Joyce, Try my web sites. http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/3619 and http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/g/o/r/Fred-D-Gordon/ [email protected] wrote: > > 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