GORDON, John of Auchinreath, Commissary Depute and Sheriff Clerk of Moray ¹

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  General Notes:

"1777, July 12. - John Gordon dies at Elgin, aged 76. For many years he was commissary depute and sheriff clerk for the Bishopric and shire of Moray (Scots Mag.)"

from Scottish Notes and Queries




"The Sheriff-Substitutes who have acted during the last 150 years have been numerous, particularly in the earlier part of the period, and their terms of office rather undefined. John Robertson, merchant, acted from 1727 to 1738. During this period of office James Chalmers, writer, and Alexander Smith, writer, were successively joint Substitutes. Robert Duff, merchant, acted from 1740 to 1742 ; George Wilson, junior, merchant, from 1742 to 1749; James Stephen, merchant, from 1749 to 1751 ; Robert Anderson,""'writer, from 1755 to 1766. During his time the following persons acted as joint Substitutes: - John Proctor, writer; John Gordon, writer ; and William Burnett, writer. Mr. Anderson died in 1766, from which time John Gordon and William Burnett acted as Substitutes up to 1776, and Mr. Burnett alone from that time till 1781, when he died."

from Annals of Elgin




"GORDON
JOHN
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M
13/07/1777
135
60 / 226
Elgin"

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