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From: John Ballard< >
Subject: Re: William Gordon
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 11:08:03 -0700


wrote:
>
> Hi!
> I'm trying to find information re William Gordon - the only place I could find
> him on the web was on the Muster Roll for the King's Rangers, Hayden's Company
> - indicates he enlisted on 1 April 1780. (Some of the Rangers were given land
> grants in another area after the war, but it doesn't appear he accepted one,
> if it was offered.) I'm trying to find his date/place of birth or, when he
> came to the Colonies and from exactly where in Scotland (as family legends
> have it). I understand the census records for Monmouth Co were destroyed
> during the War - records for 1790 - 1820. He had a son, William Tennent
> Gordon, born 1790, baptized 14 Sep 1794 at Old Tennent Scotch Presbyterian
> Church, Monmouth, Freehold (?), NJ.
>
> I've tried working backwards through William T. Gordon's son, Charles Augustus
> Gordon, b. 18 Sep 1816, NJ. W.T.'s wife's name was Anna LaRue.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
> Thanks
> J Conkey

Hi! Most interesting message about William Gordon. I have
William Tennant Gordon b 1794, probably yours. His father William, b
1734, mother Lydia Lloyd. His father Peter, b 1703, mother Lydia
Hampton. Lydia Lloyd's father Timothy Lloyd; mother Lydia Gordon, sister
of Peter. Odd.

The trouble here is that I did not myself find these people so feel
worried. There was a publication "Jobe Journal", no longer published.
It gave a family line with some background data. I just put it in my
database and worked on some things that seemed more urgent.

That line supposedly went back to a brother of the famous Thomas Gordon
who came as an immigrant. But just recently I learned that a connection
about in here is only conjectured.

May I hope that somebody who has really done spade work on this family
will feed you accurate clues. If not, I will be glad to give you more
detailed information going on back as well as the skeleton I show here.
I don't have all back issues of that journal (wish I did), but do have
those that had the Gordons in it. Well, the Gordons were probably
mentioned in other issues, too. Jobe researchers are aware of this.

John Ballard

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