Benjamin Gorham
BIRTH
Feb 13, 1775
Charlestown, Province of Massachusetts Bay, British America
DEATH
September 27, 1855
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
FAMILY
FATHER:
Nathaniel Gorham
(1738-1796)
MOTHER:
Rebecca Call
(1744-1812)
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Gorham, Benjamin
(1775-1855)
Benjamin Gorham (1775–1855) was associated with the American Revolutionary era as a statesman. The biographical details in this entry are based on the record titled “Benjamin Gorham.”
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BROTHER
Nathaniel Gorham
(1738-1796)
SISTER
Ann Gorham
(1771-1850)
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DIED:
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Sep 27, 1855
Benjamin Gorham was born on Feb 13, 1775 in Charlestown, Province of Massachusetts Bay, British America. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies Benjamin Gorham with work or public activity as a statesman. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Benjamin Gorham died on Sep 27, 1855 in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.