Richard Gardner (abt. 1622 - 1698)

Born about 1622 in Charleston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts [uncertain]

Husband of Anna (Rolfe) Gardner — married 18 Oct 1651 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died 29 May 1698 at about age 76 in Charlestown, Suffolk County, Massachusetts

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Biography

This profile is part of the Gardner Name Study.

Richard Gardner was born in Massachusetts to Thomas Gardner and Mary Fryer about 1619. Lived in Woburn, Massachusetts. He became a yeoman in 1648 and made a freeman in 1652.

He bought the lands of Thomas Broughton in 1658 and removed to Charleston where he bought further lands in 1676.

He married Anne Rolfe Blanchard 18 October 1651, Daughter of Henry and Honour Rolfe in Woburn. He paid 108 pounds security for Thomas Blanchard and Anna's 2 children ( Sarah and Marie (b.1645).)

Richard and Anne had:

John Gardner

Anna Gardner

Benjamin Gardner

Henry Gardner

Esther Gardner

Ruth Gardner

Abigail Gardner

Rebecca Gardner

Mehitable Garden

His will is dated 15 March 1676/7 and probated 6 June 1698. He left bequests to his only son Henry and his son John, children of daughters Hannah Coddington, Ruth Gypson, daughters Hester, Abigail, Rebecca, Mehitable, grandchildren Benjamin Johnson son of Hester, John Whitmore son of Rebecca, John Connent son of Mehitable, Richard and Simon Thompson sons of Abigail, Major William Johnson, and Pastor Jabez Fox.

Richard Gardner's death is recorded at Woburn as May 29, 1698, 79 years, probably based on his gravestone in the First Burial Ground there, which reads:^[1][2]

💀

HERE LYES Yͤ BODY OF

RICHARD GARDNER

AGED ABOUT 79

YEARS DIED MAY

29   1698.

Sources

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• COLE, Susan Mary Brandt Cole. Some descendants of Richard Gardner of Woburn, Massachusetts: (born in Surrey County, England, ca. 1619) (died in Charlestown, Massachusetts, 1698). Self-published, 1978.

• NEGRS 1986 Vol. 140, p. 314. Source of Thomas's daughters and the security Richard paid.

• POPE, Charles Henry. The pioneers of Massachusetts, a descriptive list, drawn from records of the colonies, towns and churches and other contemporaneous documents (1620-1650), pub. 1900, pg181. Information about children and the will he left.

• SEWALL, Samuel. The History of Woburn Massachusetts. Wiggin & Lunt Publishers, Boston, p. 614-5.

• SAVAGE, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, New York, 1864, p 226. Lists Richard Gardner.

• WHITMORE, William Henry.The American Genealogist: Being a Catalogue of Family Histories and Publications Containing Genealogical Information Issued in the United States, Arranged Chronologically, Munsell, Albany, 1868. Greenough's Descendents of Richard Gardner, p. 130

• U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970

Volume: 194; SAR Membership Number: 38759

Birth 1619

Death: Age: 79 29 MAR 1698 Woburn, Middlesex, MA,

• Sanborn, Lutz, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Deponents, 1649-1700 ::Middlesex County, Massachusetts Deponents, 1649-1700

Middlesex County, Massachusetts deponents (those who gave depositions) between 1649 and 1700.

Richard Gardner is listed 6 times.

• Sone Early Settlers and Dates of their Arrival

Richard Gardner

Arrival Year 1624

Arrival Place Massachusetts

Primary Immigrant Gardner, Thomas

Family Members Wife; Child George; Child Richard; Child Joseph

” SOME EARLY SETTLERS AND DATE OF THEIR ARRIVAL." In Missing Links, no. 27 (Oct. 1964), pp. 531-532.

• Massachusetts Marriage Records

Richard Gardner

Marriage Date 18 Oct 1651

Place Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Spouse Anna Blanchard

• NEGR

Richard Gardner

Birth Date abt 1619

Age at Death 79

Death Date 29 May 1698

Death Place Woburn, MA

• Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 14 August 2018), memorial page for Richard Gardner (1622–29 May 1698), Find A Grave: Memorial #7849510, citing First Burial Ground, Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA ; Maintained by Peter Sherwin (contributor 47915998

• Godfrey Memorial Library, comp. American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI) Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA;

Richard Gardner

Birth Date 1619

Volume 60

Page number 452

• Edmund West, comp. Family Data Collection - Deaths Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2001.

Name Richard Gardner

Father Thomas Gardner

Mother Margaret Friar

Birth Date 1621

City Salem

County Essex

State MA

• Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-Current Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2014;

Richard Gardner

Birth Date 1621

Birth Place Martock, Somerset, England, Uk

Death Date 23 mrt. 1688 (23 Mar 1688)

Death Place Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts, USA

Death Age 67

Spouse Sarah Shattuck

Children Miriam Gardner; Benjamin Gardner; Sarah Gardner; Henry Gardner; Nathaniel Gardner; Joseph Gardner; Esther Gardner; Abigail Gardner; Richard Gardner; Samuel Gardner; Rebecca Gardner; Ruth Gardner; John Gardner; Levi Gardner; Hannah Gardner; Hope Gardner; Sarah Gardner; Damaris Gardner; James Gardner; Deborah Gardner

• Heritage Consulting Millennium File Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2003; NOTEThe Millennium File

• New England Marriages Prior to 1700 Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012; NOTENew England Marriages Prior to 1700

• Ancestry.com England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2014; Repository:

• Flint, James, comp Middlesex County, Massachusetts Probate Index, 1648-1870 Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2000; Repository: #R1

• Ancestry.com The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, 1847-2011 Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011; Repository: #R1

• Ancestry.com New England, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1635 Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2013; Repository: #R4

• Ancestry.com Web: Massachusetts, Find A Grave Index, 1620-2013 Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;

• Edmund West, comp. Family Data Collection - Births Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2001; Repository: #R1

1. ↑ Johnson, Edward. Woburn Records of Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Marriage Intentions, from 1640 to 1900 (Woburn, Mass., 1890-1919). Part II. Deaths. Page 78. Citing: "Gardner, Richard, s. of __, May 29, 1698; 79 y. [also recorded, 1705]."
2. ↑ Woburn Records of Births, Deaths, Marriages: Part II. Epitaphs, First Burial-Ground. Page 11*. Citing: "(21.) Richard Gardner."

See Also:

• Text: Manuscript. Text: [Hugh Darrell Miller, comp.]. Text: Genealogy: Ethel Peters Miller/Hugh Darrell Miller. Text: 1985. Text: copy in possession of author