Gordon, Josiah (1763-1824)

Name:

Gordon, Josiah (1763-1824)

Title:

Private, Captain Lovejoy's Company, 1st New Hampshire Regiment, 1779
Constable, Town of Bedford, 1794, 1795, 1801
Member, New Hampshire State House of Representatives, 1819, 1820

Born:

05/17/1763

Birthplace:

Shirley, MA

Died:

07/11/1824

Death Location:

Bedford, NH

Residence:

Shirley, MA 1763-1774
Bedford, NH 1774-1824

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Farmer

Father:

Gordon, John

Mother:

Campbell, Mary

Relations:

In-laws: Mary (1769-1839) and Hon. Peter (1767-) Woodbury, Jr. of Francestown, NH
Siblings:
Gordon, Elizabeth, born March 15, 1765, Shirley
Gordon, Daniel, born February 14, 1765, Shirley
Gordon, Nathaniel (c.1766-; b. Bedford)
Gordon, Anna (c.1768-; b. Bedford)
Gordon, Samuel (c.1772-; b. Bedford)
Gordon, Daniel (c.1774-; b. Bedford)
Gordon, James (c.1776-; b. Bedford)
Gordon, Sally (c.1778-; b. Bedford)
Gordon, James (c.1780-; b. Bedford)
Gordon, William (c.1782-; b. Bedford)
Gordon, Robert (c.1784-; b. Bedford)
Gordon, Rebecca (c.1786-; b. Bedford)
Gordon, Daniel (c.1788-; b. Bedford)

Spouse:

Married Jane Walker (1759-1848), May 3, 1792

Children:

Gordon, Adam (1793-1861; b. Bedford, NH)
Gordon, Hannah (c.1795-; b. Bedford, NH)
Gordon, Eliza Bailey (1797-1855; b.Bedford, NH; m.Dr. Peter Perkins Woodbury; children)
Gordon, Jane (1799-1888; b. Bedford, NH)

Notes:

History of Bedford, New Hampshire from 1737: Being Statistics Compiled on the Occasion of the One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Incoporation of the Town, May 15, 1900. (Concord, New Hampshire: Rumford Printing Company, 1903), 942.

D. Hamilton Hurd, History of Hillsborough County, New Hampshire. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: J. W. Lewis & Co., 1885), .

Birth Records, Town of Shirley, Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Vital Records, New Hampshire State Archives