, Margaret ¹

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Margaret married John GORDON émigré Merchant, then Cavalryman, son of Lewis GORDON in Milltown of Laggan, then Tomnagyloch, Jacobite 1745 and Janet SMITH.¹ (John GORDON émigré Merchant, then Cavalryman was baptised on 22 February 1756 in Mortlach parish, Banffshire, Scotland ^{2 3} and died in 1781 in Revolutionary War of Independence, America ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"915 - John. 1781, Jan. Apr., joined Lord Cornwallis when he arrived at Wilmington upon his expedition to Virginia; Cornwallis soon after gave him a com. to raise an Independent Coy. of Horse; k. during that summer in a skirmish with a party of Americans (American Loyalist Claims, Treasury Rec., P.R.O.).

Eldest son of Lewis, in Tomnagayloch, who was the son of Thomas, in Achnastank, Glenlivet, a cadet of Beldorney (J. M. Bulloch in Banffshire Field Club Transactions, 1907, Jan. 31); went to Wilmington before 1777, Oct., and was a merchant there; m. Margaret -, his administratrix. Brother of Thomas in Spynie, 1332, who claimed his property; first cousin of James, 722, John 906, and William, 1415."

from Gordons Under Arms ¹