< George Gorham birt: 29 JAN 1697 plac: Barnstable,Massachusetts |
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  | Puella Hussey |   | |||
birt: 1677 deat: Bef 1748 Shubael Gorham marr: 1695 birt: 21 OCT 1667 deat: 7 AUG 1750 |
MARRIAGE:Helen Hester King, B.S. and Linetta Ainsworth Daniels, Some Descendants of Captain John Gorham of Plymouth Colony in New York Sate and the Western Reserve; ; Walker Printing Service, Inc. Cleveland, Ohio, 1955; p. xxvii; ; In 1695 he married Puella Hussey of Nantucket, Massachusetts, the daughter of Stephen Hussey and his wife, Martha Bunker. An account of the wedding appears in Colonel John Gorham's "WAST BOOK", written during the siege of Louisburg in 1745:
"Unk. Shuball Gorham marryed att Nantucket Puella Hussey... He and my grandfather and all the weddners in going over to Nantucket to the wedding eith Capt. James Gardner, was taken prisoners and stryped by a small French shallop from Port Royall betwixt nantucket & Hyanas. He had three sons all used the sea --- George, Daniel and Jonathan. Seven sisters and all but two maryed at Nantucket."