Captain Edmund Gardner

Please see the biography, "Captain Edmund Gardner, of Nantucket and New Bedford: His journal and his family". It can be found in many downloadable formats here: https://archive.org/details/captainedmundgar00gard/mode/2up

Researcher's note:

Edmund Gardner of Nantucket, was one of the sea captains Herman Melville interviewed before writing Moby Dick. His son Edmund was a grocer in Marion Gardner Whetstone's Spring Hill neighborhood, so the only one I could find that actually lived near my gr. grandmother. Marion moved from Cincinnati to Philadelphia while pregnant, so that fueled my conjecture. Right or wrong - I don't know.

https://www.whalingmuseum.org/explore/library/from-the-vault/ship-u... https://www.southcoasttoday.com/article/20140928/NEWS/409280312 https://www.amazon.com/Captain-Edmund-Gardner-Nantucket-Bedford/dp/... https://ia800704.us.archive.org/34/items/captainedmundgar00gard/cap...

I was cleaning out a drawer in my mother's dining room sideboard (the one the TV is on in the living room) and found a trivet that makes me more sure that John Barnard Gardner is your gr-gr-grandfather. See website and pics.

https://nha.org/visit/historic-sites/oldest-house/