Mercy (Gorham) Bourne

• No primary source validates this Mercy Gorham as daughter of John & Mary (Otis) Gorham.
• Please review FamilySearch 1 list for births in Barnstable county.
• Please also review FamilySearch 2, which does not show a father-daughter relations with John Gorham.
• Notice: Find A Grave Index too often contains insupportable information. Volunteers input data who think everything they enter is valid. However, too many volunteers do not find then add primary sources to affirm ell data on person-profiles. Only believe pictures of legible headstone inscriptions and primary sourced data provided by the websites best volunteers.
• The Women in American History blurb below is a nice write-up. It does not identify parentage.

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Mrs Sylvanus Bourne 1766 John Singleton Copley (American, Boston, Massachusetts 1738–1815 London) The Metropolitan Museum of Art tells us that Mercy Gorham (1695–1782) was born and raised on Cape Cod, in the colony of Massachusetts. In 1718, she married Sylvanus Bourne, a prosperous merchant, and 2 years later they settled in the port town of Barnstable. The couple had 11 children. Copley painted Mrs. Bourne 3 years after her husband’s death, when she was 71 years old.