Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 443
George Lewis Gorham resided in the house which his father
purchased of Capt. William Davis. He married March 25, 1784,
Phebe, daughter of Joseph Davis, and for his second wife her sister
Mary, then only 16. After the death of Mr. Gorham she
married Dea. Joseph Hawes of Yarmouth, whom she survived.
His children were: 1, Phebe, born Feb. 8, 1785, married James
Childs ; 2, Nathaniel, Oct. 9, 1789, married Hannah Gorham
April 11, 1813; 3, Deborah, March 19, 1792; 4, Anna L. April
21, 1795, married Nymphas Davis Aug. 7, 1814; 5, Benjamin
Davis, July 29, 1798; 6, Mary Davis, Dec. 1, 1808, married N.
S. Hallett.
(31-8.) Job Gorham, son of Lieut. John, born Aug. 30,
1692, married Dec. 4, 1719, Desire, daughter of Thomas Dimmock.
She died Jan. 28, 1732-3, and he married 2d, in 1735,
Bethia, widow of Isaac Freeman of Fairfield, Conn. She was a
Sturgis, born in Yarmouth. Capt. Job Gorham died in 1762, and
his widow Bethia July 11, 1769, aged 73.
124.
Children horn in Barnstable
Temperance, 23d July, 1721.
Thomas, 13th Aug. 1723.
. Edward, 12th Sept. 1725,' died young.
Desire, 17th March, 1727-8,
Job, 6th Nov. 1730, died young.
Sarah, baptized 15th Aug. 1736, died young.
The will of Job Gorham of Barnstable, gentleman, is dated
12th Sept. 1753, and proved Nov. 2, 1762. He names his wife
Bethia Gorham, daughters Temperance Fuller and Desire Gorham,
to whom he gives legacies. All the remainder of his estate
he gives to his son Thomas, whom he appoints his executor.
124. Temperance Gorham married Oct. 29, 1741, her cousin
John Fuller, a great grandson of Capt. Matthew Fuller.
125. Thomas Gorham, during the latter part of his life
was blind. He was a man of sound judgment, and of industrious
habits. After he became blind, he performed many kinds of
labor which others in his situation would not have attempted.
Timothy Swinerton, the ancestor of the family of that name,
lived with him when a boy. Mr. Gorham, instead of having the
boy to lead him, put the boy on his horse, and taking the crupper
in his hand w^alked behind the horse. When walking alone, he
kept his cane in constant motion before him.
He married 1st, Hannah Gorham, daughter of Ebenezer,
May 16, 1754. She died April 5, 1765, and he married 2d,
Widow Rebecca Jones of Yarmouth, in 1765. She united with
the East Church Sept. 6, 1767, and on the 13th of that month,
Edward, Lucy and Sarah, children by her first husband, and Mary
by her last, were baptized. His children were : 1, Job, born 12th
Dec. 1754, who married Sept. 2, 1786, Rebecca Davis. He was a