Surname Saturday ~ GORHAM of Massachusetts

John Gorham (1620 – 1675) is my 11^th great grandfather.  He is not the son of Ralph Gorham, who arrived in New England aboard the Phillip in 1635. The first record of John in New England is in 1643, just months before he married Desire Howland, the daughter of John Howland of the Mayflower.  After marriage they lived in Marshfield, then Yarmouth where he ran a grist mill, wharf and was also a tanner.

Captain John Gorman served in King Philip’s war in the winter of 1675, where he was injured when his powder horn, attached to his belt, exploded.    Then he was exposed to harsh weather and developed a fever.  He was brought to Wannamoisett in Rhode Island to the farm of John Brown.  He died there, and was buried on the Brown farm in the burial plot on 7 March 1675.  His wife is also buried with him.

Their daughter, Desire Gorham (1644 – 1700) is my 10^th great grandmother.  She married John Hawes in 1661.  He was a “cutler” by occupation, and an ensign in the militia. They lived in Yarmouth, on Cape Cod. By 1700 John Hawes was appointed Captain of the militia. He served in the legislature in Boston in 1698. John Hawes died after having his leg amputated.  I descend from their eldest child, Elizabeth Hawes (1662 – about 1732), my 9^th great grandmother, who married Thomas Daggett of Martha’s Vineyard.

Some Gorham genealogy resources:     

           

John Howland of the Mayflower: Volume I: Documented Descendants Through His First Child Desire Howland and her Husband Captain John Gorham, by Elizabeth Pearson White, 1990.

Capt. John Gorham of Barnstable, Mass., compiled by Henry S. Gorham, 1931, 18 volumes

"Gorham Family," Boston Evening Transcript, (in their famous genealogy query column) 15 May 1916

Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families, by Amos Otis, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1991

"Howland History Still Lives in Wannamoisett," by Clinton W. Sellew, The Howland Quarterly, Vol. 64, No. 1, pp 10-11, March 1999

My GORHAM lineage:

Generation 1: John Gorham, born about 1620 in England, died 5 February 1675 in Swansea (now East Providence, Rhode Island); married on 6 November 1644 in Barnstable, Massachusetts to Desire Howland, daughter of two Mayflower passengers – John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley.  She was born 13 October 1623 in Plymouth, and died 13 October 1683 in Barnstable. Eleven children.

Generation 2: Desire Gorham, born 2 April 1644 in Plymouth, died 30 June 1700 in Yarmouth, Massachusetts; married on 7 October 1661 in Barnstable, Massachusetts to John Hawes, son of Edmund Hawes.  He was born about 1635 in Duxbury, Massachusetts, and died 11 November 1701 in Yarmouth.  Eleven children.

Generation 3:  Elizabeth Hawes m. Thomas Daggett

Generation 4:  Elizabeth Daggett m. John Butler

Generation 5:  Keziah Butler m. Samuel Osborn

Generation 6:  Samuel Osborn m. Sarah Wass

Generation 7: Sarah Osborn m. Charles Skinner

Generation 8: Ann Skinner m. Thomas Ratchford Lyons

Generation 9: Isabella Lyons m. Rev. Ingraham Ebenezer Bill

Generation 10: Caleb Rand Bill m. Ann Margaret Bollman

Generation 11: Isabella Lyons Bill m. Albert Munroe Wilkinson

Generation 12:  Donald Munroe Wilkinson m. Bertha Louise Roberts

My HOWLAND "Surname Saturday" blog post:

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/08/surname-saturday-howland-mayflower.html   

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Surname Saturday ~ GORHAM of Massachusetts”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted August 26, 2017, (https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/08/surname-saturday-gorham-of-massachusetts.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ HAWES of Duxbury and Yarmouth, Massachusetts

HAWES

Edmond Hawes was baptized in Solihull, Warwickshire, England on 15 October 1613, the son of Edmond Hawes.   He was apprenticed to a “cutler” (knifemaker) named Edward Warnet, and his records can be found in the London Company of Cutlers according to the Great Migration sketch of his life.  Edmond Hawes was a passenger on the James, which left Southampton, England about 5 April 1625.  His first residence in Massachusetts was the town of Duxbury.

He was made a freeman in Duxbury on 3 March 1644/5, and then removed to the town of Yarmouth by 1643.   He held many offices, which can be found in the Plymouth County Records, such as deputy, auditor, constable, selectman, and various committees.   The Plymouth County Records also record many land transactions in Duxbury and Yarmouth, and his will dated 5 May 1692 and proved on 20 July 1683. 

The name of his wife is unknown, and he had only one child, John, born about 1636, who married Desire Gorham, the granddaughter of John Howland the Mayflower passenger.  All of Edmond Hawes descendants are eligible for membership in the General Society of Mayflower Descendants.

John Hawes died in 1701, after having his leg amputated .   As a young man he had been brought before a jury on 5 March 1600/1 for accidentally causing an injury in a friend he had been wrestling.  He was found “not guilty” and released.   He grew up to also be a cutler, and served as a representative to the General Court.

The best sources for information on Edmond Hawes are The Great Migration, by Richard Charles Anderson, Volume II, pages 247 - 250.  Another good source of information is the book Edmond Hawes of Yarmouth, Massachusetts, by James William Hawes, 1914.  The Howland books published by the Mayflower Society’s Five Generation Project would also have the descendants of John Hawes and Desire Gorham. 

My HAWES genealogy:

Generation 1:  Edmond Hawes, son of Edmond Hawes, baptized 15 October 1613 in Solihull, Warwickshire, England; died 9 June 1693 in Yarmouth, Massachusetts; married with one known, surviving child.

Generation 2: John Hawes, born about 1636 in Duxbury, Massachusetts, died 11 November 1701 in Yarmouth; married on 7 October 1661 in Barnstable, Massachusetts to Desire Gorham, daughter of John Gorham and Desire Howland.  She was born 2 April 1644 in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and died 30 June 1700 in Yarmouth.  Eleven children.

Generation 3: Elizabeth Hawes, born 5 October 1662 in Yarmouth, died between 25 December 1732 and 13 February 1734 in Edgartown on the island of Martha’s Vineyard;  married on 22 January 1684 in Bristol, Rhode Island to Thomas Daggett, son of Thomas Daggett and Hannah Mayhew.   He was born about 1658 and died 28 August 1726 in Edgartown.  Ten children.

Generation 4: Elizabeth Daggett m. John Butler

Generation 5:  Keziah Butler and Reverend Samuel Osborn

Generation 6: Samuel Osborn m. Sarah Wass

Generation 7:  Sarah Osborn m. Charles Skinner

Generation 8: Ann Skinner m.  Thomas Ratchford Lyons

Generation 9: Isabella Lyons m. Reverend Ingraham Ebenezer Bill

Generation 10:  Caleb Rand Bill m. Ann Margaret Bollman

Generation 11: Isabella Lyons Bill m. Albert Munroe Wilkinson

Generation 12: Donald Munroe Wilkinson m. Bertha Louise Roberts (my grandparents)

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Copyright ©2014, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

Surname Saturday ~ DAGGETT of Plymouth, Watertown, and Martha’s Vineyard

DAGGETT/DOGGETT

John Daggett, my 11^th great grandfather,  arrived in Massachusetts with the Winthrop Fleet. He arrived in Salem in 1630 and was one of the original settlers of Watertown, and had a lot next to Sir Richard Saltonstall.  He became part of Governor Thomas Mayhew’s company that settled Martha’s Vineyard, an island off Cape Cod.  His son Thomas Daggett had already settled there.  He married in Plymouth in 1667 to Bathsheba Pratt, his second wife, and he probably died there in 1673.

In the second generation, Thomas Daggett, my 10^th great grandfather, married Governor Thomas Mayhew’s daughter, Hannah.  Governor Mayhew described him as “My son Doggett, that hath more language than any other Englishman upon the island and is a considerable young man.”   He was Clerk of the Courts and later a Justice of the County Courts.

In the third generation, Captain Thomas Daggett was in the town militia.  He removed to Bristol, Rhode Island for a while, but returned to Martha’s Vineyard, where he died.  The inventory of his estate showed that he owned 1,393 pounds in real estate.

There is an article about Alice Brotherton, wife of John Doggett of Martha’s Vineyard, in The American Genealogist, Volume 72, pages 89 to 102.  The sketch of John Doggett can be found in The Great Migration Begins, Volume I, pages 568 to 570.   

My DAGGETT genealogy:

Generation 1: John Daggett, born 4 October 1602 in Boxford, Suffolk, England, died in May 1673 in Plymouth, Massachusetts; married in 29 August 1622 in Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire, England to Alice Brotherton.  He married second to Bathsheba Pratt.

Generation 2: Thomas Daggett, born between 1630 and 1632 in Watertown, Massachusetts; married on 23 September 1657 in Edgartown to Hannah Mayhew, daughter of Governor Thomas Mayhew.  She was born 15 June 1635 and died 7 February 1723 in Edgartown, Massachusetts. Eleven children.  He married second to Elizabeth Humphrey and third to Joan Unknown.

Generation 3:  Captain Thomas Daggett, son of Thomas Daggett and Hannah Mayhew, born about 1658 and died 28 August 1726 in Edgartown; married on 22 January 1684 in Bristol, Rhode Island to Elizabeth Hawes.   Ten children.

Generation 4: Elizabeth Daggett, born about 1690 in Edgartown, died after 1753; married on 16 December 1708 in Edgartown to John Butler, son of John Butler and Priscilla Norton.  He was born about 1674 and died after 6 February 1754.  Six children.

Generation 5: Keziah Butler married Samuel Osborn

Generation 6: Samuel Osborn married Sarah Wass

Generation 7: Sarah Osborn married Charles Skinner

Generation 8: Ann Skinner married Thomas Ratchford Lyons

Generation 9: Isabella Lyons married Rev. Ingraham Ebenezer Bill

Generation 10:  Caleb Rand Bill married Ann Margaret Bollman

Generation 11: Isabella Lyons Bill married Albert Munroe Wilkinson

Generation 12: Donald Munroe Wilkinson married Bertha Louise Roberts (my grandparents)

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Copyright © 2014, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

Surname Saturday ~ BUTLER of Martha's Vineyard

BUTLER

Nicholas Butler, my 11^th great grandfather,  arrived in Massachusetts in June 1637 aboard the ship Hercules with his wife, children and five servants.  He lived at first at Dorchester, and his son, Henry, went to Harvard College.  By 1651 the Butler family was in Edgartown, on the island of Martha’s Vineyard.  Nicholas was a magistrate and later assistant to the chief magistrate.  He is called Mr. Butler in the records, and Governor Thomas Mayhew signed his will.

Nicholas Butler signed a brief will on 12 August 1671 and died the next day.  His will has a note “his sight as it were gon” and he signed with a mark, which might mean he had gone blind at this time.  His short will does not name any children, and he leaves permission for his wife to decide how his estate will be divided.   His wife left a longer will in 1689 which named her grandchildren.

This doth testify that I Nicholas Butler Being at present Sound in memory doe Now by this my last will give my Estate Whatsoever that I left after I Shall be buried like a Christian wholly unto my wife Joyce Butler, uppon serious consideration for her to dispose of to hir children and my children as shee shall see good, and hereunto I praise [god] being of memorie as aforesaid Sound. I doe witness with my hand this 12th of August 1671.

This will is witnessed by us   THOMAS MAYHEW   THO’ BIRCHARD The marke of Nicholas Norton

His sight as it were gon the mar  X  of NICHOLAS BUTLER.

In the second generation, Henry the Harvard graduate returned to England, and John was the only son to remain in New England and produce descendants.  John is my 10^th great grandfather. He died very young, but had five children.  His son, John, my 9^th great grandfather, was born in Dorchester and lived in Edgartown on the Great Neck.  He was called a gentleman and captain in the records.  The next John, my 8^th great grandfather, lived in Tisbury on Martha’s Vineyard.

For more information on the BUTLER family:

The History of Martha’s Vineyard by Dr. Charles E. Banks, Volume II Annals of Edgartown, pages 54 – 58.  You can read this online at this link: http://history.vineyard.net/nickbutler.htm

My BUTLER genealogy:

Generation 1:  Nicholas Butler, born about 1590 in Ashford, Kent, England,  died on 13 August 1671 in Edgartown, Massachusetts on the island of Martha’s Vineyard;  married first on 18 July 1613 in Canterbury, England to Mary Cotterell;  married second on 22 January 1624 in Ashford to Joyce Baker, daughter of Richard Baker and Margaret Elkes.  Four children.

Generation 2: John Butler, born before 2 January 1625 in Dorchester, Massachusetts; died in 1658 in Edgartown; married about 1648 to Mary Lynde, daughter of Thomas Lynde and Elizabeth Unknown.  She was born about 1629 and died after 1693 in Edgartown.  Five children.

Generation 3: John Butler, born about 1650 in Dorchester, died between 10 November 1733 and 2 October 1738 in Edgartown; married to Priscilla Norton, daughter of Nicholas Norton and Elizabeth Isaac.  Twelve children.

Generation 4: John Butler, born about 1674 and died after 6 February 1754; married on 16 December 1708 in Edgartown to Elizabeth Daggett, daughter of Thomas Daggett and Elizabeth Hawes.  She was born about 1690 and died after 1754.  Six children.

Generation 5:  Keziah Butler, born 1710 in Edgartown, died in October 1768 in Edgartown;  married first to Samuel Osborn on 9 September 1731 in Edgartown;  married in 1752 to Matthew Pease, son of Matthew Pease and Mary Green.  He was born 5 June 1707 in Edgartown, and died about 1756 in Edgartown.   

Generation 6: Samuel Osborn married Sarah Wass

Generation 7: Sarah Osborn married Charles Skinner

Generation 8: Ann Skinner married Thomas Ratchford Lyons

Generation 9: Isabella Lyons married Rev. Ingraham Ebenezer Bill

Generation 10: Caleb Rand Bill married Ann Margaret Bollman

Generation 11: Isabella Lyons Bill married Albert Munroe Wilkinson

Generation 12: Donald Munroe Wilkinson married Bertha Louise Roberts (my grandparents)

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Surname Saturday ~ MAYHEW of Martha's Vineyard

MAYHEW

THIS ROCK MARKS THE PLACE ON THE WAYSIDE WHERE THE

REV. THOMAS MAYHEW Jr.

SON OF GOV. MAYHEW

FIRST PASTOR OF THE CHURCH OF CHRIST ON MARTHA'S VINEYARD,

AND THE FIRST MISSIONARY TO THE INDIANS OF NEW ENGLAND,

SOLEMNLY AND AFFECTIONATELY TOOK LEAVE OF THE INDIANS

WHO, IN LARGE NUMBERS, HAD FOLLOWED HIM DOWN FROM THE

WESTERN PART OF THE ISLAND, BEING HIS LAST WORSHIP AND

INTERVIEW WITH THEM BEFORE EMBARKING FOR ENGLAND IN 

1657, FROM WHENCE HE NEVER RETURNED, NO TIDINGS EVER

COMING FROM THE SHIP OR ITS PASSENGERS.

IN LOVING REMEMBRANCE OF HIM

THOSE INDIANS RAISED THIS PILE OF STONES

1657    1901

ERECTED BY THE MARTHA'S VINEYARD CHAPTER DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

THE LAND GIVEN FOR THIS PURPOSE BY CAPT. BENJAMIN COFFIN CROMWELL OF TISBURY

THE BOULDER BROUGHT FROM GAY HEAD A GIFT FROM THE NOW RESIDENT INDIANS

TABLET PURCHASED WITH DONATIONS FROM MAYHEW DESCENDANTS

More than twenty years ago my sister moved to Martha’s Vineyard and married a lobsterman.  At the wedding her best friend, a Mayhew descendant, showed me the plaque in the church that said it had been founded by Reverend Thomas Mayhew in the 1600s. I have met many Mayhew descendants since then, including Katherine Mayhew, the genealogy expert at the Martha’s Vineyard historical society.  So, I was flabbergasted to learn that I was also a descendant of the same Mayhew family! (And my sister was quite impressed.)

Thomas Mayhew was baptized at Tisbury, England and left with the Great Migration in 1631 to come to Massachusetts.  He first settled in Medford, and then became the governor of the island of Martha’s Vineyard.  He led a settlement there in 1641 with his son, Thomas, Jr. The Mayhews were very successful at establishing friendly relations with the Wampanoags on the island.  Even when King Phillip’s war was raging in the rest of New England, the Wampanoags remained allies with the settlers on Martha’s Vineyard.

The son, Reverend Thomas Mayhew was one of the most successful Christian missionaries in New England.  He established towns of praying Indians, schools, and churches.  In 1657 Reverend Thomas Mayhew went to England for an appeal for missionary funds, and his ship was never seen again and presumed lost.  The Elder Mayhew carried out his son’s ministries to the Wampanoag for the next 25 years.

The grandson, John Mayhew, carried on the mission after his grandfather’s death in 1682.  He died early at age 37 in 1688.  His wife was Elizabeth Hilliard of Hampton, New Hampshire. Her aunt, Deborah (Parkhurst) Smith, is also my 10^th great grandmother. A great grandson, Experience Mayhew, became the first person to translate the Lords' prayer into the  Wampanoag language.  He published several books in the Wampanoag language (Psalms and the Gospel of John) and was a Congregational minister. He wrote the book Indian Converts in 1727 about his Experiences (no pun intended).

For more Mayhew information:

Great Migration Begins, by Richard Charles Anderson, Boston: NEHGS, 1995, Volume II, pages 1243 – 1246

Divided we Stand: Watertown, Massachusetts, by Roger Thompson, Amherst, Massachusetts: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001

The History of Martha's Vineyard by Dr. Charles Banks, Volume III Family Genealogies: pp. 298 - 328 (the Mayhews) also can be seen online at http://history.vineyard.net/mayhew.htm

Martha's Vineyard Historical Society http://www.mvmuseum.org/ You can send genealogy queries at kayanddonald@yahoo.com, address your query to (who else?) Katherine Mayhew!

My Mayhew genealogy:

Generation 1: Matthew Mayhew, son of Thomas Mayhew and Alice Waterman, born about 1550, died about 1614, married on 2 October in Tisbury, Wiltshire, England to Alice Barter, daughter of Edward Barter and his wife, Edith.

Generation 2: Governor Thomas Mayhew, born about 1593 and died 25 March 1682 in Tisbury, on the island of Martha's Vineyard; married first about 1620 in England to Abigail Parkhurst; married second about 1634 in England to Jane Gallion. I am descended of two children, by Abigail - Thomas and Hannah who married Thomas Daggett/Doggett.

Line A:

Generation 3: Reverend Thomas Mayhew born about 1620 in England, died about November 1657 at sea on a voyage to England; married to Jane Unknown. Six children. I am descended of two children, John (see below) and Jedediah Mayhew who married Benjamin Smith.

Generation 4: Reverend John Mayhew, born about 1652 in Edgartown on the island of Martha's Vineyard, died on 2 February 1689 in Chilmark, on the island of Martha's Vineyard; married in 1672 at Tisbury to Elizabeth Hilliard, born 22 January 1654 in Hampton, New Hampshire, died 1746 in Chilmark, daughter of Emmanuel Hilliard and Elizabeth Parkhurst. Five children.

Generation 5: John Mayhew, born 1676 in Chilmark, died 3 March 1736 in Chilmark; married on 27 November 1700 in Chilmark to Mehitable Higgins, daughter of Owen Higgins and Seaborn Tew. Seven children.

Generation 6: John Mayhew, born 1701 died on 16 January 1790; married on 29 October 1730 in Falmouth, Massachusetts to Ruth Davis, born 5 July 1705 in Falmouth, died 16 Jan 1790 in Chilmark, daughter of Benjamin Davis and Mary Robinson (a descendant of Reverend John Robinson of the Pilgrims). Five children.

Generation 7: Mary Mayhew, born 22 May 1734 on Martha's Vineyard, died in Nova Scotia; married Caleb Rand, born 10 January 1730 in Charlestown, Massachusetts, died 25 September 1776 in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia, son of Caleb Rand and Katherine Kettell. Eleven Children.

Generation 8: Mary Rand m. Asahel Bill
Generation 9: Reverend Ingraham Ebenezer Bill m. Isabella Lyons

Generation 10: Caleb Rand Bill m. Ann Margaret Bollman

Generation 11: Isabella Lyons Bill m. Albert Munroe Wilkinson

Generation 12: Donald Munroe Wilkinson m. Bertha Louise Roberts (my grandparents)

Line B: 

Generation 3:  Hannah, born 15 June 1635 and died 7 February 1723 in Edgartown on Martha’s Vineyard; married on 23 September 1657 in Edgartown to Thomas Daggett as his third wife.  She had eleven children.

Generation 4:  Thomas Daggett m. Elizabeth Hawes

Generation 5: Elizabeth Daggett m. John Butler

Generation 6: Keziah Butler m. Samuel Osborn

Generation 7: Samuel Osborn m. Sarah Wass

Generation 8: Sarah Osborn m. Charles Skinner

Generation 9: Ann Skinner m. Thomas Ratchford Lyons

Generation 10: Isabella Lyons m. Reverend Ingraham Ebenezer Bill

Generation 11: Caleb Rand Bill m. Ann Margaret Bollman

Generation 12: Isabella Lyons Bill m. Albert Munroe Wilkinson

Generation 13: Donald Munroe Wilkinson m. Bertha Louise Roberts (my grandparents)

Line C: 

Generation 4: Jedediah Mayhew, born 1656 and died 6 January 1736 in Edgartown; married Benjamin Smith, son of John Smith and Susannah Hinckley.  He was born 7 January 1658 and died 4 July 1720.  Eight children.

Generation 5:  Jedediah Smith m. Reverend Samuel Osborn, yet he had an illegitimate son by Mercy Norton.  This child is my  8th great grandfather, Samuel Osborn, Jr., the husband of Keziah Butler (see generation 6 above in Line B)   Yes, this is quite a story- the minister's illegitimate child, but I'm saving it for another blog post! 

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Copyright 2013, Heather Wilkinson Rojo