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460 HOUSE OF GORDON.
Great grandson of James, of Letterfourie, Admiral, 687 (ibid.) ; m. Barbara
Torcq, and had three children, including Gertrude, h. 1649, at Bergen-op-
Zoom, m. Cornelis de Graeuw, and became well known as a poet (Nieuw
Biograpliisch-Woordcnboek van NederlandsJie Diclitcrs, 1845, 11. 279). She
is said to have been related to Otto Dirck, 1787-
1813- Scaudt. 1550, Archer in the Scots Men-at-Arms in France
(Forbes-Leith's Scots Men-at-Aniis, 1. 191).
1814- Theodore Ignatius. 1697, Aug. 5, Ens., Butirki Reg., Russian
army (Patrick Gordon's Tagehnch, 11. 128). 1709, Col., "when all trace of
him disappears " (Diary, .xxii).
Third son of Patrick, 1795 ; received his military education in Dantzig,
1694 {Tagehuch , 11. 433) ; confirmed by the Archbishop of Anura, i6g8, Jul.
6, as " Joseph " (ibid., iii. 203 ; i. 638-g).
1815- Thomas. 1505, Archer, Scots Men-at Arms in France (Forbes-
Leith's Scofs Mei:-fit-A nils, i. 1 75). Apparently " Thomas Gourdon " (Vaisne),
Archer in 1507 (ibid., i. 180).
1816- Thomas (le jaine). 1507, Archer, Scots Men-at-Arms in France.
His name is spelt " Gordon " whereas the elder, Thomas in the same list is
given as "Gourdon" (Forbes-Leith's Scots Mcii-af-Anns, i. 180).
1817- Thomas. 1516-35, Archer de la Garde, Scots Life Guards in
France (Forbes-Leith's Scots Mcn-at-Arins, 11. 103, 134)-
1818- Thomas. 1695-8, Lt. in France, in the service of King James ;
his passes (credentials ?) had been stolen. 1698, Aug. 9, applied to General
Patrick Gordon for service in the Russian army. 1699, Sep. 2, service ac-
cepted (Tagebuch, i. 651).
Son of William, merchant (d. 1697); b. in Scotland (ibid., 6^6); met
General Gordon's son, John, in Scotland, and travelled with him to Riga
(ibid., I. 650).
1819- Thomas. i7i7,Jun. i, entered the Russian Navy as Capt. Com-
mander after a personal application addressed to Peter the Great at Paris
(Information from Gen. Beklemishefl", St. Petersburg) ; in May he had been
commissioned by the Czar to invite naval officers from England to join the
Russian Navy (ibid.) ; he had had to leave our Navy (see 1313) on account
of his Jacobite sympathies ; the writer of A History of the Russian Navy,
(Navy Records Society, vol. 15, p- 36), says it was in Holland that Peter picked
him up ; he was certainly in touch with Peter before 171 7, for Mar, writing to
him 1 7 16, Nov. 13, says (Stirling-Home-Dniinmond-iiloray Papers, Hist.
MSS. Com., 168) :—
I hope you have got one I wrote to you the 21st of October, in which I told you the