GORDON, WILLIAM [SSNE 8231]
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William Gordon was a solider in the Scots-Dutch Brigade in the company of Colonel Sir Robert Henderson [SSNE 4975]. He deserted from the company around 1617, taking with him 2,000 guilders. He was reported by Henderson to Sir Dudley Carleton to have married a woman called "Straghan, a burgomaster's daughter," and left her in poverty. In 1619, he returned to the Dutch Republic and Carleton was ordered by Sir James Semple to arrest Gordon. Gordon was, according to Henderson, "a debauched papist and a meddler with Jesuits."
Sources:
Carleton, Sir Dudley, The Letters from and to Sir Dudley Carleton... (3rd Edition, London, 1780), pp. 361-362, 368.
The National Archives, SP 84/90, f. 18. Sir R. Henryson to Carleton, 15 May 1619.
This entry created by Mr Jack Abernethy.
Service record
- THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, THE SCOTS BRIGADE, HENDERSON
- Arrived 1617-01-01, as PRIVATE SOLDIER
- Departed 1619-12-31, as DESERTER
- Capacity SOLDIER, purpose MILITARY