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- 1 - This Orbiston was Lord Justice Clerk. He had charters of Provan near Glasgow, and Erskine in Renfrewshire, the latter of which he bought from the Earl of Mar in 1638.
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2 - Sir John Hamilton of Orbistoun, who had a precept of clare constat, from Mag' Robert Boyd, provost of the Collegiate Church of Bothwell, of the lands of Orhistouii, See. dated the 5th Decemher 1621. He was served heir to his father in all his lands, 22d February 1623.
He had a charter of the lands of Orbistoun,&c. dated 28th November 1635, and another charter, under the'' great seal, " Domino Johanni Hamilton de Orhistoun, iniliti, tenandria de Provan,
in vicecomitatn de L'lnark, de novo unit. &c." dated 16th January 1638.
He was a man of singular merit and extraordinary accomplishments ; which is sufficiently instructed by Bishop Burnet's printed letters, &c.
He was appointed one of the senators of the College of Justice, and afterwards Lord Justice Clerk, which appears by another charter,— Domino Johanni Hamilton, militi, Justiciariae Clerico,
terrarum dondnij de Erskine, in viceeomitatibus de Renfrew et Dunbarton, de novo unit." dated 24th December 1638. (This property was alienated, in 1638, to Sir John of Orhistoun, by John, Earl of Mar. It continued in the family until his grandson William sold it to Walter, Lord Blantyre, in 1703)
He married, first, Rachel, daughter of James Bonar of Rossie, in Fife, by whom he had only two daughters:
1. Christian, married to John Robertoun of Ernock.
2. Agnes,
Sir John married, secondly, Margaret, daughter of Sir John Henderson of Fordel, by whom he had issue:
1. Sir James, his heir.
1. Daughter, Margaret, married to Colonel Sir William Lockhart of Lee, and had issue— only one son.
2. Bethia, married to James Hamilton of Woodhall.
3. Daughter, married to her cousin Sir John Henderson of Fordel.
4. Daughter, married to Hugh Crawford of Jordanhill.
(Historical and genealogical memoirs of the house of Hamilton : with genealogical memoirs of the several branches of the family by Anderson, John, 1789-1832; Pub. 1825) [1]
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