Family:John Gorton and Elizabeth Peirce (1)

Parents: John Gorton and Margaret Weeden John Gorton b. Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, United States	Elizabeth Peirce

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Marriage^[1]

17 Nov 1717

Children

		Birth	Death
1.	John Gorton	Aft 1717 Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island, United States	Abt 1787
2.	Samuel Gorton	1723

References

↑ 28, in Gorton, Adelos. The Life and Times of Samuel Gorton: the Founders and the Founding of the Republic, a Section of Early United States History, and a History of the Colony of Providence and Rhode Island Plantations in the Narragansett Indian Country, Now the State of Rhode Island, 1592-1636-1677-1687 : With a Genealogy of Samuel Gortons's Descendants to the Present Time, Compiled from Various Accounts, Histories, Letters, and Published and Unpublished Records. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: George S. Ferguson, 1907)
p. 169.

He married (2) at Nantucket, November 17, 1717, Elizabeth Peirce. (New England Historical and Genealogical Register LI, 55) The name, although written as Peirce in the marriage docket at Narragansett, was written by herself Percy, and according to the record of her son John, "Elizabeth Percy, of Northumberland and Lancaster Counties, granddaughter of Jocelyn Percy, Eleventh Earl of Northumberland."