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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Gordon, Patrick 1644-1736 (search)
Gordon, Patrick 1644-1736 Colonial governor; born in England in 1644; became governor of Pennsylvania in 1726. He was the author of Two Indian treaties at Conestogoe. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 5, 1736.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), State of Pennsylvania, (search)
Pennsylvania. [Under the proprietary government, when there was no deputy governor the president of the council acted as such.] William PennProprietor and Governor1682 Thomas LloydPresident1684 John BlackwellDeputy Governor1688 Benjamin FletcherGovernor1693 William MarkhamGovernor1693 William PennGovernor1693 Andrew HamiltonDeputy Governor1701 Edward ShippenPresident1703 John EvansDeputy Governor1704 Charles GookinDeputy Governor1709 Sir William KeithDeputy Governor1717 Patrick GordonDeputy Governor1726 James LoganPresident1736 George ThomasDeputy Governor1738 Anthony PalmerPresident1747 James HamiltonDeputy Governor1748 Robert H. MorrisDeputy Governor1754 William DennyDeputy Governor1756 James HamiltonDeputy Governor1759 John PennGovernor1763 James HamiltonPresident1771 Richard PennGovernor1771 John PennGovernor1773 [Proprietary government ended by the Constitution of 1776. The representatives of the Penn family were paid for the surrender of their rig
The Daily Dispatch: July 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], Shocking suicide. (search)
lain, strongly fortified and had a small but well disciplined garrison. No common approaches could be made to it, and the Turkish cannon swept the plain with iron hall. In this case, the engineering skill of the Russians was baffled, but Gen. Patrick Gordon, the right hand man of Peter the Great, and the only one for whose death, it is said, he ever shed a tear, being determined to take to take the place at any cost, proposed to bury it with dirt by gradual approaches. He had a large army; t. The men were kept in ranges, working day and night, the earth-being thrown from one to another like the steps of a stair, the top gang taking the lowest place every half hour in succession. In five weeks the huge earth wall was carried forward nearly one mile, until it rose to and above the highest ramparts, and the earth began to roll over them. This caused the Turkish Governor to hang out the white flag and give in. Had he not done so, General Gordon would have buried the fortress-- Ex.