In a message dated 8/2/99 8:21:19 AM Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > [email protected] If Samuel Gordon married on 11/11/1790 as you say, that puts him back in the same time frame with these other Gordons and makes it less likely that there were two Samuels, but not indisputable. Twenty-one months between the death of one spouse and marriage to a second wasn't exceptional at all. But knowing no more than I do about any of these Gordons, I won't speculate on that. Do you know the names of your Samuel's siblings? Do you know anything about where he lived before coming to KY? Did he go directly from Madison Co. to Alabama or did he stop along the way? There are just so many Gordons wandering along those early migration routes that I believe I have to learn all I can about as many of them as I can in order to separate mine out from the other families. There seems to have been several Gordon immigrants, and finding these in a border state just west of the Cumberland Gap doesn't give us a clue as to whether they were Southern or Northern immigrants. Bondsman for the marriage between Samuel Black and Mary Gordon on 19 Jan 1795 was Richard Gordon, the man I believe to be my gg-grandfather, suggesting a kinship between Richard and Mary Gordon. Other than that, I couldn't even guess at a kinship among these other Gordons. Thanks for any information helpful to my search for information on Richard Gordon. Joyce