Historical and genealogical memoirs of the House of Hamilton

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HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL MEMOIRS
UAi.ziKt.. Marquis of Montrose were his imme-
diate predecessors in that office.
Wood's iver- He married Lady Elizabeth Cun-
age, i. 638. ninghame, * daughter of William, ninth
Earl of Glencairn, Lord High-Chancel-
lor of Scotland, by whom he had issue :
ibid. ii. :jii. 1. James, his apparent heir, who
married Henrietta MaeGill, Viscountess
of Oxfurd; but he died before his father,
without issue.
William of Orbistoun had several
other children, who all died before their
father, and he himself dying without
surviving issue, in him ended the whole
male issue of Sir John, Lord Justice
Clerk : the representation therefore de-
volved upon the descendants of his bro-
ther James, to whom we now return.
VI. James Hamilton of Dalzicl,
second son of John Hamilton of Orbis-
toun, acquired a considerable estate.
Mug. Sig.'Lib. He obtained from King Charles the
Second a charter, under the great seal,
" Jacobo Hamilton de Dalziel, terrarum
de Cambuslang," &c. dated 31st Aug.
1663.
in Canceiiaria He was originally designed of Boggs,
as appears from a charter granted dur-
ing Cromwell's usurpation, " to James
Hamilton of Boggs, of the barony of
Dalziel," dated 26th August 1647.
He married Jean, daughter of Sir
John Henderson of Fordel, by whom he
had a numerous issue :
1. Alexander, his heir.
2. Robert, the first of Monkland.
3. James, the first of Boggs. His
tenth and youngest son, Sir David Ha-
milton, was chief physician to Queen
Anne.
1. Daughter, Anne, married to David Baronage, 459.
Boswcll of Auchinleck, and had issue.
James of Dalziel died in the month Com. IUcGIus.
of February 1668, as appears from his
registered testament, 11th Dec. 1669.
VII. Alexander Hamilton of Dal- Mag. sig. Lib.
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ziel, who had a charter of the lands and
barony of Dalziel, dated 24th May 1671.
He married Bethia, daughter of Sir
William Henderson of Fordel, by whom
he had issue :
1. James, his heir.
2. William of Greenhead.
1. Daughter, Jean, married to Charles
Stewart of Dunearn, Esq., descended of
the Earls of Moray, and was mother to
James Stewart, Esq. Lord Provost of
Edinburgh ; and several daughters ho-
nourably married.
2. Elizabeth, married to Alexander
MacDougall of Corrochtree.
Alexander of Dalziel died in 1692,
and was succeeded by his son,
VIII. James Hamilton of Dalziel. '™i- Ret. Lan.
. e 398.
He was retoured heir to his father on
the 18th March 1692, in the barony of
Dalziel, the half lands of Dalziel, called
Dalziel-Nesbit, with the patronages of
the churches and chapels of the same,
within the parishes of Hamilton and
Dalziel, united to the barony of Dalziel.
« She survived her husband, and was matrimonially contracted to William Fullarton of that
Ilk in Ayrshire ; but, before the marriage could be solemnized, she was taken suddenly ill and
died. — Rob. Gen. of Cunninghame, ii. 114.