Sir Robert Gordon

1647 - 1701  (53 years)

• Name	Robert Gordon
  Title	Sir
  Birth	7 Mar 1646/47	Drainie, Moray, Scotland   [1]
  Baptism	9 Apr 1647	Drainie, Moray, Scotland   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	30 Jan 1678/79	Leith, Midlothian, Scotland   [3]
  	Merchant. Contracted with Alexander Acheson to transport 800 bolls of bear from Sutherland to Norway
  Role	1684	East Jersey, New Jersey, USA
  	Fractioner (absent)
  Legal	9 Jul 1685	Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland   [4]
  	With his brother John, successfully petitioned the Privy Council for the gift of several Dunottar prisoners to be transported to East Jersey
  Title Suffix	of Gordonstoun, 3rd Baronet
  Property	24 May 1690	Barnegat, Ocean, New Jersey, USA   [5, 6]
  	Confirmation in right of 1/4 share of a tract, 240 acres in Barnegatt
  Property	17 Feb 1692/93	Middlesex, New Jersey, USA
  	Survey of 1,500 acres along the Milstone River
  Death	1701  [1]
  Property	10 Jun 1701	Elizabethtown, Essex, New Jersey, USA   [7]
  	Confirmation to Sir Robert, as his first division of land in the Province, 1,500 acres on south side of the Passaic
  Origin	Drainie, Moray, Scotland
  Person ID	I44797	East Jersey Genealogies
  Last Modified	16 Apr 2026

  
  

  Father	Sir Ludovick Gordon,   b. 15 Oct 1624, Drainie, Moray, Scotland d. 1688 (Age 63 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Elizabeth Farquhar,   b. 1624, Aberdeenshire, Scotland d. 1660, Drainie, Moray, Scotland (Age 36 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	1 Jan 1643/44  [8]
  Family ID	F31202	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Margaret Forbes,   b. Daughter of William Forbes, 12th Lord   d. Apr 1677, Elgin, Moray, Scotland
  Marriage	1676
  Family ID	F31497	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Apr 2026

  
  

  Family 2	Elizabeth Dunbar,   b. Abt 1675   d. 1756 (Age 81 years)
  Marriage	1691
  Children	1. Lucy Gordon,   b. 1700, Drainie, Moray, Scotland  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F31643	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Apr 2026

  
  

• Event Map

  Occupation - Merchant. Contracted with Alexander Acheson to transport 800 bolls of bear from Sutherland to Norway - 30 Jan 1678/79 - Leith, Midlothian, Scotland Legal - With his brother John, successfully petitioned the Privy Council for the gift of several Dunottar prisoners to be transported to East Jersey - 9 Jul 1685 - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland Property - Confirmation in right of 1/4 share of a tract, 240 acres in Barnegatt - 24 May 1690 - Barnegat, Ocean, New Jersey, USA Property - Survey of 1,500 acres along the Milstone River - 17 Feb 1692/93 - Middlesex, New Jersey, USA Property - Confirmation to Sir Robert, as his first division of land in the Province, 1,500 acres on south side of the Passaic - 10 Jun 1701 - Elizabethtown, Essex, New Jersey, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S3750] Bulloch, John Malcolm, The House of Gordon, Vol.1, p216. [S3614] Births (OPR) Scotland, Drainie 130 10/19. [S3725] Dunbar, Edward Dunbar, Social Life in Former Days, Chiefly in the Province of Moray, 2nd Series, pp115-119. [S3611] Privy Council of Scotland, The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, 3rd Series, XI, 94-95. [S3607] Nelson, William, Calendar of Records in the Office of the Secretary of State, 1664-1703, p180. [S3652] "Early Land Records, 1650-1900s", State of New Jersey, Department of State, Early Land Records, 1650-1900s, D(EJ): Folio 229-230 (SSTSE023). [S3607] Nelson, William, Calendar of Records in the Office of the Secretary of State, 1664-1703, p151. [S3750] Bulloch, John Malcolm, The House of Gordon, Vol.1, p215.