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John Gorham

John Gorham

John Gorham is a slave-owning person, who was in Boston, Massachusetts Bay in 1750. He captured an Indigenous person.

Massachusetts State Archives Collection Volume 32

  • Council Order
  • July 24, 1750
  • [32:50] At a Council held at the Council Chamber in Boston in the Province of the Massachusetts Bay the 24th July 1750.

    It appearing that there is an Indian Prisoner still remaining in this Province, vizt. a Girl taken by Colo. John Gorham, and now living at his house in Boston; the Board …

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Massachusetts State Archives Collection Volume 32. (1622–1788). Massachusetts State Archives, Boston, Massachusetts. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9YT-XC86?cat=1055547 [Stolen Relations project at Brown University.]

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