Gordons of Nethermuir

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confirmed February 7, 1775, Alexander
Duthie, advocate, Aberdeen, being cautioner.
The inventory consisted of one share (.£500)
of the capital stock of the Banking- Company
cf Aberdeen, and his son was constituted
executor, being charged with all debts, lega-
cies, and provisions to the testator's wife,
Margaret Forbes, and her younger children
("Aberdeen Testaments").
Gordon's wife was Margaret Forbes, eldest
daughter of Hugh Forbes of Schivas and
sister of Mrs Alexander Irvine of Drum. In
1778 she was living on lease in a commodious
house on the east side of the Gallowgate,
Aberdeen : it had*a garden and summerhouse
and was advertised to be let ("Aberdeen
Journal," February y, 1778). She died at
Nethermuir, July 2, 1801, and her will was
recorded in the Aberdeen Commissary Court
Record, August 12, 1801, her "second"
daughter Jean being sole executor.
William Gordon had the following issue: —
1. John Gordon, VIII. of Nethermuir.
2. Maxwell Gordon, "second son": got
^300 under his mother's will. He was
admitted a Writer to the Signet, June 28,
1793, having been apprenticed (1) to Col-
quhoun Grant, and (2) to John Taylor.
He married March 30, 1 70Q, Jane, daughter
of John Taylor, W.S., of Blackhouse, Ayr-
shire, and died at Boghall, Ayrshire, Dec.
24, i8og ("Aberdeen Journal," January 3,
1810). He had
(1) John Taylor Gordon, IX. and last
of Ne.thermuir.
(2) William Gordon, educated at Eton.
He entered the Bombay Civil Service in
181 7; was first assistant to the Collector
and Magistrate at Broach, 182 1, and
then assistant to the Chief Secretary of
the Government, in 1824. He was lost
in returning home in 1824 on the "Bark-
worth," which was never heard of again.
(3) Maxwell Gordon. He seems to