Historical and genealogical memoirs of the House of Hamilton

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HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL MEMOIRS
dalziel. and 1814; and in the 2d Regiment of
™ Dragoons, or Scots Greys, at the battle
of Waterloo.
He married Miss Ramsay, daughter
of William Ramsay, Esq. Banker in
Edinburgh, by whom he had issue, three
children, two sons and a daughter, of
whom one son survives.
1. John F. Hamilton, born in 1819.
Mrs Hamilton died at Cadiz on the
24th Angust 1824, where she had stopt
in the course of a voyage undertaken for
the recovery of her health ; in which
voyage she was accompanied by her
husband and other relatives.
Arms. — First and fourth, gules, an
annulet, Or, between three cinquefoils,
ermine, for Orbiston ; second and third,
gules, a mollet, argent, between three
cinquefoils, ermine, a rose proper, in
chief, argent, for Rosehall.
Supporters. — On the dexter side,
an antelope, proper, gorged with ducal
crown, and chains thereto affixed, Or ;
on the sinister ssde, a savage, proper,
wreathed, holding in sinister a club.
Crest. — An antelope, proper, gorged,
with ducal crown and chains appended.
Motto. — " Quis Occursabit."
Bwfym&nt,
CO. OF LINLITHGOW.
Nisb. Her. i.
395.
dechmont. I. The first of this family, which
Nisbet says was descended from the
Hamiltons of Torrence, met with in re-
cords, is Robert Hamilton of Dech-
Acts of Pari. mont. In 16G1, l:e was commissioner
of supply for the co. of Linlithgow. On
the 11th November 1663, he obtained
from the Duke of Hamilton, as superior,
a sasine for a piece of waste ground ad-
joining the town of Bo'ness. The same
Purl. R.c. year he was nominated one of the justices
of the peace for the co. of Linlithgow.
In 1683, 20th February, he granted as-
signation of a bond for 1007. to his son
John Hamilton. He is designed, in this
deed, Major Robert Hamilton. He was
succeeded by the said,
II. John Hamilton of Dechmont, In l- Ret - Lin -
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who, on the 19th October 1683, is re-
toured heir to his father, Major Robert,
of the half of the lands of the barony of
Dechmont. In 1685 he was appointed Pari. Rec.
one of the commissioners of supply for
the co. of Linlithgow. On the 20th
November 1717, it appears from his tes-
tament dative, that he assigned the fore-
said bond in favour of his executor-
creditor, Alexander Hamilton, Writer
to the Signet, (second son of James Ha-
milton of Pencaitland, Lord Pencait-
land,) who obtained a charter of the
lands and barony of Dechmont, dated
26th July 1714. Alexander Hamilton
is subscriber to Wodrow's Church His-
tory in 1721, when he is designed of