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442 HOUSE OF GORDON.
deeply has he engaged himself that he has no means left, and know of none by which he can
maintain his soldiers. Therefore he prays [for the provisional advance of 500 or 600 pounds
of 40 groats].
Oct. 14, a letter from de Witt speaks of the Council's having discharged
Gordon with his company; asks assistance for the burghers. 1610, May n,
the States General recommend the sutlers of Gordon's company to the Council
of State that " these poor petitioners may succeed in getting their payment,
or at least come to an agreement with the other creditors in Utrecht " (ibid., i.
243). 1615, Aug. 25, a request was read to the States General from a John
Gordon praying for the post of serg. maj. in the reg. of Col. Brog (ibid., i.
253). 1618, Brog reports that " by the absence of Capt. Gordon " the post of
serg. maj. is vacant " (ibid., i. 285). 1618, Feb. 17, the Council of State report
on a petition by Captain " Johan " Gordon (ibid., 1. 292) : —
On the strength of the old services which he mentions in his petition as having been
done in Brabant by his late father, he can make no claims on these united provinces, though
it seems he mentions them, not with 3 view to receive any payment for them here, but in order
that your High Mightinesses [the States General] may be the more inclined to dispose favour-
ably of his request. And for the services rendered to these lands by the petitioner, he has
been fully paid so that . . . the answer to be given to the petitioner's request be " Patience ".
Son (according to the Earls of Sutherland, p. 180) of Alexander, 1652,
and Jacobee Pedralis, but the Balbilhan MS. calls Alexander's son " Captain
Alexander Gordon in Holland". The Earls of Sutherland states that John
had a son Alexander, 1657 (?), and the Balbithan MS. that this Alexander
married in Holland and " begat a son, who was a captain anno 1633 ".
1747- John, Viscount Melguin and Lord Aboyne. 1625, Lt. to his
brother George, Lord Enzie, 1710j '" the Scots Men-at-Arms (Earls of Suther-
land, 395; Forbes-Leith's Scots Mcn-at-Anns, i. 115, 195).
Fifth son oi George, ist Marquis of Huntly, 473; created Viscount
Melgum and Lord Aboyne, 1627 ; );;. 1626, Sophia Hay (d. 1642, leaving one
dau.), fifth dau. of Francis, 9th Earl of Erroll (Blakhal's Brieffe Narration) ;
burned to death at Frendraught, 1630, Oct. 8-9 (Spalding's Trubles, 1. 17-20).
His peerage became extinct, but the Viscountcy of Aboyne was created, 1632,
for his nephew James^ a great anti-Covenanter.
1748- John. 1626, Oct., joined Mackay's Reg., rank not stated (Earls
of Sutherland, 402).
" Soneof John Gordoun, of Gartay " (ibid. 402), who, however, is difficult
to fit into the Garty group as given in the Sutherland Tables (House of
Gordon, 11. 141) ; probably a kinsman of Adam 1635, and John 1749- One of
these Johns is given in Mackay's Old Scots Brigade (p. 208) as having been
a colonel in the Dutch army.