Found more data on Gordon- Buffington that says that Thomas Gordon was NOT born in Scotland. In the will of James Roy sg 16 April 174 Book A page 325 Spotsylvania Co., VA Elizabeth Gordon is named as adaughter.Her husband John Gordon listed as son-in-law. According to genealogist who sent this to a cousin back in the fifties there is (or was) a Bible of Thomas Gordon of Enoree River in Spartenburg, Co.,SC who married Mary Buffington. This John Gordon and wife Elizabeth Roy of Spotsylvania Co., VA are the parents of Thomas Gordon.