Born in Marshfield, Plymouth Colony
Ancestors 
Daughter of John Gorham
and Desire (Howland) Gorham
Sister of
Desire (Gorham) Hawes, Elizabeth (Gorham) Hallett, James Gorham, John Gorham Jr., Joseph Gorham, Jabez Gorham, Mercy (Gorham) Denison, Lydia (Gorham) Thacher, Hannah (Gorham) Whilldin and Shubael Gorham
Wife of
Edward Sturgis
— married
1663 (to 8 Nov 1678) in Yarmouth, Plymouth Colony [uncertain]
[uncertain] Wife of
Thomas Baxter Sr.
— married
27 Jan 1679 in Yarmouth, Plymouth Colony
Descendants 
Mother of
Desire (Sturgis) Thatcher, James Sturgis, Edward Sturgis, Thankful (Sturgis) Thacher, Fear (Sturgis) Holmes, John Baxter Sr., Thomas Baxter Jr. and Shubael Baxter Esq.
Died
at age 68
in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Province of Massachusetts Bay
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Contents |
Biography
Name
- Temperance Gorham[1]
Birth
Marriage
Death
- 12 March 1714/15 Yarmouth, Massachusetts[4]
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Otis: Page 413; Barnstable County, Massachusetts, Town Records, 1640-1753, 1: 371, Temperance Gorham; FHL microfilm 947061;Jay Mack Holbrook, Massachusetts Vital Records: Barnstable, 1643-1892 (Oxford, Massachusetts: Holbrook Research Institute, 1987), 414; digital image, Ancestry.com, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed 3 July 2015; microfiche 6; Barnstable Births, Marriages, Deaths <1643-1714+; Town Records 1736-1885: Vital Records by Family 1637-1736, 1753, vol. 1
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 NEHGR: Vol. 52, Page 358; Barnstable County, Massachusetts, Town Records, 1640-1753, 1: 371, Temperance Gorham; FHL microfilm 947061; Jay Mack Holbrook, Massachusetts Vital Records: Barnstable, 1643-1892 (Oxford, Massachusetts: Holbrook Research Institute, 1987), 414; digital image, Ancestry.com, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed 3 July 2015; microfiche 6; Barnstable Births, Marriages, Deaths <1643-1714+; Town Records 1736-1885: Vital Records by Family 1637-1736, 1753, vol. 1
- ↑ Snow: page 480
- ↑ Yarmouth, Massachusetts, Town Records, Deaths, 1647-1783, 3: 26, Temperance Baxter; FHL microfilm 945511
- Otis, Amos. Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families (F.B. & F.P. Goss, Publishers and Printers, Barnstable, Mass., 1888)
- Snow, Nora Emma. The Snow-Estes Ancestry (1939), Volume One: The Snow Family, by Nora E. Snow, compiled by Myrtle M. Jillson, Hillburn, New York.
- familysearch.org records
- Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England (Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1862) Vol 2, page 281
- NEHGR: The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Mass., 1898) Vol. 52, Page 358
- Coplien, Dori. We're Coming to America (May 09, 2008)
- http://coplien.com/individual.php?pid=I42364&ged=coplien.ged
- Ancestry Profile
- Ancestry Profile
- The First Settlers of Barnstable, MS., The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Mass., 1848) Vol. 2, Page 67
- Torrey, Clarence Almon. Torrey’s New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore, 1985)
- Page 54: "Baxter, Thomas (-1713) & Temperance (Gorham) Sturges (1646-1715), w Edward; 27 Jan 1679, 16 Jan 1679/80, 27 Jan 1679/80; Yarmouth"
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Temperance by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. Mitochondrial DNA test-takers in the direct maternal line:
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:
Family Tree DNA mtDNA Test HVR1 and HVR2, haplogroup H, FTDNA kit #337121 - Marion O'Donnell :
Family Tree DNA mtDNA Test HVR1 and HVR2, haplogroup H1a1, FTDNA kit #217884
- William Thornton :
Family Tree DNA mtDNA Test HVR1 and HVR2, haplogroup H1a1, FTDNA kit #159230
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~6.25%
Sarah (Hawes) Shaw :
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~0.39%
Frank Stewart :
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Debra (Downs) Allison
M Cole
Unknown-301973 and Gorham-27 appear to represent the same person because: Please merge Unknown into Gorham. Profile appears to have been created based on the Downs Genealogy which confused some of the names/relationships in this line.
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Debra (Downs) Allison
One of these Thomas Baxters' needs to be removed as husband, or they need to be merged.
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Debra (Downs) Allison
The marriage PLACE is coming up on the error report, I am unable to change it from the spouse's profile.
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Featured National Park champion connections: Temperance is 9 degrees from Theodore Roosevelt, 18 degrees from Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, 9 degrees from George Catlin, 11 degrees from Marjory Douglas, 20 degrees from Sueko Embrey, 9 degrees from George Grinnell, 22 degrees from Anton Kröller, 10 degrees from Stephen Mather, 18 degrees from Kara McKean, 13 degrees from John Muir, 12 degrees from Victoria Hanover and 24 degrees from Charles Young on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.
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