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LIEUTENANT
JOSHUA HEWES A NEW ENGLAND PIONEER
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS WITH MATERIALS FOR A GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF OTHER
FAMILIES OF THE NAME AND A SKETCH OF
JOSEPH HEWES THE SIGNER EDITED AND CHIEFLY COMPILED BY
EBEN PUTNAM
Number California Genealogical Society, etc. PRIVATELY PRINTED
1913 PHEBE HEWES, daughter of John Hewes of Royston,
came to New England, probably with her brother Joshua Hewes, and was at Roxbury, where she married 30 Nov., 1639, Richard Gorde of Roxbury, who came to New England, in April, 1635, in the Elizabeth and Ann, aged
seventeen. He was admitted a freeman 29 May, 1644, and died 27 Sept., 1683, leaving a will dated 18 Sept. of that year, by which he left his entire estate to his son Joseph who was to pay small legacies to his
sisters, Phoebe, wife of Thomas Andrews, and Lydia, wife of Joseph Twitchell. He requested his "loving friend John Gore" to be overseer. John Gore and Abraham How, Jr., were witnesses to the will, which
was proved 31 Oct., 1681. According to the inventory of his estate he died 27 Sept., 1683, (Suffolk Probate, 6:447; 9:163).
The name is frequently Goad or Goard on the old records. Children:
HANNAH GORDE, born June, 1641.
JOHN GORDE, bapt. 1 July, 1643.
MARY GORDE, born 23 June, 1644.
PHEBE GORDE, born 14 March, 1645-6; married Thomas Andrews
JOSEPH GORDE, born 19 Sept., 1647; died aet. 8 mos.
SARAH GORDE, born 25 March, 1649.
JOSEPH GORDE, born 13 April, 1651; married 23 March, 1681, Ann Chaplin. He was a soldier in the war with King Philip.
LYDIA GORDE, born 27 Feb., 1652-3; married Joseph Twitchell.
BENJAMIN GORDE, born 3 Dec., 1654.
BENJAMIN GORDE, born 7 Sept., 1656. He was executed under the old law, 2 April, 1674. (See Mass. Hist.
Coll., 3d series., X., 98, and Assistants Records, page 11.)
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