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GORDONS UNDER ARMS — CONTINENT. 415
1795i and widow of Colonel Strasburg {Tagebuch, iii. 171) ; m. (2) 1740,
Jun., Margaret (d. 1788, Sep. 19), dau. of Sir Thomas Moncrief, of that Ilk.
Gordon d. at Auchintoul without surviving issue, 1751, Jul. 31.
1659- Alexander. 1688, Apr. 13, Capt., Balfour's Reg., Scots Brigade
in Holland, vice Ferdinand Cunningham (Ferguson's Scots Brigade, i. 517).
Perhaps Capt. Alexander, of Leachie (son of Captain Patrick, H29, and
grandson of William, in Minmore), whose (Dutch ?) wife, Gethrad Abraham,
got sasine in liferent and her sons, George and Patrick, in fee, of the lands of
Leachie (Dufftown), 1699, Mar. 6 (Bulloch's Gordons and Smiths, 12).
1660- Alexander. 1692, Jun., Col., served at Dunkirk, under Major
Gens. Buchan and Canon (Ruvigny's Jacobite Peerage, 241). A great many
Capts. and other subaltern Scots officers at H.M. desire voluntarily enrolled
themselves in a new Scots Coy. of which Col. Brown got the command, with
Col. Scot and Ale.xander Gordon for his Lieutenants. They marched in Sep.
from St. Germains to Roussillon, and were at the siege of" Roses " with the
other two brigades of Capts. Rutherford and Haye {ibid., 240). He may be
the same as 1658'
1661- Alexander. Before 1714, Ens. ih Col. George Hamilton's Reg.,
Holland, raised 1694 {Brechin Commissariot) ; afterwards in Lt. Gen. Hamil-
ton's Ft., British army, as traced in 137-
1662- Alexander. 1740, Russian Navy. 1740, May 8, John Gordon, of
Glenbucket, writing to Admiral Thomas Gordon, Governor of Kronstadt, from
Fraserburgh, says {Stirling-Hoine-Drumiiiond Papers, Hist. MSS. Com.,
198) :-
My friend Mr. Gordon some time agoe informed me that you had acquainted liim that
my son Sandie was dead, but does not tell me how or wher he died; if he was dead and be-
haved honorablie at his death it would be a great satisf.ictione to me to know, and I am con-
vinced would be no less to yow, since you had honored him with your countenance and favours
so much, which I shall ever have a sense of whyll I leave, tho not in my power to returne, but
your goodnes will take the word for the dead.
Theodore Gordon (in his MS. 1779) says he was killed in the Black Sea while
fighting the Turks. An Alexander Gordon, who entered the Russian Navy
as a Midshipman in 1737, "retired" in 1740 (Note from Gen. Beklemisheff).
Fourth son of John, of Glenbucket, the famous Jacobite General (1673-
1750). 1715, March 27, appointed 2nd Lt. of the " Speedwell " galley, as
noted (unidentified) in Alexander, 138- 17 16, as an officer in the Jacobite
packet " Hope," was sent ashore, in the Sound between Barra and Uist, to
Clanronald's widow, who informed him that " Lieut. Gen. [Alexander] Gordon,
1658) and all that designed to leave the country were gone, and ad-
vised them [on the ' Hope '] to take care of themselves and return, two English
1795i and widow of Colonel Strasburg {Tagebuch, iii. 171) ; m. (2) 1740,
Jun., Margaret (d. 1788, Sep. 19), dau. of Sir Thomas Moncrief, of that Ilk.
Gordon d. at Auchintoul without surviving issue, 1751, Jul. 31.
1659- Alexander. 1688, Apr. 13, Capt., Balfour's Reg., Scots Brigade
in Holland, vice Ferdinand Cunningham (Ferguson's Scots Brigade, i. 517).
Perhaps Capt. Alexander, of Leachie (son of Captain Patrick, H29, and
grandson of William, in Minmore), whose (Dutch ?) wife, Gethrad Abraham,
got sasine in liferent and her sons, George and Patrick, in fee, of the lands of
Leachie (Dufftown), 1699, Mar. 6 (Bulloch's Gordons and Smiths, 12).
1660- Alexander. 1692, Jun., Col., served at Dunkirk, under Major
Gens. Buchan and Canon (Ruvigny's Jacobite Peerage, 241). A great many
Capts. and other subaltern Scots officers at H.M. desire voluntarily enrolled
themselves in a new Scots Coy. of which Col. Brown got the command, with
Col. Scot and Ale.xander Gordon for his Lieutenants. They marched in Sep.
from St. Germains to Roussillon, and were at the siege of" Roses " with the
other two brigades of Capts. Rutherford and Haye {ibid., 240). He may be
the same as 1658'
1661- Alexander. Before 1714, Ens. ih Col. George Hamilton's Reg.,
Holland, raised 1694 {Brechin Commissariot) ; afterwards in Lt. Gen. Hamil-
ton's Ft., British army, as traced in 137-
1662- Alexander. 1740, Russian Navy. 1740, May 8, John Gordon, of
Glenbucket, writing to Admiral Thomas Gordon, Governor of Kronstadt, from
Fraserburgh, says {Stirling-Hoine-Drumiiiond Papers, Hist. MSS. Com.,
198) :-
My friend Mr. Gordon some time agoe informed me that you had acquainted liim that
my son Sandie was dead, but does not tell me how or wher he died; if he was dead and be-
haved honorablie at his death it would be a great satisf.ictione to me to know, and I am con-
vinced would be no less to yow, since you had honored him with your countenance and favours
so much, which I shall ever have a sense of whyll I leave, tho not in my power to returne, but
your goodnes will take the word for the dead.
Theodore Gordon (in his MS. 1779) says he was killed in the Black Sea while
fighting the Turks. An Alexander Gordon, who entered the Russian Navy
as a Midshipman in 1737, "retired" in 1740 (Note from Gen. Beklemisheff).
Fourth son of John, of Glenbucket, the famous Jacobite General (1673-
1750). 1715, March 27, appointed 2nd Lt. of the " Speedwell " galley, as
noted (unidentified) in Alexander, 138- 17 16, as an officer in the Jacobite
packet " Hope," was sent ashore, in the Sound between Barra and Uist, to
Clanronald's widow, who informed him that " Lieut. Gen. [Alexander] Gordon,
1658) and all that designed to leave the country were gone, and ad-
vised them [on the ' Hope '] to take care of themselves and return, two English
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