Note 502 — REIGN OF GEORGE I.: 1714–1727.
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Gordon of Ellon, son to a farmer in Bourtie—a merchant in Edinburgh, and once a bailie there, and a rich man. By him the house of Ellon was built anew in a handsome style.—View of Diocese of Aberdeen, Spal. Club, p. 301 (written about beginning of the 18th century).