| Description | Letter to James Gordon of Letterfourie in Madeira from Alexander Grant, [Cullen?]: ‘John Gordon, Birkenbush eldest son gave his second Brother George a bill of 20000 merks when he married Glengeracks Daughter upon which an adjudication was intended, George dyed suddenly and I believe in drink in March 1753, John was then in orders and it was apprehended would never marrie. In that view, James the third Brother would have got the land, but John is married to one Bremner ane old bankrupt fidlers dauter in Fordyce and it is thought James will be heir of line and get the Tack of Muiryfold which George held of the Duke of Gordon, but the estate will return to John, out of which Georges relict has a locality of about £200 scots … John … disponed these lands to one Alexr Dinam writer in Banff, who now seems enclined to dispose of the same Im of oppinion you should be the purchaser …’ 29 June 1754 |