GORDON, John Minister of Crimond parish, Reverend Mr ¹

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(at Crimond in 1597)

"John Gordon, second son of Alexander G. of Lesmoir, and Anne, daugh. of Alexander Forbes of Pitsligo; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (7th Aug. 1594); adm. before 30th Nov. 1597, when he had a manse and glebe designated; still min. 24th March 1621. He joined Sir Alexander Fraser of Philorth in his scheme of establishing a Univ. at Fraserburgh. [Douglas's Baronage, 31; Laing's Donean Tourist, 231;Aberdeen Hornings, iii., 55.]"

from Fasti Ecclesiae




"Mr. John, Parson of Crimond. He does not appear to have had any landed estates. He graduated M.A. at the University of Edinburgh, August 7, 1594, and was admitted to the ministry of the parish of Crimond, 1597 ; continued March 24, 1621 (Scott's Fasti, vi., 624). He was a consenting witness to a tack by Mr. Robert Lindsay, vicar of Coul, with consent of the Bishop of Aberdeen and his Chapter, in favour of John Forbes of Brux and his spouse, Isobel Gordon, of the teind sheaves of Meikle and Little Gellan, etc., for ig years for £20 yearly; Aberdeen, March 20, 1607 (Records of Aboyne, p. 189)."

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