GORDON, William 1
User ID: J235. General Notes: "William (Gordon) : 'dyed unmarried' (Balbithan MS.). He may have been the 'one, Gordon, sone to Terpersie,' who is said to have 'schot deid most cruellie,' at the laird of Haddo's command, Mr. James Stalker at the Trot of Turriff, May 14, 1639, after Stalker's giving up his arms. Before he died he 'maid be the hand of Mr. Thomas Mitchell, persone of Turreff, a testament quhairon he declairet how and whome be he wes slayne,' which testament was produced before the justices at Aberdeen, March 17, 1642 (Spalding's Trubles, ii., 123)." |