GORDON, Charles Jacobite 1745 ^{1 2}

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  General Notes:

"2072- Charles. 1745, seized (aged 17) by Glenbucket while going to a fair with his father's cattle, and carried to Banff on a hussar's saddle (Allardyce's Jacobite Papers, 390-2) ; his father (who had been on the side of the Government in 1715 and was imprisoned, 1745, Nov., for protesting against Glenbucket), offered the latter money, but 'Glenbucket said he wanted men not money, and damned him' (ibid., 391). Rosebery's List (p. 28) calls him paymaster in Glenbucket's Reg., but in the Southwark Trials he is called Lt. in Lord Ogilvy's Reg. Dec. 19, captured at Carlisle where he was quartered at the Grapes (Allardyce's Jacobite Papers, 392) ; taken to Southwark Gaol. 1746, Sep. 11, Lord Braco and 23 other gentlemen appealed on his behalf
(S.P. Dom. Geo. II., P.R.O., bundle 87, p. 314); Sep. 22, petitioned on his own behalf to the King (ibid., p. 317), and his case discussed on the same day at Ardmeallie in presence of Peter Gordon, of Ardmeallie, Justice of the Peace (ibid., bundle 86, No. 5) ; Oct. 23, found guilty at Southwark, recommended to mercy and reprieved (G.M. xvi. 551 ; Ewald's Prince Charles, p.431), but he was still in Southwark Gaol, 1748, Aug. 10, when he petitioned the Lords Justices for liberty (S.P. Dom. Geo. II., P.R.O., bundle 108), but 'no order' was made.
Son of Patrick, Binhall, Cairnie (who seems to have been the brother of Harry, of Avochie, 2094), who m. a dau. of Rev. William Hay, Episcopal incumbent of Rothiemay; his 'eldest brother was with Cope' (Allardyce's Jacobite Papers, 391), and is either Alexander, 2061, or John, 2133, or these two may be identical (J. M. Bulloch's 'Gordons of Binhall,' Banffshire Advertiser, 1908, Aug. 1). Perhaps related to Patrick, 1140"

from Gordons Under Arms



"Gordon, Charles of Binhall Third son of Patrick of Binhall, Cairnie. Baillie of Regality to the Duke of Gordon. Thought to be about 20 in 1745, but actually 17, and was a clerk to a writer (ie solicitor) in Edinburgh. Reprieved from hanging because of his youth but remainied in Newgate and joined a mutiny there in 1747. In 1748 he returned to Scotland."

from Jacobites of 1745 ^{1 2}