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Facts and Events
Will of James Gordon
- 18 Aug 1740--James Gordon Will dated proved 18 Aug 1740.
- Heirs sons, James, Griffith, George, David, Joshua, Robert, Daus., Latitia, Mary.
- Exec, son Robert.
- Wits, Thomas Irons, John Parry, Timothy Irons.
- Note: Arch. A19: 154 shows James Gorrell as administrator, d.b.n.
- [Colonial Families of Delaware, Volume 2, F. Edward Wright, Willow Bend Books, p. 84].
- Source: http://genforum.genealogy.com/gorrell/messages/367.html
Notes
From "Ancestral Records and Portraits: a compilation from the archives of Chapter 1", by Colonial Dames of America, pg. 182:
The first family recorded is James Gordon, of Kent County, Del., who died in 1740. His son, Griffith Gordon, died in Kent County in 1762. Coe Gordon, his son, died in 1789; married, February 19, 1777, Sarah, the daughter of Nimrod and Elizabeth (Taylor) Maxwell  , who was born September 28, 1761. Their son, John Gordon, born June 7, 1782, and died in Wilmington, Del., July 10, 1847, married December 20, 1804, when she was but sixteen years of age, Anne Catherine, the daughter of William and Anne Catherine (Parlin) Sharpe, who was decended from the Rudman, Tronberg, and Parlin families. Issue: Sydney Ann, Charles, William, Louisa, Sarah Matilda, Elizabeth, Catherine, who married James Edward Price, Helen and George.
 - conflicts with other sources that have Sarah as the daughter of Nimrod Maxwell and Elizabeth Edmondson, more research necesary.References
- ↑ International Genealogical Index. ( The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint, 1999-2008).
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- conflicts with other sources that have Sarah as the daughter of Nimrod Maxwell and Elizabeth Edmondson, more research necesary.