Person:John Gorton (1)

On October 31, 1677 he and 47 others were granted 5,000 acres to be called East Greenwich. source; Gen. Dictionary of Rhode Island, p 302.

BIOGRAPHY: The Life and Times of Samuel Gorton The Founders and the Founding of the Republic Philadelphia 1907 Page 165 John Gorton (Samuel). We find no data from which to fix the time or place of his birth. He was given by his father all his lands west of Warwick, including land in Cranston. He married, January 25, 1665, Margaret Weeden. In 1668 he bought land with orchard and buildings of William and Hannah Burton. In 1677 he and forty-seven others received a grant from the colony of 5,000 acres of land in East Greenwich then included what is now West Greenwich, the latter having been set from it in 1741. John was a mariner, and this occasion of protracted absence from home may account for the but few reference to him that we find among the records of the town and colony. The date of his death is inscribed on the Warwick records as occurring February 3, 1714; no data regarding his wife Margaret is given.

1. ↑ 5, 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Samuel Gortons's Descendants to the Present Time, Compiled from Various Accounts, Histories, Letters, and Published and Unpublished Records.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. 165.