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the Committee on this memorial, the many who are in other lands,

to whose energy and efforts the success of this undertaking is eminently due. He was born in 1806; and died in 1886, aged 80 years. He had four children. Peter

.married Barbara McDonald of East

Point and had 10 children. He was born in 181.1 and died in 1898, aged 87 years. Jessie married: James ,Musaterad of Cromarty, Scotland, the boyhood acquaintance and friend of the celebrated Hugh Mil-

and those who are gone to their long home, I can freely say that they carried- out in a magnificent way the commandment of the Lord, “Be fruitful and multiply and re- plenish the earth.” Grandfather Donald Gordon had 9 children, '51 grandchildren, ’1l1,1. great gran d- chif’dren, and there are already 36 in the fourth generation,

We have then in the Brudenell pioneers eminent descendants of

ler. She was born about 1819' and the four great Scottish families, died in 1881 at the age O’f 6’2 years. ~the Gard-ans, the {Siteiwart.s-, the

She had. 8 children. Grandfather Donald Gordon was 41 years of age when he came to Brudenell and died in 1819' at the early age of *5"? years. He is buried here.

DONAELJD GORDON’S SAID DEATH

The sad circumstances of his death were th-esez‘ In going to St. Andrew’s Pt- had to cross. What is known as Norton’s Creek, over a rude bridge of logs which was dan- gerous when the tide was high. The Scottish people have always been influenced by warnings of a supernatural character. is wife that day had such a. warning, and advised. him to come home in the evening by the roadway, as the tide would be high at the time. ,He did so. On arriving at his gate he met his friend and neighbor. Simon .Wallace, and‘ they stepped to talk. Grandfather sat on the top: rail of the gate, which broke under his weigh, and he fell back- wards and dislocated the bones of his neck, causing instant death.

WERE ERUWUL AND MU'L‘TIPLHED.

The B'rudenell pioneers then, as we see, consisted of James Mc- Laren and his seven children, and his son-in-law, Donald Gordon, and his nine children. And when I look about me and see their children’s children who mostly compose this gathering and recall

M-c-Larens and the McDonalds, who figured so largely and so nony in the history of Scotland for more than eight hundred years.

The time is too short to dwell at length on the history of the Gondlons. Caesar speaks of them in his commentaries Written 53 years before Christ. There was a Duke die Gordon, Lord High Constable next in position to the King of France, in the: year 790 and again Lewis Gordon was Lord High Constable of France in 840 and a Gordian was married to Gertrude, gran d-«diaughter of King Dagobert of France, about the year 900, if my memory of dates serves me

right. It is supposed that some of

the Gordons crossed to England from Brittany in France with William of Normandy. In the year 1050, for great services against Macbeth, King .Malcolm LIE of Scotland gave to Sir Adam Gordon, a grant of land in the south of Scotland, in the Merse and also the lands of .Sltit-c'hel, which he called the Lordship of Gordon. His residence in these estates was call- Huntly. About IBM King Robert the 1st. of Scotland, in recompense for his services, bestowed on Sir Adam Gordon, the fifth of that name, the large and’ fertile lands of Strathbogie, on the Devern and Bogife Rivers, which by act of par- liament holden at Perth in 1311 he was permitted to call “'Huntly” after the name. of his former resi- dence on the Merse, by which name

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