Historical and genealogical memoirs of the House of Hamilton

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HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL MEMOIRS
lord milton of Wishaw ; Archibald, born 7th
BELHAVEN.
; January 1703, died young, and Char-
lotte, designed, in 1772, of Halleraig.
2. John, Writer to the Signet, no-
ticed in Carnwath's Memoirs, as the per-
son dispatched by the Jacobites in Scot-
land, in 1708, to the Duke of Hamil-
ton, then at Ashton in Lancashire, with
the intelligence of the projected inva-
sion of the French and the Pretender.
He married a daughter of Garshore of
that Ilk, and had two daughters, Helen,
married, in 1741, to Sir Patrick Mur-
ray of Auchtertyre, Bart, and had issue,
and died at Gorthy, 11th July 1773;
and Jacobina, married to Sir George
Dunbar of Mochrum, Bart., and had
issue, and died at Edinburgh, 28th Ja-
nuary 1792.
3. William, born 6th August 1685,
bred to the law in Scotland ; went to
London soon after the Union, and was
admitted to the English bar. He mar-
ried Helen, daughter of David Hay of
Woodcockdale in the co. of Linlithgow,
sister of David Bruce of Kinnaird, and
had one son, the Right Hon. William
Gerard Hamilton, born inLincoln's-Inn-
Fields, 28th January 1729, electedM.P.
for Petersfield on a vacancy, in 1754,
sat for other places in eight successive
Parliaments, and was 42 years in the
House of Commons. He was Chancel-
lor of the Exchequer in Ireland, from
1763 till 1784, and was one of the re-
puted authors of the Letters of Junius.
He died, unmarried, at Loudon on
16th July 1796, in the 6Sth year of his
age, and was buried in the chancel
vault of St Martin's-in-the-Fields. His
paternal estate devolved on his cousin,
William Hamilton of Lincoln's-Inn-
Fields.
4. Thomas, an officer in the army,
died unmarried.
5. Alexander, solicitor of law at Lon-
don, who took a great interest in the
education of James Bruce of Kinnaird,
the Abyssinian traveller, nephew of the
wife of his brother William. He mar-
ried, first, a daughter of Colonel Dal-
ziell, by whom he had no issue ; second-
ly, Miss Liilie, and had two sons, Wil-
liam Hamilton, Esq. of Lincoln's-Inn-
Fields, married, and had two daughters;
and the Rev. and learned Anthony Ha-
milton, D. D. Archdeacon of Colches-
ter, Vicar of St Martin's-in-the-Fields,
and Rector of Stadham in Hertford-
shire.
1. Helen, born 11th August 1677,
married to Andrew Baillie of Parbroath
in Fife, and had issue.
2. Catherine, born 13th May 1682,
married to David Pitcairn, minister of
Dysart, and had issue.
3. Mary, married to Dr David Bal-
four, son of Sir Michael Balfour of Den-
miln, and had no issue.
4. Janet, married to Gartshore of
that Ilk, and had no issue.
5. Christian, died young.
6. Anne, bom 11th February 1692,
married to James Bogle, Esq. receiver-
general of the customs in Scotland, and
had issue.
4. Robert Hamilton, younger of Wi-
shaw, the second son, died before his Wood, i. eos.
father, having married, in 1686, Jean,