John Hamilton, 3rd Lord Belhaven

John HAMILTON Lord Belhaven

Governor of Barbadoes

Evidence from the National Records of Scotland

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21 December 1703: Bond of provision by Andrew Bruce, merchant, late bailie of Edinburgh, in favour of Margaret Hamiltone, his grandchild, daughter of John, Master of Belhaven. National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Brooke Family of Biel, reference GD6/1401

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11 March 1704: Instrument of Sasine in favour of Mrs Ann Bruce spouse to John Master of Belhaven, in liferent, during her widowity in a yearly annual rent of 6,000 merks to be uplifted and taken out of the lands of Wester spot of Grindine road and neuk and others therein described lying within the Constabulary of Haddington and Sheriffdom of Edinburgh. Recorded in the Particular Register of Sasines at Edinburgh 14 Mar 1704. National Records of Scotland, Register House charters, 3rd or Extractor's series, reference RH8/183

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11 August 1705: Myreside, East Fortune, Houston, Fantassie and East Linton, parishes of Athelstaneford and Prestonkirk: Instrument of sasine in favour of Mr Andrew Hamilton, second son, and Margaret Hamilton, eldest daughter of John, master of Belhaven, of an annualrent. PRS Edinburgh, 28 September 1705. National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Brooke Family of Biel, reference GD6/537

Genealogy

1. The Scots Peerage II: 46
2. John Anderson, Historical and Genealogical Memoirs of the House of Hamilton with Genealogical Memoirs of the Several Branches (John Anderson, junior, Edinburgh MDCCCXXV), pp. 249-251 for an account of the Hamiltons of Broomhill but see pp. 425-31 for a corrected account of Hamilton of Broomhill in the Birnie Manuscript
3. The heraldry of the Hamiltons: with notes on all the males of the family, descriptions of the arms, plates and pedigrees by G. Harvey Johnston, Published 1909, page 36, paragraph 107
4. Stirnet: Hamilton 04

Biographical Summary from The Scots Peerage

John, third Lord Belhaven, the eldest son, succeeded his father in 1708. He was chosen one of the sixteen Representative Peers for Scotland in 1715, was appointed one of the Gentlemen of the Chamber to George, Prince of Wales, and commanded the East Lothian troop of Horse at Sheriffmuir 13 November 1715. He was appointed Governor of Barbados, and was lost on his passage out to that colony on board the Royal Anne Gallery, off the Lizard, 17 November 1721. He married Anne, daughter of Andrew Bruce, merchant in Edinburgh, a cadet of the family of Earlshall in Fife, and had issue." The Scots Peerage, Vol. II, page 46