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Biography:

1. Alexander Gordon was "Employed at Sundry Places, Royal Gunpowder Mills, Aug 1798" (Supply 5/114) - taken from the FGPR ( p.36). A letter dated the 29th December 1789 to Waltham Abbey from the Royal Powder Mills at Faversham, records that John Montague and Alexander Gordon, "labourers at this place" were to be transferred to Waltham Abbey the next day, and that they had been paid to the end of the month. Gordon had "frock and slippers", while Montague had been furnished with neither (WASC 475). 2. Alexander Gordon was employed as a Millman earning 2/-d per day (Supply 5/214 dated the 27th March1790) as he was in April 1791 and January 1792 (both Supply 5/215). 3. From July to September 1792 he worked as a Labourer in the Corning House, with his pay reduced to 1/6d per day (Supply 5/216 dated September 1792). 4. Alexander was still working as a Millman in February 1793, with his pay restored to 2/-d per day (Supply 5/216 dated the 28th February 1793). This was also the case in August to September 1793 and January 1794 (both Supply 5/216). 5. Robert Coleman reported on the 15th January 1794, that Gordon was chequered (fined) one days pay for fighting in the Watch House (Winters, p.40). 6. Alexander was in trouble again shortly afterwards, because Robert Coleman recorded on the 12th February 1794, that he was chequered three days' pay for "not coming on duty till past midnight, and having been refused entry tried to gain admittance by getting over the ditch." It was agreed "for his next offence he would be discharged" (Winters, p.41). 7. Gordon's name does not appear in the List of Employees dated the 31st August 1794 (Supply 5/216).