GORDON, George at Lethenty ¹

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"George (Gordon) helped his father in 1634 to steal the horse of Alexander Innes, the minister of Rothiemay, who was deposed in 1647, when he was succeeded by James Gordon, the well-known parson of Rothiemay (Spalding's Troubles, i., 48). He may have been the George Gordon, one of his tenants at Lethenty, who in 1622 went forth to do battle on his own account with two brothers named Ferguson, at Newburgh. Undeterred by the fact that the day was the Sabbath, he struck one of them with 'his faldit neiff upoun the faice and head, and thereby damneist and feld him deid to the ground,' and then 'verrie barbarously cuttit off his right lug'. Not satisfied with this barbarism, he pursued the other brother with a drawn sword, and 'cutt ane grite peece of his harne pane' (Privy Council Register). George of Lethentie was accused by William Durhame, fiar of the Grange, Henry Ramsay of Ardownie,and Mr. William Murray in Ardownie, of helping Sir George Gordon of Gight to 'minass' them, 1631 (Privy Council Register)."

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