Samuel Gorton, born --, married Mary Grant.
... was probably born in Westerly; married Mercy Grant. He lived on Teft's Plains, South Kingstown, and that part of Westerly which was in 1738 set off to Charlestown, and then in 1747 set off as Richmond, R.I.; also in the town, now county, of New London, Conn. In 1773 he applied to join the Friends' Society at South Kingstown and was received by them, he, nevertheless, enlisting and serving in Colonel Brewer's Regiment, Revolutionary Army, register 1777. In 1778 he gave fifty-five years as his age.
