Charles Gordon, younger of Terpersie

Claimed he was forced to join the rising by John Gordon of Glenbucket, but was convicted and executed for high treason (NA SP 36/92/2/36). Patrick Gordon was among those who supported his claim (SP 36/86/2/146). Charles's father was also supposed to have been an officer in the Jacobite army (Prisoners, vol. 2, p. 235). His son James, only 15 years old, claimed to have been forced by Glenbucket's son (SP 36/85/1/136), and was repreived in January 1747 (SP 36/92/2/15). See also Prisoners of the '45, pp. 238-39. See Rosebery's List of Persons Concerned in the Rebellion, p. 369, on Gordon's wife and daughters.