GORDON, James in Achdregnie

  General Notes:

'1612, July 28. A ... commission was granted the following year to George, Earl of Enzie, and several others, including James Gordon of Lesmoir, for the apprehension, trial, and punishment of James Gordon in Auchdregnie, his son and others, including James Grant in Fodderletter, brother to Patrick Grant of Carron, as broken men and "committing oppin reiffs, privie stouthis slauchteris, etc." (ibid.).
This James Gordon in Auchdregnie was a son of George Gordon in Tombea by a Janet Grant. George in Tombea was a natural son of Alexander Gordon of Cluny, but along with his brother, William in Dalmore, got letters of legitimation under the Great Seal in 1553 (Balbithan MS., and Great Seal, June 24, 1553, iii., No. 804).' ¹

James married.