Historical and genealogical memoirs of the House of Hamilton

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HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL MEMOIRS
innerwick. Baronage, lie left no succession, in him
~" ended the male line of Sir Alexander
Hamilton of Fenton, son of Sir Alex-
ander of Innerwick, by his first wife,
Margaret Whytelaw, whereby the re-
presentation devolved upon the descend-
ants of Sir James Hamilton of Hoprig,
eldest son of the said Sir Alexander, by
his second wife, Christian Hamilton, to
whom we now return.
X. Sir James Hamilton of Hoprig,
who, on his father's resignation, had a
Mag. Sig. Lib. charter, " Domino Jacobo Hamilton de
Hoprig, militi, filio inter Dominum Alex-
andrum Hamilton, militem, et Dominant
Christinam Hamilton, ejus conjugem, pro-
creat. fyc. tolas et integras terras et baro-
niam de Ballencrieff, cum manerii loco,"
&c. dated 19th November 1615.
He married Anne, daughter of Sir
Thomas Otterburn of Redhall ; which
Privy Seal, Lib. appears by a charter, upon the resigna-
tion of the said Sir Thomas, " Anna
Otterburn, Jiliee legitime natu maxima
Domini Thomm Otterburn de Redhall,
militis, et Domino Jacobo Hamilton de
Hoprig, militi, sua; conjugi, totas et in-
tegras terras de Redhall," &c, dated 24th
September 1616.
By the said Anne Otterburn he had
issue :
1. Sir James of Redhall.
2. Andrew, also designed of Redhall.
Scots Acts of
Pail
XI. Sir James Hamilton of Red-
' ' hall, who disponed the lands of Monk-
tonhall to his brother Andrew, and who,
dying without issue, was succeeded by
the said,
XI. Andrew Hamilton of Redhall,
who was succeeded by his son,
XII. James Hamilton of Ballen- ln<j. Ret. Lin.
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crieff, who, on the 19th July 160/7, was
retoured heir to Andrew Hamilton of
Redhall, his father, in the lands and
barony of Ballencrieff, &c.
He married Dame Margaret Nichol- Ibid. Stir. 302.
son, daughter of Thomas Nicholson of
Carnock, who was served heir to her
father on the 6th September 1686, and
by whom he had issue,
XIII. Alexander Hamilton of Bal-
lencrieff, who was Postmaster-General
for Scotland,andrepresentativein several
Parliaments for the co. of Linlithgow.
He had a charter, under the great seal,
of all his lands in 1720.
Sir Robert Douglas, the author of the
Baronage, who was his contemporary,
says, that he was a man of great in-
tegrity and honour.
He married Lady Mary Ker, fourth Wood's Peer-
daughter of William, second Marquis or '
Lothian, by whom he had issue :
1. William- Henry, died young.
2. James, his heir.
3. Alexander, Fort-Major at Sheer-
ness, who died in 1786, leaving issue :
1. Alexander Hamilton, C.B., Lieutenant-
Colonel commanding the 30th Regt.,
in India; and one daughter, Henrietta.
4. Archibald, Colonel in the Army in
America, who had charge of the Queen's
County, and commanded its Militia
during the American war, and who died
near, and was buried at, Dunfermline
in 1795. He married Alice, daughter