Matilda Gordon is listed in her father’s 1814 will as his eldest daughter. [Essex County, Virginia, Will Book 18, pages 22–23.]

Thomas Boughan married Matilda Gordon on 9 January 1822 in Essex County, Virginia. She was 21. Both were single. The bondsmen were Thomas Boughan and Richard Shearwood. The witness and clerk was J. P. Deriuex. Source: Essex County, Virginia, marriage register book 1, page 96, entry 51.

On 19 March 1823, Thomas Boughan and Josiah Minter were bound in the penalty of $500 for Thomas Boughan’s administration of the estate of Matilda Gordon, deceased. [Essex County, Virginia, Will Book 19, page 360.]

On 19 March 1823, Thomas Boughan was bound $500 for his administration of the goods, chattles and credits of Matilda Boughan deceased. [Essex County, Virginia, Order Book 44, page 306.]

For general information about Matilda Gordon, see: Gothberg, Carol J., John and Amy Gatewood, and Their Descendants 1666–1986. Baltimore: Gateway Press Inc., 1987, page 165.