Person:Samuel Gorton (7)

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Samuel Gorton
b.1703
d.1723 or 1724
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Name Samuel Gorton
Gender Male
Birth[1] 1703
Death? 1723 or 1724
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Young Gorton was lost during storm and vessel wreck between Rhode Island coast and New London, Conn., August 9, 1723. (Hempstead Diary, Conn. Archives.") "Samuel Gorton 2d, of John and Elizabeth, died Sept. 9, 1724." (Warwick Records.) A likely error, and he may have been designated as the second to distinguish him from another older, among those living, bearing same name.

References
  1. 97, 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Samuel Gortons's Descendants to the Present Time, Compiled from Various Accounts, Histories, Letters, and Published and Unpublished Records.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.