John Gaither

Probably either son (by first marriage) or nephew of John Gater

• Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Aug 12 2019, 15:33:03 UTC

From "Anne Arundel Gentry", pp. 353-354"

In 1634/5 when the “ Assurance ” set sail from London, it had listed among its passengers John Gater aged 36, Joan Gater aged 23, and John Gater aged 15, and about eight settlers being transported by John Gater. The birth dates of these two Virginia pioneers are one and the same which lead genealogists to deduce several suppositions from facts at hand. It is believed, however, that when John Gater originally sailed for Virginia, he had left a young bride behind in England with promises to return. When the time did present itself, his wife had passed on, leaving him a son aged fifteen. Not wishing to return to Virginia without a mate, he married Joan.

[That John Gater I married Joan is not in question; however, John Gaier II may have been either a son or a nephew.]

Between the years 1640 and 1652 very little is known about the Gaters. Time passed. And in 1652 Mary Geather of Maryland was named by the Court at St. Mary’s City the administratrix of "John Geather late of County of Anne Arundel".1

1 Archives, vol. 10, p. 575.

[This could be either John Gater I or John Gater II - traditionally it has been supposed that Mary (Waters?) was the wife of John II.]