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Facts and Events
Hayden, Charles. History of the town of Marlborough. 1861
p 357-8:
- The Eames Family.
- Gershom Eames was in Marl. early, and probably left on the breaking out of King Philip’s war, and went to Wat., where he d. Nov. 25, 1776 [sic; meant 1676]. He m. Hannah Johnson, dau of Solomon and Hannah, of Sud. She was b. April 27, 1656, and was not 21 years of age when her husband died. She had by him two children, Hannah, b. Feb. 3, 1675, and Mary, posthumous, b 1677. Mary m. John Keyes, whose houses and his three sons, were burned in the night-time, Aug. 1723. Maj. Keyes d. at Shrewsbury, 1768, age 93 years and 7 months, and his wid. Mary, d. 1772, aged 95 years and 1 mo. Gershom Eames’s wid. m. Sept. 4, 1779 [sic; should be 1679], William Ward, of Marl., and d. Dec. 8, 1720, aged 64.
- The name in the early Records is spelt with an E, but most of the families hae dropped the E and spell it Ames.
References
- ↑ Historical Society of Watertown (Massachusetts). Watertown Records. (Watertown, Mass.: Press of Fred Barker, 1894-1939)
1:41.
[81] 1676. Gershom Eames dyed the 25 of the 9'mo. [25 Nov 1676]
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