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councell's tollerance) transports himself into Germany, a captain in Collonel
George Leslie his regiment " {Earls of Stitherland 479) as soon as he heard
of the death, 1636, Jun. 13, of Huntl}', with whom he had quarrelled
(Spalding's Trubles, i. 75, which calls him " Capiten," but does not state that
he entered Leslie's regiment).
Second son of Sir Adam, of Park, and Christian, dau. of William Gordon,
V. of Gight. He gave the Privy Council a great deal of trouble before he
left, especially in carrying on the vendetta against Frendraught, 1630-36,
acting as "chiftane of the licht horsemen" and " chiftane of the rebellis "
[Privy Council Reg. ; Spalding's Truhhs, I. 48, 50, 64, 65, 66, 71). He was
put out of the county by the Marquis of Huntly, but returned, 1635, Sep., and
turned on the Marquis, who declared, 1636, Feb. 17, that Adam was the
"cheife instrument and actour of all these rebelliounes " {Traquair House
Papers, Hist. MSS. Coin., gth report, append., part 11. p. 261). Archbishop
Spottiswoode says he was " gevin to drinke " (ibid.); in. " Cairnwhelp's
daughter " (Balbithan MS.), probably Nicolas Gordon, who, as relict of
umquhill Captain Gordon, appeared before the Strathbogie Presbytery as a
papist, 1642 Sep. Paternal uncle of Sir George, 485. Cousin of Adam, 1634,
Nathaniel, 1116, granduncle of Adam, 1643-
1641- Adam. 1659, Lt., Polish army, killed by a cannon ball near
Marienburg, Prussia, while fighting against the Swedes [Diary of Patrick
Gordon, 30; Tagebuch, i. 183).
Kinsman of Patrick (" Steelhand "), 1796, who tried to recover his money
from the Col. of his reg. William Gordon, a trader in Konigsberg, who acted
as Adam's banker, declined to give up the money, declaring there were nearer
relatives in Scotland [Tagebuch, i. 186).
1642- Adam. 1694, May, 7, Ens., Sir Charles Graham's Reg., Scots
Brigade in Holland (Ferguson's Scots Brigade, i. 574).
16^- Adam. After 1713, as Capt., "dyed abroad in Holland of a
decay" [Balbithan MS.).
Eldest son of Adam [d. 1693), of Glenbucket, and Jean Douglas, of the
Glenbervie family. 1696, imprisoned his mother for thirty days in Glenbucket
Castle (as she complained to the Privy Council). 1701, got into debt, and had
to dispose of the property to John Gordon, of Knockespock, father of the
notorious Jacobite, General John Gordon, of Glenbucket. 1713, Oct. 19,
figures, as " Adam Gordon of Inverbuckett, captain of his regiment," in an
entail by Sir James Gordon of Park, as one of the heirs to Park (Park Charter
Chest). He had two brothers. Ensign Alexander, and " Lifetennant Robert,
who married and yet lives " {Balbithan MS.). Grd.-nephew of Adam, 1640-
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