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John Lithgow

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Shubael Gorham

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of John Lithgow — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 654 
  • Father:
  • John Gorham 
  • Mother:
  • Desire Howland   
  • Birth Date:
  • 21 Oct 1667 
  • Birth Location:
  • Barnstable, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • from 8 Jul 1749 to 7 Aug 1750 
  • Death Location:
  • Barnstable, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Puella Hussey
  • Marriage Date:
  • May 1695 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Nantucket, Nantucket Co., Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  George Gorham

  Abigail Gorham

  Lydia Gorham

  Hannah Gorham (Ahnentafel No:327 )

  Theodate Gorham

  Daniel Gorham

  Desire Gorham

  Ruth Gorham

  Deborah Gorham

  Jonathan Gorham

• Sources for Shubael Gorham

  • ¹ History of North Carolina, Vol. 6: North Carolina Biography, Chicago and New York: The Lewis Publishing Company (1919), 290.
  • ² Nantucket Historical Association, Proceedings of the Nantucket Historical Association, Twelfth Annual Meeting, July 18, 1906, Waltham, Massachusetts: Waltham Publishing Co., Printers (1906), 35.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 129, 176, 206, 313, 326, 339, 707, 751, 765.
  • ⁴ Roser, Susan E., Mayflower Increasings, 2nd Edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (1997), 70.
  • ⁵ Townsend, Mrs. Charles Delmar, et. al., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 8, 2nd ed., Degory Priest, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2008), 174.
  • ⁶ White, Elizabeth Pearson, John Howland of the Mayflower, Vol. 1, Camden, Maine: Picton Press (1990, 7th printing 2014), 11, 30-33.

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