James D Hamilton was not found in any of the following:
Calendar of New Jersey wills, administrations, etc, Volume 30 By New Jersey Historical Society, William Nelson, et. al.
Cape May, New Jersey, Marriage Records - at NEHGS
Collections of the New Jersey Historical Society, Volume 8
Early church records of Atlantic & Cape May Counties, New Jersey, edited by Barbara Epler Wright. - Lookup from Worcester Public Library on Aug 21, 2009
Genealogy of the Duke-Shepherd-Van Metre family: from civil, military ... By Samuel Gordon Smyth, images at Google books, Aug 21, 2009, looked for Cape May genealogy 'Cape May' hamilton genealogy
Historic homes and places and genealogical and personal memoirs ..., Volume 4, by William Richard Cutter
History of Cape May County, New Jersey: from the aboriginal times to the ... By Lewis Townsend Stevens
Hughes family of Cape May County, New Jersey, 1650-1950
New England historical and genealogical register, Volume 52
New Jersey coast in three centuries: history of the New Jersey ..., Volume 2 By Peter Ross, Fenwick Y. Hedley
Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, Volume 1,2, and 6
Publications of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, Volume 6, By Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania
Scannell's New Jersey's first citizens and state guide By William Edgar Sacket
Semi-centennial celebration of the founding of the New Jersey Historical ...By New Jersey Historical Society
Session Book of the Presbyterian Church of Cape May, NJ, in The Mayflower Descendant Vol VIII (1906).
Sketch of the early history of Cape May county, to accompany the geological ... By Maurice Beesley
This is New Jersey By John T. Cunningham
Nov 30, 2006, at the Gale Group, 19th century newspapers online.
Searched for available Philadelphia papers:
Mechanics' Free Press
Aurora and Franklin Gazette
North American
Pennsylvania Inquirer
for:
1 Jan 1838 to 31 Dec 1839
+James + Hamilton + apprentice
and 1 Jan 1837 to 31 Dec 1838
and 1 Jan 1836 to 31 Dec 1837
and 1 Jan 1834 to 31 Dec 1835
Nothing found.
microfilms from Family History Library of Quaker meetings:
Great Egg Harbor, Atlantic Co., N.J. and Cape May, Cape May Co., N.J. Monthly Meeting : births & deaths 1681-1841, marriages 1809-1837, minute 1726-1843
Marriages performed by Rev. David Jenkins at Washington (now South River) & Cape May in New Jersey, 1805-1826 and Great Valley, Pennsylvania, 1745-1799
Monthly meeting records, 1693-1837
Records from the Great Egg Harbor, Atlantic County, and the Maurice River, Cumberland County monthly meeting of Friends
Records of Great Egg Harbor & Cape May Monthly Meeting of Friends (Gloucester County, New Jersey), 1681-1817
But there is no reason to think he was a Quaker.