Edward Gove 
Edward was born in 1636 in London, England.1 Birth Notes
Edward Gove settled in Hampton, New Hampshire and became a very prominent citizen. He headed a movement to overthrow Governor Cranfield of New Hampshire, but the conspiracy failed and he and ten others, including son, John were arrested and tried for treason, He was found guilty and sentenced to death and his estate seized for the crown. The others were pardoned after conviction, but he was sent to London and kept there for three years in the Tower of London. At length he was also pardoned and his estates restored to him.
Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Volume 3, page 1087, By William Richard Cutter
Death Notes
George Freeman Sanborn and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, Vital Records of Hampton, New Hampshire to the End of the Year 1900, Vol. 1, New England Historic Genealogical Society, p.8.
183. William Henry Gove, The Gove Book, History and Genealogy of The American Family of Gove and Notes of European Goves, Sydney Perley, Publisher, Salem, Mass., 1922, p. 48.
184. Lane Library, Hampton, New Hampshire, "Pine Grove Cemetery," http://www.hampton.lib.nh.us/hampton/graves/Pinegrov.htm, 2 August 2004.
General Notes
Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Volume 3, page 1088, By William Richard Cutter
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.1601 in London, England d.28 Feb 1647 in Charlestown, Massachusetts
- b.1636 in London, England d.29 May 1691 in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire
- d.1614
- b.1582
- d.14 Jan 1617
- b.25 Feb 1609 in St. Nicholas, Cole Abbey, England d.04 Mar 1681 in Seabrook, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
- d.20 Oct 1637
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They had a son named John.
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Children
Birth Notes
Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Volume 3, page 1088, By William Richard Cutter
Resided in Seabrook, New Hampshire
John Gove
John was born on September 19th, 1661 in Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts.2
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Sources/Citations
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1 William Henry Gove, The Gove Book, History and Genealogy of The American Family of Gove and Notes of European Goves, Sydney Perley, Publisher, Salem, Mass., 1922, p. 12.
2 "Vital Records of Salisbury, Massachusetts," Early Vital Records of Essex County, Massachusetts to about 1850, CD-ROM Edition, Search & Research Publishing Corporation, Wheat Ridge, Colorado 80003, 1999, images of original volumes published by the Topsfield Historical Society, Topsfield, Massachusetts, 1915., p. 120.
3 William Henry Gove, The Gove Book, History and Genealogy of The American Family of Gove and Notes of European Goves, Sydney Perley, Publisher, Salem, Mass., 1922, p. 56.