1William Richard Cutter, Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Middlesex Co., Massachusetts
Vol. 4, p. 1821 (1908).
"(VI) John Gurney, son of Zachariah Gurney (5), born in Bridgewater, April 17, 1755, died there December 11, 1796. He was a soldier in the Revolution, a private in Josiah Hayden's compnay of minutemen, Colonel Bailey's regiment, April 19, 1775, on the Lexington Alarm. He married Januaty 29, 1777, Mehitable Southworth, daughter of Lemuel Southworth. Children, born at North Bridgewater: 1, Mehitable, born September 19, 1778. 2. Patience, born March 31, 1780. 3. Mille, born March 2, 1782. 4. Martha, born July 1, 1784. 5. John, norn March 1, 1786. 6. Sibil, born July 2, 1788. 7, Anna, born March 9, 1790. 8. Rhoda, born February 2, 192, married in 1811, Baruch Morse, of Stoughton. 9. Lemuel, born February 25, 1794. 10. Samuel mentioned below.
(VIII) Samuel Gurney, son of John Gurney (6), was born in North Bridgewater, February 13, 1797, posthumous.".