Ephraim GOVER
1. Date of birth taken from Clifts Meeting Quaker records. These records also show his father and mother as Samuel Gover and Elizabeth. 2. See notes 1 & 2 under Samuel Gover, brother
1. See note under sister Prissalla regarding probate. 2. Book on Maryland Marriages 1634-1777 shows marriage of Elizabeth Gover dau of Ephraim and Elizabeth on 9 Feb 1769 to Joseph Hopkins. 3. 1776 census for Deer Creek Lower Hundred, Harford, Maryland shows Jos. Jun., Hopkins, age 34 with Elizbth, age 34; Ann, age 7; John, age 5; Joseph, age 4; Elizabeth, age 1 1/2.
1. Cassandria shown as child of Elizabeth Gover in 1776 Deer Creek Lower Hundred, age 33. 2. Will of Priscilla Gover shows sister, Cassandra Harris. 3. The book Early Harford Contains p. 187 shows marriage of Cassandra Gover daughter of Ephraim Gover, deceased and Elizabeth on 10 Mar 1785 to Samuel Harris.
1. See note under Prissilla Gover, sister regarding probate. 2. The 1776 census of Deer Creek Lower Hundred, Harford, Maryland shows Saml Hopkins, age 30; Mary, age 30; Elizabeth, age 6; Ephrm Gover Hopkins, age 5; Phillip, age 3; Samuel, age 1.
1. Shown as child, age 28 with Elizabeth Gover in 1776 Deer Creek Lower Hundred census. 2. Probate records show date of death as 3 Mar 1807. Heirs are Elizabeth Hopkins, deceased, sisterof deceased; Samuel Gover, brother; Robert Gover, brother; Ephraim G. Gover, brother; Heirs of Margaret Dallam, deceased, sister of deceased; Mary Hopkins, sister; Rachel Cox, sister; Cassandra Harris, sister.
1. See notes under Prissalla, sister regarding probate. 2. Book on Maryland marriages 1634-1777 show Margaret Gover, dau of Ephraim and Elizabeth marriage on 9 Jan 1772 to Winston Smith Dallam. 3. The census of Deer Creek Lower Hundred, Harford, Maryland shows Winston Dallam, age 27; Magrett, age 26; Francis, age 4; Elizabeth, age 2.
1. See note under Prissilla Gover, sister 2. See notes under husband
1. See note of probate record of Prissilla Gover, sister under Prissilla. 2. The 1776 census of Deer Creek Lower Hundred, Harford, Maryland show a Samuel Gover, age 21.
1. Gittings shown as child with Elizabeth Gover, age 17 in 1776 Deer Creek Lower Hundred, Harford, Maryland. 2. See probate record under sister Prissalla. This record shows a brother Ephraim G. Gover. 3. Maryland book of Marriages, 1778-1800 shows Ephraim Gittings Gover married 31 Jan 1793 to Elizabeth Gover.
He married Elizabeth Gittings Abt 1741 at Maryland . Elizabeth Gittings was born at St. John's, Baltimore, Maryland Abt 1726 daughter of Thomas Gittings and Elizabeth Redgrave .
They were the parents of 9
children:
Elizabeth Gover
born 1742.
Cassandria Gover
born 1743.
Mary Gover
born 1746.
Prissilla Gover
born 1748.
Margaret Gover
born 1750.
Rachel Gover
born 1751.
Samuel Gover
born Abt 1755.
Ephraim Gittings Gover
born 1759.
Robert Gover
born Abt 1761.