GORDON, William 1
Cause of his death was hanged by Covenanters.1 User ID: B515. General Notes: "William. He seems to have been the 'Gulielmus de Newton' who entered King's College, Aberdeen, in 1639 ; and also the 'young laird of Newton' who was one of the party of forty commanded by Patrick Leith, younger of Harthill. About August, 1647, ft fought a rearguard action in Lochaber so that Huntly might make his escape. The party, however, was surrounded and young Leith was captured. Although young Newton 'wan free' at the moment, 'yet by means of the Forbeses his grandam's kine,' he was surprised soon afterwards. He and young Harthill (described as a youth of 'twantie years or little more'), who were 'about one age and dear cammerads,' were William married Anna SIBBALD, daughter of Sir James SIBBALD of Rankeillour, Fife and Margaret BARCLAY, 25 September 1643(contract).1 (Anna SIBBALD was born about 1620 and died about 1661 1.) Marriage Notes: "William Gordon married Anna, daughter of Sir James Sibbald of Rankeillor (whose daughter Helen married Sir John Gordon of Park). The matrimonial contract was recorded at Edinburgh, November 8, 1647. It was executed at Nether Tarbet, September 25, 1643, between George Gordon of Newton, for himself and his eldest son William, and Sir James Sibbald of Rankeilor, for himself and his daughter Anna. In an 'inventar of the wrytes anent Anne Sibbald' (in the possession of Mr. A. M. Gordon of Newton) there is this note : |
1 e-books, The House of Gordon vol. 2 ed. John Malcolm Bulloch (1907) Cadets of Lesmoir: Newton by J.M. Bulloch assisted by D. Wimberley.
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