GORDON, Patrick ¹

   Cause of his death was drowning at sea.

  General Notes:

'1. Patrick Gordon: described as "junior a Nethermoor. " He was at King's College in 1674 (P. J. Anderson's "Roll and Alumni in Arts of the University and King's College of Aberdeen," p. 38). His inventory states that he "died at sea in the month of May, 1682" ("Edinburgh Commissariot"). I think there can be little doubt that he was the Patrick Gordon, "President Haddo's cousin and servant," who went down in the frigate "Gloucester" (56 guns) in which the Duke of York was wrecked off the Yorkshire coast on May 6, 1682 (Fountainhall's "Historical Observes of Memorial Occurrents," p. 68)....Gordon's inventory was given up by John Gordon, "brother german to the defunct and only executor dative deemed as nearest of kin to him by decreet, dated June, 1682." '

from The Gordons of Nethermuir ¹