Born about in Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts
Ancestors 
Daughter of Joseph Gardner
and Eunice (Worth-Gardner) Taber
Sister of
Lydia (Gardner) Bunker, Barnabas Taber [half], Susanna (Taber) Congdon [half] and Francis Taber [half]
Wife of
Elisha Swain
— married
28 Mar 1771 in Nantucket, Massachusetts
Mother of
Nathan Swain
Died
at about age 41
in Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas
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| Created 4 Feb 2017
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Margaret (Gardner) Swain is part of a Bahamian family.
Biography
Margaret Gardner was born about 1748 in Nantucket, Massachusetts to Joseph Gardner and Eunice Worth Gardner.
She married Elisha Swain, son of Charles Swain and Elizabeth Coffin Swain, 28 March 1771, after publishments 9 March 1771, in Nantucket. They had children Elisha and Betsey (neither of whom survived infancy) and Susanna and Nathan Swain.
Margaret Gardner Swain died in Nassau, Bahamas in 1789. "SWAIN, Margaret, w. Elisha (s. Charles and Elizabeth), d. Joseph Gardner and Eunice (Worth), _______, 1789 in New Providence, PR38."
Sources
Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 for Margaret Gardner, Nantucket, Vital Record Transcripts, Nantucket Births, page 56. There is no birth date given, but the record provides the information that she was born in Nantucket to Joseph and Eunice Worth Swain.
Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, for Margaret Gardner, Nantucket Vital Record Transcripts, Marriages page 516.
Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 for Margaret Swain, Nantucket Vital Record Transcripts, Nantucket Deaths, page 571.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Margaret by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Margaret:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Margaret by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Margaret:
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