When Cpl. Jonathan Gordon Sr was born on 5 December 1744, in Salem, Rockingham, New Hampshire, British Colonial America, his father, Alexander Gordon I, was 28 and his mother, Susanna Pattee, was 21. He married Esther Sanders on 3 September 1767, in Salem, Rockingham, New Hampshire, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 5 daughters. He died on 9 September 1812, at the age of 67, and was buried in Bath Village Cemetery, Bath, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
New Hampshire is 9th state.
Serving the newly created United States of America as the first constitution, the Articles of Confederation were an agreement among the 13 original states preserving the independence and sovereignty of the states. But with a limited central government, the Constitutional Convention came together to replace the Articles of Confederation with a more established Constitution and central government on where the states can be represented and voice their concerns and comments to build up the nation.
Scottish: habitational name from Gordon in Berwickshire, named with Welsh gor ‘spacious’ + din ‘fort’.
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Gourdon in Saône-et-Loire, so called from the Gallo-Roman personal name Gordus + the locative suffix -o, -ōnis.
English (of Norman origin): alternatively, said to be a nickname from a diminutive of Old French gourd ‘heavy, dull, sluggish’ (compare 8 below).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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