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Jabez Gorham

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of Chevy Chase — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 524 
  • Father:
  • John Gorham 
  • Mother:
  • Desire Howland   
  • Birth Date:
  • 3 Aug 1656 
  • Birth Location:
  • Barnstable, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • from 16 MAR 1724/1725 to 20 APR 1725 
  • Death Location:
  • Bristol, Bristol Co., Rhode Island 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Hannah Sturgis
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1676 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Hannah Gorham

  Elizabeth Gorham

  Samuel Gorham

  Jabez Gorham Jr. (Ahnentafel No:262 )

  Shubael Gorham

  Isaac Gorham

  John Gorham

  Joseph Gorham

  Hannah Gorham

  Benjamin Gorham

  Thomas Gorham

• Sources for Jabez Gorham

  • ¹ First Record Book of The Society of Colonial Dames in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations . . ., Providence: Snow and Farnham, Printers (1897), 142.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1898, Vol. 52, p. 358.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1900, Vol. 54, pp. 168-169.
  • ⁴ Rhode Island Vital Records, 1636-1850 - Town and Church Records, Bristol County, Vol. 6, p. 1-80, Birth record for children of Jabez Gorham.
  • ⁵ Torrey's New England Marriages Prior to 1700, Vol. 1, p. 637, Marriage record for Jabez Gorom and Hannah (Sturgis) Gray.
  • ⁶ Parsons, Gerald James and Louis William Hagen, The Gorham Family: Ancestors and Descendants of Ephraim Gorham (1753-1830): Revolutionary Soldier of . . ., Rochester, New York: Unknown (1955), 7, 16-19.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 302, 311, 421, 454, 667, 683.
  • ⁸ Roser, Susan E., Mayflower Increasings, 2nd Edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (1997), 69.
  • ⁹ White, Elizabeth Pearson, John Howland of the Mayflower, Vol. 1, Camden, Maine: Picton Press (1990, 7th printing 2014), 11, 24-26, 63.

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