SQ 3074: "...of Cory, Dade County, Missouri."

SQ 3074: His son was of Cory, Dade County, Missouri.

SQ p. 3074: "...both (of his children) Of Hineville, Madison County,Arkansas."

SQ 3074: "...of Cory, Dade County, Missouri."

SQ p. 2074: "...all [of her children) were of Cory, Dade County,Missouri."

SQ p. 3074: "....both [of her children] were of Joplin, Missouri."

SQ 3074: "... of Spring Valley, Madison County, Arkansas.

SQ 3074: "...of Mifflin, Iowa County, Wisconsin."

SQ pg 2569: "She had been born on June 19, 1814, and was a daughter of
Thomas and Mary (Brooks) Godwin....After his (Levi) death, Marymarried Jacob
Wesner on February 22, 1856. She died in 1873."

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From Elizabeth Sherriffs, d/o George Sherriffs III: Ian James Lieth
Gordon married Nanette Pamela Harris-Wright. He was a Doctor of Radiology
and their issue was:
Neil Stuart Gordon, Alistair James Harold Gordon, Lindsay Christop yer
Martyn Gordon.

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Notes from Diane Craig, d/o Una Gray Craig, d/o Helen Sherriffs Gr ay:
"Ian James Leith Gordon b. 29 Oct, 1924, surgeon, m. 23 Apr 1949 ,Pamela
Nonette Harris-Wright. Issue: Neil Stuart Ian Gordon, Alistair James
Harold Gordon, Lindsay Christopher Martyn Gordon."

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See SAMUEL GORTON OF RHODE ISLAND (op.cit Freelove Gorton):
EDWARD GORTON (Samuel, John, Samuel), born at Warwick, May 18, 169 8,married, March 9, 1720, Hannah Matteson, daughter of Zachariah an dfirst wife, Sarah, and granddaughter of James and Hannah (Field) Matteson of Providence. This name is also written Matthewson. Hanna hwas the great- granddaughter of John Field of Providence. Zachariah's second wife was Joanna Eddy, by whom he had no children. Among the old lists of proprietors, early inhabitants of the town of Warwick, is one entitled, "A List of ye Draft of Ye Last Division Drawn Ma yye 21st, 1748," in which Edward Gorton appears as present owner o fthe property originally owned by John Gorton. Edward lived on th ewest side of what was and is now known as Gorton Pond. He died i n1786. His will, March 8, 1874, proved June 12, 1786, mentions wif eHannah, daughters, Freelove Jerauld (wife of Duty), Sarah Staffor d(wife of Stuckley), Hannah Greene, Anna (Anne) Rice (wife of Job) ,son Caleb."

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(Prior to finding THE LIFE OF SAMUEL GORTON [see below] the follow ingnote was input: "Based on sheer speculation, the surname of Freel ovemay have been
Gorton. Sons were named Gorton and and Caleb. There was a deed in 1796
from Caleb Gorton. The Reverend John Gorton performed the marriage ceremony
between their son Gorton Jerauld and his wife Phoebe Rice. There wa sa deed
in 1816 from Clarke Gorton to Gorton Jerauld. While the commonalit yof
names may be a coincidence, it is probable that Freelove was a daughter
of one of the above Gortons or was their sister.)
See THE LIFE OF SAMUEL GORTON OF RHODE ISLAND (FHL 1,036,278 [3] ) forinformation on the Gorton family. Regarding Freelove Gorton, s eepage 204:
"FREELOVE GORTON (Edward, Samuel, John, Samuel) born at Warwick, M ay9, 1722, died October 31, 1803, married April 26, 1744, Dr. Dute eJerauld, born at Medfield, Mass. March 5, 1723, died at Warwick, Ju ly13, 1813, son of Dr. James and Martha (Dupree) Jerauld. Dr. Dute eJerauld came from Medfield, Mass., and settled in East Greenwich i n1743, where he resided and practiced medicine, much of his time administering to the sick and wounded soldiers of the war. He was ove rninety years of age when he died. His parents were Huguenot refugees. His father was a physician. His daughter married Samuel Pearce ,and her son, Honorable Dutee Jerauld Pearce, was an able lawyer, Attorney General of the State, Member of Congress for twelve years. (Potter's French Settlement of Rhode Island. Dr. Greene's History of East Greenwich. Dr. Parson's Sketches of Rhode Island Physicians. Rider's Rhode Island Historical Tract, 5.)"

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See THE LIFE OF SAMUEL GORTON OF RHODE ISLAND FHL 1,036,278 (3), p g165:
"JOHN GORTON (of Samuel). We find no data from which to fix the t imeor place of his birth. He was given by his father all his land s westof Warwick, including land in Cranston. He married, January 2 5,1665, Margaret Weeden. In 1668 he bought land with orchard and buildings of William and Hannah Burton. In 1677 he and forth-seven others received a grant from the colony of 5,000 acres of land in East Greenwich in consideration of their "services in King Philip's War. "East Greenwich then included what is now West Greenwich, the latte rhaving been set from it in 1741. John was a mariner, and this occasion of protracted absence from home may account for the but few references to him that we find among the records of the town and colony .The date of his death is inscribed on the Warwick records as occur ingFebruary 3, 1714; no data regarding his wife Margaret is given."

On February 6, 2002 I received an email from Howard M. Vail(hvail@worldnet.att.net) in part as follows:
"Maher" is an abbreviation seen in the AGBI index. "Maher" is shortfor "Mahershallalhashbaz" a daughter, who married Daniel Cole(s).

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See SAMUEL GORTON OF GORTON ENGLAND and of WARWICK, RHODE ISLAND a ndHIS DESCENDANTS IN AMERICA 1592-1906 by Adelos Gorton, Member of t heNew York Genealogical and Biographical Society, the Rhode Island Historical Society and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1907, pps 159-162:
"SAMUEL GORTON, clothier, of London, was born in 1592 (cite) in Gorton (now incorporated within the City of Manchester), "where the fathers of his body had lived for many generations, not unknown to the Heraldry of England." (cite)
"He was reared in the Established Church. In an address to King Charles the First he said that he had sucked in the so-called peculia rtenets attributed to him from the breasts of his mother the Churc h ofEngland. To the fundamental doctrines taught by the church he e verfirmly held, although he was a Nonconformist.
"England was under the rule of the conformist King James. Laud wa sconspicuous in the universities; and they had declared it to be unlawful to be opposed to the king upon religion or any other subject. (cite) Gorton was instructed by private tutors, and, being of studiou shabits, he secured a classical education, became well read in Engli shlaw and more than ordinarily skilled in the languages. "One of th osenoble spirits who esteemed liberty more than life, and counting n osacrifice too great for the maintenance of principal, could not dwe llat ease in a land where the inalienable rights of humanity were no tacknowledged." He left his native country, he says, to enjoy liber tyof conscience in respect to faith toward God and for no other end .(cite)
"He landed at Boston in March, 1636, with his wife Mary (cite), {daughter of John Maplet, Gent. of St. Martin's le Grand, London, and Mary his wife} his son Samuel and one or two other children. At the time of his arrival, the Massachusetts government was proceeding against Wheelright, the brother- in-law of Annie Hutchinson. He says he found the people of the colony at great varience in points of religion, prosecuting it very hotly in their courts unto fines and punishments.
"Their laws prohibiting non-subscribing churchmen from living ther e,he took up his residence in Plymouth, which was then a more libera lcolony. In June, 1637, he, while a resident of Plymouth, joined on eof the military companies which was raised in response to Massachusetts' call for aid to defend themselves against the Pequot Indians. (cite)
"In 1638 he led the opposition to the illiberal changes, delegat erepresentation, etc., thrust into the government by Prence, then th eGovernor of Plymouth, was snared into Prence's court and, for his contempt of it, was banished.
"In 1639, at Pocasset, Aquidneck Island, he was a freeman and a member of the second or civil compact of government; the first government upon the island of Aquidneck or Rhode which had as its official head a Governor -- Governor Hutchinson -- a Deputy Governor and Assistants; the first to grant universal suffrage; the first that constituted regular Quarterly Courts, and the first with a jury for the trial of causes. They changed the name of the place to Portsmouth.
"In 1640 he settled on land he purchased of Robert Cole at Papaquinapaug, near Massapaug Pond adjoining Providence. This land with th ebuildings he had erected thereon he abandoned on account of claim shmade by his opponents with fradulent underlying titles. In 1642 h epurchased of the first owners, the Narragansett Sachems, the land s ofShawomet and founding the town he named Warwick.
"In 1643 he was made a prisoner by soldiers [representing] the Massachusetts Magistrates who coveted the land, was tried for heresy an dwas confined at Charleston. In 1644 he was chosed a magistrate b ythe people immediately after he was released and returned to the to wnof Portsmouth. In 1644 he secured from the Narragansett Indians their deed in dominion of all their lands, their submission to the English government and their appointment of him as their representativ eand "beloved commissioner" to attach them to the colony, for whic hRoger Williams had departed to obtain a charter.
"In 1644, upon Williams' return with the charter which included th eNarragansett lands (the greater part of the present State), a government was at one organized with Williams as Governor and Gorton as one of the Assistants of "the Government of the Providence Plantations."
"In 1645, after nearly two years of ineffectual operation of the government owing to the obstructions of the Arnolds and Coddington, and the war waged against it by the adjoining colonies, Gorton was chosen Commissioner to lay the grievances of the government before the English Parliament. As expressed in Williams' letter [their purpose was] "to preseve the lives and liberties of the people."
"In August, 1645, [Gorton] took ship from Manhattan. In 1646 he secured from the Parliament Commissioners a mandate commanding the other colonies not to disturb the petitioners and inhabitants living within the bounds of their charter. Upon this, in 1647 a union of all the settlements within the chartered government was effected.
"He returned, landing in Boston, on May 10th, 1648, where he was detained by the Massachusetts Magistrates in collusion with the Arnold-Coddington faction in violation of the Parlimentary order. It was impossible for him, a promising candidate for the chief office in th ecolony, to reach his government to be present at their annual cour tand election. Coddington, the Arnold candidate for the Presidency ,whose treasonable acts and papers had confronted Gorton while he wa sin England, and against whom Gorton's testimony was desired by th e[Rhode Island] court before the election, and against whom variou sbills of indictment thus deferred were pending, was fradulently elected! [Later, after the matter was presented to the court] the majority of the court was against him and they immediately suspended him from the government and deputed and installed Jeremiah Clark as President of the Colony.
"In 1649 Gorton was chosen a member of the Assembly. [Some of th efollowing is rephrased for clarity.] Gorton was chosen President o fthe colony in 1651, the most trying time in the history of the colony. Movement continued to subvert the colony to the authority of Plymouth and Massachusetts, most of which activity occurred during the absence of Gorton when he was laying the grievances of the colony before the British Parliament. Gorton, and his assistants, were, in th ewords of the historian of Warwick, a "crew of valiant men whose courage and wisdom were equal to the emergency."
"In 1652 he drafted and assisted [ the legislators] to [adopt] th efirst legal enactment abolishing slavery -- involuntary life servitude in the colonies. Hawes in his history says that Gorton and Williams drew up this Act, but Williams was then in England, having gone there the year before. This law, [premature], could not be sustained . Not until about one hundred years later was a like statute again enacted.
"He was one of the incorporators named in the new 1663 charter. F rom1664 to 1667 he was a Deputy, a judge in the high court and the equivalent of what is now a state senator. He was again chosen to this position in 1670. When he was seventy-nine, on account of his age ,he declined the proffered continuation in office.
"Although he is represented by some writers as a man given to ange r,he appears mild when compared with many others of that period. I t isobservable that his friends and the people, nearly all of whom w ereof dissimilar religious views who lived in Warwick, did not fal l outwith him or complain of him. They had no difficulties among themselves but that were lovingly arbitrated, and he "never raised hi shand in violence against any human being, not even aginst his own children."
"In debates with the Friends [Quakers?], in which he with Roder Williams and others took part against them, he is the one almost alon ewho exhibited no anger, flung no epithets, and is not accused by hi sopponents, as most of the others are, of unkindness and incivility .(The article continues with the praises of Samuel Gorton includin g atestimonial from the Hon. Job Durfee, "one of the most able of th eChief Justices of the Rhode Island Supreme Court.")

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See THE LIFE OF SAMUEL GORTON OF RHODE ISLAND, FHL 1,036,278 [3] , pps168-9:
"SAMUEL GORTON (John, Samuel), born July 22, 1672, at Warwick, married, May 9, 1695, Elizabeth Collins, born November 1, 1672, daughte rof Captain Elizur and Sarah (Wright) Collins. During the years 171 4to 1718 he was Deputy to the Rhode Island Legislature. He died Jun e5, 1722. His will bequeathed to wife Elizabeth use of household an dall movables; to his son Edward the old place, so called, which honored father John formerly dwelt on and lot at Horses Neck; to son Samuel the homestead farm; to son William lot at Soweset; and to daughters Ann, Margaret, Sarah, Elizabeth, money, etc. The Warwick record sof deaths give, under date September 9, 1724, "Elizabeth, wife of Samuel of John and Elizabeth." Doubtless should be "of John" and Margaret;" Samuel of John and Elizabeth was yet a lad."

See SQ p. 2886

She is buried in the Mater Dolorosa Cemetery, West 9th St., Owensboro,KY.

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Susan Mary Graves is the daughter of John Graves and Catherine Nob le.

A picture of Hazel Sparks (Gray) Dyer appears in THE SPARKS QUARTERLYon page 4869.

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!CONFIRMATION:
FHL Microfilm roll 280,550: Isabella Gray was confirmed 2 Decembe r1859,
in the Roman Catholic Church in Methlick, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.