A Wilson Family Tree
Notes for David Gordon
"Boyle Genealogy. John Boyle of Virginia and Kentucky", by John Boyle, Perrin & Smith Printing Co., St. Louis, MO, 1909, pp. 63-64 (obtained from http://www.archive.org/details/boylegenealogyjo00boyl):
Jane Boyle, daughter of Major John Boyle, according to family tradition, eloped soon after completing her fifteenth year and married David Gordon, who was born in North Carolina, January 9, 1770, and died in Boone county, Missouri, January 18, 1849. He was active and enterprising. In November, 1818, he entered a homestead — then in Howard county — and joined with others, in a conveyance to establish the town site of Columbia, which was designed to be the county seat of the new county of Boone, when it should be formed, as set forth in the deed recorded in Book C, 156, of the Howard county records, which he acknowledged November 14, 1818, and confirmed by deed recorded in Book A, 132, of the Boone county records, executed by his attorney in fact, and nephew in law, William Miller Adams (page 23), September 3, 1821. In 1820, and still later, he added some thousands of acres to his possessions, in that vicinity, and in 182 1, his son George Washington Gordon had come from Kentucky to represent his father in caring for his lands. In 1825, he removed from Madison county, Kentucky, with such members of his family as remained unmarried, and bringing with him his household goods, numerous slaves and much stock. All their children were born in Madison county.
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