Ancestry of
Bill Weld

68th Governor of Massachusetts

Desire Howland

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• • 8th Great-grandmother of Bill Weld — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1047 
  • Father:
  • John Howland 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Tilley   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1625 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • 13 Oct 1683 
  • Death Location:
  • Barnstable, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Barnstable, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • John Gorham
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1643 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Children:
  
  

  Desire Gorham (Ahnentafel No:523 )

  Temperance Gorham

  Elizabeth Gorham

  James Gorham

  John Gorham

  Joseph Gorham

  Jabez Gorham

  Mercy Gorham

  Lydia Gorham

  Hannah Gorham

  Shubael Gorham

• Sources for Desire Howland

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  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1900, Vol. 54, p. 168.
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  • ⁵ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. III, G-H, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2003), 249.
  • ⁶ Nantucket Historical Association, Proceedings of the Nantucket Historical Association, Twelfth Annual Meeting, July 18, 1906, Waltham, Massachusetts: Waltham Publishing Co., Printers (1906), 35.
  • ⁷ 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), 3-15.
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  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 16, 27, 34, 40, 66, 84, 90, 96, 122, 127, 129, 132, 136, 140, 147, 153, 157, 160, et. al. .
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  • ¹² Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 616.
  • ¹³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Genealogies of Mayflower Families: From the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 2, Gibbs-Parker, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1985), 90-91.
  • ¹⁴ Roser, Susan E., Mayflower Increasings, 2nd Edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (1997), 68.
  • ¹⁵ Wakefield, Robert S. and Ann Smith Lainhart, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 23, Part 1, John Howland, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2006), 2.
  • ¹⁶ Wheeler, Richard Anson, History of the Town of Stonington, County of New London, Connecticut, From its First Settlement in 1649 to 1900, New London, Connecticut: Press of the Day Publishing Company (1900), 340.
  • ¹⁷ White, Elizabeth Pearson, John Howland of the Mayflower, Vol. 1, Camden, Maine: Picton Press (1990, 7th printing 2014), 6, 9-12.

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