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GORDONS UNDER ARMS — CONTINENT. 443
1749- John. 1626, Oct., joined Mackay's Reg., rank unknown (Earls
of SutJierland, 402 ; John Mackay's Old Scots Brigade, 208).
Son of Adam Gordon Georgeson, and brother of Adam, 1635, who also
joined Mackay.
1750- John. 1627-57, soldier in the service of the Grand Duke of Hesse,
and had become a thorough German (" ein volliger Deutscher"); prisoner
with Patrick Gordon, 1795, at Dantzig, 1657, Jan. 5 [Tagehitch, i. 133).
1751- John. 1630, Col., Sweden " offered to levy at his own expense
twelve companies of foot-soldiers, towards whose monthly pay the merchants
of Danzig were to contribute. In the letter to O.xenstierna which conveys
this news, the king adds, ' Such levies are very necessary at the present time
(Th. A. Fischer, quoting from Oxenstierna's Skriften och BrefrexUng, i. 676,
in The Scots in Sweden, 91). Fischer identifies this Gordon in his index,
with the statement (p. 118), " Col. Gordon's (of Clunie) estate of Hammerss
'was sold for 10,000 Thaler to Hans Maclier in 1652'.'' No such Col. ap-
pears in the Cluny pedigree.
1752- John. 1631, sailed from Cromarty with Adam, to jom the army
of Gustavus Adolphus {Earls of Sutherland, 450) ; rank not ' stated. Otto
Donner (Sco/^/s/i Families in Finland and Sweden, Helsingfors, 1884, p. 19)
notes that a John Gordon was in the army of Gustavus.
Son of Gilbert, of Bein-ewen (Earls of Sutherland, 450), a place name
that is e.xtinct.
1753- John. Before 1631, officer in the army of the Emperor (Austria).
1631, Nov., captured by the Swedes at Nuremberg (Earls of Sutherland,
474) :—
The King of Sweden issued out of his leaguer about Norenbourgh with a party of a
thousand foot and fyve hundredth hors, and rencountering with Collonel Spaw, Leivetenant-
Collonel John Gordon, Captain Walter LesUe [of the Balquhain family] and others, leading a
stronger and greater partie of the emperialists, the king invaded them, and beat them, after a
long and sharp fight ; killed the most part of them ; tooke Spaw, Gordon, and Leslie prisoners,
and sent them into Norembourgh. The king kept Leivetenant-CoUonel Gordon prisoner with
him six weekes and then, for his valour, released him without ransome.
1634, Feb. 14, as Col. and Gov. of Eger, near Pilsen, was privy to, if he
did not actually undertake, the assassination of Wallenstein, who, according
to Puffendorf, had " raised him from a private soldier " ; created, in conse-
quence, by the Emperor, a Marquis, and Bearer of the Gold Key; for a sur-
vey of the extensive literature on the subject see the House of Gordon (i. (177)-
(i8i)).
Son of John, 1745 (ibid., i. (177)) ; visited Scotland, 1644 (Familic of Inncs,
248), admitted burgess of Elgin, Feb. 27 (CrsLmond's Records.of Elgin, 11. 462),