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By about 1670, Gorton was in his advanced years and had retired from official
cares. He died on December 10, 1677 at the age of 85. Samuel’s grave is in
Warwick behind a home off Warwick Neck Road. There are several Gorton
cemeteries there. To this day, several lines of Gortons live in the area. Much has
been written about Samuel. Samuel can be called a forgotten founder of liberty.
References and Books about Samuel Gorton
1907 The Life and Times of Samuel Gorton by Adelos Gorton, a very rare book.
1980 Samuel Gorton of Rhode Island and His Descendants, Thomas Gorton.
May 1942 Bulletin of the Newport, Rhode Island Historical Society titled: "Samuel
Gorton" by William Wager Weeden.
Samuel Gorton's letter to Lord Hyde - Providence: Society of Colonial War 1930,
page 5 (Also called GORTON TO HYDE)
Massachusetts War with Samuel Gorton, Providence: RHODE ISLAND PENDULUM,
142.
"The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge," Samuel Macauley
Jackson New York Funk and Wagnalls, dated 1909, page 25-26
"Simplicities Defence Against Seven-Headed Policy," by Samuel Gorton London,
1646.
"The Founding of New England," Boton: The Atlantic Monthly 1921, page 142
"An Abstract of The Laws of New England," John Cotton, London 1641, page 10.
"The Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, The Story how
Samuel Gorton fought in the Pequot War," by Nathaniel B. Shurleff, Boston 1855,
page 104, 1856, page 70.
"History of Rhode Island." John S. Taylor, NY 1853, page 40.
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