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| (1856 - 1941) m 1882 |
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| |_Amanda Calista ("Clista") SMITH _|
| (1827 - 1916) m 1843 |
| | _Andrew Herman (Sr.) STEINHOFF _+
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| |_Catherine ("Katie") STEINHOFF _|_Janet (Jennie) MALCOLM ________
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[19438] http://xenia.media.mit.edu/~kristin/fambly/Learned/SarahLearned.html reports: "The Ewer family came over on the James, Mr. John May, master. Passengers on this trip embarked in London, Middlesex, England from 19 June-13 July. The Ewer family is first on the manifest and is listed as Thomas Ewer, tailor, 40; Sara Ewer, 28; Elizabeth Ewer, 4; Thomas Ewer, 1.5. They settled in Charlestown, Suffolk co., MA where Thomas Ewer co-owned with Thomas Squire a 10-acre lot at Mystic side of Joseph Hubbard; and another of same lots in 1637. Sarah was admitted to the church at Charlestown on 12d:10m(December):1635/6 and Thomas was admitted to the church at Charlestown on 8d:11m(January):1635/6. He made Freeman on 3 March 1635/6 -- the first in a sequence of three Charlestown men to take the Oath on that date. Sarah must have been a strong, savvy woman, for on 4 December 1638, Ewar was allowed executrix of her husband, Thom[as] Ewar, deceased. Thus, in the 1638 Charlestown Book Of Possessions, Sarah was listed as the owner of 11 lots: a house in Middle Row, right next to the Market Place and Dock Lane; 3 roods in East Field with a house; 1.5 acres in High Field; 2 acres at the South Meade; 6.25 cow commons; 8 acres in Line Field; 5 acres in the Mystic Marshes; 5 acres of woods by the driftway; another 5 acres of woods near the driftway towards the North River; 25 acres of woods near the common and Long Meade; and 60 acres in Rock Field. In 1639, Sarah Ewer, widow, sole executrix of Thomas Ewer, deceased, bargained and sold unto Francis Willoughby of Charltowne, one dwelling house, with a garden plat, situate in the middle row, butting south and west upon the market place. Sarah either had moved or then moved to Barnstable, Barnstable co., MA, where she married Thomas Lothrop. Sarah was admitted to the church at Charlestown on 12d:10m(December):1635/6. . . . On 13 January 1623/4 when Sarah was 16, she first married Thomas Ewer, in St. Mary Magdalene, Bermondsey, Surrey, England. Thomas was born in 1593 in Strood, Kent, England and was baptized there on 10 March 1592/3. He died in Charlestown, Suffolk co., MA in 1638; he was 45. Actually, he died sometime after 5 June 1638 -- when his name appears in the records -- and before 20 August 1638. Variations on his surname include Ewer, Ewre and Ewar. Thomas lost his first wife and all three children by her -- presumably to illness -- before he married Sarah."
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[20796] This family is taken from Frances Stephen's handwritten manucescript (27 July 1974) as trancscribed for James M. Scruggs. This information is not verified! The month of Sarah's birth is as given by James M. Scruggs who wrote "Family Histories show their 15 children to have been born in Abbeville District, SC." Ann Scruggs notes name her Sarah Ann Irwin Franklin.
_Ralph GORHAM ________+
| (1575 - ....) m 1610
_John GORHAM ________|_Margaret STEPHENSON _
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_John GORHAM ________|
| (1651 - 1716) m 1675|
| | _John HOWLAND ________+
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| |_Desire HOWLAND _____|_Elizabeth TILLEY ____
| (.... - 1683) m 1643 (1607 - 1687)
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See 2002 Internet site: http://digitalhistory.org/gorham.html and http://www.littletechshoppe.com/ns1625/gorhamj.html
From http://www.blupete.com/Hist/BiosNS/1700-63/Gorham.htm in 2002:
John Gorham1 was born in Barnstable, Massachusetts. His father, Shubael Gorham (1686-1746) was a military officer and had been with Colonel John March in 1707 and then again, probably, with Nicholson when the English took Port Royal in 1710. John, in his earlier years, was more a merchant and a land speculator than the woods fighter he was to become. His trading activities undoubtedly gave him a good sense of how to deal with the inland natives. In 1732, he married a Massachusetts girl, Elizabeth Allen, and, together, they had 15 children (not an unusual number in those days). Though, as we will see, Gorham was to spend a lot of time in his later years in Nova Scotia -- during which time he earned a reputation as a negotiator and Indian fighter -- his home was always Barnstable.
Gorham made his first official visit to Nova Scotia in September of 1744 when he arrived with Captain Edward Tyng at Annapolis Royal. Tyng had sailed from Boston to bring relief to the besieged garrison at Annapolis Royal. Gorham had with him "fifty picked Indians," Mohawks of the Finger Lakes district (present day upstate New York). "Gorham Rangers" were to make an immediate impact and the siege of was soon at an end. With the arrival of "Gorham Rangers," matters were to be put on an entirely different basis in Nova Scotia then what they had been. The first 34 years of British occupation in Nova Scotia had consisted of a holding or defensive operation: the Gorham Rangers were an offensive bunch and they knew exactly how to apply frontier techniques to their benefit. They were to make a lasting impression and were to become much hated by the French and the local Indians.
Gorham was soon back in Boston and caught up in the plans which were then brewing to launch an attack against Louisbourg, a place, which to the English colonials, was a piratical and popish nest which had to be cleaned out, once and for all. Being a man who was noted for turning plans into action, Gorham was no doubt one of the prime movers in the great colonial assault against Louisbourg which came about in 1745. This great enterprise of New England against Louisbourg, was, for the Gormans, very much a family affair. The 7th Massachusetts Regiment was commanded by Gorham's father. Gorham, Sr., had with him his two sons: John, the subject of this biographical note, and David (b. 1712). John was put in charge of securing at Boston a sufficient number of whale boats needed for the landing at Louisbourg. At Louisbourg, John Gorham, on the 30th of April 1745: successfully led the troops off the larger vessels, into the whale boats, and onto the shores of Garabus Bay. He was with Colonel Arthur Noble when, borne in the small landing boats, a colonial contingent of volunteers assaulted the Island Battery in Louisbourg Harbour on May 23rd (they were badly cut up, as my larger story will show, but little fault could be assigned to either Noble or Gorham). After the French capitulated, a number of the colonials were to stay over during the winter of 1745/1746 awaiting their replacements which was to be a body of regular British soldiers due in from Gibralter the following spring. Both Gorham and his father were part of the wintering garrison. Gorham, Sr., was to die that winter;2 and Gorham, on the spot, was to succeed his father as the regimental commander. Excepting those who died occupying their prize during the winter of 1745/46, most of the colonial heroes, John Gorham and his brother among them, returned3 back to their New England homes during the summer of 1746.
Being recognized as one of the most knowledgeable of both the territory and of the native populations in Nova Scotia, Gorham was to devote much of the next five years of his life in Nova Scotia. During the summer of 1746 he was once again in Nova Scotia, this time with his 21 year old brother, Joseph , who was commissioned to be a lieutenant in the Rangers. Gorham continued to extend and entrench the British presence in Nova Scotia by establishing "several blockhouses at various strategic points, including Cobequid [Truro] and Chignecto. Late in 1746 he marched with Noble and five hundred other New Englanders who were to take up a position at Grand Pré. (Gorham had just left Noble, in January of 1747, by just two days, when the French regulars, having made a brilliant cross-country winter march, attacked and overtook the larger English force; killing, in the process, a number of Englishmen, including Noble -- in the body of my work I tell of the Massacre at Grand Pré.)
Having returned to his home at Barnstable for a short stay with his family, Gorham is soon found conferring with Governor Shirley about the state of Nova Scotia. It was determined that Gorham (his wife accompanied him) should go to England and meet with the Duke of Newcastle being the person with the power to do something about the situation in Nova Scotia. At the end of April, 1747, Gorham set sail from Boston, likely in his own sloop, arriving at England approximately two months later. Apparently, the powerful elite at London were most impressed with our colonial hero and his wife Elizabeth (reported to have been a beautiful and an accomplished woman). At one point they were presented to George II at the court at Saint James. Having made the summer rounds, Gorham was sent back to America as a captain in the military, as commissioned by the king, with a dispatch for Governor Shirley that he should do everything he could to encourage Gorham's splendid work in Nova Scotia: it would not appear that the dispatches contained any promise of direct help in the resolution of stopping the French incursions into Acadia.
Gorham's role as a negotiator and fighter was to continue even though, in 1748, a peace was declared by the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle. (Did I say peace! Well, at best it was never more than a very uneasy eight year truce sandwiched between two wars). During 1748, Gorham's Rangers continued to be with the British regulars at Annapolis Royal (they had their own accommodations outside of the fort). To supplement this land force, Gorham also sent up from Massachusetts two armed "schooners," the Anson (Captain John Beare) and the Warren (70 tons, Captain Jonathan Davis).4 (Gorham was apparently under contract with the Massachusetts government to supply these land and sea forces; and, as was usual in those days, many years were to pass before Gorham's accounts were to be finally settled.) In the autumn of 1748, Gorham himself came up from New England to clear out certain of the French troublemakers at Minas and then sailed (October 19th) over to the Saint John River, there to deal with certain usurpers which were locating themselves on territory (present day New Brunswick) which the English calculated was part of Acadia and therefore theirs. While Gorham going from place to place putting out French flames in Acadia, his wife, Elizabeth, back in Barnstable gave birth to their 13th child and seventh son, Solomon.
With the arrival of Edward Cornwallis in 1749, Gorham had a new boss. Gorham was appointed a member of the Counsel which was formed at the newly founded capital of Halifax. So too, in 1749, he built Fort Sackville at the head of Bedford Basin. Also in that year, Gorham, took to one of his armed vessels and once again journeyed to the Saint John River. Gorham had with him a man possessing a similar background and similar talents, Edward How. The object of the mission was to win over the "Saint John Indians." (During this time, a time of "peace," the French goaded the Indians on to attacking the English everywhere they were to be found, especially at their new settlements. The French and the English might have declared "peace," but, war it was, between the English and the Micmac, and, at an intensity greater then it had been and was ever to be -- and the French were most certainly behind every bit of it.)
If the French incursions into Acadian territory (the present day New Brunswick) were to stop, then it was to happen either by English diplomats going to France or British troops coming to Acadia. No matter which action was to be initiated, it would have to be done so in London; so, Gorham, in 1751, left Halifax aboard the Osborne,5 the first ship to be built at Halifax in August of 1751; his objective was to acquaint the English authorities with the difficulties in Acadia and to induce them, if he could, to take some sort of decisive action, one way or the other. Though, within a few short years, England was moved to take very decisive action to deal with the French in North America, it is not known to what extent Gorham influence might have been. At the age of only 43, Gorham died within months of his arrival at London: smallpox, the scourge of the age, an indiscriminate killer the world over, took another victim.6
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FOOTNOTES:
[1] We see that Gorham's brother Joseph, spelt his surname, "Goreham." The name, however, generally used, and as appears in the documents, is "Gorham." [Harry Piers, "The 40th Regiment ..." NSHS, Vol #21 (1927) at p. 153.]
[2] As was typical of any war, more colonial lives were lost during the winter to disease then were lost in the fight to take the fort.
[3] NSHS, vol. 30, p. 39.
[4] It is to be remembered that the two English admirals and on May 14th, 1747, beat the French fleet of La Jonquière off the Cape Finisterre, off the northwest coast of Spain.
[5] The Osborne was not decked out to necessarily accommodate travelers -- though I am sure that her owner and wife were as comfortable as passengers might be on a cross oceanic passage -- the Osborne, mounting "ten carriage guns," was carrying lumber, one of the first exports, other than fish and furs, out of the province.
[6] See DCB, vol. iii, p. 260; and see "John Gorham 1709-1751," by George T. Bates NSHS, vol. 30, p. 27.
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Internet site (2002): "In August of 1749, Captain John Gorham, acting on orders from Governor Edward Cornwallis, established a fort named Fort Sackville. The purpose of the fort was to protect the newly founded city of Halifax as a means of guarding what is known today as the Sackville River, which flowed into the basin to prevent attacks from enemy aggressors of the day. Soon after, grants of land became available around the fort and a community was founded and given the name of Sackville. That small community flourished over the years and now supports a population of over forty thousand." See also http://www.sackville.ednet.ns.ca/history/shp_people.html#jg
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| _Johann Adam RABUCK ________+
| | (1763 - 1835) m 1780
| _John Conrad REBUCK _______|_Anna Maria HAUPT __________
| | (1788 - 1857) (1763 - 1830)
| _Isaac REBUCK _______|
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| | | _Andreas REITZ _____________
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| | |_Lulu Juliana REITZ _______|_Maria M. BROSIUS __________
| | (1792 - 1857) (1761 - 1826)
|_Caroline REBUCK ____|
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| _Johann George ERDMAN _____|____________________________
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|_Christine ERDMAN ___|
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| _Johann Nicholas SCHNEIDER _+
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|_Anna Catherine SCHNEIDER _|_Anna Maria BORDNER ________
(1792 - 1842) m 1810 (1756 - 1827)