Mary Gardiner

Not the same as Mary Helme

Mary (unknown)

• b. 1645 Kingston, Washington, RI
• d. 16 January 1729 at Portsmouth[, Newport, RI
• married: Benoni Gardner (d 1731)

Children include

1. Stephen Gardiner 1667 - 1743. Married Amy Sherman.
2. William Gardiner 1671 - 1732. Married Abigail Remington.
3. Nathaniel Gardiner abt 1673 - 1734. Married Mary.
4. Isaac Gardiner 1687 - 1746. Married Elizabeth Davis.
5. Bridget Gardiner 1687 - . Married Job Sherman.
6. Benoni Gardner 1696 - 1758. Married Sarah Rogers.

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/UNKNOWN-104780

This profile represents the wife of Benoni Gardiner. Her maiden name is not yet known. She was NOT Mary Eldred.[1]

She married Benoni Gardner and was mother of his children. Torrey called her "Mary [Dyer?] and placed that marriage at "by 1667, by 1671"[2]

Mary Gardner, "wife of Benoni, Portsmouth, died at her son-in-law Job Shearman's, aged 84 years, Jan. 16, 1729"[3]

Notes

From http://potterwashburnreunion.org/gardner.htm

"36. Benoni Gardiner, son of Sara (Slaughter) and George Gardiner was born in England about1636 and was an infant when his father emigrated to New England. It is supposed he died in 1731. He married Mary, last name unknown. She was born in 1645 and died January 27, 1730 (some records say January 16, 1729.) Benoni accumulated a large property, owning more land than the other Gardiner men in Narragansett where they are said to have been the largest land holders. Five sons and one daughter are listed. The early establishment of the family in Narragansett provided financial benefits to the Gardiners of the third and fourth generation."

comments

From http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Benoni_Gardiner_(1)_

"I have summarized a detailed, ten-page account by Moriarty in a few short sentences. I find his arguments cogent and to the point. Anyone wanting to maintain that Benoni was the son of George Gardiner and Sarah Slaughter needs to review Moriarty's article and provide satisfactory counter-arguments.--Bill Wright 10:46, 30 August 2010 (EDT)"

GEDCOM Note

died November 16, 1729, at the home of her son-in-law Job Sherman, at Portsmouth

Sites that had info about Mary Eldred & B. Gardiner. Although he was NOT married to Mary Eldred!
Use for possible info about the Mary UNK who was married to Gardiner. (Pat Scoggin, 7th ggd of Mary Eldred)

http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Eldred-87
http://www.wittmeyerfamily.com/samuel-eldred-1620.html http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Mary_Eldred_(6) http://www.pcez.com/~bigshoe/du/Keny/gardiner.html http://genforum.genealogy.com/eldred/messages/255.html

References

1. BENONI & MARY (UNKNOWN) GARDINER, BIOGRAPHICAL ITEMS BENONI & MARY [MAIDEN NAME UNKNOWN] GARDINER BIOGRAPHICAL DATA, from :"The Gardiners of Narragansett," by Caroline E. Roinson, ed. with notes and index by Daniel Goodwin, Pages 34 35
2. The Gardiners of Narragansett: being a genealogy of the descendants of George Gardiner, the colonist, 1638.  By Caroline E. Robinson. Ed. with notes and index by Daniel Goodwin.  Published 1919 by The Editor in Providence, R.I . Page 2. "Benoni Gardiner was born before 1645 and died about 1731. He married Mary ----. Nothing has, as yet, been trustworthily discovered concerning Mary's parentage."
3. The Gardiners of Narragansett: being a genealogy of the descendants of George Gardiner, the colonist, 1638.  By Caroline E. Robinson. Ed. with notes and index by Daniel Goodwin.  Published 1919 by The Editor in Providence, R.I . Page 4
4. Clara Gardner Miller and John Milton Stanton, Gardiner-Gardner genealogy, including the English ancestry of George Gardiner, immigrant ancestor of Newport, R.I., & many of his descendants, especially his grandson, Stephen Gardiner of Gardner Lake, Connecticut (1937), p. 33; digital images, Hathi Trust (accessed 2014). Notes "recent research by an Eldred genealogist" saying this "reveals the fact that Mary Eldred was born in 1646 and died in 1712, years before the death of Benoni's wife."
5. http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/l/a/f/Katie-M-Lafferty/W...
6. http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/l/a/f/Katie-M-Lafferty/W...
7. http://potterwashburnreunion.org/gardner.htm

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