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About Temperance Baxter
Descendant of Mayflower passengers John Howland and Elizabeth (Tilley) Howland
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Temperance Gorham 5 May 1646–12 March 1715 (Age 68) Plymouth, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America
The Life Summary of Temperance
When Temperance Gorham was born on 5 May 1646, in Plymouth, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Captain John Gorham, was 25 and her mother, Desire Howland, was 20. She married Edward Sturgis Jr. in 1663, in Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 5 daughters. She died on 12 March 1715, in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 68, and was buried in Ancient Cemetery, Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.
Spouse and Children
Edward Sturgis Jr. Male 1642–1678
• Male
Temperance Gorham Female 1646–1715
• Female
Marriage 1663 Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America
Children (13)
Sarah Sturgis Female 1664–1738
• Female
Joseph Sturgis Male 1664–1747
• Male
Samuell Sturges Male 1665–1737
• Male
Samuel Sturgis Male 1665–Deceased
• Male
Desire Sturgis Female 1666–1749
• Female +8 More Children
Sources (0) Sources There are no historical documents attached to Temperance.
Parents and Siblings
Captain John Gorham Male 1621–1676
• Male
Desire Howland Female 1625–1683
• Female
Siblings (11)
Desire Gorham Female 1644–1700
• Female
Temperance Gorham Female 1646–1715
• Female
Elizabeth Gorham Female 1648–1683
• Female
James Gorham Male 1650–1707
• Male
Colonel John Gorham Jr Male 1651–1716
• Male
+6 More Children
Story Highlight
https://billputman.com/Gorham.pdf Temperance was born in Marshfield on May 5, 1646. She married Edward Sturgis of Yarmouth in 1663, and they had JOSEPH, SAMUEL, JAMES, DESIRE and EDWARD STURGIS. Edward Sturgis died December 8, 1678. O …
Family Time Line
Spouse and Children
Parents and Siblings
1620 1640 1660 1680 1700 1720 1740 1760
Edward Sturgis Jr.
1642–1678 Temperance Gorham
1646–1715 Marriage: 1663
Sarah Sturgis
1664–1738 Joseph Sturgis
1664–1747 Samuel Sturgis
1665–Deceased Desire Sturgis
1666–1749 Edward Sturgis
1673–Deceased Hannah Sturgis
1677–Deceased Joseph Sturgis
Deceased Samuell Sturges
1665–1737 James Sturgis
1668–1717 Edward Sturgis
1673–1738 Samuel Sturges
1673–1762 Thankful Sturgis
1675–1745 Fear Sturgis
1678–1753
Name Meaning
Gorham
Temperance English (Kent): apparently a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place, possibly so named from Old English gāra ‘triangular piece of land’ + hām ‘homestead’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006. Possible Related Names Goreham Gorum
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Gorham-27
Temperance Baxter formerly Gorham aka Sturgis was born on May 5th 1646 in Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts the daughter of John Gorham and Desire (Howland) Gorham San the sister of Desire (Gorham) Hawes, Elizabeth (Gorham) Hallett, James Gorham, John Gorham Jr., Joseph Gorham, Jabez Gorham, Mercy (Gorham) Denison, Lydia (Gorham) Thacher, Hannah (Gorham) Whilldin and Shubael Gorham.
Wife of Edward Sturgis — married 1663 (to 8 Nov 1678) in Yarmouth, MA [uncertain]
Wife of Thomas Baxter Sr. — married 27 Jan 1679 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Mother of Desire (Sturgis) Thatcher, James Sturgis, Edward Sturgis, Thankful (Sturgis) Thacher, Fear (Sturgis) Holmes, John Sturgis Baxter Sr., Thomas Baxter Jr., Thomas Baxter and Shubael Baxter. Temperance died on March 12th 1715 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts.
Profile last modified 16 Dec 2019 | Created 11 Jun 2010
Biography
Name
Temperance Gorham[1] Birth
5 MAY 1646 Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts[1][2] 1646[3] Marriage
27 JAN 1679 Massachusetts[4][2] 27 JAN 1679 Yarmouth, MA 16 JAN 1679 Yarmouth, MA Death
1715[3] 2 MAR 1715 2 MAR 1714 24 JAN 1969 12 MAR 1714/15 Yarmouth, MA[5] Sources
↑ 1.0 1.1 Otis: Page 413; Barnstable County, Massachusetts, Town Records, 1640-1753, 1: 371, Temperance Gorham; FHL microfilm 947061;Jay Mack Holbrook, Massachusetts Vital Records: Barnstable, 1643-1892 (Oxford, Massachusetts: Holbrook Research Institute, 1987), 414; digital image, Ancestry.com, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed 3 July 2015; microfiche 6; Barnstable Births, Marriages, Deaths <1643-1714+; Town Records 1736-1885: Vital Records by Family 1637-1736, 1753, vol. 1 ↑ 2.0 2.1 NEHGR: Vol. 52, Page 358; Barnstable County, Massachusetts, Town Records, 1640-1753, 1: 371, Temperance Gorham; FHL microfilm 947061; Jay Mack Holbrook, Massachusetts Vital Records: Barnstable, 1643-1892 (Oxford, Massachusetts: Holbrook Research Institute, 1987), 414; digital image, Ancestry.com, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed 3 July 2015; microfiche 6; Barnstable Births, Marriages, Deaths <1643-1714+; Town Records 1736-1885: Vital Records by Family 1637-1736, 1753, vol. 1 ↑ 3.0 3.1 Marrs ↑ Snow: page 480 ↑ Yarmouth, Massachusetts, Town Records, Deaths, 1647-1783, 3: 26, Temperance Baxter; FHL microfilm 945511 Otis, Amos. Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families (F.B. & F.P. Goss, Publishers and Printers, Barnstable, Mass., 1888) Snow, Nora Emma. The Snow-Estes Ancestry (1939), Volume One: The Snow Family, by Nora E. Snow, compiled by Myrtle M. Jillson, Hillburn, New York. familysearch.org records Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England (Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1862) Vol 2, page 281 NEHGR: The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Mass., 1898) Vol. 52, Page 358 Marrs, Julie Coplien, Dori. We're Coming to America (May 09, 2008) http://coplien.com/individual.php?pid=I42364&ged=coplien.ged Ancestry Profile Ancestry Profile The First Settlers of Barnstable, MS., The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Mass., 1848) Vol. 2, Page 67 Torrey, Clarence Almon. Torrey’s New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore, 1985) Page 54: "Baxter, Thomas (-1713) & Temperance (Gorham) Sturges (1646-1715), w Edward; 27 Jan 1679, 16 Jan 1679/80, 27 Jan 1679/80; Yarmouth"
All the Baxters on Cape Cod descend from Temperance & Thomas Baxter.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jcahill/capecod.htm
1. Captain Thomas1 Baxter married Temperance Gorham, daughter of John Gorham and Desire Howland, on 27 Jan 1679. He died on 22 Jun 1713.
Children of Captain Thomas1 Baxter and Temperance Gorham were as follows:
2. i. Thomas2, married Mary Lattimer. 3. ii. John, born 1685 at Mass; married Desire Gorham. 4. iii. Shubal, born 1687; married Elizabeth Gorham.
Temperance was the daughter of Captain John Gorham ,and Desiree Howland and the widow of Edward Sturgis Thomas Baxter served under Captain John Gorham ,in Prince Philips War ,which could have been how she and Thomas met .
The daughter of my ancestors, CAPT. JOHN & DESIRE (HOWLAND) GORHAM, she married (1) Edward Sturgis, Jr. in March of 1663 at Yarmouth, Barnstable, Mass. and (2) Thomas Baxter on January 27, 1679/80 and died in her 67th year.
"Mayflower Increasings" (For Three Generations; 2nd Edition, p. 69.* Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Feb 5 2020, 17:36:16 UTC
Marriage27 January 1679Yarmouth, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America
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Temperance Baxter's Timeline
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May 5, 1646
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Marshfield, Plymouth Colony
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1664
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Yarmouth, Barnstable County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America
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1665
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Yarmouth, Plymouth Colony, Colonial America
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1666
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Comté De Barnstable, Massachusetts, États-Uni
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1669
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Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States
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1673
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Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States
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May 20, 1675
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Yarmouth, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America
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1677
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Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island, United States
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