Hezekiah
Gorham
Jr
Born in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA
Ancestors 
Son of Hezekiah Gorham
and Abigail (Sturgis) Gorham
Brother of
Mercy (Gorham) Tallman and Mary Mercy (Gorham) Hall
Husband of
Phebe (Thacher) Gorham
— married
4 Feb 1800 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA
Descendants 
Father of
John Gorham and Hezekiah Gorham I
Died
at age 59
in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA
Profile last modified
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Biography
Hezekiah Gorham was born 5 August 1776, Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay, British America;[1] died 8 August 1835, Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA.[2] He married 4 February 1800, Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA[3] (intentions filed 28 December 1799, Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA)[4] to Phebe Thacher, born 10 November 1778, Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay, British America;[5] died 22 July 1859, Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA.[6]
Hezekiah is buried next to his wife Phebe in Woodside Cemetery, Yarmouth Port, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA.[7]
Sources
- Bowman, George Ernest. Gravestone Records in The Ancient Cemetery and The Woodside Cemetery, Yarmouth, Massachusetts (Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, Boston, Mass., 1906)
- Page 38: "Gorham, Hezekiah, born 1776; died 8 August, 1835, aged 59."
Footnotes
- ↑ Yarmouth, Massachusetts, Town Records, Birth, 1647-1782, 3: 220, Hezekiah Gorham; FHL microfilm 945511; Elizabeth Pearson White, John Howland of the Mayflower: The First Five Generations Documented Descendants Through his first child Desire Howland and her husband John Gorham, 4 volumes (Rockport, Maine: Picton Press, 2004), 1:410; Robert M. Sherman and Ruth Wilder Sherman, compilers, Vital Records of Yarmouth, Massachusetts to the Year 1850, 2 volumes (Warwick, Rhode Island: Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, 1975), 1:124
- ↑ Yarmouth, Massachusetts, Town Records, Deaths, 1800-1850, 8: 101, Hezekiah Gorham; FHL microfilm 945512; Robert M. Sherman and Ruth Wilder Sherman, compilers, Vital Records of Yarmouth, Massachusetts to the Year 1850, 2 volumes (Warwick, Rhode Island: Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, 1975), 1:399
- ↑ Yarmouth, Massachusetts, Town Records, Marriages, 1667-1823, 7: 290, Hezekiah Gorham-Phebe Thacher, 1800; FHL microfilm 945511; Robert M. Sherman and Ruth Wilder Sherman, compilers, Vital Records of Yarmouth, Massachusetts to the Year 1850, 2 volumes (Warwick, Rhode Island: Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, 1975), 2:573
- ↑ Yarmouth, Massachusetts, Town Records, Intentions, 1678-1823, 7: 286, Hezekiah Gorham-Phebe Thacher, 1799; FHL microfilm 945511; Robert M. Sherman and Ruth Wilder Sherman, compilers, Vital Records of Yarmouth, Massachusetts to the Year 1850, 2 volumes (Warwick, Rhode Island: Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, 1975), 2:571
- ↑ Yarmouth, Massachusetts, Town Records, Births, 1760-1794, 4: 88, Phebe Thacher; FHL microfilm 945511; Yarmouth, Massachusetts, Town Records, Births, 1678-1823, 7: 91, Phebe Thacher; FHL microfilm 945511; Yarmouth, Massachusetts, Town Records, 1678-1860, 18: 117, Phebe Thacher; FHL microfilm 945513; Robert M. Sherman and Ruth Wilder Sherman, compilers, Vital Records of Yarmouth, Massachusetts to the Year 1850, 2 volumes (Warwick, Rhode Island: Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, 1975), 1:256
- ↑ Woodside Cemetery (Yarmouth Port, Barnstable, Massachusetts; .4 miles south on Summer Street off of 6A (GPS 41°41'58.50"N 70°14'51.17"W) and .78 miles west of Ancient Cemetery), Phebe Gorham; photographed and read by Lee Martin, 6 September 2011
- ↑ Woodside Cemetery (Yarmouth Port, Barnstable, Massachusetts; .4 miles south on Summer Street off of 6A (GPS 41°41'58.50"N 70°14'51.17"W) and .78 miles west of Ancient Cemetery), Hezekiah Gorham, Section B, Lot 104; photographed and read by Lee Martin, 6 September 2011; Robert M. Sherman and Ruth Wilder Sherman, compilers, Vital Records of Yarmouth, Massachusetts to the Year 1850, 2 volumes (Warwick, Rhode Island: Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, 1975), 2:825
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Hezekiah by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Hezekiah:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Hezekiah by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Hezekiah:
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~3.12%
~6.25%
Sarah (Hawes) Shaw 
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~0.78%
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