This is Chapter Three of eight. Our Gore relatives move from the United Kingdom to the New England Colonies in the New World. The relationship of the Gore(s) to the British Crown, like many others in the Great Migration, was one of physical distance, and then increasingly emotional distance.
In this chapter, we are covering the first two generations of the Gore Family in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
The Stuarts: King James I (reigned 1603 – 1625), King Charles I (reigned 1625 – 1649), and King Charles II (reigned 1660 – 1685). The Stuarts represent the Union of Scottish and the English Crowns. As such, they were the first kings of the United Kingdom. (1)
The Great Migration, 1620-1640
The term Great Migration can refer to the migration in the period of English Puritans to the New England colonies, starting with the Plymouth Colony and then the Massachusetts Bay Colony, (where the Gore family immigrated to). They came in family groups rather than as isolated individuals and were mainly motivated for their freedom to practice their beliefs.
This religious conflict worsened after Charles I became king in 1625, and Parliament increasingly opposed his authority. In 1629, Charles dissolved Parliament with no intention of summoning a new one, in an ill-fated attempt to neutralize his enemies there, which included numerous Puritans. With the religious and political climate so unpromising, many Puritans decided to leave the country. (2)
A New Era Begins in The American Colonies
Richard and Elizabeth Gore’s son John Gore (John 1 in America), born 1606 in Alton, East Hampshire District, Hampshire – died June 4, 1657 in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, British Colonies. He was interred at the Eliot Burying Ground at the same location. In England, he lived in North Baddesley and Southampton, Hampshire.
In July 1625 John Gore, aged 19, earned a B.A. from Queens College in Cambridge. He married Rhoda Gardner, on July 24, 1627, at Saint Trinity The Less, London Hackney, London. We believe she was born circa 1605, [“Rhoda wife of John Gore deposed on May 19, 1655aged forty-five years or thereabouts”] near Waltham Abbey, Essex, England. By 1635, they had immigrated to Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony in the British North America. Soon thereafter they moved to Roxbury where they had 10 children, all of them born in Roxbury, except as noted:
- Mary (Gore) Mylame, born March 1632 (baptized April 1) in England in the parish of Ippolitts in Hertfordshire; the only record we’ve found of her is in her father’s Will
- John (John 2, in America), born May 23, 1634 in England and baptized in the parish of Ippolitts in Hertfordshire in England – died June 26, 1706
- Obadiah (I), born June 1636 – died September 1636 (3 months)
- Abigail (I), born August 1641 – died before May 1643 (1 year)
- Abigail (II), born May 7, 1643 – died October 31, 1671
- Hannah, born May 1646 – died July 1686
- Obadiah (II), born 1648 – died September 3, 1653
- Gore Twins, birth & death dates unknown (possibly stillborn)*
- Samuel (1), born June 11, 1651 – died July 26, 1692 (We are descended from Samuel).
* The birth and death dates for the Gore twins is incomplete and contradictory in various records.
John Gore (1) was one of the few men in Roxbury who were given the honorific title of “Mister”. When he died in 1657, he provided in his Will for his wife and his five surviving children, as follows:
Rhoda married a second time, about 1659, to John Remington. Documentation found in Volume 3 of the book, The Great Migration…, indicates that “‘on 14 July 1662, Rhoda Gore executrix aforesaid’ stated that she had “some years since married with Lieutenant John Remington of Rowley, and that an event following the marriage had taken place ‘two years since (i.e., two years ago)’”. She married for the third time on June 3, 1674, to Edward Porter. Finally, she married for the fourth time, after February 12, 1677-78 and before May 15, 1679 to Joshua Tidd.
Rhoda (Gardner) Gore Remington Porter Tidd died August 22, 1693 in Roxbury, Norfolk County, Massachusetts. She outlived three of her husbands, and her burial details are unknown.
In our research on our Gore family we came across a wonderful and very thorough Gore Family History written by a “cousin”, Jeff Gore. We have excerpted some of his writing in our narrative. You can find his complete Gore Family History at: https://jgoredotorg.wordpress.com/2018/05/27/the-gore-family-history/. Thank you, Jeff! (3)
The Massachusetts Bay Colony
(W. F. Halsall, Public Domain).
“John and Rhoda Gore arrived at the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1635 with two young children. At the time of their arrival there were only a few thousand colonists in all of New England. This was just fifteen years after the Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth Rock, and five years after John Winthrop founded the city of Boston following the arrival of a fleet containing eleven ships and 700 colonists (see drawing by Halsall above). This was the second attempt by a group of investors to colonize the area, after an unsuccessful attempt in 1623 to establish a settlement further north on Cape Ann. This second attempt was successful, with about 20,000 people migrating to New England in the 1620s and 1630s in what is known as the Great Migration. The Puritans had been embroiled in a long dispute with the Monarchy regarding the practice of their religion, culminating in King Charles I dissolving a rebellious Parliament in 1629.”
“John immigrated to the American colonies seven years after graduating from Queen’s College in Oxford University (drawing of Queen’s College above is from 1690). Although Harvard would not be founded for another year, Queen’s College was approaching its 300 year anniversary. John was from a wealthy English family, son of Richard Gore (1574-1644) of North Baddesley and Southampton, Hampshire. Richard [had] married Elizabeth Gore (1576- 1650) in 1599 and together they had two sons, John and Thomas.”
Research has not revealed what the reasons were regarding John’s decision to immigrate to the Massachusetts Bay Colony with his family.
George Lamb, creator. ) Image courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Norman B. Leventhal Map Center).
“At the time of John Gore’s arrival, the town of Boston was unrecognizable. Most strikingly, the Back Bay and South End were not yet filled in, meaning that only a narrow spit of land connected the town of Boston to Roxbury and the rest of the mainland (see far left in image above). “The “Field near Colbron’s” will turn into Boston Common, whereas what we refer to as Beacon Hill extends from the region labeled “West Hill” to the original “Beacon Hill” to the South. The town of Boston was still so small that this map could list the name of the owner of each house in the map!” (4)
First in Boston, Then Settling in Roxbury
Plan of Roxbury, made by John G. Hales.
(Image courtesy of digitalcommonwealth.org).
“In 1637, John Gore moved to Roxbury, just across the isthmus from Boston, with his wife Rhoda Gardner and the beginnings of their family. Although Roxbury is now a neighborhood within Boston, at the time it was an independent town. It was one of the first towns established in the Massachusetts Bay Colony”.
Traditions, Biographical Sketches, Anecdotes &c, Relating to the History and Antiquities
of Every Town in Massachusetts, by John Warner Barber. (See footnotes).
“Originally the name was spelled ‘Rocksbury,’ and Barber, in his Historical Collections, says: ‘A great part of this town is rocky land; hence the name of Rocksbury.’ The rocky soil caused challenges for farming, and William Pynchon, the original founder of Rocksbury, gave up on the location just before John Gore settled there and left with a third of the population to settle what became Springfield. Despite these initial challenges, Roxbury eventually became famous for its apples, pears, and other fruits’”.
John arrived in Roxbury with his wife Rhoda on
from the Cameron County Genealogy Project
April 18, 1637 and was one of the few men in the colony honored with the title of “Mister”. He is mentioned in a list of landowners of the year 1643 as owning 188 acres.
When he landed at Boston and passed on Boston Neck to Roxbury, “Mrs Gore was carried by two men, as the ground was wet and swampy. Arriving at Roxbury, the men stopped with their fair burden on a small hill, when Mrs Gore,
who was much fatiqued, exclaimed “This is Paradise”, and the spot was henceforth named “Paradise Hill”.
“In 1638, John was a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, the oldest chartered military organization in North America and the third oldest chartered military organization in the world. Multiple generations of the Gore family stayed in the Roxbury area, and indeed many of the early Gore Family, including John, are buried in the Eliot Burial Ground.”
“Finally, John Gore was one of the founders of Roxbury Latin School, and his signature is on the school charter. His son John was an early graduate of the school, studied at Harvard from 1651-1654, and later became a master in 1673 back at Roxbury Latin.”
“About 1674 he leased the Bell Homestead in Roxbury for twenty-one years, agreeing [either to] teach the free school, to provide a substitute teacher, or to pay twelve pounds yearly in corn or cattle.” — Cutter
“At the time of his death, John Gore’s estate contained 812 pounds of real estate and buildings, including 4000 acres (over six square miles).” (5)
The Gore Family Home
by Francis Samuel Drake, 1828-1885, (Image courtesy of The Internet Archive).
Excerpted from the article Paul Gore, written by Walter H. Marx for the Jamaica Plain Historical Society, in September 1990:
“The Gores prospered and early appear as selectmen in the Town of Roxbury. Their homestead (see picture from Drake’s ‘Town of Roxbury’ above) stood by Stony Brook (before it was put into a culvert) and Tremont Street near Roxbury Crossing. A piece of the estate was later sliced off when the railroad to Providence was built.
The homestead, however, continued to stand until 1876 and was inhabited by the Gores, until the land was sold and cut up as a prize location in a Roxbury that was rapidly becoming industrialized. The present Gore Street, running parallel to Tremont Street on the west side into Parker Street, still commemorates the ancient Roxbury family and is probably the reason why the municipal government ordered Paul added to the Gore Street in Jamaica Plain to prevent confusion.”
Right: Detail of the Map of the City of Boston and Immediate Neighborhood, Henry McIntyre cr.
(Images courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Norman B. Leventhal Map Center).
“…a happy side effect of the Revolutionary War was that Britain became exceedingly interested in the Boston Area and commisioned a number of maps to be made, the most famous of which is likely the Pelham map.” (6)
Henry Pelham, cartographer, Francis Jukes, engraver, published 1777.
(Image courtesy of the Mount Vernon Ladies Association).
Samuel Gore, The Second Generation
“John and Rhoda had ten children, and [we] descend from his son Samuel (1638 – 1692, although some sources list 1651 as [his]birth date). As we have seen in discussions of the original Homestead, many of the descendants of John Gore Jr stayed in the Boston region, whereas many of Samuel’s descendants spread across the Union. Although primogeniture [*]was not commonly practiced in the Northern colonies, there may still have been a difference in inheritance that led to this asymmetry.”
*primogeniture (noun)
– the state or fact of being the firstborn of children of the same parents.
– Law. the system of inheritance or succession by the firstborn, specifically the eldest son.
“Samuel was still relatively young when his father passed away in 1657, but his father’s property should have provided a launching pad for the young Samuel. His mother also received land, and in any case within two years was remarried to Lieutenant John Remington.
Samuel grew up to be a carpenter and, [and also did surveying work] like his father John Gore, served as selectman in Roxbury. In 1689, Samuel was one of the three officers in the military company from the town of Roxbury that took part in what you might consider a prelude to the Revolutionary War that would occur nearly a century later.”
The Houses of Stuart and Orange: King James II (reigned 1685 – 1688), Queen Mary II (reigned 1689 – 1694), and King William III (reigned 1689 – 1703). James II was ousted by Parliament less than four years after ascending to the throne. To settle the question of who should replace the deposed monarch, a Convention Parliament elected James’ daughter Mary II and her husband (also his nephew) William III co-regents, in the Glorious Revolution.
“In 1684, King Charles II revoked the charter of the Massachusetts Bay Colony because the colonial leaders had refused [to] make administrative changes that would have brought the colony under tighter control of the Crown.
In response, King James II–the successor to King Charles II after his passing in 1685–created the Dominion of New England and appointed [the] former governor of New York, Sir Edmund Andros, dominion. This was deeply unpopular among the colonists, and in 1689 there was an uprising in which 2000 militia members rose up and deposed Andros, eventually leading to the restoration of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.”
Note: The Dominion of New England is also revisited in The Gore Line — Four.
Observation: Having an education afforded John Gore the ability to be the ‘Writ’ (the clerk) of the local Roxbury government. When you read the ancient records of Roxbury, you are reading our ancestor’s handiwork, see below. (7)
Background image: The Expulsion of Sir Edmund Andros. (See footnotes).
Samuel Gore (1) Marries Elizabeth Weld
“At the age of 21, Samuel [on August 28, 1672]married Elizabeth Weld (1655-1717). [She was the]granddaughter of Captain Joseph Weld. Joseph Weld was one of the richest men in Massachusetts, and indeed the Weld family has a long distinguished history within the region (William Weld, governor of Massachusetts from 1991-1997, is the most famous living member of the Weld family). Given that the Weld and Gore families both had extensive land holdings in Roxbury, the families would have known each other well. Indeed, both Samuel and Elizabeth were born in Roxbury, with Samuel born four years earlier.”
During their marriage Samuel (1) and Elizabeth had seven children. All of the children were born in Roxbury, Massachusetts.
- Abigail, born May 29, 1673 – died July 1675
- John, born November 10, 1676 – died March 10, 1679
- Child Gore born and died September 24, 1680
- Samuel Jr. (2), October 20, born 1681 – died May 27, 1756
(We are descended from Samuel). - John, born June 22, 1683 – died November 12, 1720
- Thomas, born August 16, 1686 – died October 17, 1689
- Obadiah, born July 13, 1688 – died 8, 1721*
Samuel Gore (1) lived his entire life in Roxbury. “He was Lieutenant in the Military Company of Roxbury in 1689, which took part in the revolution that overthrew the government of Sir Edmund Andros…” [Abbott, Courtright footnote]
He died on July 4, 1692 at age 41 and is buried at the Eliot Burying Ground in Roxbury, Massachusetts.
*For an interesting side story about a grandson of Obadiah Gore, please see the footnotes. (8)
The Weld Family Was Famous and Prosperous
“Elizabeth Weld was the daughter of John Weld (1630-1691) and Margaret Bowen (1623 – 1692). As was the case for most of these early colonists, her family traced their roots back to Wales and England. Captain Joseph Weld (1599–1646) was the youngest of the three brothers who immigrated from England. For his role in the Pequot War of 1637, the colonial legislature granted Weld 278 acres (1.13 km2) in the town of Roxbury. Captain Weld’s land is now much of present-day Jamaica Plain and Roslindale, and in particular the Arnold Arboretum. With the wealth generated from this grant, Joseph Weld became one of the first donors to Harvard and a founder of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts.”
After Samuel Gore died in 1692, Elizabeth (Weld) Gore married Benjamin Tucker in 1695. He died in 1713 and this left Elizabeth a widow once again. Ten years later in 1723 , aged 68, she married John Smith. Elizabeth (Weld) Gore Tucker Smith died in 1725. It is assumed that she is buried in the Eliot Burying Grounds with her family members. (9)
Women in Colonial America
Throughout the Gore narratives, we have been documenting what we can about our many ancestral grandmothers, but records are scarce. Sometimes we come upon source material that enlightens us as to what was expected of women from that era, and select a passage or two, to share. It can be difficult to understand and to not judge ancestors who held different beliefs from those we hold in the modern era.
A colonial woman’s main duty was to be married and bear as many children as possible to contribute to populating the new American country. It was common for women to have as many as six to twelve children by the time she was 40 – 45. Unfortunately, many of these children did not live into adolescence. A woman could have easily gone through her entire adulthood being pregnant and/or nursing a child. All too often many women died before reaching age 50.
(Illustration from Women in Colonial America, courtesy of Study.com).
In addition to bearing children a woman’s day of labor began at dawn and ended when the work was completed. From page 108 in Women of Colonial America…
“Wherever she lived, whether in a colonial town, on a farm or on the distant frontier, she began her day with a dizzying whirl of daily chores. Her family’s survival often depended upon her skills and efforts – her mastering housewifery.”
“Her duties included management of the house and yard which included dairy (milking, making cheese) planting and tending a kitchen garden, taking care of the hen house and often small animals such as a pig or goat. Of course, she also had to cook, clean the home, make the clothes and care for the children. If the children lived past infancy they were able to help with daily chores, including the farm work”.
Of course, some women did ‘make a name’ for themselves. We have included the following information about Anne Hutchinson because we think it is interesting to understand how women with their own ideas were treated in the very early years of America. Additionally, our ancestor, Joseph Weld and his uncle, the Reverend Thomas Weld, are mentioned. Here is a very brief summary of her story from Women of Colonial America:
Free thought and expression did not go well for Anne Hutchinson.
Anne Hutchinson “A Woman Unfit for Our Society”
Excerpted from page 55: Will and Anne Hutchinson and their eleven children arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1634 as a part of the Puritan movement to America. At that time John Winthrop was the most powerful man, and minister, in the Colony.
“Puritans believed revelation came through scripture interpreted by a minister. Anne claimed God had revealed himself directly to her, a claim considered a vain and arrogant boast for a woman – she placed herself on an equal plane with her betters, the ministers.”
Free thought and expression did not go well for Anne Hutchinson.
On November 7, 1637 at age 46 and during her 16th pregnancy, Anne was tried by a jury of men led by John Winthrop because “she commented, interpreted and preached on church doctrine. She encouraged her followers to evaluate and question their ministers.”
“The men confronting Anne in the Cambridge meetinghouse that day
saw a dangerous threat to authority, a woman who dabbled in matters
not befitting a female. There was something dark, they thought, something of the devil in a woman so bold and sharp-tongued as Mistress Hutchinson.”
Anne was tried for her interpretation of God and her indiscretions to the men of the Puritan church. Her sentence “was to be banished from our jurisdiction as being a woman unfit for our society and are to be imprisoned till the court shall send you away.”
(Image courtesy of the World History Encyclopedia).
At this point in Anne’s trial, the Weld(s) are involved.
“That long cold winter Anne lived under house arrest at the home of Joseph Weld.”
(Captain) Joseph Weld was Elizabeth (Weld) Gore’s grandfather. He and his brother, Reverend Thomas Weld, were deeply involved with the Puritan church. Thomas Weld was one of the ministers who took part in Anne Hutchinson’s trial. Eventually, Anne and her family were expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony and moved on to the Rhode Island Colony.
Other women were thought to be witches and went through some real terror.
1692/1693: from Smithsonian Magazine — “The Salem witch trials occurred in colonial Massachusetts between early 1692 and mid-1693. More than 200 people were accused of practicing witchcraft—the devil’s magic—and 20 were executed.” (10)
Observation: Some of these Puritan ancestors don’t appear to be (as we would phrase it today) a barrel of laughs...
In Part 4 we will be continuing the story of the Gore(s), writing about the son Samuel Gore (2) and his wife Hannah Draper, covering two generations.
Following are the footnotes for the Primary Source Materials,
Notes, and Observations
(1) — three records
World History Encyclopedia
James I of England
https://www.worldhistory.org/James_I_of_England/
Note: For his portrait.
Study.com
Charles I of England History & Facts
https://study.com/learn/lesson/charles-i-england-history-trial-execution.html
Note: For his portrait.
Charles II of England: History, Family, Reign & Achievements
https://simple.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_II_of_England
Note: For his portrait.
The Great Migration
(2) — one record
Puritan Migration to New England (1620–1640)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puritan_migration_to_New_England_(1620–1640)
Note: For the data.
New England, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1635
Great Migration, Vol 3, G-H
https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2496/images/42521_b158314-00000?ssrc=&backlabel=Return
Book pages: 114-120, Digital pages: 197-203/682
Note: For the text.
A New Era Begins in The American Colonies
(3) — twenty-three records
John Gore I
https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/38440429/person/29794662765/facts
and
John Goare Sr
https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/51080710/person/382429869086/facts
and
John Gore Sr
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/148040209/john-gore?_gl=15iqp3u_gaNjM1OTE4NzE2LjE2NzQxNjc5NjI._ga_4QT8FMEX30*MTY3NDI0Nzk0Mi4yLjEuMTY3NDI2OTc2MC4xNi4wLjA.
Note: For the data.
John Gore in the U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/718912:7486?ssrc=pt&tid=38440429&pid=29794662770
Note: For the data.
Nutfield Genealogy
Surname Saturday ~ Gore of Roxbury, Massachusetts
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/09/surname-saturday-gore-of-roxbury.html
Note: For the data.
Rhoda Gardner
https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/38440429/person/29794662770/facts
and
Thoda Gardner Gore
in the U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/721129:7486
and
Rhoda Gore Remington Porter Tidd
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/37144161/rhoda-gore_remington_porter_tidd?_gl=1fdkuhw_gaNDM0NTIxMTQ0LjE2NzQzNDU3MDk._ga_4QT8FMEX30*MTY3NDM0NTcwOC4xLjEuMTY3NDM1NDUwOS41Ny4wLjA.
Note: For the data.
Rhoda Gore
in the U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700
U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700 for Rhoda Gore
Second Supplement To Torrey´s New England Marriages Prior to 1700
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/900183268:3824
Note: For the data.
Rhoda Gore in the U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/12954:2204
Digital pages: 512-513/651
and
Rhoda Gore Remington Porter Tidd
https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/51080710/person/382429870496/facts
and
Rhoda Tidd
in the Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988
Roxbury
Births, Marriages, Deaths Publishments, 1630-1844
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/43486033:2495?ssrc=pt&tid=47996627&pid=20148939490
Digital page: 86/243, Left page, entry for August 22.
and
Rhoda Tidd (unknown)
https://www.geni.com/people/Rhoda-Tidd/6000000000112109712
and
Rhoda Gardner
https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/47996627/person/20148939490/facts
Note: For the data. The information on Rhoda’s parents is incorrect.
The Courtright (Kortright) family: descendants of Bastian Van Kortryk,
a Native of Belgium Who Emigrated to Holland About 1615
by John Howard Abbott
https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/viewer/130441/?offset=0#page=2&viewer=picture&o=info&n=0&q=
Book pages: 106-110, Digital pages: 110-114/153
Note: For the data. Some date details are incorrect.
John Gore
New England Historical Genealogical Register Online
https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/New_England_Historical_Genealogical_Register_Online
Note: For the copy of his Will.
The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 8, 1854
by New England Historic Genealogical Society
https://books.google.pt/books?id=IhHtlHzeygYC&printsec=frontcover&hl=pt-PT&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
Book page: 282
Note: For the data.
WMGS Members’ Genealogy
The Gore Family of Roxbury: New Evidence and Suspected Connections
by Douglas Richardson
https://trees.wmgs.org/showsource.php?sourceID=S267&tree=Schirado
Note: For the data.
Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines : A Memorial Volume Containing the American Ancestry of Rufus R. Dawes, Vol. I, 1943
Compiled by Mary Walton Ferris
https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/11708/ Vol I. Gore
Book pages: 320-325, Digital pages: 354-360/1773
Note: For the data.
John Gore
in the Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988
Roxbury > Births, Marriages, Deaths Publishments, 1630-1844
https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2495/records/43485741?tid=&pid=&queryId=6b685af7-cede-4892-b3a5-86ce74f4f577&_phsrc=wVz1&_phstart=successSource
Book page (original from transcription): p. 182, Digital page: 81/243
Note: For the data. John Gore death, first entry for June 1657, right page.
Cameron County Genealogy Project
Contributed by Mike Wennin
https://sites.rootsweb.com/~pacamero/gorefam.htm
Note: For the text.
History of the Town of Stonington, County of New London, Connecticut,
from its First Settlement in 1649 to 1900
by Richard Anson Wheeler
https://archive.org/details/historytownston00wheegoog/mode/2up
Digital pages: 396-398/754
Note: For the data.
The Genealogy of the Payne and Gore Families
Compiled by W. H. Whitmore
https://archive.org/details/genealogypaynea00whitgoog/page/n21/mode/2up
Book Pages: 26-30, Digital Pages: 38-42/80
Note: For the data.
The Massachusetts Bay Colony
(4) — four records
The Gore Family History — Jeff Gore’s Blog
https://jgoredotorg.wordpress.com/2018/05/27/the-gore-family-history/
Note: For the text.
WikiTree
Arrival of Winthrop’s Company in Boston Harbor (1630)
by William Formby Halsall (painted ca. 1880)
https://www.wikitree.com/photo/jpg/Puritan_Great_Migration_Editing_Guidance-1
Note: For the ship(s) painting.
File: Queens’ College, Cambridge by Loggan 1690
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Queens%27_College%2C_Cambridge_by_Loggan_1690_-quns_Loggan1685.jpg/1280px-Queens%27_College%2C_Cambridge_by_Loggan_1690-_quns_Loggan1685.jpg
Note: For image of the college.
Boston Public LIbrary
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
Plan of Boston showing existing ways and owners on December 25, 1635
by George Lamb
https://collections.leventhalmap.org/search/commonwealth:9s161947r
Note: For the map image.
First in Boston, Then Settling in Roxbury
(5) — four records
The Gore Family History — Jeff Gore’s Blog
https://jgoredotorg.wordpress.com/2018/05/27/the-gore-family-history/
Note: For the text.
Digital Commonwealth
Massachusetts Collections Online
Plan of Roxbury made by John G. Hales, dated 1830
https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:25152n00g
Note: For the map image.
The Town of Roxbury: its Memorable Persons and Places…
Francis S. Drake, 1828-1885
https://archive.org/details/townofroxburyits00drak/page/320/mode/2up
Book Page: 321, Digital Page: 320/475
Note: For the data.
Historical Collections, Being a General Collection of Interesting Facts, Traditions, Biographical Sketches, Anecdotes &c, Relating to the History and Antiquities of Every Town in Massachusetts
by John Warner Barber
https://books.google.pt/books?id=XYEUAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=pt-PT&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
Book pages: 482-486
Note: For the data.
The Gore Family Home
(6) — six records
The Gore Family History — Jeff Gore’s Blog
https://jgoredotorg.wordpress.com/2018/05/27/the-gore-family-history/
Note: For the text.
Jamaica Plain Historical Society
Paul Gore
https://www.jphs.org/people/2005/4/14/paul-gore.html
Note: For the data.
The Town of Roxbury: its memorable persons and places, its history and antiquities, with numerous illustrations of its old landmarks and noted personages
Francis Samuel Drake
https://archive.org/details/townofroxburyits00drak
For The Revolution of 1689: Book page 19, Digital page: 18/475
Note: For the data.
Map of the City of Roxbury
https://collections.leventhalmap.org/search/commonwealth:9s161f230
Note: For the map image.
Map of the City of Boston and Immediate Neighborhood : from original surveys
https://collections.leventhalmap.org/search/commonwealth:3f4632536
Note: For the map image.
A Plan of Boston in New England with its Environs
by Henry Pelham, cartographer; Francis Jukes, engraver, 1775-1777
https://encyclopediavirginia.org/4702hpr-66c692627255665/
Note: For the map image.
Samuel Gore, The Second Generation
(7) — four records
The Gore Family History — Jeff Gore’s Blog
https://jgoredotorg.wordpress.com/2018/05/27/the-gore-family-history/
Note: For the text.
Dictionary.com
primogeniture
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/primogeniture
Note: For the data.
List of English Monarchs
Houses of Stuart and Orange
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_monarchs
Note: For their portraits.
1689 Boston Revolt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1689_Boston_revolt
Background image source:
File:AndrosaPrisonerInBoston.png
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AndrosaPrisonerInBoston.png
Note: For the data and image.
Samuel Gore Marries Elizabeth Weld
(8) — eight records
The Gore Family History — Jeff Gore’s Blog
https://jgoredotorg.wordpress.com/2018/05/27/the-gore-family-history/
Note: For the text.
Jamaica Plain Historical Society
The Weld Family
https://www.jphs.org/people/2005/3/14/the-weld-family.html
Note: For the text.
Weld Collections
by Charles Frederick Robinson
https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/2558919
and
ibid.
https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/viewer/357789/?offset=0#page=59&viewer=picture&o=download&n=0&q=
(Downloadable pdf) Book page: 59/267
Note: For the data.
The Genealogy of the Payne and Gore Families
Compiled by W. H. Whitmore
https://archive.org/details/genealogypaynea00whitgoog/page/n21/mode/2up
Book Pages: 26-30, Digital Pages: 38-42/80
Note: For the data.
Genealogy of the Kennan Family
by Thomas Lathrop Kennan
https://archive.org/details/genealogyofkenna00kenn/page/n7/mode/2up
Book pages: 94-98, Digital pages: 94-98/164
Note: For the data.
Samuel Gore
in the Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988
Roxbury > Records Births, Marriages, Deaths, 1630-1785
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/43450206:2495?ssrc=pt&tid=73698554&pid=78019623135
Digital page: 35/115
Note: For his death record. Left page, entry 2 from the bottom.
*Regarding Obadiah Gore,
from The Gore Family History — Jeff Gore’s Blog
https://jgoredotorg.wordpress.com/2018/05/27/the-gore-family-history/
We wanted to share the following because it is quite interesting:
“…it is worth mentioning that one of Samuel Gore Sr.’s other sons, Obadiah Gore, was the grandfather of Christopher Gore (1758 – 1827), who was a well-known lawyer, financier, and politician. He served as Governor of Massachusetts as well as US Senator from Massachusetts. His summer home, Gore Place (image above), is in Waltham and can still be visited. In addition, the former library at Harvard, Gore Hall, was named after Christopher (donations by the childless Christopher probably helped…). Gore Hall played a major role in the history and identity of the City of Cambridge, and indeed an image of Gore Hall is in the official seal of Cambridge (below). Unfortunately, Christopher Gore did not have any children”.
The Weld Family Was Famous and Prosperous
(9) — five records
The Gore Family History — Jeff Gore’s Blog
https://jgoredotorg.wordpress.com/2018/05/27/the-gore-family-history/
Note: For the text.
Elizabeth Weld
in the Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988
Roxbury > Records Births, Marriages, Deaths, 1630-1785; Vol. 1
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/43457021:2495?tid=&pid=&queryId=745a397cad972b36c88900114e9a711f&_phsrc=udC9&_phstart=successSource
Digital page: 8/168, Left page, entry 9 [borne] November 14.
Note: For her birth date.
Elisebeth Weld
in the Massachusetts, U.S., Compiled Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1700-1850
Roxbury
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/91619543:61401?tid=&pid=&queryId=f9f0ed1b4c6cb58fba34bd64ce57a8db&_phsrc=iQQ14&_phstart=successSource
Book page: 174, Digital page: 572/1080
Note: For her marriage to Samuel Gore, 1672, Lower middle of page.
Elizabeth Tucker
in the U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700
Marriage to Benjamin Tucker, 1695
New England Marriages Prior to 1700
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/170884:3824?tid=&pid=&queryId=d2f2b2b4b8c5f28a262df4364d572d78&_phsrc=udC14&_phstart=successSource
Book page: 174, Digital page: 771/1022
Note: For her marriage to Benjamin Tucker, Lower middle of page.
Elizabeth Tucker
in the Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988
Roxbury > Records Births, Marriages, Deaths, 1630-1785
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/66339175:2495?tid=&pid=&queryId=30a6e31fedac6ede9684cb128a297249&_phsrc=iQQ8&_phstart=successSource
Digital page: 62/115
Note: For her marriage to John Smith, 1723, Left page, center.
Women in Colonial America,
Anne Hutchinson “A Woman Unfit for Our Society”
(10) — five records
Women of Colonial America
13 Stories of Courage and Survival in the New World, page 55 & 108
by Brandon Marie Miller
https://www.chicagoreviewpress.com/women-of-colonial-america-products-9781556524882.php
Note: For the text.
Study.com
Women in Colonial America
https://study.com/learn/lesson/women-in-colonial-america-roles-rights-significance.html
Note: For the illustration, “Women worked primarily in the home.”
John Winthrop, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
by A follower of Anthony van Dyck [attribution]
https://www.worldhistory.org/image/13016/john-winthrop-governor-of-massachussets-bay-colony/
Note: For his portrait.
Smithsonian Magazine
A Brief History of the Salem Witch Trials
One town’s strange journey from paranoia to pardon
by Jess Blumberg
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/a-brief-history-of-the-salem-witch-trials-175162489/#:~:text=The%20Salem%20witch%20trials%20occurred,magic—and%2020%20were%20executed.
Note: For the text.
File:Examination of a Witch – Tompkins Matteson.jpg
by T.H. Matteson, 1853
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Examination_of_a_Witch_-_Tompkins_Matteson.jpg
Note: For the painting image.
Our Ancestors, Our Narratives 
