Capt. John Gorham [6737]

   Cause of his death was fever.²

  General Notes:

Son of Ralph Gorham and Margaret Stephenson

  Noted events in his life were:

• He worked as a grist miller at Stoney Cove in Yarmouth, Barnstable County, Massachusetts. ²

• He worked as a tanner in Yarmouth, Barnstable County, Massachusetts. ²

• Military: Capt of the militia, Jun 1675, Yarmouth, Massachusetts. ² Capt Gorham and twenty-five men of Yarmouth "took up their first march for Mount Hope" during the King Philip's War. In October he was appointed captain of the second company of the Plymouth Colony militia and engaged in the Swamp Fort campaign.

John married Desire Howland [6738] [MRIN: 2674], daughter of John Howland [7404] and Elizabeth Tilley [7405], in 1643 in Plymouth, Massachusetts.¹ (Desire Howland [6738] was born on 13 Oct 1623 in Plymouth, Massachusetts and died on 13 Oct 1683 in Barnstable, Massachusetts.)