GORDON, John, Lieutenant 1 2 3
- Baptised: 7 January 1739, Boharm parish, Banffshire, Scotland 3
- Died: 1763, Patna, Bengal, India 1
Cause of his death was killed in a massacre.1
User ID: W851.
General Notes:
"GORDON
JOHN
GEORGE GORDON/JEAN GORDON
M
07/01/1739
128/A 10 162
BOHARM"
from Births and Baptisms
"891 John. 1763, Oct. 6, Lt., H.E.I.C.S. (Bengal), murdered with others at Patna by the Swiss, Samur, on behalf of Mir Kasim Ali, Nawab of Murshidabad. The story of the murder was told by J. M. Bulloch and C. O. Skelton in a pamphlet (8vo, pp. 34) printed privately at Keith, 1908.
A letter dated 1764, Jun. 1 1, from an officer, 89th Ft. (quoted in Aberdeen Journal, Jun. 25) describes him 'son to Mr. Gordon of Dundurcas'. Probably brother of Rev. James, 709"
from Gordons Under Arms
"He was probably the son of George Gordon, laird of Fifthpart, Dundurcus (died 1768), and a brother of Rev. James Gordon, minister of Bellie (died 1809). The instinct for soldering ran in the minister and his son to the extent of becoming army chaplains. It is quite probable that the Duke of Gordon, who presented the minister in
1769 to Bellie, had previously got a commission for John. But that is all guess-work. Indeed, but for this anonymous announcement in the 'Journal,' we would never have known that John Gordon was either in the army or at Patna when the horrible massacre occurred on October 5 and 11, 1763, nine months before the arrival of the news in England. His name occurs in Talboys Wheeler's little-known pamphlet, 'A Memorandum on the Records in the Foreign Department' (Calcutta, 1865), but only as 'Lieut. Gordon.' So far as we can discover, the
'Aberdeen Journal' as quoted is almost the only authority for stating that Gordon's name was John, and brief as the announcement is, one is very grateful for the moiety of identification."
from Massacre at Patna 1763 1 2
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