Rebecca Call
(1744-1812)
BIRTH
May 14, 1744
PLACE
Charlestown, Massachusetts
DEATH
November 18, 1812
PLACE
Boston, Massachusetts
FAMILY
HUSBAND
Nathaniel Gorham
(1738-1796)
CHILDREN
Ann Gorham Brooks
(1771-1850)
CHILDREN
Benjamin Gorham
(1775-1855)
CHILDREN
Lydia Gorham Phillips
(1778-1856)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Rebecca Call Gorham (1744–1812) was a Charlestown baker’s daughter who married merchant Nathaniel Gorham in 1763. Their nine children included future congressman Benjamin Gorham. The family endured wartime losses and financial trouble as Nathaniel invested in western New York land. He served as president of Congress and signed the Constitution, but died insolvent in 1796. Rebecca survived him until 1812 and was buried in Charlestown’s Phipps Street Cemetery.
EARLY LIFE
Rebecca Call was born on May 14, 1744 in Charlestown, Massachusetts. 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 Rebecca Call 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. Rebecca Call died on Nov 18, 1812 in Boston, Massachusetts. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Rebecca Call died on Nov 18, 1812, in Boston, Massachusetts. Rebecca Call Gorham was a Charlestown baker’s daughter who married merchant Nathaniel Gorham in 1763. Their nine children included future congressman Benjamin Gorham. The family endured wartime losses and financial trouble as Nathaniel invested in western New York land. He served as president of Congress and signed the Constitution, but died insolvent in 1796. Rebecca survived him until 1812 and was buried in Charlestown’s Phipps Street Cemetery. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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