GORDON, Patrick or Peter 1
User ID: B587. General Notes: "Peter (by first marriage), lived in Aberdeen : died unmarried. According to William Leslie of Warthill (in a letter to Hugh Gordon, Elgin, dated March 7, 1845), this Peter, or Patrick as he calls him (and he knew him personally), was a saddler in Aberdeen and died unmarried. The Aberdeen Journal of May 5, 1760, advertises the fact that Patrick Gordon, saddler 'from London,' had a shop 'in the middle of the Broadgate,' Aberdeen. Patrick, the saddler, was boxmaster of the Hammermen Trade, Aberdeen, in 1764, and master of the Trades Hospital in 1765-71." |