"Though I do not remember my grandmother Balfour of Pilrig, I remember a sister of hers and a brother's widow. That brother will be mentioned when I treat of the Hamiltons. The sister, Elizabeth Hamilton, when I knew her was widow to the Rev. Daniel St. Clair, minister of Longformacus. She had two sons whom I never saw, they being abroad. The youngest either died or was killed in the Seven Years' War; the eldest, Arthur, was a subaltern in that war, in which he fought for his country. He never came home, and in the American War he fought against his country, became a general, and was afterwards member of the Congress at New York. He married and had a family, but I have no notice of them."
