Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

444 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BAENSTABLE FAMILIES.
sea captain, inherited the ancient Gorham homestead, and was
lost at sea Feb. 1804, while on a voyage to Copenhagen, in a
vessel belonging to Stephen Gorham. "He has children surviving.
2, Isaac, 29th Ap. 1756, died in New Jersey Prison Ship ; 3, Desire,
16th Oct. 1757, married 1st, Richmond, 2d,
Hill; 4, Ezekiel, 3d Dec. 1758, removed to So. Carolina, was a
sea captain lost at sea, and left no issue ; 5, John, 7th March,
1760, was a sea captain, lost at sea and left no issue; 6, Elizabeth,
10th June, 1761, married Tenter ; 7, Hannah, baptized
28th June, 1763, married Burr; 8, Temperance,
baptized 17th Feb. 1765, married Johnson ; 9, Mary, 11th
Sept. 1766, married Elijah Childs, father of the late Dea. Samuel
Childs, May 10. 1785. Mr. Thomas Gorham, in his will dated
July 28, 1795, gives to his wife Rebecca, who was a woman of a
weak intellect, a dower in his estate, (a gift he could not avoid)
to his oldest son Job all his estate excepting dower, and 20 shillings
to each of his other children. He names his youngest son
John, daughters Desire Richmond, Elizabeth Tenter, Hannah
Burr, Temperance Johnson, and youngest daughter Mary.
[By an oversight I omitted several families resident in Yarmouth.
This article is too long to make additions.]
Note.—While the Gorham genealogy was going through the
press additional information of some of the later branches of the
family was forwarded by a descendant in Gloucester. Col. John
Gorham (102,) died of small-pox, in London, about the year
1750, while prosecuting his claim for expenses in the Louisburg
Expedition. His son Solomon died in Gloucester, Dec. 20, 1795,
aged 47. His daughter Elizabeth married Daniel Rogers of Gloucester
(not of Kittery, Me.,) and Eben. Parsons, who married
her sister Mary, was also some time of Gloucester. His widow,
Elizabeth (AUyn) married second Col. John Stevens of Gloucester,
in 1775, and died Dec. 25, 1786, in her 73d year. Her
grave-stone bears this inscription :
"She supported thro' Life the Christian Character and moved in the Various Circles of
Domestic Life with Honor and Dignity.
Tlie AiTectionate Wife,
The Tender Mother,
The Exemplary Widow,
The Pious Friend."