Nathaniel Gardiner (1673 - 1735)

Born 1673 in Kingstown, Rhode Island

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Greene) Gardiner — married 1705 in Rhode Island

Descendants

Died 1735 at about age 62 in South Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island

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Biography

This profile is part of the Gardner Name Study.

• NOTE: Gardiner - Gardner name change in some generations
• This is the first generation that I have found records for both spelling of Gardner and Gardiner.
• All records for Nathaniel's son Benjamin's line show Gardner.
• In Nathaniel's will he spells his own name and children's names Gardner.
• Nathaniel's parents and all ancestry going back is spelled Gardiner.

various birth years found: 1670, 1673, 1677, 1681, 1682

He was admitted a freeman in 1696. In 1705 his father gave to him, by deed, one hundred acres, “being the west half Of the farm where I now live.” This was possibly what is now known as the Isaac Nichols farm, bounded west on Sauga tucket River, near the foot of Tower Hill. He married Mary about 1704.
The Gardiners of Narragansett

U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 Show a Nathaniel Gardiner born 1682 married a Mary in 1705 in Rhode Island.

There was a Nathaniel Gardener who married a Mary Green on 29 Nov 1716 in Boston.

According to Ancestry.c Family Data Collection - Marriages

Nathaniel Gardner married Mary Coffin Green in1705

(1705 is the year that their son Benjamin was born).

According to Ancestry.c Family Data Collection - Birth Nathaniels mothers name is Mary Eldred

Children of Nathaniel and Mary Gardiner:^[1][2]

1. Benjamin, born 26 February 1705, m. Mary Howland
2. Mary, born 30 November 1707, m. John Kenyon, Jr.
3. Penelope, born 9 or 11 October 1709, died young
4. Dorcas, born 10 June 1712, m. George Tebbitts, Jr.
5. Nathaniel, born 16 June 1714, m. Sarah Pierce
6. Job, born 23 July 1723^[3]

• Will of Nathaniel Gardner.
  

In the Name of God amen, The Thirty first Day of January, A. D. 1734, I, Nathaniel Gardner, of South Kingstown in Kings County in the Colony of Rhode Island & providence plantation &.z. yeoman, being grown Very week In body but of Perfect mind and Memory thanks be given unto God Therefor Calling unto mind the Mortality of my body and Knowing that it is appointed for All men Once to Dye Do make and ordain this my Last Will and Testament That is to Say principally and first of all I give And Recommend my Soule into the hands of god that Gave it and my body I Recommend to the earth to be Burried in Decent Christian Burial at the Discretion of my Executrix and Executor hereafter Mentioned Nothing doubting but at the general Resurrection I shall Receive the Same Again by the Mighty power of God & as touching such worldly Estates wherewith it hath pleased Good to bless me with in this life I give Demise and Dispose of the Same in the following manner and form — I will and order that all my just Debets be first paid by my Executrix and Executor hereafter named out of my personal Estate in some Convenient time after my Decease.

Item — I give and bequeath unto my Loving wife Mary Gardner the one third part of my homestead Whereon I now Live Lying in said Town with one third part of my Orchard And Dwelling house for and During the Time that She shall Remain my widow Excepting that she shall see Cause to Chouse any one Room in Sd. House in Liew of the sd. Third part of sd. House Aforementioned.

Item — I Give and Bequeath unto my sd. Wife Two of my Milch cows Such as She Shall se Cause to Chuse out of all my Cows and I all so Give my sd. wife one Riding mare That She Usually Rideth upon and one Bridle & side Sadie and farther more I give to my said Wife With Two Feather Beds with the Bed steds and furniture Belonging to Sd. two Beds and I all so give to my sd. Wife the one half of all the Remaining part of my Household Goods Excepting those particular things that I gave or shall hereafter give to Some of my Children in this my Last will and Testament.

T crive and Bequeath unto my Loving Son Benjamin Gardner and to his heirs and Assigns forever all That my farm or Tract of Land Situated Lying and being in the New purchase in the town ship of East Greenwich & Containing by Estamation Two hundred and Twenty two Acres and is the third farm in the Second Division in sd. purchase Buted and bounded as followeth viz. Northerly and Westerly on two high-Down per the platt of Sd. Purchase made by William Hall Surveyor and farthermore I give and bequeath unto my Sd. son Benjamin Gardner one hundred pounds in Good passable Bills of Credit in Sd. Colony to be Levied and paid out of my Estate in Sd. South Kingstown by my Executrix and Executor within one year after my Decease.

Item — I give and give and bequeath unto my Loving Son Nathaniel Gardner and to his heirs and assigns forever all the Westermost half of my homestead farm whereon I now Live Lying in South Kingstown aforesd. with all the houseings standing upon sd. half of sd. Farm.

Item — I Give and Bequeath unto my Loving Son Job Gardner And to his heirs and Assigns forever all the Eastermost half of my Aforesd. Homestead farm Lying in Sd South Kingstown whereon I now Live as aforesd- And it is to be Understood that my will and Mind is that my aforesd. Son Nathaniel Gardner shall have the Use and Improvement of that half of my sd. farm which I have hereafore given unto my Said Son Job Gardner until my Son Job shall come to the age of twenty-one. And furthermore my will is that my Said Son Nathaniel Gardner shall not Cutt nor suffer to be Cutt any of the wood or Timber that is growing upon Sd. Eastermost half of my Sd Home Sted farm while my Son Job Gardner shall come to the age of Twenty one years Nor Carry of Any of the hay that shall hereafter grow upon sd. Eastermost half of Sd. farm while he hath the improvement as aforsd.

Item — I give and Bequeath unto my two Sons Nathaniel Gardner and Job Gardner the Cedar and Chestnutt Rails and poles which I now have upon my aforsd Homested farm to be Equally Divided between them when my son Job shall Come to the age of Twenty one years. And it is to be farther understood that my will Mind is that if Either of my two sons Nathaniel Gardner or Job Gardner before he or they Shall Come to the Age of Twenty one Years or without Lawfull Issue that then his half of my Aforsd. Homested Farm Shall go to the Longesl Surveyour of them and to his heirs And, Assigns forever.

Item — I give and bequeath unto my sd. Son Nathaniel Gardner My Negro man Named Bristo and my Negro Woman named Tene and my Large bible and my Gilded Trunk and my Satchel my woosted Combs and my Razor and whone and all my powdering Tubbs and Likewise all my negroes beding and my Case and Case Bottles and all so I give him my black mare which I Commonly ride upon and Bridle and Sadie.

Item — I give and Bequeath unto My sd. son Job Gardner one hundred pounds in passable Bills of Public Credit in the Colony aforsd. to be Levied and Paid out of my Estate in sd. South Kingstown by my sd. Son Nathaniel Gardner when my said Son Job Gardner shall come to the Age of Twenty one years.

I give and Bequeath unto my Loving Daughter Mary Kenvon one of mv feather beds with the bed stid and furniture that belongs to one of my Sd. Beds And I all so Give to my Sd Daughter Mary Twenty pounds in bills of passable Credit in the Colony aforsd. to be Raised Levied and paid out of my Estate by my Executrix and Executor here- after named within one year after my Decease.

Item — I give and bequeath unto my Loving Daughter Dorcas Tibbits one of my feather beds with the bed sted and furniture that belongs to one of my said beds and I all so Give unto my Said Daughter Dorcas Tibbits Twenty pounds in Bills of public Credit in the Colony aforsd. to be Raised Levied and paid Out of my Estate by my E'xecutrix and Executor hereafter named within one year after my Decease and All so I give her one Case of Draws.

Item — I give Unto my two Daughters Mary Kenyon and Dorcas Tibbits the one other half of my Household Goods which I have not particularly given away or mentioned in this my Last Will and Testament to be Equally Divided between them And Furthermore My will is and I do Order that my Sd. son Nathaniel Gardner shall at his own Cost and Charge find for his mother Sufficient firewood Ready Cutt and Carted to her Door to burn in her Said Room in Sd. House All the time that his mother shall Remain my Widow.

And further my will is and I Do Order that my son Nathaniel Gardner Shall Allow to his mother the use of negro man Bristow to hoe corn for her every year that she Shall Remain my widow, at any time when She Shall want him most for that Service And it is to be Known and understood that my will and Mind that what I have before given and bequeathed unto my Sd. wife in this my Last will and Testament is to be In Liew of her thirds and Dowery.

And furthermore my will is and I do Order that my Son Job Gardner shall be kept to school Some Reasonable time at the Cost of my Executrix and Executor till he is of proper age to be putt on apprentice and then to be put on apprentice to Learn Some Good handycraft Trade And I do hereby Constitute and Ordain my Loving wife Mary Gardner my Executrix and My Loving Son Nathaniel Gardner my Executor of this my Last Will and Testament And I do hereby Utterly Disallow Revoke and Disanul All and Every Other former Testament Wills Legacies and Bequests and Executors by me in any ways before Named Willed and Bequeathed Ratifying and Confirming this and no other to be my Last Will and Testament.

IN WITNESS whereof I have hereunto Sett my Hand and Seai the Day and year above written. Signed Sealed Published pronounced And Declared by the Said Nathaniel Gardner as his last will and Testament In the presence of us the subscribers.

NATHANIEL GARDNER (seal).

JOB TRIPP

his

ABIEL X SHEARMAN

mark

WILLIAM ROBINSON

Job Tripp, Abiel Shearman and William Robinson all appeared be- fore the Town Council of South Kingstown this i0th Day of February 1734 and Did Declare upon Oath that they did See Nathaniel Gardner of Sd. Town Sign Seal and Declare This Will to be his Last Will…

Sources

1. ↑ May, Lillian & Charles Morris Gardner. 1907. Gardner History and Genealogy. Boston. www.archive.org
2. ↑ Robinson, Caroline E. 1919. The Gardiners of Narragansett, Being a Genealogy of the Descendants of George Gardiner the Colonist 1638. Snow & Farnam Co., Providence, RI, http://persi.heritagequestonline.com
3. ↑ Rhode Island Vital Extracts, 1636-1899, Vol. 5, Washington Co., Births, Marriages, Deaths, www.ancestrylibrary.com

Other Sources

• Robinson, Caroline E., The Gardiners of Narragansett: being a genealogy of the descendants of George Gardiner, the colonist, 1638 (Providence, Rhode Island, 1919) Page 4, Page 146

• Miller, Clara Gardner. Gardiner-Gardner Genealogy (Tuttle Publishing Co., Inc., Rutland, Vt., 1937) Page ?

• "Rhode Island Births and Christenings, 1600-1914," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F834-C38 : 6 December 2014), Mary, 08 Jul 1677; citing Rhode Island, USA, reference v 1 p 18; FHL microfilm 925,490.

• "Rhode Island Births and Christenings, 1600-1914," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F873-J9L : 6 December 2014), Mary Greene, 08 Jul 1677; citing WARWICK,KENT,RHODE ISLAND, reference ; FHL microfilm 908,269.

• Find A Grave memorial #154771601

• RootsWeb

• Ancestry Family Trees (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com) Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=13226668&pid=1259

• Research notes: There was a Nathaniel Gardener who married a Mary Green on 29 Nov 1716 in Boston.

• "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHQQ-43L : 13 July 2016), Nathaniel Gardener and Mary Green, 29 Nov 1716; citing Marriage, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 818,093.

• Yates Publishing, U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 (Provo, UT, USA, The Generations Network, Inc., 2004)

• alternate birth record

• "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCWP-68G : 4 December 2014), Nathaniel Gardner, 20 Jul 1681; citing BOSTON,SUFFOLK,MASSACHUSETTS, ; FHL microfilm 397,042.