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Hannah Gorham (Sturgis)

Also Known As: "Gray"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Yarmouth, Cape Cod (Present Barnstable County), Plymouth Colony (Present Massachusetts), Colonial America
Death: October 17, 1736 (81)
Harwich, Barnstable County, Province of Massachusetts, *Colonial America
Place of Burial: Brewster, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Edward Sturgis, of Yarmouth and Elizabeth Sturgis
Wife of John Gray; John Gray, III and Jabez Gorham
Mother of Edward Gray; Joseph Gray, Sr.; Hannah Gorham; Elizabeth Baxter; Samuel Gorham and 8 others
Sister of Edward Sturgis, II; Mary Hedge; Samuel Sturgis; Elizabeth Sturgis; Joseph Sturgis and 2 others

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About Hannah Gorham

Burial: Old Burial Ground

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From the Find A Grave page on Hannah Sturgis Gorham:

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=35900318

Birth: Dec. 22, 1654 - Yarmouth, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, USA

Death: Oct. 17, 1736 - Harwich, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, USA

The daughter of EDWARD & HANNAH (HINCKLEY) STURGIS, she married JABEZ GORHAM at Barnstable, Mass.

After the death of Jabez, she returned to Cape Cod and on September 12, 1723, the following deed was recorded in the Bristol Co. District Land Records, Vol 21, p. 262, "Hannah Gorham of Yarmouth, in the county of Barnstable, seamstress, quitclaimed to Benjamin Gorham [her son] of Bristol, tanner, all her interest in five acres of land in Bristol".

Her first marriage was to John Gray, at Harwich, Barnstable, Mass. and she was Jabez Gorham's second wife.

Family links:

Parents:

  • Edward Sturgis (1613 - 1695)
  • Elizabeth Hinckley Sturgis (1617 - 1691)

Children:

  • John Gray (1671 - 1732)*
  • Sarah Gray Clark (1672 - 1743)*
  • Hannah Gorham (1677 - 1695)*
  • Isaac Gorham (1689 - 1739)*
  • John Gorham (1690 - 1717)*
  • Joseph Gorham (1692 - 1773)*

Spouses:

  • Jabez Gorham (1656 - 1726)*
  • John Gray (1650 - 1674)*

Inscription:

  • HERE LIES BURIED
  • THE BODY OF MRs
  • HANNAH GORHAM WIFE
  • TO MR JABEZ GORHAM
  • DEC'D ..........

Burial: Old Burying Ground, Brewster, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, USA

Maintained by: Nareen

  • Originally Created by: ditdit
  • Record added: Apr 15, 2009
  • Find A Grave Memorial# 35900318
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Hannah Gorham's Timeline

1654
December 22, 1654
Yarmouth, Cape Cod (Present Barnstable County), Plymouth Colony (Present Massachusetts), Colonial America
1670
December 31, 1670
Elizabethtown, Essex, New Jersey, United States
1673
1673
Lincolnshire, England
1677
December 23, 1677
Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts
1680
1680
Bristol, Plymouth Colony
1682
April 15, 1682
Bristol, (Present Bristol County), Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, (Present USA)
December 23, 1682
Barnstable, Massachusetts
1684
January 31, 1684
Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts