Abigail Gardner

Biography

From https://mattocks2.wordpress.com/2008/05/13/john-warde-and-john-ward...

JOHN WARD, turner, son of George WARD of Branford, died 1683-84, married probably ca. 1650 Sarah HILLS, daughter of William HILLS and Phyllis LYMAN of Hartford, Connecticut. Their children:

T-5. Abigail, b. Jan. 4, 1658, m. John GARDNER. At the Newark Town Meeting, Jan. 1, 1677/8 John GARDNER was admitted a planter, and was granted 30 acres of upland lying at the rear of John WARD, Turner’s Lott. lying beyond the 2nd River. On Feb. 20, 1690 John GARDNER signed an agreement with the Town to provide and keep one Richard HORE, the town to pay two shillings and six pence per week. At the town meeting Oct. 28, 1692 John GARDNER was chosen one of the pounders, and again Jan. 2, 1698/9. He is last noted in the Town Meeting Records on Feb. 25, 1705/6.

In the list of those owing quit-rents in New Work, 1685, is Jno GARDNER for 138 acres. In the 1696 list for Essex County is John GARDNER, 180 acres sold to Cornelius and Thomas THOMASSEN (Cadmus) and 100 acres (NJHSP NS 15:240, 374).

John GARDNER of Newark, Essex County, in his will dated Feb. 12, 1719/20, names his wife Hannah, children Thomas, Gershum, and Sarah. Executor son Gershum. Proved Mar. 9, 1719/20. Jno. COOPER was one of the witnesses (NJA 23:179).