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422 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
and other conveniences for cooking and rendering the men com-
fortable, were carried.
Lieut, Col. Gorham ranked as a Captain in the Canada Expedition
under Major Walley, in 1690. In that expedition he had
the command of the "whaleboat fleet" without which it would
have proved still more disastrous. In the second and third expeditions
of Col. Church he is not named in the authorities I have
consulted ; yet from an expression in one of his letters I infer
that he was. In the fourth and fifth he was second in command,
and performed mosteflicient and valuable services for his country.
Col. Gorham's biography would be a work of brilliant interest
but I have not space to devote to the details.
The details of these expeditions are exceedingly interesting.
Many men from the Cape were engaged in them. In the winter
of 1703-4 Col. Church visited every town in the County, and en-
listed a large number for his fifth expedition. Many of the officers
were Cape men. In 1689 Col. William Eassett of Sandwich,
and Nathaniel Hall, son of John, of Barnstable, served as Captains
in the eastern country. In 1690 Major John Walley, son of
Mr. Walley of Barnstable, was commander of the Canada expedition.
Sept. 9, 1697, the gallant Capt. Thomas Dimmock of
Barnstable, was slain at the head of his company, in a severe engagement
with the French and Indians ; and in the last expedition
Caleb Williamson, of Barnstable, was Captain of the Plymouth
forces. Other Barnstable men bore less conspicuous ; but not
less honorable parts in these contests. For years after these old
sailors and soldiers, seated in then- round-about-chairs, within
their capacious chimney-corners, would relate to the young the
story of their adventures in the "Old French Wars," and some of
their descendants yet preserve them in remembrance.
25. Temperance Gorham married Dec. 24, 1696, Dea.
Stephen Clap, of Scituate. a nephew of Eleazer of Barnstable.
Thomas, son of Dea. Stephen and Temperance, born in 1703,
graduated at Harvard College 1722, was one of the distinguished
men of his time. He was ordained at Windham, Conn., 1726.
President of Yale College from 1740 to 1764, when he resigned
and died on the following year while on a visit to Scituate. President
Stiles, his successor, says, "he studied the higher branches
of Mathematics, was one of the first philosophers America has
produced, and equalled by no man, excepting the most learned
Professor Winthrop." President Clap was also the most powerful
opponent that Whitefield found in New England. (See Dean's
Scituate, page 235.)
26. Mary Gorham married Sept. 21, 1699, Joseph Hinckley,
of West Barnstable, and had ten children. Her youngest
son Isaac was a distinguished man and an ardent patriot during
the Revolution. He died Dec. 1802, aged 83. Joseph Hinckley
inherited the mansion-honse of his ancestor .Samuel, which is vet