c. &c. Boston: John Hayward. Boyd & White, Concord, N.H. 1839
  
• 1845 - HAMILTON. [Pop. 818. Inc. 1793.]
  Hamilton, formerly a part of Ipswich, was named after Alexander Hamilton, a distinguished statesman, and fiiend of Washington.
  
  Agriculture is the chief resource of the inhabitants.
  
  Chebacco River, the outlet of Chebacco Pond, divides the town ; and Ipswich River separates it from Ipswich and Topsfield.
  
  Distance from Salem, 8 miles; from Boston, 26.
  An Elementary Geography for Massachusetts Children by William Bentley Fowle and Asa Fitz, 1845
  
• 1854 - Hamilton
  Hamilton, a post-township of Essex county, Massachusetts, bordering on the Ipswich river, and intersected by the Eastern railroad, 22 miles N. by E. from Boston. Incorporated in 1793. Population, 889.
  A New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States: Giving a Full and Comprehensive Review of the Present Condition, Industry, and Resources of the American Confederacy ... Thomas Baldwin (of Philadelphia.) Joseph Thomas January 1, 1854 Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo & Company 1854.
  
• 1859
  HAMILTON, a township in Essex co., in Massachusetts, 22 m. NNE of Boston, on a branch of Ipswich river. Pop. 818.
  A Gazetteer of the World: Or, Dictionary of Geographical Knowledge, Publisher A. Fullarton, 1859
  
• Hamilton Massachusetts, 1890
  Hamilton is a pleasant rural town in the central part of Essex County, and is intersected by the Eastern line of the Boston and. Maine Railroad, 24 miles northeast of Boston. The Essex Branch runs from the main line eastward through the town. Ipswich lies on the north, Essex on the east, Manchester and Wenham on the south, and Topsfield on the west.
  
  Except on the southern side (which is a straight line) the outline of the town is extremely irregular. The assessed area is 8,825 acres. Of this, 1,835 acres are forest, consisting chiefly of hemlock and pine. The land is rather level; Vineyard Hill in the west, and Brown's Hill in the southeast, being the highest elevations. Chebacco, Gravel, Round and. Beck's ponds diversify the southeastern section of the town; a large swamp occupies the southwestern. angle; and Miles River runs across the town from south to north, parallel with the central village. Black Brook drains the northwest part of the town, discharging into Ipswich River,... Read MORE...
  
  
• 1895 - Hamilton
  Hamilton, a post-village and summer resort of Essex co., Mass., in Hamilton township, on the Eastern Railroad (Essex Branch), 8 miles N. of Salem. It has a church, district schools, an isinglass-factory, and a woollen-mill. Pop. of the township, 961.
  Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott
  
•   1910 - GALE FANS FLAMES THAT WORK $200,000 DAMAGE IN STATE.
  Conflagration at South Hamilton Sweeps Away 21 Buildings and Renders 15 Homeless - Ice Houses Burn in Essex, Seven Homes in Revere.
  
  ASHLAND IS THREATENED BY BLAZE THAT DESTROYS THREE DWELLINGS
  GREAT NORTH SHORE FIRE SUMMARIZED
  
  Started in "cottage" house in Hamilton, presumably from a defective flue.
  
  Burned a strip three-quarters of a mile long through business, residential and summer colony sections of Hamilton, destroying twenty-one buildings at a loss of $100,000.
  
  Ember, carried by gale, set fire to and destroyed eight ice houses in Essex, a mile away; blazed path two miles long through timberland and endangered Essex Center.
  
  Steamers from Beverly and Ipswich forced to pump from a rain water pond in Hamilton. Old Wenham handtub "Phoenix" saved only building left standing in burned area.
  
  In Essex steamer from Salem was mired and firemen set backfires to save summer camps.
  
  Loss in both towns estimated at $175,000.
  
  A March gale, running with throttle wide open, ... Read MORE...
  
  
• 1916
  Hamilton, a post-village and summer-resort of Essex co., Mass., in Hamilton township (town), on the Boston and Maine R., 8 miles N. of Salem. Pop. of the town in 1900, 1614.
  Lippincotts New Gazetteer: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World, Containing the Most Recent and Authentic Information Respecting the Countries, Cities, Towns, Resorts, Islands, Rivers, Mountains, Seas, Lakes, Etc., in Every Portion of the Globe, Part 1 Angelo Heilprin Louis Heilprin - January 1, 1916 J.B. Lippincott - Publisher
  
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