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by Annabella, daughter of Walter Stewartn of Pardovan, by whom he had issue:
| 1. John 2. Robert |
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successively Lairds of Grange. |
| 3. Alexander. He married Rachel Cuninghame, daughter of James Cuninghame of Collellan, by whom he had a son, Alexander, and four daughters: | ||
| 1. Elizabeth, married Robert Cuninghame of Auchenharvie, and had issue. | ||
| 2. Margaret, married Rev. Thomas Pollock, minister of Kilwinning, and had issue. | ||
| 3. Joana, married Edward M'Cormick, Esq., advocate, late Sheriff Depute of Ayrshire, and had issue. | ||
| 4. Jane, died unmarried. | ||
| 4. James, a proprietor in the Westnnnn Indies, and father of General Hamiltonnn, the celebrated statesman and patriot in the United States, who fell, greatly regretted, in a duel with a Mr. Burr. | ||
| 5. Walter 6. George |
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both died unmarried. |
| 7. William, married Jean, daughter of Robert Donald, Esq., and had issue. | ||
| 8. Joseph. | ||
| 9. William, who died in infancy. | ||
"Of his two daughters, one died in infancy, and the other, Elizabeth, was married to Alexander Blair, Esq., surveyor of the customs at Port Glasgow, son of William Blair, of Blair, and had issue.
" XVI. John Hamilton of Grange, the eldest son, succeeded. He died unmarried, and was succeeded by his brother,
" XVII. Robert Hamilton of Grange, who, dying also unmarried in 1774, was succeeded by his nephew, son of Alexander Hamilton, the third brother.
" XVIII. Alexander Hamilton of Grange, advocate and Lieut.Col. of the late 2d Regiment of Ayrshire Local Militia. He disposed of the Grange, in 1792, to Miss Scott, afterward Duchess of Portland, who had previously, 1787, purchased Cambuskeith, the more ancient property of the family. He built the new house of Kerilaw, previous to 1790, and died in 1837. Dying without issue, the representation of this ancient family descended to Captain John Brown, of the 23d Fusileers, his grand-nephew, only son of the marriage between Major George Vanbrugh Brown of Knockmarloch and Elizabeth Cuninghame, eldest daughter of the marriage between Robert Cuninghame of Auchenharvie and Elizabeth Hamilton, eldest sister of the second Alexander Hamilton.
"ARMS: Gules, a lion rampant, argent (for the Earldom of Ross); betwixt three cinque foils, ermine (for Hamilton). Crest: An oak tree proper. Motto, in an escroll above, VIRIDIS ET FRUCTIFERA."
Appendix B
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KERILAW CASTLE
IN "Cunninghame" (Topographized by Timothy Pont An. 1604- 1608, with Continuations and Illustration Notices by the late James Dobie of Crummock, F.S.A., Scot., edited by his son John Sheddon Dobie, Glasgow, 18761), we find a description of this ancient property.
" Kary-law Castle or Steninstoune Castell, a fair stronge building belonging to ye Earls of Glencairne quoho had ye said Castell barroney parisch and Lordschipe by the marriage of ye Douglass heretrix thereof it belonged in A° 1191 to ye Lockharts."
"The ivy-mantled ruins of Kerilaw Castle show it to have formed in its later days a quadrangular pile of building of about thirty yards square. Its situation on the eastern side of the Stevenston burn is not one of much natural strength, for though the ground around is prettily broken and undulating, the site itself is flat and easily approachable on three sides, while to the rear its walls arose from the edge of the low but rocky and precipitous brink of the stream. This side of the castle has almost entirely disappeared, and was, most probably, the oldest part of the building. The doorway in the northeast front is directly approached through a double line of noble old trees forming a shady avenue of about a quarter of a mile in length. The greater part of this wall, which is still standing, shows few of the defensive accompaniments common to the more ancient baronial buildings, but the lower apartments in it in the corresponding wing have been vaulted. The south-east front, which faces into the present gardens, appears to have been a more modern addition, its central doorway and window on the eastern side being of the Gothic style, and of much larger and airier proportions than those in the wall fronting the avenue; above, in the second story, is a tier of square-headed mullion-divided windows, and the other wall is finished by a battlement. The ancient hall of Kerilaw Castle was said to have been ornamented with the coats-of-arms of the Scottish nobility, taken from the Abbey of Kilwinning after its destruction at the Reformation. If so, retribution has followed on Kerilaw. The spoils of Kilwinning have entirely disappeared, and their existence there is known only by tradition. From Kilwinning, the approach to the present mansion, which stands on the opposite side of the burn, keeps the line of the old avenue, crossing the stream by the bridge thrown over its course immediately underneath the line of the back wall of the ruins."
"This bridge, which detracts somewhat from the sole original strength of the position, adds to the picturesque effect, and the banks of the clear, rapid little stream are here over-arched by wide-spread old forest trees."
Appendix C
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THE RIVINGTON TRACTS
THE series of tracts issued chiefly from Rivington's press, in New York City during 1774 and 1775, consisted of twenty pamphlets and rejoinders from the Patriots, and in the beginning preceded the movement to send delegates from the Province of New York to the General Congress in Philadelphia. According to Evans,1 the secret service fund of the British Government was largely drawn upon to subsidize the printing office of the Tory printer. This writer says: "The friends of American Liberty found arrayed against them an opposition made up of the Church of England. In fact, in its controversial phases, the struggle for civil liberty in the American Colonies assumed something of the nature of religious warfare, in which dissenting churches were opposed by the Established Church of England." This was, undoubtedly, a further evolution of the spirit of antagonism that, in the seventeenth century, led to the exodus of the little band of Englishmen who landed in Massachusetts Bay. It was, therefore, to be expected that the Tory opposition would be represented by a clergyman, and we find the Rev. Myles Cooper, the president of King's College, taking an active part.
He it was whom Alexander Hamilton helped to escape from the infuriated patriots who surrounded the college, during Hamilton's fiery and eloquent speech delivered from the doorstep. Cooper, after listening with indignant surprise from a window above, reluctantly made his exit from a back door, and sought the protection of the English man-of-war in the harbor. Cooper's first pamphlet was signed "A North American," and was entitled The American Querist. This inflamed the already exasperated "Sons of Liberty," and he was in danger of violent treatment, and ultimately left the country. Shortly afterward Bishop Seabury of Connecticut wrote several tracts taking the "Tory" side. His first was entitled "A Friendly
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