Lydia Gorham Phillips
(1778-1856)
BIRTH
1778
PLACE
Charlestown, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
DEATH
1856
PLACE
Andover, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
FAMILY
FATHER
Nathaniel Gorham
(1738-1796)
MOTHER
Rebecca Call
(1744-1812)
BROTHER
Nathaniel Gorham
(1738-1796)
SISTER
Ann Gorham Brooks
(1771-1850)
BROTHER
Benjamin Gorham
(1775-1855)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Lydia Gorham Phillips was Nathaniel Gorham and Rebecca Call’s youngest daughter and the wife of Colonel John Phillips. They married in December 1798 and raised thirteen children in Massachusetts, including Samuel and Nathaniel. She survived her husband’s 1820 death until June 1856 and died at North Andover. The published Stimpson genealogy records her birth in December 1779, rather than the master’s 1778. These records distinguish her from her daughter Lydia.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Lydia Gorham’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. 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.
No distinct public profession or office for Lydia Gorham is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Lydia Gorham died in 1856, in Andover, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Lydia Gorham Phillips was Nathaniel Gorham and Rebecca Call’s youngest daughter and the wife of Colonel John Phillips. They married in December 1798 and raised thirteen children in Massachusetts, including Samuel and Nathaniel. She survived her husband’s 1820 death until June 1856 and died at North Andover. The published Stimpson genealogy records her birth in December 1779, rather than the master’s 1778. These records distinguish her from her daughter Lydia. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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