Andrew Gardner Sr. (abt. 1694 - aft. 1790)

Born about 1694 in Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts Colony

Descendants

Died after 1790 after about age 96 in Winchester, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States

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Biography

Graduated Harvard College 1712. Preacher at Lunenburg, Massachusetts.

Rev. Andrew Gardner preached in Rutland in 1724. He also preached in Worcester and Lunenburg. When dismissed from the latter for hunting on the Sabbath, he removed to the neighborhood of the Connecticut River and became one of the early settlers of Winchester N.H. He had a reputation as an eccentric.

He married Susannah Lynde Willard as her second husband. They had four children: Andrew Gardner, Susannah Gardner (m. Wm. Simonds), Sarah Gardner Fitch, Mary Gardner Coult.

Sources

• Find A Grave: Memorial #204643794
• https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSZC-CQ4Q
• "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQD8-V2H : 15 January 2020), Andrew Gardner in entry for Andrew Gardner, 1729.
• "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29L-TVM2 : 10 November 2020), Andrew Gardner in entry for Susanna Gardner, 2 Sep 1732; citing Birth, Lunenburg, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 004934225.
• "New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FLPL-Z6B : 23 February 2021), Andrew Gardner in entry for Sarah Gardner, 17 Oct 1738; citing Winchester, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States, Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics, Concord; FHL microfilm 1,000,945.
• "New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FLPL-ZHR : 23 February 2021), Andrew Gardner in entry for Mary Gardner, 12 Jun 1742; citing Winchester, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States, Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics, Concord; FHL microfilm 1,000,945.
• Southern Vermont and New Hampshire, pg. 69
• Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988
• A Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New England, 1620-1675, pg. 117
• Family histories and genealogies : a series of genealogical and biographical monographs on the families of MacCurdy, Mitchell, etc. Vol.1, pg 407

See also: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/2MP5-FSJ