_James GORHAM _______+
| (1550 - 1576) m 1572
_Ralph GORHAM _______|
| (1575 - 1645) |
| |_Agnes BERNINGTON ___
| (1553 - 1603) m 1572
|
|--John GORHAM
| (1621 - 1676)
| _____________________
| |
|_____________________|
|
|_____________________
[163]
SOURCE NOTES: per Mayflower records came from Benefield, Northamptonshire, Eng. to Yarmouth, MA with Ralph birth & death dates: FAMILIES OF THE PILGRIMS by John Howland, p 8: MAYFLOWER DESC. (1966) p 228 Ancestors service: Deputy Plymouth
Colony 1653; Lt. 1673; Capt. 2nd Barnstable Co. under Maj. Wm. Bradford in the Great Swamp Fight, 1676; died as result of wounds. per NSD- CW Lineage Bk, 1950-1958, p 421
[164]
per JOHN HOWLAND OF THE MAYFLOWER v 1, by Elizabeth P. White He was on a list of men able to bear arms in Plymouth in 1643. He was chosen constable in Marshfield in 1648. He was made a freeman 4 Jun 1650 and in 1651 he became a member of the
Grand Inquest of Plymouth Colony. He and his family moved to Yarmouth, MA in 1652, and then went on to Barnstable where he owned a grist mill and a tannery. He was surveyor of highways in 1654. As a captain in the militia inKing Philip's
War, he took part in the Narragansett fight in Dec 1675, where he was wounded "by having his powder horn Shot and Split against his side," He died of the resulting fever and was buried in Swansea
[166] !CHILDREN: Savage, GEN Dictionary of New England,
[167] Vol II, p. 281 !MILITARY/DEATH: John was a captain in
[168] Philip's war and died on service of fever at Swanzey
[169] (Swansea).
[171] !RESIDENCE/IMMIGRATION: Hills, Mayflower Planters, p. 163:
[172] This family has a line to the DeGorrams of La Tanniere, near
[173] Gorram, in Maine, on the borders of Brittany, where they
[174] lived in a castle. Members of the family came to England
[175] with William the Conqueror. Many of the name in England be-
[176] came men of learning, wealth and influence. His father,
[177] Ralph, and grandfather, James, resided at Benefield, Eng-
[178] land.
[180] !PARENTS: Davis, GEN Register of Plymouth Families, p. 121
[181] Mayflower Births & Deaths, Roser, 2:105 erroneously states
[182] "son of John"
[184] !BOOK: MD 5:177/179: Col John Gorham's "Wast Book": states
[185] his gggrandfather & family came out of some part of England
[186] and lived at Marshfield and had one son named after him
[187] (John Gorum, alias Gorham), which son m. a Howland. "Capt
[188] John Gorham was a Captain of a Company of English & Indians
[189] and went to the Fight of King Philip--or Swamp Narraganset
[190] fight and there was wownded by having his poudr horn shot
[191] and split against his side---and died at Swansey" "....lived
[192] and dyed at Marshfield and whats remarkable he was a joyner
[193] and made his coffin himself for sevrall year before he dyed
[194] and used to keep apples in it as a chest untill he dyed and
[195] used it."
_John STEVENS _______+
| (1639 - 1690) m 1669
_Jeremiah STEVENS ___|
| (1675 - 1759) m 1697|
| |_Joanna THORNE ______
| m 1669
|
|--John STEVENS
| (1718 - ....)
| _John STANYAN _______+
| | (1642 - 1718) m 1663
|_Elizabeth STANYAN __|
(.... - 1737) m 1697|
|_Mary BRADBURY ______+
(1642 - 1724) m 1663
_Nathaniel WARREN ___+
| (1625 - 1667) m 1645
_James WARREN _______|
| (1665 - 1715) m 1687|
| |_Sarah WALKER _______+
| (1622 - 1700) m 1645
|
|--Mary WARREN
| (1707 - 1795)
| _William DOTY _______
| |
|_Sarah DOTY _________|
(1666 - 1749) m 1687|
|_Sarah FAUNCE _______