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Ancestors

Capt. Matthias Gorham

1749-1820 · Yarmouth MA
Born 1749, Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Died 1820
Father: Matthias Gorham
Mother: Mary Davis
Children include Hannah

Matthias Gorham was born at Yarmouth, on Cape Cod, on 17 December 1749. He was the son of Matthias Gorham and Mary Davis. A Gorham family genealogy calls him "a sea Captain and farmer," and his gravestone calls him Capt. Matthias Gorham.

In the Revolution he served twice as a private. From 30 September to 22 November 1776 he was in Capt. John Russell's company. It was raised to defend the seacoast and was stationed on Martha's Vineyard under Maj. Barachiah Bassett. In September 1778 he marched again, in Capt. Lot Crowell's company of Col. Nathaniel Freeman's regiment. He served thirteen days "on the alarm at Dartmouth and Falmouth." That alarm was the British raid on New Bedford and Fairhaven. A Harwich sergeant named Barnabas Clark answered the same alarm. Their children would later marry.

On 27 March 1777 he married Dorcas Crowell. Ten children followed: Isaac, Mary, Hannah, Matthias, David, William, the twins Sally and Allen, and James.

In April 1788 the family moved from Cape Cod to Westminster, in the Connecticut River valley of Vermont. Several Cape families made the same move. Barnabas Clark and his brother Scotto came from Harwich in 1797. On 22 October 1801 Matthias's daughter Hannah married Barnabas Clark's son, also named Barnabas.

Matthias Gorham died at Westminster in March 1820. The family genealogy and the Daughters of the American Revolution give 20 March. His memorial at the cemetery gives 7 March, aged seventy-one. His daughter Hannah died seven weeks after him, on 8 May 1820. Both are buried in the Westminster West Cemetery. His sons moved on to Coventry and Kirby, in northern Vermont.

Parents

Mary Davis (d. 1782)

Matthias Gorham (1706-1784)

Children

Hannah Gorham 1781-1820

Sources

Captain John Gorham of Massachusetts: a Genealogy (typescript, about 1935), archive.org captainjohngorha00knap, appendix p. 53.
Captain John Gorham of Massachusetts: a Genealogy (typescript, about 1935), archive.org captainjohngorha00knap, p. 12.
Westminster West Cemetery, Westminster West, Vermont; Find a Grave memorial 116733325.
Daughters of the American Revolution patriot record A046240, as posted on Find a Grave memorial 116733325.
Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War, vol. 6 (Boston, 1899), archive.org massachusettssol06mass, p. 647.
William Proud Davis, "Gorham Families of Yarmouth", New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 52 (Boston, 1898), pp. 357-360, archive.org newenglandhistor52wate, p. 359.
Massachusetts Births and Christenings, FamilySearch ark 61903/1:1:FCHZ-X9N.
Massachusetts Births and Christenings and Massachusetts State Vital Records, FamilySearch arks 61903/1:1:FCH5-XRV, FCH5-F29, FCH5-F2Q, FC6M-DLG.
Westminster West Cemetery, Westminster, Windham County, Vermont; photograph on Find a Grave memorial 116754321, 2016.
William Proud Davis, "Gorham Families of Yarmouth", New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 52 (Boston, 1898), pp. 357-360, archive.org newenglandhistor52wate, p. 359; Captain John Gorham of Massachusetts: a Genealogy (typescript, about 1935), archive.org captainjohngorha00knap, p. 12 and appendix p. 53, entry 231; Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War, vol. 6 (Boston, 1899), archive.org massachusettssol06mass, p. 647; Find a Grave memorial 116733325, with the Daughters of the American Revolution patriot record A046240.

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