Thomas purchased several hundred acres bounded by Cedar Brook in what is today Plainfield, New Jersey.
The Gordon family were proprietors of Perth-Amboy, NJ (originally called New Aberdeen in the Jersey Colony).
On 28 April 1709 he was made Chief Justice of New Jersey by Governor John Lovelace, but within a few months was appointed Receiver General of the Province, holding the post until 1719.
He was also appointed Attorney General (January 22, 1714) and a member of the Council by Governor Robert Hunter, in which latter position he served until 1722.
(source: http://skinnerkinsmen.org/wood06/D0005/I404.html) Weis, Frederick Lewis: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who Came to America Before 1700: The Lineage of Alfred the Great, Charlemagne, Malcolm of Scotland, Robert the Strong, and Some of Their Descendants, Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc. Baltimore, MD, 1992