Nathaniel Gardner IV (1754 - 1820)

Born 16 Oct 1754 in Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts

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Died 9 Jan 1820 at age 65 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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Biography

Nathaniel was born in 1754. He passed away in 1820. Nathaniel Gardner, a native of Nantucket, Massachusetts, was a descendant of some of the earliest settlers of Massachusetts, numbering among his lineal ancestors Tristram Coffin, the celebrated founder and first magistrate of the colony on Nantucket Island, referred to by historians as the prototype of William Penn because of his humane and diplomatic treatment of the Indians among whom this early colony settled. He was also a descendant of Edward Starbuck, another magistrate of Nantucket, who was born in Derbyshire, England, in 1594, and settled at Dover, New Hampshire, in 1635. Nathaniel Gardner, like Elisha Crowell, was a seafaring man. He was master of a vessel sailing from the port of Philadelphia, which during the Revolutionary war was captured by the British, and Captain Gardner was for a time a prisoner on a British war vessel.^{[1] [2]}

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1. ↑ Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs, Editor, John W. Jordan, LL.D., Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Volume II, published 1911
2. ↑ Unsourced family tree handed down to Daniel Crowell.