GORDON, ADAM [SSNE 435]
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Adam Gordon was the illegitimate son of Adam Gordon in Doll, Clyne parish, in Sutherland. Adam was a captain in Danish-Norwegian service who was in Colonel Donald Mackay's [SSNE 93] regiment in the period October 1626-1628. Adam and his brother John probably joined Mackay in Sutherland. In 1633, with Mackay’s regiment being reduced at Heidelberg, Gordon was put in charge of one of the two companies which proceeded to Donauwörth in July 1633. He is not to be confused with Adam Gordon [SSNE 2495] who was in Swedish service but died at Nördlingen in 1634.
A Captain Adam Gordon served in Alexander Gordon's [SSNE 2499] regiment between 1636-7 in Sweden. This is most likely Adam Gordon [SSNE 6949] rather than this man.
T. Riis, Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot (Odense, 1988), II, p. 121 ; J. Mackay, 'Mackay's Regiment' in Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness, VIII, 1879, p. 186; RPCSc 2nd Series VIII, p. 390; Gordon under Arms, eds. C. O. Skelton and J. M. Bulloch (Aberdeen, 1912), no. 1635; J. M. Bulloch, The Gordons in Sutherland (including the Embo Family) (Dingwall, 1907), p. 86; R. Gordon, A Genealogical History of the Earldom of Sutherland (Edinburgh, 1813), p. 402.
This entry was kindly updated by Dr Thomas Brochard
Service record
- DENMARK-NORWAY, MACKAY'S REGIMENT
- Departed 1627-12-31, as CAPTAIN
- Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY
- SWEDEN, MACKAY'S REGIMENT
- Departed 1633-07-31
- Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY