Sir John Hamilton of Lettrick, Knight

SIR JOHN HAMILTON OF LETTRICK

Sheriff Depute of Lanark

The Scots Peerage III: 27

Marriage

RMS 1593-1608: charter number 2086

Evidence from the Protocol Books of the Town Clerks of Glasgow

18 January 1598-99: Sir John Hamilton of Lettrick, Sheriff depute of Lanark, gave sasine of the lands and barony of Blantyre, and other lands, to Walter, Lord Blantyre. The Protocol Book of George Huchesone, 1591-1600, charter number 3425 on pp. 54-7

Evidence from the Register of the Privy Council of Scotland

2 July 1628: Sir John Hamilton of Lettrick is one of the Commissioners appointed by King Charles I to survey the laws "in his ancient kingdome of Scotland." Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, A.D. 1630-32, pp. 137-38

Printed Evidence

Registrum Magni Sigilli Regum Scotorum. The Register of the Great Seal of Scotland. A. D. 1593-1608. Edited by John Maitland Thomson, MA., Advocate. (H. M. General Register House, Edinburgh, 1890), 1142 pp. including indices and errata

Biographical Summary

Lord John Hamilton had a natural son afterwards Sir John Hamilton of Lettrick (legitimated on 22 December 1600). He married Jean, daughter of Alexander Campbell, Bishop of Brechin, and was father of the first Lord Bargany. The Scots Peerage IV: 373

Sir John Hamilton of Lettrick natural son of John, first Marquess of Hamilton obtained a legitimation under the Great Seal, 22 December 1600, and acquired considerable estates. He had a charter of confirmation to himself, and Jean Campbell his wife, of the castle of Kinclevin, in Perthshire, 25 May 1608. He had a charter 15 June 1624, of the lands of Bargany, from whence he took his ultimate desigation, Carlock, and other lands of Ayrshire. He died soon after 1637. By his wife, Jean, daughter of Alexander Campbell, Bishop of Brechin, of the Ardkinglass family, he had issue. The Scots Peerage II: 27

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