John Gorham Jr. (1651 - 1715)

Born 20 Feb 1651 in Marshfield, Plymouth Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Otis) Gorham — married 24 Feb 1674 in Barnstable, Plymouth Colony

Descendants

Died 11 Nov 1715 at age 64 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

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Name

John Gorham^[1]

Birth

20 FEB 1651 Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts^[1][2]

1651

Marriage

John Gorham and Mary Otis were married on 24 February 1674, recorded in Barnstable.^[3]

24 FEB 1675 Barnstable, Massachusetts^[4]

Death

1710

11 Nov 1716

11 NOV 1716 Barnstable, Massachusetts^[4]

Gravestone Inscription

HERE LYES THE BODY OF THE HONOURED JOHN GORHAM, ESQ. COLL. OF THE REGIMENT AND ONE OF HIS MAJESTIES JUSTICES OF THE PIEASE IN THE COUNTY OF BARNSTABLE, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE, NOV. THE 11TH 1715, IN THE 65TH YEAR OF HIS AGE.

Here Lyes a Valient Soldier and A Saint A Judge, A Justice, Whom no Vice could taint A Perfect Lover of His Countrys cause, Their Lives, Religion, Properties and Laws, Who in His Young, yea, very Youthful Years, Took up His Sword, with Philip and His Peers, And when that Prince and His black Regiment Were all Subdued, He could not be content to take ... West But in a ... the rest

Here lyes likewise Interred Beneath this Stone MARY, Consort of the late Colo JOHN GORHAM, who died April 1st 1732.

The Sweet Remembrance of the Just Shall flourish when they Sleep in Dust.

Erected by his descendants; - P. C. BROOKS SHEPHERD BROOKS, & FRANCIS BROOKS 1888

Notes

• Genealogical Dictionary states under Gorham, Gorum, or Goram:

John, Barnstable, s. of the preced. m. 24 Feb. 1675, Mary, d. of John Otis, had John, b. 18 Jan. 1676, d. young; Temperance, 2 Aug. 1678; Mary, 18 Apr. 1680; Stephen, 23 June 1683; Shubael, 2 Sept. 1686; John, 28 Sept. 1688, bapt. 3 Mar. foll.; Thankful, 15 Feb. bapt 19 Apr. 1691; Job, 30 Aug. 1692; and Mercy, Dec. 1695, bapt. 5 Apr. foll. and he d. 11 Nov. 1716.

• Burial: Cobb's Hill Cemetery (East and West), Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA

In 1735 in Barnstable, Capt. John Goreham was included in a list of men who served in the Expedition of Canada in 1690. His son Shuball Goreham petitioned the Governor of Massachusetts Bay to grant land to the survivors or their heirs of the Expedition of 1690 ^[5]

Sources

• Find A Grave: Memorial #9423090 for Col John Gorham (1651 - 1715)
• King, Helen H. & Daniels, Linetta A. Some Descendants of Captain John Gorham of Plymouth Colony in New York State and the Western Reserve (published online by Ancestry.com, Provo, UT: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005; originally published by Walker Printing Service, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio, 1955)
• Otis, Amos. Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families (F.B. & F.P. Goss, Publishers and Printers, Barnstable, Mass., 1888) Page 413
• Snow, Nora Emma. The Snow-Estes Ancestry (1939)
• familysearch.org records
• The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Mass., 1898) Vol. 52, Page 357
• The First Settlers of Barnstable, MS., The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Mass., 1848) Vol. 2, Page 67
• Sprague, Frank William. Ancestry of Amos Otis, Esq., of Yarmouth Port, Mass., The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Mass., 1897) Vol. 51.

• Page 329: Mary Otis, b. in Hingham, March 14, 1652-3. She m. Lt.-Col. John Gorham of Barnstable."

• Sprague, Frank William. The Gorham Family in Connecticut and Vermont (David Clapp & Son, Boston, 1903) Page 12: from the Boston Evening Transcript

Footnotes

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Otis: Page 413
2. ↑ King: Page xxiv
3. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (13 July 2016), Barnstable > Barnstable > Town records 1640-1774 vol 1-2 > image 272 of 663; citing Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston. Barnstable Town Records, Vol. 1:414 (original pagination.)
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England (Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1862) Vol 2, page 281 (Link on Archive.org]
5. ↑ Watkins, Walter Kendall, Soldiers in the expedition to Canada in 1690 [microform] : and grantees of the Canada townships, Boston, 1898. Page 86-87, Archive.org (https://archive.org/details/cihm_25428/page/n5/mode/2up)