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THIRTEENTH GENERATION

4820. Thomas Gardner

"GARDNER, ...(4820) THOMAS, Salem, was first at Cape Ann, employ. by the project. of sett. to oversee fishery, 1624 or 5, and rem. with Conant, freem. 17 May 1637, rep. same yr. It is said, on what ground I kn. not, that he was from Scotland; but to me it seems much more likely, that he was from Sherborne in N. part of Co. Dorset. Ten other ch. he had, by his first w. (4821) Margaret Fryer, beside (4821x) Seeth, bapt. 25 Dec. 1636 (wh. m. I believe, the sec. (4823iv) Joseph Grafton); as, (4821i) Thomas, (4828) Richard, (4938) George, John, (4821vii) Samuel, (4821iv) Joseph, (4821vi) Sarah, (4821ix) Elizabeth Bethia, and (4821viii) Miriam, for some of wh. the prob. is stronger than for others. Only six s. with three ds. are nam. in his will of 7 Dec. 1668. Sarah was w. of (4821vi[1]) Benjamin Balch, it is thot. and Miriam of a (4821viii[1]) Hill; and Margaret, wh. was rec. of the ch. 1689, may have been his w. He had sec. w. (9337) Damaris Shattuck, a wid. from Eng. wh. d. 28 Nov. 1674, and d. 29 Dec. 1674."

-- James Savage, "A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Before 1692" c/o http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/newengland/savage/

4821. Margaret Friar /Fryar

"(4820) Thomas Gardner sailed, prob. from Weymouth, Dorset, England, in the "Zouch Phenix" in 1624 with wife and sons Thomas, George, Richard and Joseph; was sent as superintendent of planting of the colony by The Western Adventurers of Dorchester, Dorset, England; overseer of the fishery in Cape Ann, Mass. in 1624/5; removed with Roger Conant to Salem, Mass. in 1626..."

-- http://members.mint.net/caronfam/heritage/regg.htm; SRC:Mass. Rec., 1:49.

From New England History and Genealogical Register, vol. xxv., pp. 48, 49, we learn that "(4820) Thomas Gardiner, the first of the Salem stock, came over in 1624 from Dorsetshire, England, near which the name had flourished for more than three centuries, and settled under the auspices of the Dorchester Company and Rev. John White, with thirteen others at Gloucester, Cape Ann, upon the grant of Lord Sheffield to Robert Cushman and Edward Winslow, made in January of that year.

-- http://members.localnet.com/~rossbk/GenGardner.htm

(4821vii) Samuel Gardner and George Gardner were witnesses to the will of Abigail Moulton in Salem, Essex, MA on 5 Dec. 1665, in which (4821vii) Samuel Gardner and (4823iii)Joseph Grafton were named executors

-- http://www.hertge.com/wills/moultona.htm

Some refer to (4822) Thomas as "Governor". I don't know what he was Governor of. Some show (4823i) Thomas m. to Lucy Smith (d. 4 Nov. 1687), and ancestor of Presidents John & John Quincy Adams. James Savage, however, indicated that this was a different Thos. Jr. of Roxbury, s/o Thos. (d. 1638) & May (d. 1658) Gardner of the same place.

4822. Joseph Grafton

"GRAFTON, ...(4822) JOSEPH, Salem 1636, freem. 17 May 1637; had w. (4823) Marg wh. d. Nov 1674, and ch. (2411) Priscilla; (4823iii) Joseph, bapt. 24 Jan. 1637; (4823iv) John, 28 Apr. 1639, bef. ment. and (4823v) Nathaniel, 24 Apr. or 1 May 1642. He was an active mariner and merch. is sec. w. was (4822[2]) Bethia, wid. of (4822[2][1]) capt. Thomas Lathrop, d. of Daniel Rea, or Ray, wh. as admor. of L. join. with him in 1681, to sett. the est. with Ezekiel Cheever, and his w. Ellen, sis. of L. and after his (G.'s) d. m. bef. 26 June 1683, deac. (4822[2][3]) William Goodhue. Priscilla m. 20 Feb. 1654, (2410) John Gardner."

-- James Savage, op. cit.

4823. Mary Moore

REF: http://data.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=gedfam&ti=0&f0=15614&f1=2166

"(4822) Joseph was a Salem sea captain and merchant who had a ketch of forty tons which on may 17, 1640 made a voyage to Pemaquid and brought back some twenty cows, oxen with hay and water for them to the bay. Later, Grafton got mixed up in the LaTour - D'Aulnay controvery, losing his ship. He settled in Salem by 1636. He left a considerable estate and shares in several vessels at his death.

-- http://kyusa.addr.com/Grafton/index.html

4828. (4821iii) Richard Gardner

4829. (9337vii) Sarah Shattuck -- PARRISH/ DUNCAN LINE

REF: http://data.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=gedfam&ti=0&f0=15614&f1=310

(4828) Richard Gardner and (4829) Sarah his wife were excommunicated from the church in Salem for attending Quaker meetings [cf (4939) Hannah Shattuck notes]; and they removed in 1666, to Nantucket, where their two youngest children were born. -- http://www.piaf.com/genealogy/ds1674.html

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