Desire Gorham

1685 - 1749  (~ 64 years)

• Name	Desire Gorham  [1]
  Birth	Apr 1685	Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts   [2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Female
  Death	23 Jun 1749	Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts   [3, 4]
  Burial	Ancient Cemetery, Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts   [3]
  Person ID	I36701	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	12 Nov 2021

  
  

  Father	Joseph Gorham,   b. 16 Feb 1654, Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts d. 9 Jul 1726, Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts (Age 72 years)
  Mother	Sarah,   b. Abt 1656   d. Between 1 May 1728 and 3 Feb 1739 (Age ~ 72 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1678  [5]
  Family ID	F21577	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	John Baxter,   b. Abt 1680, Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts d. Aft 1749, Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts (Age ~ 70 years)
  Marriage	11 Jun 1706	Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts   [4, 6, 7]
  Children	+ 1. Joseph Baxter,   b. 3 Mar 1716, Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts d. 6 Jan 1797, Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts (Age 80 years)
  Family ID	F21575	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	12 Nov 2021

  
  

• Notes

  Desire Gorham and John Baxter were first cousins, both being grandchildren of John Gorham and Desire Howland.

  
  

• Sources

  [S6028] Memorial of the Baxter Family by Joseph Nickerson Baxter. Boston, 1879. [S6029] William Proud Davis, "Gorham Families of Yarmouth." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 52:357, 1898., month and year only. [S6037] Find a Grave page for Desire Gorham Baxter. [S760] John Howland of the Mayflower, Volume 1: The First Five Generations: Documented Descendants from His First Child Desire Howland and Her Husband Captain John Gorham by Elizabeth Pearson White. Camden, Maine: Picton Press, 1990. [S760] John Howland of the Mayflower, Volume 1: The First Five Generations: Documented Descendants from His First Child Desire Howland and Her Husband Captain John Gorham by Elizabeth Pearson White. Camden, Maine: Picton Press, 1990., says "probably in Yarmouth". [S6028] Memorial of the Baxter Family by Joseph Nickerson Baxter. Boston, 1879., date only. [S6029] William Proud Davis, "Gorham Families of Yarmouth." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 52:357, 1898., date only.