Ancestry of
William Washington Gordon

(1834–1912)

Richard Stites

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• • Great-grandfather of William Washington Gordon — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 12 
  • Father:
  • John Stites 
  • Mother:
  • Margaret Hampton   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1747 
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  • Death Date:
  • 16 Sep 1776 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah -----
  • Marriage Date:
  • May 1776 
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  Richard Montgomery Stites (Ahnentafel No:6 )

  • Notes: 

  • Richard Stites is said to have been wounded a the Battle of Long Island during the American Revolutionary War on 27 AUG 1776. He died from his wounds on 16 SEP 1776.

• Sources for Richard Stites

  • ¹ New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1897, Vol. 28, p. 238.
  • ² Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society: A Magazine of History, Biography and Notes on Families, 1920, Vol. 5, p. 103.
  • ³ Hartridge, Walter Charlton, ed., The Letters of Robert Mackay to his Wife: Written from Ports in America and England, 1795-1816, Athens, Georgia: University Press of Georgia (2010), 262.
  • ⁴ Woodruff, Francis Eben, The Woodruffs of New Jersey Who Came From Fordwich, Kent, England, By Way of Lynn, Massachusetts, and . . ., New York: The Grafton Press, Publishers (1909), 121.