Making of the West Indies

made by John Cameron, curator. Two of them,
aged 16 and 17, both born in Berbice, bore the
name of Gordon (P.R.O., T.71, 422, p. 153).
Sir William Duff Gordon and John Murphy held
the plantations, Profit, Support, and Relief, on the
west side of Berbice, with 275 slaves, the return for
whom was made by Lewis Cameron, Dec. 19, 1817
(P.R.O., T.71, 422, p. 108). Sir William (1772-1823)
was the son of Alexander, Lord Rockville, the grand-
son of the 2nd Earl of Aberdeen, and the first cousin
of Robert Gordon, the Governor of Berbice. He had
property in Spain and Mexico and was in partner-
ship with Murphy, under the title of Gordon,
Murphy, and Company.
DEMERARA.
Demerara, like Berbice, is also in British Guiana.
There were two Gordons there : —
Robert Gordon, late of the Hope estate, was
married at Demerara to Miss Anne Parkinson,
June 3, 1804 ("Scots Magazine," vol. 66, p. 806).
T. W. Gordon, of Demerara, was dead by May
28, 1832, when his second daughter, Julie, married
at Chealsea, G. A. Starling, M.D., of Bishop Stort-
ford ("Gentleman's Magazine," vol. 182, part i., p.
558).
DOMINICA.
Dominica, one of the Leeward Islands, lies be-
tween the French islands of Guadeloupe and Mar-
tinique. It was discovered on a Sunday (Dominica)
by Columbus in 1493. Like most of the West Indies
its ownership is a chequered history. It was taken
by the British in 1761 ; retaken by the French in
1781 ; and restored in 1783. It has an area of 305
square miles.
Hugh Gordon sailed, 1796-7, from Gravesend to
Dominica, and got a command in the St. George's
Light Infantry, at Rouseau. He took part in a
fight with a French privateer, which carried off a
large sugar-laden sloop (owned by a captain in the
regiment). He was in garrison in 1803 during the
insurroction at Guadeloupe, and in 1804 was sent
to the Prince Rupert's garrison. In 1805, he took
part in the defence of Dominica against the French,
and returned to England the same year. He seems
to be the Hugh Gordon, "late of Dominica," who
married at Macduff, Oct. 27, 1807, Catherine,
daughter of the Rev. Thomas Wilson, minister of
Gamrie ("Scots Mag.") ; she died at Dee Castle,
Aug. 10, 1810, after a long illness, aged 22: "her
sweetness of manner and amiable disposition had
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