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	Nathaniel Gordon - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Captain Nathaniel Gordon (born about 1834 in Portland, Maine, died February 21, 1862 in New York City) was the first and only American slave-trader to be tried, convicted, and hanged in accordance with the U.
		Captain Gordon loaded 897 slaves aboard his slave trading ship Erie at Sharks Point, Congo River, West Africa on August 7, 1860 and was captured by the USS Mohican fifty miles from port on August 8, 1860.
		Gordon was not hanged before President Abraham Lincoln issued a temporary stay of Gordon's execution setting the new date for February 21, 1862.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Nathaniel_Gordon (200 words)

	Historian sheds light on a shameful period - The Boston Globe
		In ``Hanging Captain Gordon," a history of the 1862 execution of a ship captain engaged in the slave trade, Ron Soodalter estimates that a full cargo of 800 slaves could be purchased in Africa for $32,000 in 1850 and then later sold for 30 times that amount.
		Gordon tried to convince the jury that he was merely a passenger on board the ship and had no idea it was involved in the slave trade.
		The Gordon case is an excellent lens for examining the antebellum slave trade.
	www.boston.com /ae/books/articles/2006/08/01/execution_case_puts_slave_trade_under_the_microscope (647 words)

	DEATH OF A SLAVE CAPTAIN [Nathaniel Gordon]
		Nathaniel Gordon emerged from the tomb, the notorious prison in downtown
		Gordon had to show him how to fit them all hack below, "which was by spreading the limbs of the creatures apart and sitting them so close together that even a foot could not be put upon the deck." Then Captain Gordon dispatched a prize crew under the command of Lt.
		Gordon further claimed he had not been in command when the slaves were brought aboard.
	www.libarts.ucok.edu /history/faculty/roberson/course/4753/Readings/2/4753DeathofaSlaveCaptain.htm (2067 words)

	Slave Trader
		At first he of course knew nothing about them, and until Gordon showed him, he was unable to stow them or feed them—finally he learned how, but they were stowed so closely that during the entire voyage they appeared to be in great agony.
		Several of the crew testified, all agreeing that Gordon acted as Captain; that he engaged them; that he ordered them; that he promised them the $l per capita; that he superintended the bringing on board the negroes; and that he was, in fact, the master-spirit of the entire enterprise.
		Gordon raised himself slowly from his cot, and with much difficulty, said: "Cut a lock of hair from my head and give it to my wife." Then taking a ring from his finger, he requested that that also should be sent to his wife in remembrance of her husband.
	www.sonofthesouth.net /slavery/slave-trader.htm (1722 words)

	Heirloom a comfort in war
		In December, Nathaniel Gordon was mobilizing in preparation for deployment to Iraq when he received a package from his father.
		Nathaniel said that the Bible will stay with him except when the troops convoy, since all religious paraphernalia has to be out of sight when dealing with the Iraqi public.
		Nathaniel's wife, Sarah, recalls being "surprised, shocked and scared" the moment in August of last year when her husband was called to duty.
	news.mainetoday.com /war/news/050222_1396222.shtml (1010 words)

	The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. The Collection. Newly Discovered Documents
		His refusal to grant Nathaniel Gordon clemency for the crime of slave trading is a testament to Lincoln's growing public intolerance of slavery.
		Gordon's friends and supporters approached Lincoln "to commute the said sentence of the said Nathaniel Gordon to a term of imprisonment for life." While he refuses this, Lincoln's compassionate nature is not completely deaf to Gordon's pleas for mercy.
		Gordon is believed to be the only slave trader to have ever been executed for that crime.
	www.gilderlehrman.org /collection/docs_archive/docs_archive_slavetrade.html (592 words)

	Nathaniel Gordon of Wardhead, Glenmuick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Speculation that he was the Nathaniel born in 1732 in Drumnochty, Glenbuchat.
		On 11 11 1766 when Nathaniel was 34, he married Elizabeth Ogg, daughter of Ogg, in Lumphannan.
		Born on 2 3 1769 in Cobbletown, Glenmuick.
	genforum.genealogy.com /gordon/messages/6582.html (203 words)

	insurance Nathaniel_Gordon - insurance-notes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		After one hung jury and a new trial, Gordon was convicted November 9, 1861 in the circuit court in New York City and sentenced to death by hanging on February 7, 1862.
		President Abraham Lincoln issued a stay of Gordon's execution setting the new date for February 21, 1862.
		The evening before the execution, Gordon unsuccessfully attempted suicide with strychnine poison prompting the local authorities to move back the execution to noon from 2:30 p.m.
	www.insurance-notes.com /Nathaniel_Gordon (415 words)

	Why the Tombs for Slave Trade Execution
		Having exhausted all other avenues of appeal and with only about 24 hours remaining before the condemned Tombs prisoner, young Captain Nathaniel Gordon of Portland, Maine, was to be marched up the steps of the gallows in the City Prison yard, his lead counsel rushed to Federal Circuit Court on Feb. 20, 1862.
		Gordon spent his opportunity for last words in confusing complaint about the U.S. District Attorney reneging on an alleged promise of commutation, a claim running contrary to the court record and Smith’s known advocacy of imposing the death penalty to end slave trafficking.
		To him, their punishment preserved the purpose of Gordon’s execution because all three cases were part of an integral anti-slave trade package.
	www.correctionhistory.org /html/chronicl/tombs/gordon/whytombs1.htm (4734 words)

	The Gordon family
		Peter Gordon was a Loyalist to the Crown during the American Revolution and relocated his family to Ontario, Canada obtained the status of United Empire Loyalist and receiving compensation for the property he lost in Sussex Co., New Jersey.
		Peter and Mary (Pettit) Gordon are established as the parents of Margaret Gordon Green by evidence of land granted to Margaret and Samuel Green in 1811.
		In Upper Canada, Peter Gordon is found in the 02nd of March 1795 Court Minutes along with John Smith as "Overseer of the Roads" for the Grimsby area [re: Annals of the Forty, No. 2 (1951)].
	www.geocities.com /jdmahar2003/gordon.html (874 words)

	Inventory of the Gordon and Hackett Family Papers, 1752-1942
		The Gordon and Hackett families of Wilkes County, N.C. were united through the marriage of Robert Franklin Hackett (died circa 1889) and Caroline Louise Gordon Hackett (1828-1891), who were married in 1859 after an extended and secret engagement.
		Richard Nathaniel was a graduate of the University of North Carolina in 1887, and he studied law under Colonel George N. Folk in Caldwell County.
		The Gordon family was of Scottish descent and had emigrated from Scotland in 1724 to settle first in Maryland and finally in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, and Wilkes County, N.C. James B. and Caroline Gordon's parents were Nathaniel Gordon and Sarah Lenoir Gwyn.
	www.lib.unc.edu /mss/inv/htm/01040.html (1075 words)

	Simon & Schuster: Hanging Captain Gordon: The Life and Trial of an American Slave Trader (Hardcover) - Reading Guide
		Nathaniel Gordon, a prosperous sea captain from Maine, was executed for slave trading during the early days of Lincoln's presidency.
		Hanging Captain Gordon delves into the reasons behind the execution, and explores the actions of both the young prosecutor and the dedicated civil servant who went out of his way to ensure that Captain Gordon paid the penalty, and into whose care Captain Gordon entrusted his family as the rope was placed around his neck.
		Soodalter states, "Nathaniel Gordon was caught up at this most vital turning point in American history; and by standing in exactly the wrong place at the wrong time, he would provide the example with his death" (24).
	www.simonsays.com /content/book.cfm?tab=1&pid=514227&agid=10 (847 words)

	Ron Soodalter - Excerpt - Hanging Captain Gordon
		I was captured by the drama of the story: a young Yankee sea captain with a beautiful wife and son, caught in the machinery of a government determined to hang him as a slaver.
		I was more concerned with what I considered the tragedy of Nathaniel Gordon himself than with the far greater tragedy that allowed men like Gordon to prosper for decades on the countless bodies of captured Africans, even while the laws of the land prescribed death for their crime.
		In time, it became clear to me that Gordon's story is a very small part of the story of the American slave trade of the 19th century, and of our government's stunning and continuous failure to stop it.
	www.ronsoodalter.com /book/behind.asp (366 words)

	Nathaniel Gordon - Portraits of Legislators On State House Third Floor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Gordon (1820 - 1908) was born and died at Exeter (NH), the sixth generation of his family to do so.
		In 1844 Gordon was admitted to the Maryland Bar, and he practiced law at various county courts before returning to Exeter (NH) in September 1847.
		When the Union Army won the War, Gordon became a wealthy man. For the rest of his life made substantial contributions to educational institutions, and to Christian missions in the American West and in China.
	www.nh.gov /nhdhr/legport3/gordon.html (307 words)

	The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Gordon
		Son of Percy Gordon and Nancy Reed (French) Gordon; married 1930 to Alice Vandergrift.
		Gordon, Hayes — of Pulaski, Giles County, Tenn. Democrat.
		Son of William Gordon and Sarah (Walton) Gordon; married 1843 to Catherine J. Overturf.
	www.politicalgraveyard.com /bio/gordon.html (1162 words)

	Nathaniel Gordon Patent Inventor Berkeley, CA, US
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		If Nathaniel Gordon filed recent patent applications under another name, spelling or location then those applications could be listed on an alternate page.
	www.freshpatents.com /Nathaniel-C-Gordon-Berkeley-invdirg.php (158 words)

	Gordon Family
		John George Gordon moved to Maryland and married Mary (or Sarah) Chapman ca 1727 in a somewhat "clandestine manner." Sarah Chapman was the niece of wealthy Dr. James Chapman and he opposed the marriage.
		John George Gordon was rather poor and Sarah's family was evidently at the opposite end of the financial spectrum.
		John George Gordon was born about 1705/07 and died ca 1767 in Virginia and his widow and two sons Charles and George moved to Wilkes county ca 1774.
	www.fmoran.com /wilkes/gordon.html (334 words)

	African American Registry: Slave-trader hanged!
		During the early hours of that day, Gordon was found in convulsion in his cell.
		According to an article in the New York Daily Tribune, the substance had been given to Gordon by an unidentified person at the beginning of his second trial and hidden in a small bench in his cell.
		Gordon was asked if he had any final statements, and according to newspaper accounts, he said "I did nothing wrong."
	www.aaregistry.com /african_american_history/2590/Slavetrader_hanged (172 words)

	HANGING CAPTAIN GORDON: BOOK REVIEW by Duane B. — books, reviews, slavery \| Gather
		With the passage of this law is was now legal for an American to own a thousand slaves to work a plantation in South Carolina, but it was a hanging offense for that same person to sail to Africa, kidnap a single slave and bring him or her to the United States.
		In his recent book, “Hanging Captain Gordon, Ron Soodalter, tells the story of how this law, intended to stop the participation of Americans in the slave trade with the threat of the death penalty, resulted the execution of exactly one person, Captain Nathaniel Gordon, in 1862.
		Gordon decided to take his chances in court, based on the previous light sentences, the possible loopholes that could be invoked and the final possibility of buying his way out of jail and disappearing into a rapidly growing nation that had little or no paper trail to track fleeing criminals as we do now.
	www.gather.com /viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474976859993 (1009 words)

	A fatal reversal for 'Lucky Nat' - Civil War - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		An episode that should be similarly well remembered is the trial and execution of Nathaniel Gordon, who in 1862 had the dubious distinction of being the only American ship captain to be executed for the crime of slave trading.
		Gordon, too, was a Downeaster, but there was nothing special about him.
		Gordon's luck had run out, but he had no fear for his life.
	www.washtimes.com /civilwar/20060317-092214-1444r.htm (619 words)

	E.C. Gordon family
		Gordonsville was founded when our ancestor, Nathaniel, fourth child of Colonel James Gordon, opened a tavern/restaurant/inn.
		See the Nathaniel Gordon page for more details and pictures about this lovely little town.
		To those of us in the baby boom generation, Nathaniel, or "Nat" as I affectionately call him, would be our great great great grandfather.
	groups.msn.com /ECGordonfamily/_homepage.msnw?pgmarket=en-us (200 words)

	A Century of Glory - Page 5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Captain Nathaniel Gordon was admitted as a member at the end of 1837.
		In 1808 Congress prohibited further importation of slaves and in 1820 declared slavers pirates, liable to be sentenced to death.
		Captured just before the outbreak of the Civil War with about nine hundred Africans aboard, Captain Gordon was tried and convicted of slaving in November 1861, and sentenced to death by hanging on 7 February 1862.
	home.maine.rr.com /mariner/pomaso/glory/acog5.html (349 words)

	The Galileo Project
		Also Nathaniel Highmore, the father was (from the time his son was one year old) Rector of Purse Caundle, Dorset.
		Elise Gordon, "The Highmore family of Dorset," Journal of the Sherborne History Society, 3 (1966), 2ff.
		_____, "Nathaniel Highmore, Physician and Anatomist, 1614-1685," The Practitioner, 196 (1966), 851-7.
	galileo.rice.edu /Catalog/NewFiles/highmore.html (464 words)

	Nathaniel Gordon - Portraits of Legislators On State House Third Floor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Gordon (1820 - 1908) was born and died at Exeter (NH), the sixth generation of his family to do so.
		In 1844 Gordon was admitted to the Maryland Bar, and he practiced law at various county courts before returning to Exeter (NH) in September 1847.
		When the Union Army won the War, Gordon became a wealthy man. For the rest of his life made substantial contributions to educational institutions, and to Christian missions in the American West and in China.
	www.state.nh.us /nhdhr/legport3/gordon.html (307 words)

	Ron Soodalter - Hanging Captain Gordon
		A sea captain from an old and respected Portland, Maine family, Gordon was about to become the only man in the history of the United States to be hanged for slave trading.
		When Gordon had sailed two years before to bring Africans back in chains from the Congo River, he had no reason to fear a hanging.
		With the nation embroiled in a civil war, and a new president at the helm, social reform was the order of the day.
	www.ronsoodalter.com /book/book.asp (321 words)

	Old Gordon Gravestones
		Gordon Hill Cemetery, Exeter NH (Gordon, Graves, Sanborn, Barstow, Bartlett, Magoun, and Perkins)
		So far, the oldest stone we've identified is that of Alexander's grandson Nathaniel (#19 in AGD) in the Gordon Hill Cemetery in Exeter.
		It is near where I believe Joseph and Pike Gordon were attacked by Indians in 1746, according to my reading of Folsom's History of Saco and Biddeford.
	www.gordonsofmaine.com (671 words)

	Nathaniel Gordon of Toum, Glen Gairn
		Gordon, Tomb, 1782 (presumably a tombstone to his wife, but we know not for sure her name)
		There was a Nathaniel Gordon who "died at the Bridge of Garden, Parish of Glengarden, on 24th March 1821, aged 97, retaining all his faculties to the last.
		He was never confined to bed for a day during his long life." (Aberdeen Journal.) It must be postulated that this is Toum Nathaniel.
	genforum.genealogy.com /gordon/messages/6583.html (212 words)

	Gordon Nathaniel
		Captain Nathaniel Gordon was the first and only American slave-trader to be tried, convicted, and hanged in accordance with the U. Piracy Law of 1820.
		The very next day he was captured by the USS Mohican fifty miles from port on August 8, 1860.
		Before he could be hung President Abraham Lincoln issued a temporary (2 week) stay of Gordon's execution setting the new date for February 21, 1862.
	www.thepirateking.com /bios/gordon_nathaniel.htm (209 words)

	Gordonville, Virginia: Piedmont crossroads Chesapeake and Ohio Historical Magazine - Find Articles
		In 1787, Nathaniel Gordon purchased 1,350 acres of land at the crossroads of the Fredericksburg Great Road and the Richmond Road and built his house there.
		Though Gordon had originally called his plantation Newville, the new Post Office was called Gordonsville.
		Later that year, Robert King (a son-in-law of Nathaniel Gordon) sold two acres of land to the railroad for the construction of a depot and other buildings.' King apparently had big plans for the area around the depot; in 1839 he sold part interest in land adjoining the depot site for a tavern.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3943/is_200009/ai_n8917694 (1020 words)

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