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records of various countries before one can hope to make this particular
section anything Hke complete.
In America.
The Gordons, officers and men, who have followed the flag on the
American Continent number 218 ; of whom one, George, took part in
the filibustering raid on a Brazilian province in 1907 ; one, George
Tomline, figures in another of the lists, namely, that of the British
Services ; and only sixty are identified as to origin.
This list is most deeply indebted to Mr. Armistead Churchill
Gordon, Staunton, Virginia, who knows more about the Gordon family
in America than any other genealogist. Mr. Gordon belongs to the
Gordons of Middlesex, Virginia, founded by John Gordon, the third son
of James Gordon, II. of Sheepbridge, County Down, who, probably,
belonged to the Gordons of Salterhill, Drainie, Morayshire, through the
Rev. James Gordon, minister of Comber, Cq. Down. In pursuit of his
ancestors, Mr. Gordon had elaborate searches made in Ireland, which
have given us fuller details of the Irish Gordon families than we have
ever got from anyone else. On his own behalf he has compiled pedigrees
of the following Gordon families in Virginia— Lancaster, Middlesex and
Richmond (his own branch), Blandford, Spottsylvania, Falmouth and
Fredericksburg, and Alexandria. Six years ago he made a list of Gordons
who had fought in the American Colonies and in the United States,
and this has been supplemented from his Virginian genealogies, of which
the present writer has a typewritten copy. Further information was
received in igo8 from Mr. Daniel Smith Gordon, 65 West g3rd Street,
New York, claiming descent from Alexander Gordon, a Scot, who went
to America in 1734, settling in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, and
dying before 1750. Additional facts have been drawn from the follow-
ing records ; —
List of Officers in the Army of the United States from 1779 to 1900 ; embracing a register
of all appointments by the President of the United States in the Volunteer Service during
the Civil War, and of the Volunteer officers in the Service of the United States, June i, igoo.
Compiled from the official records by Colonel William H. Powell, U.S. Army. New York,
Hamersley & Co., igoo.
List of Officers of the Na-vy 0/ the United States atid of the Marine Corps from 1775 to
igoo ; comprising a complete register of all present and former commissioned, warranted, and