Colonel John Gorham was born in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Province of Massachusetts Bay, British North America on 12 December 1709 to Shubael and Mary (Thatcher) Gorham. John Gorham married Elizabeth Allyn in Barnstable on 2 March 1731 and had 15 children. He was one of a few New England Rangers to earn a commission in the British Army during the prelude of the French and Indian War in North America. He established the famous unit "Gorham's Rangers during the Conquest of Arcadia (Nova Scotia. He served in the Massachusetts provincial Infantry Regiment during King George's War at the Siege of Annapolis Royal (1744) and at the Siege of Louisbourg (1745). In 1748 he received a commission in the British Army to defend Nova Scotia. During this time he was in command of Gorham's Independent Company of Rangers and successfully destroyed the Acadian resistance and brought Nova Scotia under British control. In 1749 he was appointed to the Nova Scotia Council. With the outbreak of Father Le Loutre's War in 1749 he built Fort Sackville at the present-day sire of Bedford, Nova Scotia. He participated in the Battle at St. Croix as well as the Battle of Chignecto. There has been much public attention during the 21st century of his use of Frontier warfare or total war during these conflicts but little has been said of the frontier warfare as the standard practice of both sides during the conflict. Gorham held his position on the Council for two years and then left Nova Scotia for England in August of 1751. John Gorham died in London in December 1751 of smallpox.
Colonel John Gorham was born in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Province of Massachusetts Bay, British North America on 12 December 1709 to Shubael and Mary (Thatcher) Gorham. John Gorham married Elizabeth Allyn in Barnstable on 2 March 1731 and had 15 children. He was one of a few New England Rangers to earn a commission in the British Army during the prelude of the French and Indian War in North America. He established the famous unit "Gorham's Rangers during the Conquest of Arcadia (Nova Scotia. He served in the Massachusetts provincial Infantry Regiment during King George's War at the Siege of Annapolis Royal (1744) and at the Siege of Louisbourg (1745). In 1748 he received a commission in the British Army to defend Nova Scotia. During this time he was in command of Gorham's Independent Company of Rangers and successfully destroyed the Acadian resistance and brought Nova Scotia under British control. In 1749 he was appointed to the Nova Scotia Council. With the outbreak of Father Le Loutre's War in 1749 he built Fort Sackville at the present-day sire of Bedford, Nova Scotia. He participated in the Battle at St. Croix as well as the Battle of Chignecto. There has been much public attention during the 21st century of his use of Frontier warfare or total war during these conflicts but little has been said of the frontier warfare as the standard practice of both sides during the conflict. Gorham held his position on the Council for two years and then left Nova Scotia for England in August of 1751. John Gorham died in London in December 1751 of smallpox.
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