GORDON, John of Boigs, Sheriff-Depute of Aberdeen ¹

   Another name for John was GORDON, John of Tilligreig.²

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John married Helen ARBUTHNOTT, daughter of James ARBUTHNOTT of Lentusch, Merchant and Burgess of Aberdeen and Isabella LESLIE, by 28 August 1603(sasine).¹ (Helen ARBUTHNOTT was born about 1575.)

  Marriage Notes:

'On 8th April, 1607, a contract was signed between John Gordon of Tilligreig (who was the husband of Helen Arbuthnot, daughter of James Arbuthnot of Lentusche) on the one part and 'James Arbuthnot, younger, fiar of Lentusche, John Arbuthnot of Cairngall, his brother, with consent of James Arbuthnot of Portertown, their father, for his right and interest,' on the other, whereby they 'grant the shadow half of the said town of Lentush to be redeemed for 1,800 merks by the said John Gordon,' etc.

The same day John Gordon got sasine of the lands, on a charter dated at Aberdeen and Portertown, 1st April and 4th April, 1607, reserving to 'the said James Arbuthnot, elder, his liferent of the sunny half thereof.'

Two months later Mr. Wilham Gordon of Drumnethie (perhaps a son of the above John Gordon) got sasine of the lands of Lentusche, 'manor-place, orchards, yards, the Cokmure,' etc., reserving as before 'to James Arbuthnot, elder, sometime of Ledingtushe, his liferent of the sunny half thereof.' " (page 98)

"Helen, married first John Leslie of Boigs, who was dead before 1604 ; and secondly John Gordon of Boigs and of Tilligreig, Sheriff-Deputy of Aberdeen." (page 119)

from Memories of the Arbuthnots




" 'Johnne Gordoun of Boigges' or 'John Gordoun of Bouges,' with 'Sheriff-Depute of Aberdeen' added, is several times mentioned in the Register of the Privy Council at the end of the 16th and beginning of the 17th centuries. I think he is the same person as John Gordoun of Tulligreig. The author of the Balbithan MS. says, at p. 64, that 'John Gordon of Bouges, Sheriff-Depute of Aberdeen, married Arbuthnott, with whom he begat two sons viz., Thomas and Hary Gordons, who was killed in Germany ' ; and the former, according to 'C.E.D.' (Mr Charles Elphinstone Dalrymple), married a daughter of John Gordon of Pitlurg : this mentioned also under Pitlurg in Balb. MS , p. 31. There is a charter in favour of this John Gordoun, granted in 1590, viz.: - Charter granting in feu farm heritably to John Gordoun. brother german of James G. of Knockespak, his heirs and assigns whomsoever, all and whole the town and lands of Kirkhill and Mostoun, with the outsetts, parts, pendicles, &c, lying within the Abbacy of Lundoris and Sheriffdom of Aberdeen, to be had and held of us, &c. Reddendo, yearly, £10 in money as old ferme. and 20s. in augmentation, with dues and services, a duplicand on entry of each heir. - Sealed at Halirud, 17 Dec. 1590. (Reg. Great Seal, XXXVII., No. 452; Antiq. A. and B., IV.., pp. 5334.) .... "

" .... John Gordon of Bogis and Helen Arbuthnott, his spouse, got sasine in Tilligreig, 28 August 1603. He again got sasine in the same, 3 July 1604 ; and in Kinnelar on 6 July following ; also 'two other sasines,' of which no further note was given me. John G. of Tulligreig got sasine in Lentushe [parish of Rayne] 8 May 1607 ; John G., portioner of Tilligreig, sasine in Tilligreig east. 3 December 1608 ; and John G., Sheriff-Depute of Aberdeen, in 1/3 of Tilligreig same day. In the Register of the Privy Council the name of 'Johnne G. of Boigges, Sheriff-Depute of Aberdeen, occurs along with that of James Gordoun of Knokespic and others as being required to get 'sureties for their having each to pay £30 for their escheat goods, they having failed to pay sums due in the taxation of their goods.' - 28 Dec. 1603 (Reg. Privy Co., V., p 772)."

from Gordon of Knockespock
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