Historical and genealogical memoirs of the House of Hamilton

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HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL MEMOIRS
fgolmtyeaft,
CO. OF RENFREW.
xlvi. No. 287.
Ibid.
xlviii. No. 43.
holmhead. I. James Hamilton of Aikenhead,
Baillie'sGen. merchant, and provost of Glasgow,
Hist. MS. penes secon ^ son f J ames Hamilton of Tor-
ranee, was the first of this family. He
Mag. Sig. Lib. had a charter, under the great seal,
" to James Hamilton, merchant in Glas-
gow, and to Elizabeth Adam, his wife,
and Robert, their son, of the lands of
MeiMe and Little Aikenhead," dated
17th December 1611; also another
charter of the lands of Langsyde, dated
10th January 1616.
From the Records of the City of
Glasgow, it appears that he was thrice
provost, from 1614 to 1617, 1621 to
1623, and from 1627 to 1629.
By the said Elizabeth Adam he had
issue :
I. Robert, his heir.
Craw. Gen. L Daughter married to Sir William
MS. 26. Mure of Rowallan.
II. Robert Hamilton of Aiken-
head, who, on the 28th December 1633,
Inq. Ret. Ren. was retoured heir to James Hamilton
98 ' of Aikenhead, his father, in the lands of
Langsyde, in the barony of Renfrew.
He was succeeded by his son,
clviii. No. 44.
lviii. 336.
III. James Hamilton of Aikenhead,
who was retoured heir to Robert Ha-
milton, his father, in the lands of Lang-
syde, with the Mill, in the barony of
Renfrew, of date 10th October 1649.
He had a charter, under the great Mag. sig. Lib.
seal, " to James Hamilton, younger of
Aikenhead, of the lands of Aikenhead,"
dated 11th May 1647, and another
charter, of the lands of Hagtonhill, dated ibid.
in 1662.
He suffered severely by fines and im-
prisonment during the persecutions on
account of religion, under the reigns ofw drow,i.4i7,
Charles the Second, and his brother, ""
James the Second.
He was thrice married, and, what is
not a little singular, had thirty children
in all, — twelve by the first wife, eight
by the second, and ten by the third. His
first wife was Anne, daughter of John •
Porterfield of that Ilk ; the name of the
second is not known ; the third was
Margaret, daughter of James MuirheadNisb. Her. ii.
of Bredisholme, by Grizel, daughter of
James Hamilton of Westport : by this
lady he had five sons and five daughters,
but no sons by the first two. Of his