Desire HOWLAND1,2 was born on 13 Oct 1625 in Plymouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts. She died2 on 13 Oct 1683 in Plymouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts. She was buried on 14 Oct 1683 in Buried in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts.
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| Petition of Desire Gorham to settle her husband estate |
Desire was a member of Puritan.
Desire married2
(MRIN:4337) Capt. John GORHAM in 1643 in Plymouth, Barnstable,
Massachusetts. John was born3,4,5
on 28 Jan 1620 in Benefield, Northamptonshire, Eng. He died5 on 5/5 Feb 1674/1675 in Swansea, Bristol,
Ma. He was buried on 15/15 Feb 1674/1675 in Swansea, Bristol, Ma.
IMM: (Son of Ralph, who came from ENG., 1635, but returned to
ENG.), was landowner at Yarmouth; resided at Barnstable and Plymouth, MASS.;
capt. 2nd Barnstable company in Great Swamp Fight, King Philip's War,
1675. ALSO spelled GORUM.John gorham
died of wounds received during t he Narragansett Swamp fight (dec 1675) of King
Phillip's War. He was captain of the Second
B arnstable co. under Major william Bradford at that time.
per Mayflower records
came from Benefield, Northamptonshire, Eng. to Yarmouth,
Barnstable, MA
with Ralph
birth & death dates: FAMILIES OF THE PILGRIMS by John
Howland, p 8:
MAYFLOWER DESC. (1966) p 228
Ancestors service:
Deputy Plymouth Colony 1653; Lt. 1673; Capt. 2nd Barnstable Co.
under Maj. Wm. Bradford in the Great Swamp Fight, 1676; died as
result ofwounds.
per NSDCW Lineage Bk, 1950-1958, p 421
per JOHN HOWLAND OF THE MAYFLOWER v 1, by Elizabeth P. White
He was on a list of men able to bear arms in Plymouth in 1643.
He was chosen constable in Marshfield in 1648.
He was made a freeman 4 Jun 1650 and in 1651 he became a member
of the Grand Inquest of Plymouth Colony.
He and his family moved to Yarmouth, MA in 1652, and then wenton to
Barnstable where he owned a grist mill and a tannery. He was surveyor of highways in 1654. As a captain in the militia in King Philip's
War, he took part in the Narragansett fight in Dec 1675, where he was wounded
"by having his powder horn Shot and Split against his side," He died of the resulting fever and was buried
in Swansea.
(see info on estate in above book)
BIRTH: Mayflower Descendants, 5:28. NOTE: Age 53 in 1674/75.
MARRIAGE-SPOUSE: MD 5:175, 177. NOTE: 1st child born 2 Apr 1644.
BURIAL: Shurtleff, Nathaniel B., and David Pulsifer, Records of
the Colony of
New Plymouth in New England, 1620-1691, 8:44; MD 4:153.
Appendix A - Sources
1 Elizabeth Pearson White; Edwin Wagner Coles; Roberta Gilbert
Bratti, John Howland of the Mayflower (Camden, Me. : Picton Press,
1990-2008), Google Books - Digitized, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View,
CA 94043. "John Howland of the Mayflower Volume 1 THE FIRST FIVE
GENERATIONS Documented Descendants Through his first child Desire Howland and
her husband Captain John Gorham by Elizabeth Pearson White.
Picton Press,
Camden, Maine 1990."
2 Published by the Society, The New England Historical and Genealogical
Register (Boston : New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1898), ISSN:
0028-4785 OCLC: 7030049.
3 Landis,
John T., Mayflower Descendants And Their Marriages (Clearfield Co.
Reprints & Remainders).
4 Viruk, Frederick Adams, Immigrant Ancestors (Genealogical
Publishing Co. Inc., 1986).
5 Unknown, Descendants of Ralph Gorham (Family history
Library@ Salt Lake City, UT), p.1.