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Shubael Gorham (1686 - 1746)

Colonel Shubael Gorham
Born in Barnstable, Plymouth Colonymap
Ancestors ancestors
Husband of — married about 2 Dec 1708 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts Baymap
Descendants descendants
Died at age 59 in Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, Canadamap
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Biography

Shubael was a Colonel of the 7th Massachusetts Regiment during the Louisburg expedition of 1745:

SHUBAEL GORHAM (John Gorham Papers - the ill-fated expedition to Quebec in 1690; and his father, Shubael, became Colonel of the 7th Massachusetts Regiment during the Louisburg expedition of 1745.)
Shubael was a soldier in the Louisburg Expedition in 1745, a 'Captain in Lumbard's Co., Seventh Mass. Col. Shubael Gorham,' according to Mr. Claghorn. [1]

In 1735, Shubal Goreham petitioned the Governor of Massachusetts Bay to grant land to the survivors or their heirs who served in the Expedition of 1690.[2]


Name

Shubael Gorham[3]

Marriage

Shobal Goreham and Mary Thacher were joined in marriage the 2(torn) day of December 1708 John Thacher, J. P. citing Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850, Yarmouth, Vol. 1, p. 137, Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2010).

Sources

  1. Eric Krause Reports The Men and Women in the Louisbourg Expedition of 1745
  2. 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)
  3. Mayflower Births and Deaths
  • Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2010).
  • Mayflower Births and Deaths, Vol. 1 and 2 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.
  • Ancestry Family Trees - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com.
http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=59620794&pid=135

Acknowledgments

  • Thank you to David Nicholls for creating WikiTree profile Gorham-408 through the import of Nicholls Family Tree-2.ged on Aug 24, 2013.
  • This person was created through the import of family.ged on 21 September 2010.




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