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FAC-SIMILES. , The " Fac-simile » of a part of the " Wast Book " first appeared in the January, 1898, number of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, that publication having printed notes of It with other interesting Gorham records in the April and Oc- tober numbers of 1897 The only error that we hav"^ discovered m Col. John Gorham's " Wast Book" is that he makes Capt. John Gorham the son of John (see FacsimUe No. I.). The Plymouth Colony records prove that his father's name wan Ralph. In January, 1896, the New-England Historical and Gene- alogical /%is »n ^ Ti • . ^ , . "March 6, 1774." Capt. Benjamin Gorham, mne weeks from London, in the lirisj For- tune, brought 28^ cheats of Bohea tea 3on8igned to several persons here." M^itrf^n "J'^'f ^'r"'"^ a number of Indians, ns is said of his Majesty of Ocnookorunkogg tribe, emptied every chest into the dock and destroyed the whole 28J chests." Several generations of the descendants of Capt. Benjamin Gor- ham have o^yned plantations in Cuba. Not long since the Barn- stable 1 atriot had an account of the Glean brothers as beinff de- scendants of this branch of the Gorham family, making mentioa that these brothers are owners of plantations in Cuba. Our readers may be interested to know that a letter from Col Joseph Gorham, dated "Fort Cumberland," November 10 1776 nmy be found in Kidder's "Eastern Maine and Nova Scotia," page M*._ T. B. Akin, Record Commissioner of Halifax, published Memoirs of the "First Council" in Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society for the years 1879-80, vol. ii. On pages 2Q and 27 may be foimd a Memoir of Col. John Gorham. One of our expert genealogists pronounces the "Wast Book" one of the best antiquarian finds of the year. Of the fac-similes. Numbers I. to IV. are extracts from the ■ Waste Book ; Number V. i« the title on the cover of the book ; and; Number VI. is the record of Col. John Gorham's family from a. loose leaf found among the same papers. /.fe^i /£ /t 9. '^A.-'f^d^ Ai^ftU^ 7 UL n. ^<«/i: >«M.' i*^/j> in. Jit^ r ^ 1 /A \ t^ VL '^Ktats. '^^*«»*^ ^Jl ^. .v/ A'^ir'biM ^ I J, ^9 ^tbu«i^ mua&V Uttjl.it SiuoM GmUm, JCh.pl Jkmf Gtmrkmm iuyw ftO-'TS 'WOHAt , % ^- JoMC jhuA4 h Cf\t/nr«utL»J { M ^^uJic^fit^ /<> PETITION OF DESIRE GORHAM. The petition of Desire Gorham, and her sons James and John, to settle the estate of her husband, Capt. John Gorham, in 1675 (see facsimile No. 11. in the article on the Gorham family, anU, pp. 186 to 194) is in *ije bciap Book, page 120, Fiyrrouth Records. As she was the daughter of John Rowland and Elizabeth Tilley, and "one of the first bom in Ply- mouth, her 6ig:.ature is of interest. " x^e signature of Capt. John Gorham under date ot 1673 may be found in the same " Scrap Book," page 111, Frank William Spbague. i^ «-c. K.^^ri*J~iin ; • MnkfAtMJ ^t0*^^fm •yatnTUtnL I II j^m *^^«^€U. (^^^rw^ to settle cniJe No. i in *.be laughter I in Ply. Grorbam ;e 111. 'HAGUE. /^r^" 1897.] Co/. >>5;/ 6V/;a;;/'5 " ^as/ ^.o/l- " «„^/;5e f?^;.^^,^ ^^^„-^_ ^^^ COL. JOHN GORHAM'S "WAST BOOK" AND THE GOR- HAM FAMILY. (Continued from Vol. XXVIII., July, .Sg;, p. ,36. „f The Record.) * ' John Otis was born November 21, 1657. This family came from Hmgham to Barnsiable. He married, julv 8, ,683, Me cv y^un LeTt ?nhf M °' ^^'''"''' "^T" ^"'^ Hannah his\virefdaSr'of Ret John Mayo Mercy was born February 8, 1660; she was sister of fI qmre John Bacon, father of Desire, who married William Green John ?68^ ^ V; h"'" ^r/'^^\ ^"^''"^' J^""^'>' •^' '623. d,ed January 16" 1683 ; in h,s will dated the same year, he remembers his eldest daugh- Mary, vv,fe of John Gowm [Gorham, also Hannah and ElizabMh.f Mary Otis married Col. John Gorham. John Otis, born at Hingham 1657, tnamed Mercy (or Mary) Bacon, July 18. 1683. He w" fwem; years representative, e^hteen years commander of the militia of "he county, thirteen years Chief Justice of Common Pleas and first JuXe of Probate. Also twenty-one years, till his death, a member of His Majesty's Council. One of his children, Colonel James, married Mary AH ne a descendant of Edward Doty, and their son James, born at Bam able IfTJ ^\ :7'5' ^''. }^r^ P''"°' " '" 'h*^ Revolution. Mercv, daug!: ter of the lattei, niarried Gen. James Warren of Plymouth. James o"is son of John, Jr.. born 1663, joi.ied the Canada expeditioJunderS; a^ack'n qSL"" "' ' " ^"""' °' ''"^ ''°^^' ^"' "^^ ^'"^^ '" ^^e '"This seems to be exact. Stephen was born January 2^ 168? and diea >n 1743. The number of children agrees with the reco'rd pre^ served, but facts about his trade and the wedding with Elizabeth Gardner are new. Mr. Frank W Sprague, writing from Florence, Ital^! coil firms t.iis ; he also says : "The story of the beginning of the whaling industry is of value, and another proof of the value of the ' Wast Book ' l^ieut.-Colonel John Gorham having furnished whaleboats to the expedition ot 1 697- 1 707, shows they probably had them as early as 1680. It is here shown his grandfather was in this business at that time " "Col. Shubael Gorham, son of Lieut. -Colonel fohn, was born in Barnstable, September 2, ,686, and married, December 23. 1708 his cousin Mary rhacher. daughter of Col. John Thacher, of Yarmouth. Col. Shubael Gorham took an active part in obtaining the grants made by the LegKsature of Massachusetts to the ollicers and soldiers of King Philips War and was the chairman of the committee for Nanagansett No 7 (now Gorham Me.), which was granted to the officers and soldiers in the company under the command of Capt. John Gorham. He was Colonel of the Seventh Massachusetts Regiment in the Louisburg expedi- tion, commission dated February 20, 1744. He was also Captain of the nrst Company, and died at Louisburg, February 20, 1745/6. One of his oHicers was Captain Edward Dimock, whose sister married his brother Col. John Gorham was the oldest son of Col. Shubael, and was born li. Barnstable, December 12. 1709, and married. March 9, 173 1/2, Eliza- t New Kng. Ui.st. Gen. Keg. 11. 284. f^^ m I 198 Col. John Gor ham's " Was/ Book" and /he Go/ham Family. [October, beth Allyn, daughter of James Allyn and Susannah Lewis. He resided in Barnstable until 1742. In 1743 he was granted 400 acres of land in Gorhani. Me., on condition that he should finish the saw-mill and grist- mill that he had begun there. He did not become a permanent resident there, however. In the year 1744 he was stationed in command of a party of provincial troops at Annapolis Royal, which place being threat- ened by the enemy, he was sent by Governor Mascarene to Boston to raise troops for its defence. While there he was induced by Governor Shirley to join the expedition then fitting out against Cape Breton. Having raised a number of men for that expedition, he received the appointment of Lieutenant-Colonel of his father's regiment of provincials and was put in charge of the whaleboats which were to land the troops. On the death of his father at Louisburg, he was promotsd by Gen. Pep*- peiell to be a full colonel. The following letter was written by Col Gorham, July 5, 1751, from Halifax, to Gen. Pepperell : "I did your message to our Governor, who since tells me he has wrote your honor. "I will take the freedom to remind your honor how I came to be in that glorious expedition against Louisburg. " I was sent up to recruit from Annapolis Royal, by Governor Masca- rene, as that fort was then in great danger of falling into the hands of the enemy, anci this expedition being then in embryo, I was importuned by Governor Shirley and desired by your honor and many more of the council, to raise a number of men, and purchase whaleboats and proceed in the expedition, as I did, upon condition of my having the libertv of going home with your honor's packet in my own sloop, once the En<^lish flag should be hoisted at Louisburg. But I was disappointed in "this and received no commission in his roval regiment. My father died and most of his regiment at Louisburg. But I thank vou for giving me the commission of Colonel of my father's regiment; and I now solicit a letter of recommendation abroad, and assistance to carry through my memorial to the Legislature of Massachusetts. " Col. Gorham returned to Annapolis after the capture of Louisburg and received from Governor Shirley the command of the New Kn"-land troops sent to Minas with Col. Noble, but was not present in the en"acre- ment with the French at Grand Pre, where Noble, who was in comn^and was killed. He had afterwards command of a bodv of Rangers composed principally ot Indians raised in New Kngland for service in Acadia. Col. Goiiiam came from. Annapolis with the Rangers to Chebucto in June, 1749, and was appointed to the Council of Governor Cornwallis and was present at the first meeting, July 14, 1749- It is uncertain whether he held a seat in the Council at Annapolis, as there are no records of the Council to be found between 1745 and 1749, and but one entry in 1748, in which his name does not appear. Cornwallis however assigned him a place at the Board above those gentlemen who came with him irom England. He is called Captain in the list of Cornwallis's Louncil, which was probably his rank in the regular army, that of Colonel being only militia rank. He was recommended to the 'consideration of the Government by Gen. Pepperell for his services at Louisburg, and it is probable that the military rank of Captain was th^ conferred on him. Col. Gorham's name is among those of the Col .; at a meeting on July II, 1751. He must have died soon after, fur an inventory of his l897.] CI. John Gorham's ■■ WasI Book " and , he Gorham Family. ,gg eslaie i, in the SnlTolk County Probate records, Mass., probated May 7 so,i:r?Ja'^:Sart'n^o?i?a;iSer™iii:e%^i:^Kir He was born in Barnstable, May 20 172c • was nerhaL .7 T L ^• with lii? fatJ.pr i« ,^.- 1- ^' '^ ' perhaps at Louisbure- wiL n rif. H^'*' ' T^' ^ ''eutenant of Rangers under Gov. Corn! T^cS J H ^^^' o^ ''•''' ^^P''^'" °^ ^^^"g^'-s under Gen. Amhers° in 1758 and 1759. He went to England about this time to endeavo to have h>s Rangers put on the establishment of regular troops and wis th^ bearer of a letter from Gen. Amherst to Gov. I awrence daled Amfl ,0 1760, from which the following is an extract ■ ^ ^ ' " I send you this, by Capt. Gorham, who is lately returned from England where he has been, to endeavo^ to get rank.^nd to It h^s company put on the establishment; concerning%vhich Lord BarrSton hasdes.red my opinion, which I have given him, as fkr a rektes cSd £ s^rySr^vS' Tft' 'iT ''" "° '^"'' '"' ^'^ ''''' ^^ pUote'd 'a' h,H^n f It Lf ? ^' ^ ^'^'■^' ^^ >'^^ suspended my judgment in re- lation to the establishment of his company. His is 6ertainlv fhp h^J T have seen of Rangers, but the best, according to m is no e ^irlordinarv thing; however, if you should think that the augment"n°/of that com pany. or the establishment of two, would be of any rea seJvice^; advantage to the Province of Nova Scotia, I shall, upo. your aTsU recommend this affair to the Secretary of War " answer, The establishment of Gorham's' Rangers as regular troops under Joseph Gorham as Major-commandant, dates from September 2 ' i;6i Fn4Inc1 luZ'66T '•^'^"'"'' ^"^^*" '^P'^'"^- he again'wen't to " ^° "7 Tbe^m^ t;^^^^^ seat as member of the Halifax Council. In 17^6 he was ircommand at tort Cumberland. May 16, 1782, he became a Colone , and AprirL 1790. a Major-General, probably dying soon after . ^' lemperance Gorham, daughter of the second John, married Deacon •Stephen Clap ot Scituate, and was the mother of Rev. Thoma Clan who was for many years President of Yale College. Another daughter Mary married Joseph Hinckley of West Jkrn^table, a nephew oThoS Hinckley Governor of Plymouth. Her son. Isaac Hinckley was of Harvard Col ege in 1740, and a classmate of Samuel Adams a^do her distinguished men. During the Revolution he was an active patriot and was for rnany years Town Clerk, and one of the Selectmen of Ba "stable rn,h n fh '"^'""■' ^^"K'^"'. '""■•ied Lieut. John Fuller ; and Me cy Goiham, the youngest daughter of Lieut.-Col.-John. married the Hon Sylvanus Bourne, a wealthy merchant. He was niany yeai" one of th^ Governor s Council, Register of Probate and afterwards Judge o Probate Joseph Gorham, born February 16, 1654 ; died luly o 7726 ;^T Tl'ey hfd"' ^'"''"'' I-^I^^I^'J' ^'^"ght- 'ol Edward-! k'e'die'd in i. Sarah, born January 16, 1679. ii. Joseph, born Apiil'i 5, 1681. iii. Samuel, born October. 1682, 200 Col John Gorham's " Wasi Book" and the Gorham Family. [October, IV. V. vi. vii. viii. Joseph recorded in Charlestown, Mass., where Sarah Kirk, who died April 28, 1722 younger sister of David Kirk. David called "gentleman," married Mary John, born February 28, 1684. Desire, born April, 1685. Isaac, born October, 1687. Hezekiah, born August, 1689. Josiah, born September 7, 1692. above took out a marriage license in Yarmouth, which was he married, November 9, 1 708, She was perhaps a niece or senior was from Newfoundland, According to Wymans, his will, dated May 25, 1694, was proved April 8, 1698, leaving a legacy to son David, and remainder to his wife Mary. Joseph and Sarah had two children born in Yarmouth : George, born November 5, 1694, and Mary, both baptized 3 (1), 1695. The history of Charlestown, Mass., also mentions *' Sarah, married Joseph Gorham, 1708," but leaves us in doubt about the relationship. The children by this marriage had the family names. Joseph Gorham married, second. Temperance . The inventory of his estate, April 28, 1743, by Daniel Hawley and William Lampson, and of his widow Temperance by same, December 6, 1743 and the distribution, 1750, appear on the Probate Records, Stratford, Conn. Issue : i. Mary, born Yarmouth, married, April 27, 1730, Dr. Daniel Munson ; (2) November 9, 1747, Benjamin Arnold, ii. George, born Yarmouth, married Hannah . ^H: iii. Joseph, born November 17, 1712 ; married Hannah iv. Elizabeth, born November i, 1716 ; died November 1716. v. John, born July 20, 171S. Samuel, born July 15, 1724 ; married Anne Grooman, cember 8, 1747. Hezekiah, born March 29, 1728. Benjamin, born November, 1733. VI vii. viii. 23. De- The names of the wives of Joseph Gorham, Senior and Junior, were unknow.n to Amos Otis. The latter was discovered by Miss Louise Tracey of New Haven, Conn., who found the record in Yarmouth, giv- ing day and month. She says they removed to Stratford, Conn., about 1717. Mr. Henry S. Gorham of 197 Wilson Street, Brooklyn, to whom I am indebted for the copy of the " Wast Book," and much of the mat- ter herein, has a copy of the will of Joseph Gorham, in which he names "my daughter Mary Munson." The writer wishes to correct his mis- takes published in the Munson Record, II. 731, where thefather of Joseph is given as James, and at the same time I may mention it is now estab- lished that the mother of Elizabeth TiUey was not Bridget Van der Veld3 as mentioned on the same page. In the History of Straiford, I. 219, we read : "Joseph Gorham died April 24, 1742, aged sixty. Sarah, his wife, died April i8, 1822 [1722J in ye thirty-seventh year of her age." Miss Tracey found the Record 1722 ; the above error is probably typographical. Born 1685, married at twenty-three in 1708, died at thirty-seven in 1722. The mark on the spoon given by Joseph's will to his daughter Mary Munson :i';s. on above page Munson Record is corroborative, and is explained : Joseph and Sarah, Gorham and Kirk. 'i^^ if iy. %" 1897. Genealogy 0/ the Bell Family. 201 Ti8!?s'as"o!lm:^':'' '^^" ^'""^ '''^' ^'"'^''^ ^^^«^^^' '74-^748, page fv,.!ll" 'f^T,^"^'?^^^ ^^^I' '^"'^" ^ J°^^P'> ^^"'•h''^'" of Stratford, in ye County of t airfield and Colony of Connecticut, in New England/being weak and indisposed and infirmed in body but perfect in mind and memory, do ordain and constitute this my last wHI and estTment "n manner and form following. testament, m " Imprimis. I give and btcjueatli my soul to God, yt gave it me and my body I recommend to ye earth, to be buried in decent chri'stian doub in'i l^'i^t 1r"''"" "'1 '"^ ^''''""^"" ('^^^'^^f'-- "-"^'d) nothing doubting but at ye general resurrection I shall receive ye same again by ye mighty power of God. And as touching such worldly esfae wherewith it has pleased Almighty God to bless me with in thi.s bfe I give demise and dispose of ye same in ye following manner. UM>1. , .T" I ?^^ ^" "'^' ''^''"' *''"'' '^^'"S wife yt home 1 now live in wi h y homelot belonging to ye same (or thereto) during my sd wife's natural life, and after my sd wife's decease to be equally divided be- tween my sons, Joseph Gorham, John Gorham, Sam'l Gorham, Hez- ekiah Gorham, and Benjamin Gorham to they and their assigns forever I also give to my sd Nvife [then recites several pieces of lilver-nlate" describing the marks thereon]. ^ ' mark'tT? S ^ ^''''' ''' ""^ '°" ^^""'^^ Gorham a silver two eard cup " Item. I give to my daughter Mary Munson a silver porringer with no marks, and a spoon mark't IS S ^ 6 Tcn^^'T' ^^'''^ my son Joseph Gorham a silver porringer mark't 1 » i and a spoon mark t IJS r & " Item. I give my son John Gorham two spoons mark't I likew-ise constitute make and ordain my executors to this my last wil and testament. Temperance my loving wife, and my good friend Ephra.m Curtis, and I do absolutely revoke, disannul and disclaim all wills, testaments, legacies and bequests whatsoever, ratifying and con- firming this and no other to be my last will and testament In w-itness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 2 2d day of Sept. 1741. u D I ... " (^'?"^d) Joseph Gorham. rroven by temperance 20 May 1742."