GORDON, James 1
User ID: B770. General Notes: "James (Balbithan MS.). In April, 1645, John Gordon of Buckie, 'ane old aigit man took in his cheifes [the Marquis of Huntly's] place of the Bog' and made James Gordon 'of the famelie of Leichestown, a renowned soldiour, capitane thairof, who manit and provicht the houss and keipit the samen stoutlie. He drew the haill boites and cobillis of Spey, that none sould get passage fra the north. He sett out nichtlie 100 men in watche, being wnder feir of the Morray men and regimentis lying at Innerniss' (Spalding's Trubles, ii., 464). On February 9, 1649, a bond for £70 given by James Gordon, 'brother to Litchestone,' to Hendrie Murray, burgess of Aberdeen (Keith, March 8, 1648), figures in the Elgin Commissary Record." |