GORDON, Adam 1
- Born: About 1575
- Died: 15 December 1615 1
Cause of his death was shot by Francis Hay.1
User ID: L865.
General Notes:
"Adam (Gordon). He was a fighter, like all his brothers. He was implicated with his brother Patrick in an assault made on Fraser of Stoneywood and Fraser of Durris in Aberdeen, 1609. On July 6, 1609, he, his brother Patrick, and several other Gordons, 'to the number of six score persons, all armed with certain weapons, including hagbuts and pistolets, came at night to the house of Robert Davidsoun in Abirdene, where the complainers were for the time, pressed violently to enter therein for their slaughter, and would have succeeded if they had not been stayed by some good people'." [....]
"In June, 1612, Adam and his friend Francis Hay of Logierieve, who was to kill him three years later, and his brother Patrick Gordon, attacked Alexander Bannerman of Waterton and two of his servants 'to the effusion of thair blood in grite quantities' (Privy Council Register). Adam fought a friendly sword duel with his comrade Francis Hay (son of George Hay of Ardlethan, cousin-german to the Earl of Erroll). Hay was defeated, and in pique shot Gordon dead (Dec. 15, 1615)." [....]
"Adam Gordon had got into a trouble with a woman, for on October 6, 1608, he promised the Presbytery of Ellon (Mair's Records, p. 76) to marry Isobell, daughter of William Leask of that ilk. Whether the marriage ever took place I cannot say (the Balbithan MS. does not supply the name), but he declared that he was willing 'to satisfie for entycing' her out of her father's house, to pay five merks, and make repentance in the Kirk of Ellon. Adam at any rate took umbrage at the House of Leask, for on July 24, 1615, he was put to the horn at the instance of the King's Advocate and Alexander Leask in Balschamphie, Thomas Fidler there, and William Smyth in the Mains of Leask."
from Gight 1
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