After the death of Hugh Montgomery of Thornton in 1477, his son and heir John Montgomery gave the lands of Nether and Over Thornton to his wife Alison Hamilton, a daughter of Archibald Hamilton of Innerwick.HMC 12th Report Part VIII, Duke of Athole & Earl of Home (London, 1891), p. 166. John Montgomery quarrelled with his father's widow Isobel Houston over farmland at Thornton and withheld her household goods including a "great dozen" of pewter vessels.The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707, K.M. Brown et al eds (St Andrews, 2007–2021), 1479/3/98 Date accessed: 20 July 2021. He was asked to return cattle which he had stolen from the sons of Lord Home at Stenton in 1482.Acts of the Lords Auditors of Causes & Complaints in Scotland (Edinburgh, 1839), pp. 104, 107. After Montgomery stole from the lands of Hoprig at Cockburnspath in 1482, James III gave restitution to William Baillie by "comprising" Montgomery's lands.James William Baillie, Lives of the Baillies (1872), p. 23.
