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Alexander Hamilton

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Alexander Hamilton

1st U.S. Secretary of the Treasury

    John Hamilton

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    • 9th Great-grandfather of Alexander Hamilton — 12th Generation
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    • May 1544 
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    • Battle of Glasgow Muir 
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    • It appears that this John Hamilton is often confused with his son of the same name who married Joneta Montgomery. This John Hamilton died in 1544 at the second Battle of Glasgow Muir.

      Sources disagree on whether John Hamilton's wife was Jonet Stewart or Margaret Cunninghame of Leglane/Legland.

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  • Sources for John Hamilton

    • 1 Hamilton, Allan McLane, The Intimate Life of Alexander Hamilton: Based Chiefly Upon Original Family Letters and Other Documents . . ., New York: Charles Scribner's Sons (1911), 434, [Death].
    • 2 Johnston, George Harvey, The Heraldry of the Hamiltons: With Notes on All the Males of the Family, Descriptions of the Arms, Plates and Pedigrees, Edinburgh and London: W. and A. K. Johnston, Limited (1909), 120.
    • 3 Robertson, George, A Genealogical Account of the Principal Families in Ayrshire, More Particulary in Cunninghame, Vol. 1, Irvine: Cunninghame Press (1823), 358, gives wife as Margaret Cunninghame of Legland.