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GORDONS UNDER ARMS — CONTINENT. 433
(Forbes-Leith's Scots Men-at-Arms, i. i86). A " Gillebert Godon " {sic)
appears in the corps in 15 15 {ibid., i. 186).
1724- Gilbert. 1722 (alive) Capt., Bourbon Reg., France, "chief sur-
veyor for the town of Lichtenberg and Petite Pierre, and living in Saverne in
Lower Alsace ".
Son of John, " who was engaged in many honourable missions by the
favour of the most Christian King," and who was the son of Edmond, 1694 ;
recognised as " cousin " by the 2nd Duke of Gordon, 1722, Jan. 13.
1725- Gilbert. 1769, Soldier, Col. Gordon's Coy., Marjoribanks' Reg.,
Scots Brigade in Holland, took the sacramental Ypres, 1769, March 5 ; 1770,
Feb. II, 1772, Apr. 5, and at Nymeguen, 1776, Aug. 18, 1777, Aug. 31, 1778,
Nov. I (Ferguson's Scots Brigade, in. 138, 139, 141, 143, 144, 145).
M. Mary Bucham, or Bouham, and had Adam, bap. 1761, Nov. 21, at
Nymeguen (Hugh Gordon being a witness) ; William, bap. 1776, Oct. 20, there ;
and Mary, bap. 1764, Mar. 5, at Namur {ibid., in. 81, 109, 87).
1726. Qodfred. 1588, Capt., "did behave himselff valiantlie" at the
siege of Bergen-op-Zoom, and was taken prisoner, " efter that he had receaved
many wounds at the surprysing of the north fort of Bergen. . . . The taking
of the north fort wes attempted by the Spaniards with evill successe, which
maid them leave the seige and retire, haveing lost sundrie of ther best men "
{Earls of Sutherland, 197).
"A Spanish Lord, descended of a noble house" {ibid., 197).
1727- Lord Henry. 1659, Lt. Col., Polish Army (Gen. Patrick Gordon's
Tagebiich, 1. 168). 1660, Sep. 25, at the rout of the Cossacks at Czudno
(or Slobodishtchi, Orel), had his horse shot under him {ibid., i. 220) ; Nov. 5,
captured Col. Thomas Menzies, of the Russian Service {ibid., i. 253). 1661,
Jul. 26, freed Col. Crawford, Russian army {ibid., i. 283).
Fifth son of George, 2nd Marquis of Huntly, 1710; i- >n France, taken
to Poland when young with his twin sister Catherine (who }it. Count Andreas
Morsztyn, and became great-grandmother of Stanislas Poniatowski, last king
of Poland). 1658, Jun. 16, naturalized as "Marquis of Huntly" by a Polish
"indigenet" {Volumina Legiiin, iv. 565). 1662, Apr. 14, the Huntly estate
was burdened on behalf of him and his sisters, but Lord Henry had much
trouble in getting his share, telling Lord Lauderdale, 1665, that he had not
"yet received during the thirty years I have lived but the sum of £500 stg."
{Add. MSS., 22,123 f- 239). 1667, Mar. 21, got a life annuity of 5000 merks
from the estate {Privy Conn. Reg. 3rd series, 11. 69, 76-78, 269-271, 302-5,
654, 655). Robert Mylne in his " Genealogie of the Familie of Gordon," 1707,
as quoted in the Diary of Patrick Gordon, 32, says he was "a little hair-
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