ALEXANDER GORDON, THE ANTIQUARY. 



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papers of Dr. Edward Lynaii, a former ofl&cer of the Lodge, which 

 partially replaces official records, destroyed, along with all the jewels, 

 books and charters, in the great fire of 1838, by which a large 

 portion of the city of Charleston was reduced to ashes : it appears 

 that on Monday, 13th January, 1794, the Right Worshipful Master, 

 John Trouj), entertained the Lodge at his own house ; and in a note 

 accompanying this entry, his death is recorded on the 30th January 

 of the following year. A James Troup, probably his son, joined the 

 Lodge in the latter year; but the destruction of n-^arly all the registry 

 books of births, marriages, and deaths, at Charleston, during the late 

 war; added to the absence of any recognition of the old scholar and 

 antiquary, as such, in his later home: render it impossible to trace out 

 his descendants through either line, or to recover any clue to the deposi- 

 tory of the paintings and drawings mentioned in his will ; and, above 

 all, to that of the portrait of the testator himself, painted by his own 

 hand, and specially bequeathed to his son as a family heirloom. 



To the kiiad co-operation of General de Saussure, President of the 

 St. Andi-ew's Society of Charleston, South Carolina, I owe the re- 

 covery of the most impox'tant facts relative to the colonial life of the 

 author of the Itinerary ; and I still indulge the hope that he may be 

 able to crown his persevering and successful labours by tracing out 

 this portrait of Sandy Gordon, — doubtless in the full glory of wig, 

 ruffles, and lapel waistcoat, of the Georgian era, — and gracing with 

 so interesting a piece of historical portraiture the hall of the Society 

 of the Sons of St. Andrew, founded in the city of Charleston nearly 

 a, centmy and a-half ago. 



