Dr. Samuel Gorton, IV

SAMUEL* GORTON (Sam'l' SamT SamT), born at Warwick, March 7, 1717, died at Warwick 1777. Married (i), at Swansey, December 9, 1742, Ruth Slade, born October 13, 1724, died December 18, 1764, daughter of William and Hannah (Mason) Slade; married (2), at Warwick, May 5, 1768, Frances (Rice) Graves, born January II, 1734, widow of Ebenezer Graves and daughter of Thomas* and first wife, Mary (Holden) Rice (John° John' John' Rice).

Samuel* Gorton was a distinguished physician, lived at Swansey (probably that part of Swansey which was, with a part of Rehobeth, included in the town of Warren, Bristol County, R. I., but was shortly after 1648 awarded to Massachusetts), Voluntown, Conn., and at War- wick. He and many of his descendants are buried in the old Gorton burial ground, sometimes spoken of as the Coweset ground on the Coweset road, homestead farm of his son, Deacon Benjamin. His will, dated July 7, 1777, proved September 8, 1777, mentions wife, Frances — sons, Benjamin, Samuel, Peleg, Hezekiah, Slade, William, John Anthony; daughters, Ruth Wood, wife of William, Mary Wilbur, wife of Thomas, Freelove (not 18), Catharine, Elizabeth, and Waite.

William Slade was of Swansey and Rehobeth. He served in the Rev- olutionary War, enrollment April 19, 1775, and in March from Rehobeth to Triverton, R. I., with Lieut. Samuel Brown, Aug., 1780. (Mass. Sol- diers and Sailors, Vol. vi. The R. L Revolutionary War Records are kept by R. H. Tully, Esq., State Reed. Com., Newport.)

• Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Mar 1 2017, 22:09:10 UTC
• Gorton, Adelos,. The life and times of Samuel Gorton : the founders and the founding of the Republic : a section of early United States history and a history of the colony of Providence and Rhode Island plantations in the Narragansett Indian country now the state of Rhode Island, 1592-1636-1677-1687 : with a genealogy of Samuel Gorton's descendants to the present time. Philadelphia: unknown, 1907.

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