Capt. John Gorham

- Bef 1676

• Name	John Gorham  [1, 2, 3]
  Prefix	Capt.
  Gender	Male
  Alternate death	Bef 5 Feb 1675	Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts   [4]
  Buried	5 Feb 1675	Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts   [4]
  Died	Bef 5 Feb 1676  [5, 6, 7]
  Buried	5 Feb 1676	Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts   [5, 6, 7]
  Person ID	I153	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TNH
  Last Modified	13 Aug 2021

  
  

  Father	John Gorham,   b. of Huntingdonshire, England ,   d. Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts
  Family ID	F18103	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Desire Howland,   b. Abt 1624, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts ,   d. 13 Oct 1683, Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts  (Age ~ 59 years)
  Married	Bef 1644	Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts   [2, 8]
  Children	+ 1. Mercy Gorham,   b. 20 Jan 1658, Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts ,   d. 24 Sep 1725, Stonington, New London, Connecticut  (Age 67 years)
  Last Modified	27 Sep 2020
  Family ID	F5079	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Grantee in Plymouth 18 Dec 1638. Captain of a company in King Philip's War, 1675. Despite persistent assertions to the contrary, there is no evidence that he was the son of Ralph Gorham of Benefield, Northamptonshire, baptized there 28 Jan 1621. There was a Ralph Gorham in Benefield, who had a son John baptized on that date; and there was a Ralph Gorham in Plymouth between 2 Oct 1637 and 5 Apr 1642. But there is no evidence that the Ralph seen briefly in Plymouth was the Ralph of Benefield, or that Capt. John Gorham who married Desire Howland was connected to either the Benefield man or to Ralph of Plymouth. In 1737, Capt. John Gorham's great-grandson Col. John Gorham (Shubael3, John2, Capt. John1), in command of a brigantine bound for London, made several notes in his journal of things to do while in that city. The journal survives. One of the notes was "to Look out for ye Gorhams Coat of Armes. Came from Huntingtunshear". A later entry in the same notebook lists expenditures made in London, including 7s 6d to "Herralds office". A further 1s 6d "paid a man for Looking out the Gorhams in the citty." Several years later, during the 1745 siege of Louisbourg (present-day Cape Breton Island), Col. Gorham wrote further notes on his family history in a separate journal, which also survives: My Great Great Grand father & Family Came out of Some part of England and Lived att Marshfield and Had one Son Nam'd aftr him John Gorum, alias Gorham—which Son aftr Having Marryed With an Howland and Had Sevrall Children Went home to England and Returnd Soone again to his family— His Father Lived & Dyed att Marshfield and Whats Remarkable He Was a Joyner and Made his Coffin himself for sevrall Year before he Dyed and Used to Keep apples In It as a Chest Untill he dyed & used t the Soon John that maryd Desire Howland and Went to England Moved from Marshfieeld to Barnstable and Settled there in ordr to begin a township aftrwards Called Barnstable. Built Mills—tan fatts &c [All of the above is abstracted and/or quoted from George Ernest Bowman, "Col. John Gorham's 'Wast Book' and His 'Dayly Journal'," Mayflower Descendant 5:172, 1903.] Capt. John Gorham (d. 1675) = Desire Howland (1624-1683) Desire Gorham (b. 1644) = Capt. John Hawes (1635-1701) Elizabeth Hawes (1662-1732) = Capt. Thomas Daggett (1658-1726) Jemima Daggett (1694-1732) = Malachi Butler (1689-1770) Zephaniah Butler (1727-1800) = Abigail Cilley Capt. John Butler (1782-1819) = Charlotte Ellison Gen. Benjamin Franklin Butler (1818-1893) Capt. John Gorham (d. 1675) = Desire Howland (1624-1683) Shubael Gorham (1667-1750) = Puella Hussey (b. 1677) Lydia Gorham (1701-1793) = Joseph Worth (1698-1790) Anna Worth (1721-1795) = Abraham Macy (1715-1746) Abraham Macy (1739-1820) = Priscilla Bunker (1746-1819) Eunice May (1773-1851) = Thaddeus Coleman (1771-1847) Judith Coleman (1804-1839) = Elijah Pound (1802-1891) Thaddeus Coleman Pound (1833-1914) = Susan Angevine Loomis (d. 1923) Homer Loomis Pound (1858-1942) = Isabel Weston (1860-1948) Ezra Pound [Ezra Weston Loomis Pound] (1885-1972)

  
  

• Sources

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