Dear GORHAM cousins, I am very anxious to contact the owner of this GORHAM website. Is the author named R. W. BAIRD? Does anyone know an email address for him/her? There is very good research here that coordinates with work I have been doing on John GORHAM'S parents. http://home.nc.rr.com/rwbaird/gorham/Thomas%20Gorham.htm An excerpt: He [ Thomas ] appears a few times in the court records of Loudoun County, but not after 1782. The most interesting of these records is his selection by Miles Barden as his guardian on 13 March 1782 and his petition on Barden's behalf to settle the estate of his father, Thomas Barden a few months later.[5] Thomas Barden, who had been listed near Thomas Gorham in the tithables lists beginning in 1768, died in 1775 leaving a widow named Elizabeth who had remarried to John Wells. Elizabeth Barden may have been Thomas Gorham's sister, since her son Miles Barden is shown in the 1786 tithables as "Miles Gorham Barden". Thanks for your help! Pat Bishop Obrist [5] Loudoun County Minute Book 1780-1783, p108.