KIT NUMBER: 14742
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Descendants of Charles Gordon b. c1669 Scotland SCT>NJ
Charles GORDON (1669 - 1740), who arrived in the East Jersey Colony in the late 1600s. He was probably a younger member of the family known as the Gordons of Pitlurg, from the Aberdeenshire area of northern Scotland.Peter GORDON (1703 - 1770), are noted in the history of the Old Tennent Church, which is still an active Presbyterian congregation in that area.
Lewis GORDON (1762 - 1844), was a farmer and surveyor who moved his family to Mason Co., Kentucky in the late 1790s. He helped survey many of the roads in that growing county, and was a colonel in the Kentucky militia in the pre-1812 period.
Peter GORDON (1800 - 1853), expanded the family holdings in the area and had connections with other landed families such as the Downings and Smoots through the marriages of his children.
Lewis Dixon GORDON was the last of the line in Mason Co. He married Grace QUAINTANCE of nearby Fleming Co. and moved there to live and work on the farm owned by Grace's parents. At one point, he went into a farming partnership with his brother and moved the family to Missouri for a few years between 1897 and 1892. On returning to Kentucky, they eventually sold the farm in Fleming Co. and retired to a place downriver in Cincinnati.
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