Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

414 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BAKNSTABLB FAMILIES.
2. Desire Gorham daughter of Capt. John Gorham, * married
Oct. 7, 16G1, Capt. John Hawes of Yarmouth. He wasson
of Mr. Edmond Hawes, called a cutler, who came from London
in 1635. She resided in Yarmouth, and died in that town
June 30, 1700, aged 56 years. She has a numerous posterity.
All of the name of Hawes in this County are her descendants.
3. Temperance Gorham married for her first husband Edward
Sturgis of Yarmouth, by whom she had Joseph, Samuel.
James, Desire and Edward. He died Dec. 8, 1678, and she married
Jan. 16, 1679-10, Mr. Thomas Baxter, by whom she had
John, Thomas and Shubael. Edward Sturgis resided near the
first meeting-house in Yarmouth. He left a large estate, which
was divided among his children when they became of legal age.
Mr. Thomas Baxter is called in the records "a bricklayer." He
was a soldier in Capt. Gorham's company in the first expedition,
where he lost the use of one of his hands by a wound. He resided
after his marriage at South Sea, now West Yarmouth, and
then recently settled. Unable to work at his trade, he devoted
himself to study, and was much employed in public business. In
partnership with his brother-in-law Shubael, and his sons, he built
the fulling mill on the western Swan Pond river, and the grist
mill known as Baxter's Mill, though some poetical genius of the
day, gave the whole credit to his sons.
"The Baxter boys, they built a mill.
Sometimes it went, sometimes stood still
And when it went, it made no noise.
Because 'twas built by Baxter's boys."
She died March 12, 1714-15, in the 67th year of her age.
Her descendants are numerous, and among them are many men of
literary and political distinction. All of the name of Baxter in
this County are her descendants.
4. Elizabeth Gorham married and had a family. At the
settlement of her mother's estate in 1684 she was a widow.
5. James Gorham, eldest son of Capt. John Gorham, was a
farmer, and often employed in public business. In the division of
his father's homestead, he had the north westerly and central por-
tions, on which he built a large and elegant mansion house. It
stood on the spot where Mr. Warren Marston's house now stands
and was taken down about twenty years since. It appears by the
schedule of the division of the common lands made in 1703, that
he was then the richest man in the town of Barnstable. He married
Hannah, daughter of Mr. Thomas Huckins, of Barnstable.
He died in 1707, aged 57, and his widow 13th Feb. 1727, aged 74
years
*rreeman, page 273, says she married Samuel Hinckley. He is mistaken. The Barnstable
and the Yarmouth records give the facts as I have stated them. Samuel Hinckley,
the second of the name, married 14 Dec. 1664, Mary Goodspeed, she died 20 Dec. 1666, and
he married 15 Jan. 1668-9, Mary Fitzrandolphe. He also says that Mercy (rorham "married
2d, Geo. Dennison." I find no authority for this statement. If Geo. Dennison was her
second husband, her first marriage must have been consumated in very early life.