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Personal data James Gorham 

• He was born on April 28, 1650 in Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA.Sources 4, 5, 6, 7

  Plymouth Colony

• Profession: Farmer.Sources 4, 8
• (Alt. Death) : Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA.Sources 4, 5
• He died about November 1707 in Barnstable, Barnstable county, Massachusetts, USA.Sources 4, 7
• He is buried November 1707 in Lothrops Hill Cemetery, Barnstable, Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten.Source 9
• Probate on January 7, 1708.Sources 4, 8
• Will on November 4, 1707.Sources 8, 10
• A child of John Gorham and Desire Howland
• This information was last updated on December 4, 2022.

Household of James Gorham

He is married to Hannah Huckins.

They got married on February 24, 1673, he was 22 years old.Source 11

Child(ren):

1. John Gorham  
2. Thomas Gorham  
3. Joseph Gorham  
4. Jabez Gorham  
5. Silvanus Gorham  
6. Ebenezer Gorham  
7. Desire Gorham  
8. Experience Gorham  
9. Mehitable Gorham  

Notes about James Gorham

[James H. Maloney.ged]

John Hopkins of the Mayflower, p. 20:
In his will dated 4 November 1707, proved 7 January 1707/8, James Gorham named his loving wife, Hannah, his seven sons, John, Thomas, Joseph, Jabez, Silvanus, and Ebenezer, who were all living, and his three daughters, Desire Springer, who received £20, Experience Lothrop, who was given £5, in addition to what she had already received,and Mehitable Gorham, who was also given £5.  He bequeathed twenty shillings to each of his five grandchildren, not named.....The inventory was taken 9 December 1707."

"In ye name of God Amen ye 4th day of November 1707, I James Gorham of ye town and county of Barnstable in New England, being weak in body but of sound and disposing mind and memory, praised be God, and knowing ye undertainty of this life on earth, do make this my last will and testament in manner and form following:
Item. I give and bequeath unto my loving wife Hannah one third part of my moveable estate to her sole dispose forever and ye western half of my dwelling house furing her natural life.
Item. I give and bequeath to my son John Gorham all my land and meadow at South Sea in Yarmouth, he paying to my executor hereafter named twenty pounds in current money of New England within four years after my decease toward ye paying my debts.
Item. I give and bequeath to my daughter Experience Lothrop five pounds of my estate beside what she hath had already.  In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal ye day and year first above written
James Gorham Seal
Signed sealed and decleared in presence of
John Thacher
Jabez Fuller
Lydia Thacher"

"'James Gorham was a farmer, and often employed in public business. In the division of his father's homestead, he had the north westerly and central portions, on which he built a large and elegant mansion house.  It stood on the spot where Mr. Warren Marston's house now stands and was taken down about twenty years since.  It appears by the schedule of the division of the common lands made in 1703, that he was then the richest man in the town of Barnstable.'  Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families, by Amos Otis, I:414.
The petition of Desire Gorham, and her sons James and John, to settle the estate of her husband, Capt. John Gorham, in 1675, is in the 'scrap book', page 120, Plymouth Records. A facsimile of this petition with the signature of Desire, James and John, was published in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register for April 1898, accompanying the article on Col. John Gorham's 'Wast Book'.
An abstract of the will of James Gorham is in the Mayflower Descendant, 1911, pp. 51-3.
The will of Toto, is in the Mayflower Descendant 1910. ; Dated 22 Dec. 1691, James Gorham administrator, to whom he left one cow and the increase of his cattle."

James was born in Marshfield on April 28, 1650.  As eldest son, he received a large piece of his father's land in Barnstable and built a large home there.  At the time he was the wealthiest man in Barnstable.  He married Hannah Huckins, daughter of Thomas Huckins of Barnstable, on February 24, 1673.  James was a farmer all his life.
He died in 1707 at age fifty-seven.  Hannah died February 13, 1727/28 at the age of seventy-four.

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