It is uncertain whether the William Gordon buried in lot NN is the same person as the William Gordon who served as a Private in the Skipton District Militia in 1776. Note that Skipton District is the area currently known as Oldtown (now Allegany County but in what was Washington County prior to 1789 and Frederick County prior to 1776). There was a William Gordon on Samuel Barrits' Returns of Patriots' Oaths of Fidelity and Support for Washington County in 1778, and a William Gordon in the 1790 census of Washington County. A William Gordon also purchased property in Elizabethtown (now Hagerstown) in 1798.
The William Gordon buried in Mount Olivet was born about 1764 (gravestone inscription says he was 64 when he died 17 June 1832), so he would have been about 14 years old in 1778, too young to swear an oath. Per the inscription, this William Gordon was a native of Clougher parish, County Tyrone, Ireland and thus may be the William Gordon from Great Britain who was naturalized in Frederick County in 1827. A James Gordon buried at Mount Olivet (died November 4, 1830 at age 32) was identified in Jacob Engelbrecht's diary as being the son of Mr. William Gordon and brother-in-law of Lawrence Doyle. "Frederick's Other City War of 1812 Veterans" says that Doyle's wife Sarah (Gordon) was born in Ireland on March 15, 1797. It appears likely that the William Gordon buried at Mount Olivet was too young to be the patriot, and did not arrive in the United States until after 1797.
The William Gordon buried in Mount Olivet was born about 1764 (gravestone inscription says he was 64 when he died 17 June 1832), so he would have been about 14 years old in 1778, too young to swear an oath. Per the inscription, this William Gordon was a native of Clougher parish, County Tyrone, Ireland and thus may be the William Gordon from Great Britain who was naturalized in Frederick County in 1827. A James Gordon buried at Mount Olivet (died November 4, 1830 at age 32) was identified in Jacob Engelbrecht's diary as being the son of Mr. William Gordon and brother-in-law of Lawrence Doyle. "Frederick's Other City War of 1812 Veterans" says that Doyle's wife Sarah (Gordon) was born in Ireland on March 15, 1797. It appears likely that the William Gordon buried at Mount Olivet was too young to be the patriot, and did not arrive in the United States until after 1797.
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