Gorham Lovell, my 3rd Great Grandfather, and father of Herbert H. Lovell was born in Sandwich, Mass. in January of 1825. Sandwich is the oldest town on Cape Cod, settled in 1637 with permission from the Plymouth Colony. The above etching depicts Sandwich in 1836. Gorham and brother Harry were sailors in 1850 but eventually settled down to farming. Gorham was married twice; first to a woman with the last name Chase (her first name may have been Mary). They had two children, Gorham F. and William. His second wife was Mehitable Cahoon who was 20 years younger than Gorham. She was born in 1836 in Massachusetts and was living in Sandwich in 1850.
Gorham and Mehitable had 8 children, Ensign, Ida, Franklin, Eveline, Herbert, Warren, Benjamin, and Irving. Sometime between 1870 and 1880 the family moved to Taunton, Mass. and had a residence on East Water Street.
Benjamin died of diphtheria at the age of 4 but the other children lived into the 1900's and raised families in Mass.
Gorham died May 25, 1896 in Taunton. I have not found Mehitable after 1890.
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