GORDON, WILLIAM
\ɡˈɔːdən], \ɡˈɔːdən], \ɡ_ˈɔː_d_ə_n]\
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(1730-1807), an Englishman, emigrated to Massachusetts in 1770, and was active in Massachusetts politics. He returned to England in 1786, and published a valuable "History of the Rise, Progress and Establishment of the Independence of the United States."
By John Franklin Jameson