Transplanting a Seattleite

Yeah, I'm thinking the whole thing must be a data entry error (possibly a modern one) in the 1820 census. In which case there is no particular reason to think Nathaniel Hamlin was in Elk Anything at all. I did see something about William Hamlin being born in Salt Lick Creek, but whether there's a town of that name or only the river (the north fork of the Licking River per http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/c/o/l/James-R-Columbia/FILE/0005page.html) I don't know. (It goes near Vanceburg in Lewis County.)

http://iagenweb.org/boards/audubon/obituaries/index.cgi?read=16300 says William was born in New Jersey before his family moved to Kentucky.