Our American Family - Person Sheet
Our American Family - Person Sheet
NameWilliam GORDON 
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695Birth Date4 Jul 1742
Birth PlaceFairfax County, Virginia
Death Date10 Apr 1783 Age: 40
Death PlaceCraven, Newberry, South Carolina
Burial PlaceMaybington, Newberry County, South Carolina, Gordon Cemetery
OccupationDoctor, RW As Captain In Col. Brandon's 2nd Spartan Regiment
FatherJohn Joseph GORDON Sr. , 330 (1710-1756)
MotherRuth Emerson ANDREWS , 331 (1716-1779)
Notes for William GORDON
Some times known as William Gordon MD.
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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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s/o John & Ruth Gordon. h/o Elizabeth (Posey) (Jarrett) Gordon, m. abt. 1770.
Children: 1)William, Jr.*, 2)John, 3)Posey, 4)Cassandra.
William served as Captain in Col. Brandon's 2nd Spartan Regiment.
In 1778 after the death of his brothers John, Jr., William Gordon, planter, purchased from his brothers Thomas Gordon 300 acres of land that had belonged to John Gordon., Jr. deceased. Thomas Gordon being heir at law of John Gordon, Jr. This land joined the Gordon home place where Ruth Gordon Anderson, mother of William Gordon was living in 1773 With her two youngest sons, Govin/Gavin and George Gordon.
William Gordon will states:
"Give to my son William Gordon 150 acres of land part of a 200 acre tract known by the name of Ford Survey.
Give to my son John Gordon 150 acres joining George Gordon's line part of a tract where I now live, running up and down the river (In 1790 John's sell this land "lying in the counties of Newberry and Union leading from Anderson's Ford on Enoree to Hill's Ford on Tyger Rivers).
Give to my son Posey Gordon 150 acres joining the other part of the same tract I now live on.
Give to my daughter Cassey Gordon the plantation where I now live, the remainder of my land with 50 acres joining part of the Ford's Survey."
It is possible that Philip Aubrey/Awbrey married Elizabeth Gordon, widow of William Gordon before 1791.
* I do not have proof that the William Edward attached as a child is in fact the correct William. Still need DNA proof.
From Find A Grave.
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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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s/o John & Ruth Gordon. h/o Elizabeth (Posey) (Jarrett) Gordon, m. abt. 1770.
Children: 1)William, Jr.*, 2)John, 3)Posey, 4)Cassandra.
William served as Captain in Col. Brandon's 2nd Spartan Regiment.
In 1778 after the death of his brothers John, Jr., William Gordon, planter, purchased from his brothers Thomas Gordon 300 acres of land that had belonged to John Gordon., Jr. deceased. Thomas Gordon being heir at law of John Gordon, Jr. This land joined the Gordon home place where Ruth Gordon Anderson, mother of William Gordon was living in 1773 With her two youngest sons, Govin/Gavin and George Gordon.
William Gordon will states:
"Give to my son William Gordon 150 acres of land part of a 200 acre tract known by the name of Ford Survey.
Give to my son John Gordon 150 acres joining George Gordon's line part of a tract where I now live, running up and down the river (In 1790 John's sell this land "lying in the counties of Newberry and Union leading from Anderson's Ford on Enoree to Hill's Ford on Tyger Rivers).
Give to my son Posey Gordon 150 acres joining the other part of the same tract I now live on.
Give to my daughter Cassey Gordon the plantation where I now live, the remainder of my land with 50 acres joining part of the Ford's Survey."
It is possible that Philip Aubrey/Awbrey married Elizabeth Gordon, widow of William Gordon before 1791.
* I do not have proof that the William Edward attached as a child is in fact the correct William. Still need DNA proof.
From Find A Grave.
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