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Descendants of Nathaniel Gordon, b. 1700, d. 1788
Nathaniel Gordon came to Boston about 1749 from county Tyrone, Ire. to hook up with a brother who had previously gone to Virginia. He was said to be from Scotland. Nathaniel's oldest son had gone to Boston prior to 1749 in the employ of a relative named William Gordon, merchant of Boston and Dunstable.
It appears that Nathaniel Gordon and William Gordon of Boston were either brothers or first cousins. William Gordon's father was James Gordon of Boston who was born in 1693 and died in 1770 in Boston. James' son William was born in 1727 in Boston and died in 1777 in Dunstable. William Gordon served as executor for James Gordon's estate (supported by a Massachusetts supreme court case concerning contested property claims and information from old newspapers and letters). (Based on Revolutionary War pension papers, William Gordon in Boston who served in the Revolution and was called Captain William Gordon is not the same William Gordon).
William Gordon's sister Elizabeth married a loyalist named William Martin who was captain and later major-general in Napier's Regiment of the Royal artillery. Because William Martin was considered a traitor, Elizabeth's share of her father James Gordon's estate was confiscated by the state of Massachusetts and auctioned off after the Revolutionary war. However, their son James Martin challenged the court's decision about 1801 and won his case in 1810.
James Gordon of Boston and William Martin (stationed in New York, Nova Scotia and London) carried on quite a correspondance in the 1750's. The published diary of Matthew Patten mentions a property settlement between James Martin and John Gordon (a documented uncle of mine). Elizabeth (Gordon) Martin and William her husband are buried in the churchyard at Mary-le-bone, England.
There is a letter written to James Gordon of Boston in the early 1700's from his father, James Gordon surveyor at Stranraer 1714; tidewaiter port of Stranraer 1715; surveyor, landwaiter and searcher at Wigtown 1738. Was deceased by 2 Jan 1739.
8 Generation TREE with Direct (bold font) and Lateral Lines. Nathaniel Gordon
1700-1788
+ Sarah Martin
?-1781
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John Samuel Hannah Elizabeth James
+ Mary Campbell 1762 +Eleanor Mitchell ~1764 + Ephraim Smith +John Bell
1746-1820
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Samuel Sarah Elizabeth Hannah Nathaniel Eleanor Jane Mary Nehemiah John Nancy Infant Infant
1765-1853 1767-? 1769-? 1772-1811 1776-1827 ~1775/1784 ~1783-1760/1770 ~1783-1860/1870 1784/1788-1816 1790-1839 ~1791-~1850
+Lydia +Benjamin +Joseph +Stephen +Sophia ~1801 +Capt. Andrew Unmarried +Adam Unmarried +Betsey +Thomas
Ames 1790 Newman Barnes 1801 Pierce 1801 ~1790-1850 Cochran 1816 Dickey 1808 Smith 1819 Dickey 1815
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Betsey Maria Franklin Reuben Alvira Almira Sophia John Lorenzo Gilbert Infant
1809-1898 ~1811-~1860/1870 ~1812-1862 1814-1874 1816-~1870 1816-1888 ~1820-~1870 1822-1911 1825-1886 1827-1903
+Wells +Asahel +Margaret +Mary Unmarried Unmarried +Peter +Latetia +Mary +Caroline
Byington 1836 Stone~1835 Lyon ~1859 Alexander ~1850 Phillips ~1842 Wilson 1848 Stafford 1852 Davis ~1856
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Charkes P. Josephine Devillo K. George D.
1850-1925 1854-1914 1856-1865 1866-1925
+F. Adella Lloyd 1880 +David Mitchell 1873 +Emma Z. Small ~1888
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LeRoy Lloyd Terral Leafie Belle Infant Fern Myrtle Helen Mae Harold J. Alvord J. Harold
1881-1882 1884-1951 1887-1959 ~1890 1892-1980 1894-1973 1896-~1900/1910 1898-1977 1913 Adopted
+Maysil DeEtta +Willis Flewellin 1909 +Francis Getchell 1917 +George +Ruth Helen
Corliss 1911 +John Sheriff 1931 Youngberg 1916 Lord 1924
+Ernest Lewis 1956
