GORDON, John Minister of Elgin, Reverend Mr

  General Notes:

"JOHN GORDON, educated at King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (1618); ord. to Kirkmichael in 1622 ; trans, to Kinedar before 25th Oct. 1620; .trans, and adm. 31st March 1633; D.D. (King's College, 21st Sept, 1635); dep. by the Synod 30th April 1639, for refusing to sign the Covenant. He went to England, returned to Elgin in 1642, sold all his effects and again removed with his family to England in 1648. He was excommunicated 19th Oct. that year. He marr. (cont. 23rd April 1662) Elizabeth, sister of Alexander Gordon of Dunkintie, and had issue Alexander; Elizabeth (marr. George Gordon). Publications -Confessio Fidei In duobus Capitibus De Ecclesia et Reali Praesentia in Eucharistice Sacramento [thesis for D.D. degree] (Aberdeen, 1635). [An exceedingly rare volume from the Press of Edward Raban. A copy is in Aberdeen Univ. Library]. [Craven's Moray, 185-7; Aberdeen Sas., i., 105.]"

from Fasti Ecclesiae

John married Elizabeth GORDON, daughter of Alexander GORDON of Dunkintie and Margaret GRANT, on 23 April 1663. (Elizabeth GORDON was born about 1627.)