GORDON FAMILY GENEALOGY PETERBOROUGH, HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, NEW HAMPSHIRE ---------------------------------- Information located at http://www.nh.searchroots.com/HillsboroughCo/Peterborough/ On a web site about GENEALOGY AND HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE and its counties TRANSCRIBED BY JANICE BROWN Please see the web site for my email contact. ---------------------------------- The original source of this information is in the public domain, however use of this text file, other than for personal use, is restricted without written permission from the transcriber (who has edited, compiled and added new copyrighted text to same). ======================================================== SOURCE: History of the town of Peterborough, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire : with the report of the proceedings at the centennial celebration in 1839, an appendix containing the records of the original proprietors, and a genealogical and historical register, by Albert Smith; Boston: Press of G.H. Ellis, 1876, 753 pgs.\ THE GORDON FAMILY Page 93-95 SAMUEL GORDON came from Ireland when he was seventeen years of age and was the son of Nathaniel Gordon, who was b. in the county of Tyrone, Ireland, 1700; m. Sarah Martin; had four ch., viz., John, James, (who d. young), Samuel and Hannah. About the year 1749 Nathaniel Gordon and family arrived in Boston. John, his son, b. in 1729, was a brewer by trade, and went into business in Boston, with the great Samuel Adams, between 1750 and '60. Nathaniel, the father, and Samuel, went to Dunstable, Mass., in the employ of William Gordon, an English merchant of that place, and remained five years, then bought a farm in Shirley, when the father and two sons, John and Samuel, removed to it. The next move was to Peterborough. Samuel and family removed to there in 1780; their parents, Nathaniel and Sarah Martin Gordon, came with them. Mrs. Gordon d. in Peterborough in 1781, and Nathaniel Gordon d. in 1788. There are no gravestones for them in the old cemetery. Eleanor Mitchell, wife of Samuel Gordon, removed from Ireland to Cape Breton, when the French and English were at war, where her father was killed, and all the rest of the family but her mother, brother and herself, were carried off by the small-pox. Her mother, after they came to Boston, m. a Mr. Holden, and had several ch. Samuel Gordon was b. in Ireland May 17, 1732, and d. in Peterborough Dec. 2, 1818, ae 86 years. His wife d. Nov 2, 1820, ae 74 years. He always lived on the same place that he first occupied in town, known as the Gordon farm. He and his wife were strict Presbyterians, good and pious persons. Mr. Gordon was the first ot sign a remonstrance, with twenty others, against the ordination of Rev. Elijah Dunbar to the Christian ministry in Peterborough. We suppose that he was a man of moderate talents. Among the town offices held by him we find that he was pound-keeper eight years and tithing-man three years before 1804. CHILDREN of SAMUEL GORDON: 1. +Samuel Gordon, b. in Shirley MA May 27, 1765; m. Lydia Ames 2. Sally Gordon, b. in Shirley MA Feb 10, 1767; removed to Charlestown with her uncle Holden 3. Betsey Gordon, b. in Shirley MA, Jan 23, 1769; m. Joseph Barnes 4. Hannah Gordon, b. 1772; m. Stephen Pierce 5. Nathaniel Gordon, b. --; removed to New York, d. 1827 frozen to death 6. Eleanor Gordon, b. --; m. Capt. Andrew Cochran, U.S.A., March 11, 1816. 7. Jane Gordon, b. --; unmarried; resided Milford NH 8. Polly Gordon, b. --; m. Adam Dickey, Milford, Nov 7, 1808 9. Nehemiah Gordon, b. --; unmarried; went to sea; d. at Martha's Vineyard. 10. +John Gordon, b. Dec 20, 1790; m. Betsey Smith 11. Nancy Gordon, b. --; m. Thomas M. Dickey Jan 26, 1815; resided in Amherst NH Samuel Gordon, son of Samuel, b. in Shirley MA May 27, 1765; was a man of superior talents. He first located himself at Hancock NH as a trader, and soon became the leading man of that town. He removed from Hancock to Charlestown, Mass, and kept a hotel. At one time public suspicion rested on him as being concerned in the robbery and murder of David Starrett, on Charlestown bridge, who was a guest at his hotel, and who all at once mysteriously disappeared, his rifled trunk being found on the bridge, but who, after some ten or twelve years, his estate in the meanwhile being settled in probate in New Hampshire, was found to be living in one of the Western States. Mr. Gordon removed to Hallowell Maine, and d. there June 23, 1853, ae 88 yrs. He m. Lydia Ames, dau David Ames of Hancock, May 20, 1790. She d. at the same place, July 5, 1853, ae 79 years. She b. Feb 19, 1774. Children of Samuel & Lydia (Ames) Gordon: 1. Samuel Gordon, b. Aug 7, 1791 in Hancock NH; died in infancy 2. Yorick S. Gordon, b. Jan 9, 1793 in Hancock NH; d. Pineville SC 1820, ae 27 years 3. Oliver H. Gordon, b. June 27, 1794; d. Woodside NJ 1869, ae 75 yrs 4. Lydia Gordon, b. Dec 25, 1795; m. -- Kimball 5. Isabella Gordon, b. June 14, 1798; m. -- White 6. Eleanor Gordon, b. Jan 30, 1800; d. Sept 8, 1808 in Hancock NH age 8 yrs 7 mos 7. Elizabeth Gordon, b. Oct 13, 1805; m. Thomas B. Brooks; d. Brooklyn NY 1871, ae 66 yrs. 8. Rebecca Gordon, b. Feb 29, 1808; d. June 27, 1808 in Hancock NH ae 4 months 9. Samuel A. Gordon, b. Oct 3, 1810; d. Hallowell ME Feb 26, 1845, ae 35 yrs. 10. Sarah M. Gorodn, b. March 6, 1813; m. Dr. Justus Hurd; resided in St. Louis Missouri 11. John Clark Gordon, b. Oct 12, 1818; d. Oct 19, 1818, ae 7 days. The first nine children were born in Hancock NH the remainder in Charlestown MA John Gordon, son of Samuel Gordon, b. Dec 20, 1790. He succeeded his father on the homestead and remained there until after the death of his parents. He removed to Montebello IL in 1831, where he d. April 3, 1839 age 48 years. He m. Betsey Smith, dau of Deacon Jonathan Smith on Dec 31, 1819, who d. Aug 12, 1845, age 50 yrs. He resided in Hamilton IL. Children of John & Betsey (Smith) Gordon: 1. Jonathan S. Gordon, b. Oct 20, 1822; d. Montebello IL March 27, 1839, age 17 yrs. 2. Samuel Gordon, b. May 3, 1825; m. Permelia A. Alvord, April 3, 1851. Ch. (1) Ella E., b. Oct 1, 1852; (2) John A. b Aug 21, 1855; (3) Alice A. b. Jan 14, 1858, prob dy (4) Alice C., b. Dec 17, 1860; (5) Robert Smith, b. Dec 10, 1866; (6) Mabel B., b. Dec 30, 1870. (end)