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Excerpt from Eighty Years' Reminiscences, Vol. 1 of 2
Henry st. Clair, eighth Lord Sinclair, married, in 1680, Grizel, daughter of Sir James Cockburn of Cockburn. He had two sons and two daughters. His eldest son, John, Master of Sinclair, never assumed the title, being attainted for taking part in the rising of 1715. He died in 1750, leaving no issue, and was succeeded by his brother James, a distinguished General, who also died without issue.
Grizel, his eldest daughter, married John Paterson of Preston Hall, son of the Archbishop of Glasgow. John Paterson died in the Fleet Prison, 1716, the day before he was to have been executed, having been concerned in the rising of 1715. He had one son, Colonel James Paterson St. Clair, who succeeded him, and one daughter, Margaret, who married, in 1744, John Thomson of Charleton. Colonel Pater son St. Clair dying without issue, his sister Margaret, wife of John Thomson of Charleton, became heir general of the Lords Sinclair, and the estate of Dysart went to his cousin, Sir John Erskine of Alva.
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