John GORTON

John married Patience HOPKINS on 2 Feb 1700. Patience died before 17 Nov 1717. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. William GORTON was born in Rhode Island; died before 24 Dec 1761.

John married Elizabeth PIERCE on 17 Nov 1717 in Nantucket, Nantucket Co., Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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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 HannahBurton. In 1677 he and forty-seven others received a grant from the colony of 5,000 acres of land in East Greenwich in consideration of their "services in King Philip's War." 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 references 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.

John married Margaret WEEDEN on 25 Jan 1665. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]