DAVID SINCLAIR, second son of Seba by Barbe Halcro, also established himself in Sweden, where he was naturalised and admitted into the College of Nobles under the number 626, in the year 1655. He was Colonel of a Regiment of Cavalry, and married Katherine, daughter of John Maclean, Seigneur de Gasvadholm and Hagby. This David Sinclair was slain at the battle of Warsaw, in Poland, in 1656, leaving: -

1. WILLIAM SINCLAIR, his heir
2. ANNE DE SINCLAIR, married to Colonel the Baron de Kruse

WILLIAM SINCLAIR, [second] son of the preceding, inherited the possession of Finniekumla, in Westergothland. He was twice married, first to Katharine Hamilton, by whom he had -

1. DAVID, died in infancy
2. MALCOLM, his successor
3. KATHERINE, married Lieut.-Colonel de Schantz

1. DAVID, who died without issue
2. HENRY, third Baron
3. ANNE MARIE, who married the Baron de Leyonhielm, a Captain of Cavalry

NOTE - Lambahof is not attached to the dignity, which is personal, and should appear as Count Sinclair pure and simple.

JAMES SINCLAIR, BARON OF RANDEL, one of the sons of John Sinclair of Seba and Brobster, had a son -

JOHN SINCLAIR, married to Mary Bruis of Onovitz [Muness], by whom he had a son ANDREW SINCLAIR, who went to Sweden in 1635, and attained the rank of Colonel. He was Governor in Thorn, where he rejected the storm of the enemy eight times successively. He was made Swedish nobleman (Number 965) in 1680, and died in 1689, leaving by his wife, Anna Amendsson, a son, his successor -

CHARLES ANDREW SINCLAIR, Colonel in a Regiment of Foot; Major-General, who died in 1753. By his wife, Barbara Christina von Schwartzenhoff, he had issue -

FREDERIC CHARLES SINCLAIR, of Lambahof, Ostergotland, born 17th October 1723; Lieut.-Colonel of the Infantry of Ostergotland; Colonel of the Army; Daily-in-waiting to the Crown Prince Gustavus, afterwards Gustavus III; Baron (Number 270) in 1762; Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Sword; Senator in 1769; Count (Number 95) in 1771; Governor-General in Pomerania; Chancellor of the Academy of Griefswald in 1772; Knight of the Order of the Seraphim in l774; when he kept the old motto of the family arms "Via crucis, via lucis"; dead in 1776.

He participated in the campaigns of Finland in 1740; was licensed in 1745 to enter the French Army, where he was taken prisoner by the Austrian troops, but soon got an opportunity of saving himself from imprisonment. The very same year he took part in the French campaign at the Rhine, and in 1746 at the Maas, and the siege of Namur: was commanded in 1757 to the war of Pomerania, when he led the siege at Pensmunde; got five severe wounds at Lockewitz: attended several Diets and contributed to the revolution of 1772. In 1749 he married Sophie Reuter of Skalboo (1713 - 1769), by whom he had -

FREDERIC, SECOND COUNT SINCLAIR, Major in the Cavalry, and Chamberlain of the Queen. He married Britte Madelaine Fock, and dying in 1816, was succeeded by his son -

FREDERIC, THIRD COUNT SINCLAIR, Captain in the Army and Chamberlain. He died in 1835, leaving issue by his Countess, the Baroness Britte Eleonor Lagerfelt -

1. ISRAEL WILLIAM MALCOLM, fourth Count
2. COUNT CHARLES FREDERIC ADOLPH, of Rosenkoella, Knight of the North Star, married the Baroness Henriette Lagerfelt, and died in 1888
3. COUNT JAMES HENRY of Lambahof, formerly Officer in the Horse Guards, married to Amelie von Holst

1. CHARLES GUSTAF, fifth Count
2. COUNT FREDERIC, unmarried

INCIDENTAL SCANDINAVIAN NOTICES

1416 - David Sinclar is named as a civil officer of high rank at Bergen,

1461 - Anders Sinclar, chief command in Bohuus Castle till 1464.

Aaseline, daughter of Henry Sinclar of Sanneberg, married Anders van Bergen of Onerheim Farm, in Sondhordlehn, who, at the close of the fifteenth century, was a Norwegian Councillor of State. ["Samlinger til det Norske Folksprog og Historie", volume 3, page 576]

1513 (about) - Henry St.Clair, third son of Sir Oliver Sinclair of Roslin, is stated to have been Governor of the Castle of Bergen, in Norway, and to have married Gurena Guldlove, by whom he had several children there settled.

1611 - Michael Sinclair of Dalsholt, in the county of Halland, fell when captain at the siege of Calmar, 1611. Halland, now Swedish, was then a Danish province. His pedigree is thus outlined: -
Arthur Sinclair married Dorothea Dumbar
David Sinclair married Rutilia Mouatt
Michael Sinclair married Anna Maauskjold
Boel Rutilia Sinclair married Carsten von Bassen.

1645 - Captain Sinclar is named.

1669, August 2 - David Sinclar is appointed by King Frederic III Bailie of Eger or Lier. This David Sinclar held the farm of Sem, in Eger, as tenant under the Crown.

1688 - Gregers Sinclar, undoubtedly related to the preceding, lived in 1688 at Vestfossen in Eger, where in that year at the farm of Hals, he caused to be erected copper works, with a smelting house and stamping mill, but which, after working unsuccessfully for four years, he was obliged to abandon.

1578 - John Sinckeler obtained burghership of Bergen, and after him are noticed others of the name, ending with
1643 - Daniel Sinckler (Johnsson) in 1643. From these citizens of Bergen, the family which lived in Norway until the first half of the 18th century, is supposed to descend, and of them a good account is given in Personalhistorisk Tidskrift (3rd series, 2nd volume).

Even at the end of the last century persons of the name resided in Norway. (Kraft's "Norges Beskr", part 2, pages 406, 407; Strom's "Eger's Beskr", page 56; and documents in the State Archives, and those of the Municipality of Christiania).