Historical and genealogical memoirs of the House of Hamilton

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HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL MEMOIRS
blair. IV. Peter Hamilton, first, minister
Crawf.MS.Gen.at Cramond, afterwards at Leith, and
Coll. Ad. Lib. g ub . Dean of tne Chapel Royal. He
was promoted, by Charles the Second,
to the Episcopal See of Dunkeld, and
died after the Revolution, without having
issue; as Crawford says, " a pleasant
facetious gentleman, and an excellent
companion over a bottle, as I have been
told by some who knew him."
Nisb. Her. The arms of Hamilton of Blair were
i. 396.
— Quarterly 1st and 4th gules, three
cinquefoils, ermine, 2d and 3d argent.
A ship with her sails furled up, sable, for
Arran ; all within a border gabonated
of eight pieces, argent and gules, charged
alternately with a St Andrew's cross,
and a buckle interchanged of the on»
and the other.
Crest. — an oaken plant, proper.
Motto. — " Dum in Arborem"
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PARISH OF BLANTYBE.
BLANTER-
FERME.
Com. Rec.
Gl«.
Slier. Rec.
Ham.
I. William Hamilton of Blanter-
• ferme is the first that has been met with.
According to Nisbet, in his Heraldry,
vol. i. p. 395, the family was descended
from the Hamiltons of Boreland; he
was succeeded by,
II. Gavin Hamilton of Blanter-
ferme, who, on the 15th October 1594,
was cautioner for Mr John Hamilton,
Provost of Bothwell, for the payment
of certain sums of money " due Marion
Baxter, dochter to umquhile Johne
Baxter in Bothwell."
He married Margaret Hamilton, by
whom he had issue, William, who suc-
ceeded him. His widow afterwards
married James Hamilton in Turielaw.
III. William Hamilton of Blanter-inq. Ret. Lan.
ferme, who, on the 3d May 1606, was 61 '
retoured heir to his grandfather, Wil-
liam, in the lands of Blanterferme,
within the Barony of Blantyre.
He was one of the committee of war scots Acts of
in 1648 for the co. of Lanark. He Parl -
married Jean, daughter of Sir Robert Bart. Rober-
Cunuinghame of Gilbertfield, as appears ton ' p-
from his having infeft her in the lands
of Blanterferme on the 19th August
1619, by whom he had issue:
1. John, bis successor.
1. Daughter, Elizabeth, who, in 1675, Com. Rec.
appears as a creditor of Baillie James
Hamilton for " ye sowme of Cc lib.
Scottis."