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NameRev Archibald Hamilton 
[188, p. 83 and Table, p. 166], [23, Kelso, vol ii, pp. 535-6], [257, His father, Patrick Hamilton’s article, vol 1, pp. 409-410], [257, Archibald Hamilton, vol 2, p. 383], [190, BallyGally article, pp. 908 and Granshaw article, pp. 955-7]
[188, p. 83 and Table, p. 166], [23, Kelso, vol ii, pp. 535-6], [257, His father, Patrick Hamilton’s article, vol 1, pp. 409-410], [257, Archibald Hamilton, vol 2, p. 383], [190, BallyGally article, pp. 908 and Granshaw article, pp. 955-7]Birthca 1619
Death29 Jun 1695, Wigton, Scotland
General3rd s. Minister of Wigton, Scotland then of Bangor, Co Down, Ireland.
FatherRev Patrick Hamilton (ca1581-1640)
MotherElizabeth Glen
Spouses
Marriage7 Dec 1643 [257, Archibald Hamilton, vol 2, p. 383], [190, Granshaw article, pp. 955-7]
Notes for Rev Archibald Hamilton
From Burke's Commoners, Vol 2, p.535, on the Kelso family:
(a) Archibald was a Rev, minister of Wigtown.
(b) He had a daughter Mary who married John Kelso who had sold the Kelso estates and worked as collector and sole surveyor of customs of Port Glasgow.
Mary and John had a son Robert Kelso, a captain of an Indiaman in the merchant service.
Aug 2007, TFPL: I had originally found no confirmation of any of this from elsewhere, but the Hamilton MSS shows his dau. Mary who m. a Kelso so I am entering up what is found in Burke’s Commoners.
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From Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae:
Minister of Wigtown of the presbytery of same, (1) 1654-1664
ARCHIBALD HAMILTON, born 1619 ; M.A. (Glasgow 1637) ; adm. to Sorbie before 19th May 1643 ; trans, and adm. in 1654 ; deprived by Act of Parliament llth June, and Decreet of Privy Council 1st Oct. 1662. He was accused before the Privy Council 24th Feb. 1663, “of labouring to keep the hearts of the
people from the present government in Church and State,” and was ordered to compear on the 23rd July, but nothing further is said of the matter. He went to Ireland, was settled at Bangor, and returned here in 1689. [Wodrow s Hist., i., 327.]
and:
(2) ARCHIBALD HAMILTON, M.A., 1689-1695
above noticed ; min. of a Presbyterian congregation at Bangor ; at the request of the General Meeting of
Presbyterian mins., 2nd Oct. 1688, he returned in 1689, and was elected first Moderator of the Synod of Glasgow and Ayr, 14th May 1689. He was a member of the first General Assembly after the Revolution, and died 29th June 1695. He marr. 7th Dec. 1643, Jean, daugh. of James Hamilton, min. of the Old Kirk Parish, Edinburgh, and had issue John, min. of Old Greyfriars, Edinburgh ; Archibald, min. of Corstorphine ; Henry, min. of Currie ; Mary (marr. John Kelso of Kelsoland, Collector of Customs, Port-Glasgow). [Reid’s Ireland, ii. ; Dumfries Re<j. (Marr.) ; Tombst. ; Rey. Gen. Ass., 1690 ; Maitland Miscell., iv.]
and vol 7, p. 530, on charges in Ireland:
HAMILTON, ARCHIBALD (cf. Vol. II., 383), formerly min. of Wigtown ; adm. to Bangor, Ireland, 1672 ; returned to Scotland and re-adm. at Wigtown in 1689 ; died there 29th June 1695.
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(a) Archibald was a Rev, minister of Wigtown.
(b) He had a daughter Mary who married John Kelso who had sold the Kelso estates and worked as collector and sole surveyor of customs of Port Glasgow.
Mary and John had a son Robert Kelso, a captain of an Indiaman in the merchant service.
Aug 2007, TFPL: I had originally found no confirmation of any of this from elsewhere, but the Hamilton MSS shows his dau. Mary who m. a Kelso so I am entering up what is found in Burke’s Commoners.
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From Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae:
Minister of Wigtown of the presbytery of same, (1) 1654-1664
ARCHIBALD HAMILTON, born 1619 ; M.A. (Glasgow 1637) ; adm. to Sorbie before 19th May 1643 ; trans, and adm. in 1654 ; deprived by Act of Parliament llth June, and Decreet of Privy Council 1st Oct. 1662. He was accused before the Privy Council 24th Feb. 1663, “of labouring to keep the hearts of the
people from the present government in Church and State,” and was ordered to compear on the 23rd July, but nothing further is said of the matter. He went to Ireland, was settled at Bangor, and returned here in 1689. [Wodrow s Hist., i., 327.]
and:
(2) ARCHIBALD HAMILTON, M.A., 1689-1695
above noticed ; min. of a Presbyterian congregation at Bangor ; at the request of the General Meeting of
Presbyterian mins., 2nd Oct. 1688, he returned in 1689, and was elected first Moderator of the Synod of Glasgow and Ayr, 14th May 1689. He was a member of the first General Assembly after the Revolution, and died 29th June 1695. He marr. 7th Dec. 1643, Jean, daugh. of James Hamilton, min. of the Old Kirk Parish, Edinburgh, and had issue John, min. of Old Greyfriars, Edinburgh ; Archibald, min. of Corstorphine ; Henry, min. of Currie ; Mary (marr. John Kelso of Kelsoland, Collector of Customs, Port-Glasgow). [Reid’s Ireland, ii. ; Dumfries Re<j. (Marr.) ; Tombst. ; Rey. Gen. Ass., 1690 ; Maitland Miscell., iv.]
and vol 7, p. 530, on charges in Ireland:
HAMILTON, ARCHIBALD (cf. Vol. II., 383), formerly min. of Wigtown ; adm. to Bangor, Ireland, 1672 ; returned to Scotland and re-adm. at Wigtown in 1689 ; died there 29th June 1695.
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