Sir Patrick Hamilton of Little Preston (-before February 1662) |
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| Father:1 | Thomas Hamilton of Priestfield (-before 1612) | ||
| Mother:2 | Elizabeth Murray (-) | ||
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| Married:3 | Elizabeth Macmorran (-) | ||||
| Marriage contract 18 March 1613. | |||||
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| Died:4 | before February 1662 | |||
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| Probably that Patrick Hamilton who appears as a Writer to the Signet in 1627. In 1613 he had a charter from Ninian Macmorran, merchant in Edinburgh, to himself and his wife Elizabeth, of certain property in the barony of Broughton. On 30 August 1617 he was appointed teacher of the St. Mary Magdalene School at Linlithgow. He and two London merchants got, on 4 November 1619, a patent for twenty years, on payment of £600 per annum, for the refining of sugar. Under the designation of Mr. Patrick Hamilton of Preston he had a charter to himself and his wife from his father-in-law Ninian Macmorran of the Euarlands in Cramond Regis. On 22 September 1624 he had, along with his brother Alexander, a patent for twentyone years for the invention of a new kind of carriage. He was knighted by Charles I 22 June 1633. His lands of Little Preston and others were erected into a barony 18 December 1643.5 | ||
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