John Hamilton of Newton

JOHN HAMILTON OF NEWTON

John Hamilton of Newton is the son of James Hamilton of Silvertonhill. Hamilton Memoirs, p. 377 He is not the same person as John Hamilton of Ferguslie who is the son of John Hamilton of Oribiston Hamilton Memoirs, p. 283

Biographical Summary

John Hamilton, designed of Newton, who obtained from Hugh, Lord Somerville, a charter for the five pound lands Tweedie, and the five pound lands of Catscastle, in the barony of Stonehouse, which was confirmed under the Great Seal of Scotland on 26 March, 1531. Register of the Great Seal of Scotland, 1513-46, charter number 999 on page 220 He married a daughter of Sir John Somerville of Quodquan. Henry Colburn, Peerage & baronetage of Great Britain & Ireland (1839), page 494