Individual Details
George Gardiner
(Feb 1599 - 1677)
Events
Families
Spouse | Lydia Ballou (1640 - 1722) |
Child | Lydia Gardiner (1669 - 1723) |
Spouse | Sarah Slaughter (1600 - 1637) |
Spouse | Herodias Long (1623 - 1722) |
Child | George Gardiner (1648 - 1723) |
Father | Michael Gardiner (1552 - 1630) |
Notes
Marriage
A common law marriageCivil
George is one of the men who signed a land deed, land sale with Indian Socho, the true owner of Misquanacock.Marriage
Despite the notoriety of the trial Gardiner does not appear to have lost his standing in the colony, he married Lydia Ballou, dau. of Robert Ballou of Portsmouth by whom he had several children, his widow married 2nd William Hawkins of Providence.Civil
Lydia's dad's will, "unto my truly well beloved wife Susannah all my worldly estate, two daughters and sonn twelve pence apiece, and also my son in law George Gardiner, I leave to the protection of Almighty God dated the second of June in the year 1668"Endnotes
1. AmericanAncestors.org. New England marriages to 1700 database, Boston, NEHGS, 2008., Volume 1 page 597.
2. AmericanAncestors.org. New England marriages to 1700 database, Boston, NEHGS, 2008., Volume 1 page 597.
3. Potter, Elisha. The Early history of Narragansett, Providence, Marshall, Brown and Company, 1835., Page 242 Land purchase text and witnesses.
4. AmericanAncestors.org. New England marriages to 1700 database, Boston, NEHGS, 2008., Volume 1 page 597.
5. Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991, Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015., Suffolk County Probate Records, 1636-1899; Page 27, 28. Page 28 marked ‘page 17 in original volume’. Image 212 of 922.
6. Find A Grave online indexed database, https://www.findagrave.com, Unknown, Memorial 34224637.