John Gove & Mary Shard 
They had a son named Edward.
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Personal Details
Birth Notes
or 1604
Death Notes
or 1648Birth Notes
or 1610
John Gove
John was born in 1601 in London, England.1
Mary Shard
Mary was born on February 25th, 1609 in St. Nicholas, Cole Abbey, England.
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Children
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 CutterDeath 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.
Edward Gove
Edward was born in 1636 in London, England.4
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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.
2 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. 8.
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. 11.
4 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.