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Peter Gaunt (abt. 1610 - aft. 1678)

Peter Gaunt
Born about in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, Englandmap [uncertain]
Ancestors ancestors
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of — married 1627 in Lincolnshire, Englandmap
Descendants descendants
Died after after about age 67 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Plymouth Colonymap
Profile last modified | Created 25 Jul 2010
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The Puritan Great Migration.
Peter Gaunt migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). (See The Directory, by R. C. Anderson, p. 128)
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Contents

Biography

Peter was a Friend (Quaker)
Peter Gaunt, son of Thomas Gaunt, was baptized on 29 June 1610 at St Peter At Gowts parish in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England.[1] Given that this Peter then had children baptized here, including known daughter Lydia, this is almost certainly the correct baptism.
An extensive review of Peter Gaunt's documented life in New England, including his ties to the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) and a list of his children, was published in 1974.[2] It includes reference to Peter having likely been among those men who initially settled in Lynn, Massachusetts (citing Savage's "Genealogical Dictionary" 2:236 which again simply asserts Lynn-before-Sandwich with no source or context[3]) , who were among the earliest proprietors of Sandwich, MA in 1637. Note that most of the settlers of Sandwich apparently came from Lynn, Duxbury & Plymouth although there are no documented appearances of Peter Gaunt prior to those below in Sandwich. See Winthrop's "History of New England" (p. 235), Freeman's "History of Cape Cod" (2:15-16), and R.A. Lovell Jr.'s "Sandwich, A Cape Cod Town", pages 7, 11 listing Peter and the Fish brothers stating "Some of these thirteen had also been in Saugus earlier, others were Plymouth residents..." for more context on early settlers of Sandwich.

Mary Chalfant Ormsbee in her 1983 "Gaunt-Gantt" family book asserts, without specific source that Peter was first in Scituate, then Lynn and finally Sandwich. No record placing him in Scituate has yet been found.[4]

Peter's details include:

  • The first original record of Peter's presence in New England is found is the will of Thomas Hampton of Sandwich dated 22 Mar 1637/8, which divides the residue of Hampton’s estate among Peter Gaunt, Thomas Tupper, Richard Kirby, and Thomas Shellingworth.
  • 4 Dec 1638, Peter was fined for keeping his hogs unringed at Sandwich.
  • 4 Apr 1640 a division of Sandwich lands was made; Peter received four acres.
  • Listed among those able to bear arms in Sandwich, Massachusetts, 1643.[5]
  • 2 Jun 1646, appointed constable for Sandwich; 7 July 1646: appointed to recover excise at Sandwich; reappointed tax collector Jun 1647 and 7 June 1648.
  • 7 Oct 1651 Plymouth Court: “Wee further present Ralph Allen, Senior, & his wife, George Allen & his wife, William Allen, Richard Kerby, Peeter Gaunt & his wife, Rose Newland, Edmond Freeman, Senr., & his wife, Goodwife Turner, and Widdow Knott, all of the town of Sandwich, for not frequenting the publick workship of God, contrary to order, made 6 of June 1651.”
  • 6 Mar 1654/5: “Peter Gaunt, Ralph Allen, Senr., and George Allen appereredt Answare for neglecting to frequent the publicke worship of God, and being required to speak to the particulars, Peter Gaunt affirmed hee knew noe publicke vizable worship now in the world, whereunto Raph Allen assented, but George Allen decented. The case was left to further consideration.”
  •  :"In the first stages of the Sandwich Quaker controversy, ... We find at a court of 2 March 1657/8 that Peter Gaunt (whose son was to marry [Thomas] Butler's daughter), Daniel Wing, Ralph Allen, Jr., and William Allen being summoned, 'appeared to answare for a tumultuous carriage at a meeting of the Quakers at Sandwich... coming before the Court with their hatts on.' They were fined 20s each."[6]
  • * "xxx On 2 October 1660 the General Court ordered that fines would no longer be levied on those not coming to the colony's church meetings. This was of course of benefit to Quakers, as well as other non-Congregational church-goers. However, on 4 June 1661 the court ordered that all qualified men refusing to take the Oath of Fidelity would be fined £5. On the same date, it enacted laws that any "Quakers or other such like Vagabonds" coming into any colony town would be whipped by a marshall or constable, and there would be a penalty of forty shillings or a whipping for those allowing Quaker meetings in their houses, or speaking at such meetings. Significantly, the law also specified "and incase any Constable of this Jurisdiction shalbee unwilling or cannot procure any to Inflict the punishment aforsaid that then they shall bringe such psons to Plymouth to the under Marshall and hee shall enflict it," thus recognizing that Quaker persecution was not so popular among colony rank and file. Probably not long after, though, these laws, though not formally repealed, were just crossed out, as if they had not existed. After 1661 the records show but few monetary or bodily punishments of Quakers. On 2 October 1660 Henry Howland was fined £4 for entertaining Quaker meetings in his house twice, but on 7 May 1661 the court merely noted that at Sandwich several people had entertained foreign (probably English) Quakers, William Allen entertaining Christopher Holder, William Newland entertaining one foreign Quaker, and Peter Gaunt entertaining two foreign Quakers.13[7]
  • 7 May 1661: the names of those who entertained foreign Quakers at Sandwich included Peter Gaunt who entertained two of them.
  • 1661-1675 – no records in Sandwich or Plymouth Colony concerning Peter Gaunt, with the exception that he is mentioned in the 1663 probate of widow Jone Swift of Sandwich. 1661-1664 many Sandwich Quakers fled to Rhode Island and Long Island, and some moved out of persecution’s reach by settling in the area that in 1664 became Dartmouth, Mass.
  • By 1675, Peter Gaunt returned to Sandwich when his name appears on a list of men with “just right to the priviledges of the Town.”
  • He was selected as surveyor in 1677.[8]
  • 10 May 1678: marriage of Hananiah Gaunt was witnessed by parents Peter and Lydia Gaunt and brother Israel Gaunt. This is the last record found of Peter Gaunt. His name does not appear when his widow Lydia later signed as witness to other Friends’ marriages.

Family

He married Lydia (____).[9] Dave Gauntt, who wrote a 1989 book about Peter Gaunt, claims she was a Hampton (see Research Notes).[10]

The following children are documented in the McLean article referenced above and parish records, and were identified from analysis of probate records of Peter's widow, Lydia, as well as of his son, Israel. Note the absence of sons Peter, Daniel and Zebulon who were likely his grandchildren, not his children.

  1. Peter Gaunt. Baptized on 4 March 1633/4 at St Peter At Gowts parish in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England.[11] He was buried on 16 November 1635 in Lincoln.[12][13][14]
  2. Lydia Gaunt, baptized 2 April 1636 at St Peter At Gowts parish in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England.[15] She died after 17 Feb 1697/8; m about 1661 Thomas Burges Jr of Sandwich. She was living 17 Feb 1697/8 when “sister Lydia Burg” was named in the will of Israel Gaunt.
  3. Mehitable Gaunt, b abt 1640; d 11 Nov 1673; m 4 Feb 1661 John Easton, Governor, of Newport, RI (son of Nicholas Easton.
  4. Zachariah gaunt, b abt 1642. Alive 17 Feb 1697/8 when named in brother Israel’s will. Married Hanna who d at Newport RI 22 Nov 1674; son and daughter living 28 Dec 1691 when Lydia will’s relates that both had then their portions of her estate.
  5. Israel Gaunt, b abt 1644; d at sandwich btw 17 Feb and 16 Mar 1697/8; m in Sandwich 16 Jun 1690 Hannah Coleman of Scituate, Mass. 10 Mar 1675/6: Israel Gaunt, twise defective and did not appear this meeting of the Councell, is to be summoned.” 4 mar 1678: Israel and Hananiah Gaunt of Dartmouth, MA exchanged Sandwich land for land in New Jersey. Gaunt descendants in New Jersey allege that Israel and his brother Hananiah went to Long Island and in 1685 to New Jersey. Israel returned to Sandwich before 28 Dec 1691, when he was appointed executor of his mother’s will. His Sandwich will dated 17 Feb 1697/8: to Hannah Gaunt my wife… all remains ofmy personal estate shall be equally divided amongst all the children of my brother Zachariah Gaunt, Hanny Gaunt and Lidia Burg… trusty friends Lodowick Hoxe, john Wing, Daniel Allin to be overseers…. Inventoried 8 Mar 1697/8.
  6. Hananiah Gaunt, b abt 1646; still living 17 Feb 1697/8 when named in brother Israel’s will. Said to be buried on his farm in Burlington Co., NJ. Itention of marriage at Sandwich Friends Monthly Meeting 3 May 1678 to Dorothy Butler, dau of Thomas Butler of Sandwich. They married 10 May 1678. 4 May 1678: with brother Israel, exchanged Sandwich land for New Jersey Land. Hananiah and wife Dorothy continued to live at Dartmouth, Bristol Co., MA until as late as 1685. In 1685 he took up a tract of 500 acreas at Hananicon, Springfield Township, Burlington Co., J.

Research Notes

Birth date and place:
Banks, citing only his own manuscript, claims Peter Gaunt came from St. Bridget's parish in London.[16] No evidence has been found to support this baptism. It may be that this was never meant to be a baptism but was the parish Peter Gaunt was living in just prior to his immigration.
A Peter Gaunt, son of Thomas Gaunt, was baptized on 1 January 1609 at St John's parish in Stamford, Lincolnshire, England.[17] However, this Peter Gaunt was buried on 25 January 1609.[18]
Peter Gaunt, son of Thomas Gaunt, was baptized on 29 June 1610 at St Peter At Gowts parish in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England.[19] Given that this Peter then had children baptized here, including known daughter Lydia, this is almost certainly the correct baptism.
Was Mary Gaunt one of Peter's daughters?
The Mary Gaunt that may have married Francis Crooker and lived in Scituate has no credible connection to Peter and Lydia other than her last name. Although their Wikitree profiles say they were married on 2 March 1646/7, this was actually the date of Crooker's petition to get permission to marry Mary (Plymouth Colony Records, 2:112). Torrey is cited for the marriage, but he doesn't say they were married. He calls it a license, which is also incorrect. The court record said it would grant permission only with a certificate from a doctor to say he didn't have "the falling sickness." Francis married, but there is no other reference to his wife by name.

Sources

  1. "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JM2Y-GXT), Peter Gaunt, 29 Jun 1610.
  2. Maclean W. McLean, “Peter Gaunt (ca. 1615-ca.1678) of Sandwich, Mass.,” in National Genealogical Society Quarterly, v62 n4 (Dec 1974):247-254
  3. A genealogical dictionary of the first settlers of New England showing three generations of those who came before May, 1692, on the basis of Farmer's Register by Savage, James, 1784-1873; Making of America Project; Farmer, John, 1789-1838; Dexter, O. P. (Orrando Perry), 1854-1903 Publication date 1860-62 Publisher Boston, Little, Brown and company 2:236
  4. Gaunt-Gantt family : some of the descendants of Peter Gaunt of Sandwich, Massachusetts by Ormsbee, Mary Chalfant, 1912- Publication date 1983 Publisher Boulder, Colo. : M.C. Ormsbee p. 1
  5. "List of those able to bear arms in New Plymouth," in NEHGR, 4(1850):257
  6. Lydia B. Phinney Brownson & Maclean W. McLean, "Thomas Butler of Sandwich, Massachusetts (ca. 1617-1689)," in NEHGR, 127(1973):18; the original court record should be found in Plymouth Colony Court Records, 3:130
  7. Plymouth Colony: Its History and People 1620-1691, Part One: Chronological Histories; Chapter 5: Quaker Ranters, Baptist Schismatics, and Indians with Tongues Running Out (1657-1675)
  8. Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook).
  9. Clarence A. Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700, Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004, p 296
  10. David L. Gauntt, Peter Gaunt, 1610-1680 and some of his descendants, Woodbury, N.J. : Gloucester County Historical Society, 1989. As of 2009, the book could be purchased from the Gloucester County Historical Society, 17 Hunter Street, Woodbury, NJ 08096-4605; Find in a Library on WorldCat
  11. "England, Lincolnshire, Parish Registers, 1538-1990," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP5B-4DFF ), Peter Gaunt, 1 Mar 1633; citing Baptism, 1 Mar 1633, Lincoln St Peter at Gowts, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom, Lincolnshire Record Office, Lincoln; FHL microfilm .
  12. "England Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JH1W-8MC : 8 March 2018), Peter, burial Nov 1635; citing Lincoln, Lincoln, England, index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 1,542,063.
  13. "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NY1C-9X8 : 19 March 2020), Peter Gaunt, 1634.
  14. "England, Lincolnshire, Parish Registers, 1538-1990", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP2C-7YJX : 21 January 2020), Peter Gaunt in entry for Peter Gaunt, 1635.
  15. "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NPLH-5P8), Lydia Gaunt, 1636.
  16. Charles Edward Banks, Topographical Dictionary of 2885 English Emigrants to New England, 1620-1650, Edited, indexed and published by Elijah Ellsworth Brownell. Philadelphia: Bertram Press, 1937. 295p. Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1957. Repr. 1987; page 99.
  17. "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NB5B-F4C), Peter Gaunte, 1 Jan 1609.
  18. Stamford St John, Lincolnshire, England parish records; Lincolnshire burials. (FindMyPast.co.uk online database). Burial record of Peter Gaunt, son of Thomas, 25 Jan 1609.
  19. "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JM2Y-GXT), Peter Gaunt, 29 Jun 1610.

See also:

  • Mary Chalfant Ormsbee, Gaunt-Gantt Family, Some of the descendants of Peter Gaunt of Sandwich, Massachusetts, 1983. On microfiche (3 sheets), number 6088333, from the Family History Libraries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

Acknowledgments

  • Thank you to Michael Gaunt for creating WikiTree profile Gaunt-193 through the import of Michael Kenneth Gaunt Family T.ged on May 26, 2013. Click to the Changes page for the details of edits by Michael and others.




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I concur that Peter's wife Lydia has been claimed to be a Hampton based only on Thomas Hampton's will. I think this only now exists as an abstract appearing in NEHGR, 4:36. Peter Gaunt is among other Sandwich men to whom he gave bequests, but there is nothing to suggest they were Thomas's sons-in-law. This looks like a casual guess on someone's part. No wife or children are named.

The Mary Gaunt that may have married Francis Crooker and lived in Scituate has no credible connection to Peter and Lydia, as far as I can see, other than her last name.

posted by Doug Sinclair
Please see G2G discussion here https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/877231/gaunt-5-question?show=877231#q877231

Peter Gaunt of Lincoln was the son of Thomas Gaunt of Lincoln and his wife (not his first wife based on his will) Susan Bates of Rotherham and was named in both their wills of 1621 and 1626 respectively. No connection to Thomas Gaunt of Pinchbeck, 90 miles from Rotherham and 50 from Lincoln and his wife Isabell Richardson Wheelwright has yet been found. Susan's will named uncle Robert Bates and brothers Thomas & Adam Bates, the latter of Sheffield, about 6 miles from Rotherham along with a sister Alice who married a Richard "Atkin" or something similar and had children with him.

I believe these two Thomas Gaunts are conflated and should be separated.

posted by Brad Stauf
edited by Brad Stauf
I don't think there's any evidence connecting Peter to Saugus (Lynn) (see citation note 2). This is undoubtedly based on a misinterpretation of Alonzo Lewis's "History of Lynn" (Boston: 1829), 63. He lists the "ten men of Saugus" who settled Sandwich in 1637, and then lists a group who settled in Sandwich later, including Peter. Technically he doesn't say the second group came from Lynn, but it's possible he was confused and thought they did. In any case, a casual reading apparently has led to the assumption they did, regardless of Lewis's intent, and this has found its way unquestioned into many books, genealogical journal articles and now across the internet. Many either copy Lewis's text or give a slightly altered version of it. Although I haven't researched all the names in this second group, I know that many have no plausible connection to Lynn. For many of these names, this list is the only time Lewis mentions them. Farmer's "A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England," also published in 1829, apparently attaches Peter to Lynn as well, but this is a compilation of information snippets with no sources. Compiling information in 1829 likely involved consulting historians like Lewis, because going to a wide range of primary sources for all those people did not happen. If anyone has credible evidence of Peter Gaunt in Saugus/Lynn, please share.
posted by Doug Sinclair
Doug, I noticed you posted a similar question re: Nathaniel Fish. I've been looking at other sources like Mass Bay records, Pope etc and while it seems like Lynn, Duxbury & Plymouth were the main feeder settlements for Sandwich there are no documented appearances of Peter Gaunt prior to Sandwich that I've found yet. Do you have access to that 1974 article by Maclean cited on the profile? I'm trying to track down a copy but it looks like the volumes are scattered around (per worldcat) so it's a bit of a scavenger hunt.

I saw this work by "Gaunt-Gannt family" work by Ormsbee (https://archive.org/details/gauntganttfamily00orms/page/n17/mode/2up) that asserted residence first in Scituate, then Lynn, then Sandwich but she only cites Pope who had no source and "Directories of the Heads of New England Families" who again just says "first of Lynn, at Sandwich by 1637" https://archive.org/details/directoryofances00holm/page/n99/mode/2up and while the latter is well proved, the former is the struggle. The Scituate claim was the first time I'd seen that, have you seen that before? I don't find him in "History of Scituate" although it is not indexed but I searched for a variety of spellings including just "Peter" https://archive.org/details/historyscituate01deangoog/page/n92/mode/2up

posted by Brad Stauf
edited by Brad Stauf
Brad, thanks for your thoughts and efforts. It's kind of a breath of fresh air at the moment.

I may have seen the Scituate reference but I don't recall. I was focussed on the Lynn/Sandwich "situation." As you say, some of the Lynn/Sandwich connections don't hold up when going to the primary sources. I may have missed something, but after looking for anything I could think of (sources), and finding extreme vagueness in the places the claim was/is made, it casts serious doubt. When I come across this sort of thing I try to find the origin of a claim. It's often like the game of "telephone." But I'm pretty confident that Lewis's 1829 edition of his Lynn history is the ultimate source, with later publications either using it directly as a source or to it by second or third generations of sources. A bit like a genealogy of an unsupported claim, with ancestors and descendants. There is so much of it out there. I'm glad wikitree is providing a means to sort it all out, or at least discuss (hopefully civilly and without egos).

posted by Doug Sinclair
I tweaked the language in Peter's profile to at least show who says what about his early residence. Unless something pops out of the woodwork we are probably stuck with "likely he was from one of these places". His name seems to be unique enough that I had more hopes of finding something about his immigration but nada. I don't know if any deep searches for wills or legal documents in England mentioning him have been done, but that's probably a pretty slim chance of finding anything.
posted by Brad Stauf
A kindly librarian sent me a copy of Maclean's article which didn't really add anything, just another Lynn before Sandwich assertion calling Gaunt's presence in Lynn "likely" citing Savage's Genealogical Dictionary 2:236 which also didn't add any new sources or context.
posted by Brad Stauf
As the admin of the Gant/Gaunt DNA Project at Family Tree DNA, I just wanted to say that this Gaunt (and variants) line is very well-represented Y-DNA-wise. Male descendants are easily identifiable with a Y-DNA test.

Jane

posted by Jane Gilbert
Does anyone else find it odd that he is listed as marrying Lydia in 1627, but they didn’t have children until in America, starting in 1640? Also, if Peter Gaunt was, indeed, from London, and not Lincolnshire, why would he be marrying in Lincolnshire?
posted by Christopher Kenney
My research shows that Peter Gaunt was born in 1608 at St Bridget Parish in Lincolnshire. He was later baptized in 1610 at St Peter at Gowts in Lincoln. Peter married Lydia sometime before 1633, 1627 seems like a popular date but I haven't found any documentation yet. Peter and Lydia had 2 children before they left England, Peter (1633-1635) was baptized on 4 Mar 1634, at St Peter at Gowts in Lincoln. He died in 1635, before the voyage. Lydia (1636-1697) was baptized at St Peter at Gowts in Lincoln on 2 Apr 1636. John Farmer's register shows Peter as a resident of Lynn, MA in 1637 and going to Sandwich, MA later on in 1637. So that means they voyaged to America in late 1636 to early 1637 to Massachusetts Bay Colony. I hope this helps. MG
posted by Michael Gaunt
That makes more sense. If you have the sources to back that up you should adjust the profile.
posted by Christopher Kenney
I do and I will. I just have to dig them out of the "other" genealogy program I use!
posted by Michael Gaunt
Please see the messages from 2019. Apparently this has been discussed and rejected. Banks said he came from St. Bridget's Parish, London - not Lincolnshire. The apparently is no St. Bridget's Parish in Lincolnshire. Also, it would not make any sense to say he was born at St. Bridget's Parish and then baptized two years later at St. Peter at Gowts, Lincolnshire.
posted by Joe Cochoit
You are correct. Peter was baptized on 1 Jan 1609 at Saint John, Stamford, Lincoln. He was also baptized on 29 Jun 1610 at St Peter At Gowts, lincoln, Lincoln. There isn't any documentation regarding the 1608 date. My apologies.
posted by Michael Gaunt
You would never expect to find a child baptized twice. As it turns out, the Peter Gaunt, son of Thomas, baptized on 1 January 1609 was buried on 25 January 1609 at Stamford.

I have added the baptisms for Peter and Lydia at St Peter At Gowts parish in Lincoln. Lydia being baptized there strongly helps prove the Peter baptized there in 1610 is the correct one.

To address the original question, the 1627 marriage date is an estimate based on the birth of daughter Mary in 1628. However it appears that this date is also just a guess based on her marriage in 1647. Question: How do we know Mary is a daughter of Peter Gaunt?

posted by Joe Cochoit
Thanks for all the work. Things make a lot more sense as far as the British years now.
posted by Christopher Kenney
Joe, just FYI I've been working on the Thomas Gaunt & Isabell Wheelwright linked as parents of Peter Gaunt-5. Isabell's LNAB was almost certainly Richardson (she was a widow when she married Gaunt and I believe I've found her prior marriage) . Pinchbeck and Gosberton (Lincs) where all this happened is 50 miles from Lincoln where Peter was baptized and you would expect to find some children born between a 1602 marriage and Peter in 1610, so I question whether they are the right parents.

After working on the parents I believe that Thomas Gaunt-202 as currently contstructed is very possibly a conflation of 2 different men, Thomas of Pinchbeck and Thomas of Lincoln. It is possible that the Thomas who married at Pinchbeck moved 50 miles to Lincoln and waited 8 years to have a child, but I'm skeptical especially because right now it has him born in Lincoln, then moving to Pinchbeck to marry, then back to Lincoln.

posted by Brad Stauf
edited by Brad Stauf
I’ll try to get Jo to access this Will next time she goes to a FHC unless anyone else is going to or near one. It is possibly the father of Peter. Unfortunately not available online via Family Search but will be available at a FHC

Detail Source Name: Gaunte, Tho. Dates: 1621 Place: Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England Book: Marriages From Transcripts. (Marriage) Collection: Lincolnshire and Huntingdonshire: - Calendar of Lincolnshire Wills, 1601-1652, Calendars of Huntingdonshire Wills, 1479-1652 Volume: Wills Proved in the Consistory Court of Lincoln. Chapter: Calendar No. 4. 1601--1652. Text: Gaunte, Tho., Lincoln 1621 1, 144

There’s a few Lincolnshire Gaunt ones now I look.so I’ll ask for some more including one from Pinchbeck

posted by Ann Browning
edited by Ann Browning
Thanks Anne, we have a FHC close to us but they won't be open until next Thursday so if you are able to get that sooner it would be great.
posted by Brad Stauf
Just in case Jo-F-H does make it by the FHC, there are 2 others that also appear in calendar 4 https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/viewer/342607/?offset=0#page=77&viewer=picture&o=search&n=0&q=Gaunte

Susan of Lincoln died 1626 is listed as #214 (no book number) so I'm guessing maybe the wife of Thomas. Nicholas of Pinchbeck died 1624 listed as #17, this was likely the father of Thomas born 1573 and possibly of the younger Nicholas who had children at Pinchbeck in the early 1600s.

posted by Brad Stauf
Got all 3 wills downloaded, fortunately they are in English instead of Latin except for the probate. Off to the transcribatorium...
posted by Brad Stauf
Stephen, since you are familiar with the Gaunts of Lincolnshire, are the parents attached here accurate? Did they have a son Peter?
posted by Jillaine Smith
Don't know where the Lincolnshire claim came from. Banks said St Bridgets Parish, London. We need confirmation of that as well. I've removed the references to Lincolnshire.

Please refrain from using non-collaborative phrases like "hogwash" and "sloppy genealogy". We can collaborate on improving profiles without that.

I see there's been no response to my 2013 query about his wife's maiden name. I assume her Hampton LNAB comes from the will of Thomas Hampton who makes a bequest to assumedly a set of sons-in-law. Can we confirm this?

posted by Jillaine Smith
This is total hogwash as St Bridgets parish is not anything to do with Lincolnshire. Thus there is no evidence whatsoever to link the peter Gaunt who went to New England with Lincolnshire. This is I am afraid sloppy geneology and I say this as someone who has actively researched the Gaunts of Grimoldby, West Ashbu and High Toynton In Lincolnsgire since the 16th century.
posted by Stephen Williams
There is no evidence whatsoever that this Peter Gaunt came from Lincolnshire. St Bridgets parish has nothing to do with Lincolnshire
posted by Stephen Williams
We need to merge his two wives, but need confirmation (source citation) of the maiden name (Hampton) for his wife Lydia. I think it comes from the 1989 published genealogy, but I'd like to know what that author used as his source.
posted by Jillaine Smith
Michael, I found confirmation that Lydia Gaunt who married Thomas Burgess Jr was son of your Peter Gaunt and Lydia, so I'm going to merge the duplicates of Peter Gaunt. As you see, I've been adding details.
posted by Jillaine Smith
Michael, one Lydia Gaunt (Gaunt-4) married Thomas Burgess Jr in Sandwich between late 1661 and 1668 (when their son was born). They moved from Sandwich to Rhode Island. Some say Lydia was daughter of Peter Gaunt-- perhaps for lack of any other Gaunt family. I see, though, that you do not include her in your list of Peter's children. What do you think?
posted by Jillaine Smith