Our American Family - Person Sheet
Our American Family - Person Sheet
NameMajor Thomas GORDON 
695
695Birth Date1735
Birth PlacePrince William County, Virginia
Death Date22 Oct 1808 Age: 73
Death PlaceBerkeley, Newberry County, South Carolina
Burial PlaceMaybington, Newberry County, South Carolina, Gordon Cemetery
OccupationRW Major VA
FatherJohn Joseph GORDON Sr. , 330 (1710-1756)
MotherRuth Emerson ANDREWS , 331 (1716-1779)
Notes for Major Thomas GORDON
John & Ruth Gordon move to SC from VA in 1749, receiving a Royal Land Grant from King
George Il of 460 ac. on the Collins/Enoree River at Avery's Ford in Newberry & Union Counties.
They brought a family of six sons and one daughter:
1)Thomas, 2)John, 3) Benjamin, 4) Ruth, 5) William, 6) Govin, 7) George. All six sons were in the
Rev. War. Thomas a Major. Three were in the Cherokee War under Col. John Chevillette.
Builders of the Gordon Fort on the Union Co. side of the Enoree River at the current day
county line @old Avery's Ford. this was adjacent to the Gordon Cemetery location.
http://www.northamericanforts.com/East/sc-north.html#new
Also builders of the bridge over the Tyger River that is still named Gordon's Bridge, CR
36/Tuckertown Rd.
Almost all of the descendants of John & Ruth Gordon connected via Find-a-Grave were taken
from "Gordon's of the Deep South" book by Ermimie Northcutt Marshall and her many
contacts. Robert
From Find A Grave on Ancestry by scuppy1.
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George Il of 460 ac. on the Collins/Enoree River at Avery's Ford in Newberry & Union Counties.
They brought a family of six sons and one daughter:
1)Thomas, 2)John, 3) Benjamin, 4) Ruth, 5) William, 6) Govin, 7) George. All six sons were in the
Rev. War. Thomas a Major. Three were in the Cherokee War under Col. John Chevillette.
Builders of the Gordon Fort on the Union Co. side of the Enoree River at the current day
county line @old Avery's Ford. this was adjacent to the Gordon Cemetery location.
http://www.northamericanforts.com/East/sc-north.html#new
Also builders of the bridge over the Tyger River that is still named Gordon's Bridge, CR
36/Tuckertown Rd.
Almost all of the descendants of John & Ruth Gordon connected via Find-a-Grave were taken
from "Gordon's of the Deep South" book by Ermimie Northcutt Marshall and her many
contacts. Robert
From Find A Grave on Ancestry by scuppy1.
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