John Gorham papers 1744-1772 1748-1750 Gorham, John

Gorham, John, 1709-1751

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John Gorham was born in Barnstable, Mass., in 1709. As a teenager, he became familiar with Canadian ports as a ship hand, and was occasionally involved in land speculation in Nova Scotia and Maine, but in 1741 he, like the Gorham men of the previous three generations in America, found his true vocation in the military. At the outbreak of King George's War, Gorham raised a company of 50 rangers to reinforce the garrison at Annapolis Royal, N.S. Consisting mostly of full- ...

Great Britain. Army

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Whitmore was govenor of Cape Breton Island and the Island of St. John (Prince Edward Island). From the description of Receipt for wages paid for labor in the Cape Breton colliery : manuscript, 1760. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612812416 Administrative history unavailable. The University of Victoria Libraries Special Collections has a mandate to acquire military papers. From the description of Great Britain Army collection. [1800-1941]. (University o...

Cornwallis, Edward, 1713-1776

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