Damaris ‘widow Shattuck’ Gardner

Not to be confused with Damaris Worth

Damaris (unknown) (Shattuck) Gardner was born say 1597 in England, perhaps of Somerset, and died on 28 November 1674 at Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony. Damaris was a Quaker.

Family

Married:

1. (unknown) Shattuck (c. 1584- c 1641). It is said he died about 1637 on board ship en route to America or in Boston around 1641, but this is not documented. Five known children; it is believed there were unrecorded children.
2. Thomas Gardner (1591-1674), of Salem, one of "Old Planters" who helped found Naumlceag (Salem), as his third wife. No known children.

Children of Damaris and Mr. Shattuck include:

• 1. Samuel Shattuck, born between about 1616 and 1630 in England; died June 06, 1689 in Salem. Married (1) Grace; died Unknown; married (2) Hannah; born 1624; died September 14, 1701 Notes for Samuel Shattuck: Samuel, a felt-maker in Salem. His will appointed his wife Hannah as executrix. Samuel was excommunicated, probably for becoming a Quaker. The Shattuck book lists contemporary writings on Quaker persecutions which mentioned Samuel's sufferings.
• (DISPUTED) 2. Hannah Shattuck, born Abt. 1620; died Unknown in Nantucket, MA; married Thomas Gardner December 27, 1642; born 1618 in England; died 1682 in Salem, Essex Co., MA. Notes for Thomas Gardner: THOMAS, Salem, merch. prob. eldest 8. of Thomas of the same, b. no doubt in Eng. rec. of the cb. 1639, freem. 2 June 1641, was a selectman, d. 1684. Hannah, prob. his w. is, by Felt, ins. among ch. mem. of 1649. Bapt. of his ch. were Mary, 2 Apr. 1643; Thomas, 25 May 1645, wh. d. 1695; Eliz. 22 Apr. 1649 ; Abigail, 20 Apr. 1651; Bethia, 26 Mar. 1654 ; Hannah, 24 Jan. 1658; and Jonathan, 12 Oct. 1662. Perhaps Mr. Farmer had, from Felt, names of sev. other ch. but some, I believe, were brs. and sis. of his.
• 3.Mary Shattuck, born Abt. 1625; died Unknown in Boston, MA; married Hams; died Unknown. Notes for Mary Shattuck: Mary, married _____ Hams and lived in Boston.
• 4. Sarah Shattuck, born Abt. 1631; died 1724 in Nantucket, MA; married Richard Gardner Abt. 1652 in Nantucket, MA; born 1621 in England; died March 23, 1687/88 in Nantucket, MA. Notes for Richard Gardner: RICHARD, Salem 1643, s. perhaps, of first Thomas, liv. there 1666, went next yr. to Nantucket. Bef. rem. he, by w. Sarah, prob. a. of Samuel Shattuck, had Joseph; Sarah; Richard, b. 23 Oct. 1653; Deborah, 12 Feb. 1658; Damaris, 21 Nov. 1662; and James, 19 May 1664; beside Miriam; Nathaniel, 16 Nov. 1669; Hope; and Love, 2 May 1672. Of the last d. I see no more; but Sarah m. Eleazer Folger; Deborah m. John Macy, and next Stephen Pease; Miriam m. John Worth;; and Hope m. John Coffin; and the f. d. 23 Jan. 1689. His wid. Sarah d. 1724, aged above 92 yrs.
• 5. Damaris Shattuck, born Abt. 1635 in England; died Abt. 1680 in Albemarle Co., VA or Pasquotank, North Carolina. Married Isaac Page July 30, 1653 in Boston, Suffolk Co., MA.

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Comments on dates

• Birth date range calculated from birth of oldest known child (Samuel born no earlier than 1616). If age 21, then born 1595. If age 18, then born 1598.
• Death recorded at Salem as 28: 9m: 1674. Using the Quaker calendar, this translates to 28 November 1674.

Disputed Origins

Parents: unknown.

Seen as Sibley:

• Seen as daughter of Richard Sibley of Salem & his wife Hannah. Their daughter Damaris Worth was born in 1666 (2 generations after Damaris, widow Shattuck) and married William Worth, with no issue.
• Sometimes given as daughter of Richard’s father, William Sibley, Sr. of Salem and his wife Elinor. But we cannot find a record for a daughter "Damaris,” just the grand daughter.
• From <Wikitree - Shattuck> There was a Damaris Sibley (bp. 22 February 1595, St. Pauls, Walden, Hertfordshire, England), apparently a daughter of Henry Sibley (bp. 19 January 1559/60, Cheveley, Cambridgeshire). Damarise Sybly. England Marriages, 1538–1973 marriage: 1628 , Hertford, England spouse: Thomas Wheatly. So assuming she married this Thomas Wheatly she is not the same person.

Seen as Hopkins:

• From <Wikitree - Hopkins - comments> The mother of Samuel Shattuck didn't die Sept. It was an indexer error on Mass Vitals because they didn't know what 28; 9m: 1674 meant. We have no maiden name for her or 1st name for her husband. There is no record of a Daniel. One lady who had been one of the first on the internet to have him checked her notes and said she'd probably scribbed Damaris and it ened up as Daniel. … She got stuck into the Mayflower family because Stephen of the Mayflower had one or two daughters named Damaris and someone figured it would be nice to have a Mayflower Connection. We have no idea what her last name is.

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Notes

From Memorials of the Descendants of William Shattuck: The Progenitor of the ...By Lemuel Shattuck. Page 361

"DAMARIS SHATTUCK, then a widow, was admitted to the church in Salem in 1641. At what time she came from England, whether before or after the death of her first husband, and what his Christian name was, are unknown. She afterwards became the 2d wife of Capt. Thomas Gardner, a distinguished merchant and citizen of Salem. She d. in that town, Nov. 28, 1674. Capt. Gardner d. Sept. 4, 1677, leaving a will, dated Dec. 7, 1668, in which he mentions his wife, Damaris, six sons-Thomas, George, John, Samuel, Joseph, and Richard; and daughters, Sarah Balch, Seeth Grafton, and Miriam Hall, all by his first wife, Margaret Frier. Two of his sons m. daughters of their stepmother. Damaris had by Mr. Shattuck several children, all probably born in England, the names of some of whom are known."

From "Early Settlers of Nantucket , Their Associates and Descendants", compiled by Lydia S Hinchman, Pub., Ferris & Leach, 1901

"His [Thomas Gardner's] second wife was Damaris Shattuck, a widow, who was admitted to the church in Salem in 1641. She had several children by her first husband, one of whom, Sarah, married Richard Gardner son of Thomas. She, like most of her Shattuck relations, evidently favored the Friends, as she was called into court many times for being "present at a Quaker meeting," and for absence from her own church. In the 9th Mo. 1667, and the 4th Mo. In the year following, "Old Mrs. Gardner was fined 5 shillings for absence from public worship. She had no children by Thomas Gardner. The date of her death is given in the Salem Town Records, as 28, 9, 1674."

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GEDCOM Note

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Unknown-191935

{Puritan Great Migration Adjunct}

Unknown Origins

While some say she was a Sibley (which appears to come from a 1928, unsourced genealogy), there is no documentation for her maiden name. Nor is there any documented proof of the first name of her Shattuck husband.

The Sibley parents she's been linked to (without proof) include: Sibley-117|Richard Sibley and UNKNOWN-12267|Hannah UNKNOWN Also sometimes said to be daughter of Henry Siblie: <FamilySearch> Because there is no proof of her ancestry, she is shown here without parents.

Biography

“Nothing was found by Lemuel Shattuck to show a proved connection between the main family of his Memorials and the Salem family, nor washe able to state the name of the male progenitor of the Salem family,and it is probably that he never came to America and that his widow Damaris crossed the Atlantic with her children. The name Shattuck has been found in the marriage register of the church at Dorchester, Dorset, and the Pope family probably also came from that county. : NOTE: Her second husband, Thomas Gardiner, was from Sherborne, Dorset. She was widow Shattuck in 1641 when she joined the Salem church.

Shortly later, Damaris married Captain Thomas Gardner as his second wife. Damaris is mentioned in the 1668 will of her 2nd husband (Thomas Gardner), but she predeceased him.

Damaris Gardner died at Salem on 28 Nov 1674.: "Damaris, w. Thomas, 28 :9 m: 1674 CT.R. “Vital Records of Salem, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 Vol. V. - Deaths, The Essex Institute (Salem, Mass. 1925) Page 270

Her husband died in 1677.

Children

The following is a tentative list, order unknown, of the Shattuck children of Damaris “the elder:” McCracken, George E. "The Salem Gardners: Comments and Clues," The American Genealogist 30 (July 1954) :155-168; especially 168. Image copy. NEHGS link; Accessed 2106 at AmericanAncestors.org (subscription required)

1. Samuel, feltmaker or hatter, joined First Church, Salem, 16 May 1642; d at Salem 6 Jun 1689
2. Damaris, m. at Boston 30 Sept. 1653, Isaac Page
3. Mary, m. ___ Hams (?)
4. ?Hannah, perhaps, first wife of George Gardner
5. Sarah, m. ca. 1652, Richard Gardner, d. at Nantucket, 1724, age 92
6. ?Gertrude, perhaps, m. Joseph Pope before 1642; living 1666 [uncertain - see Gertrude Pope]
7. ?William, shoemaker, of Boston 1650-8 [NO - see William ‘shoemaker’ Shattock]

Note that two of her Shattuck daughters married their Gardiner step-brothers.

Thomas Gardner married (3) Damaris (_____) Shattuck. She was the "widow Shattock" when she joined the Salem Church 2 July 1641; she died Salem 28 November 1674, one month before her husband. (See TAG 30:165-68 for discussion of this woman and her many connections to the Pope and Gardner families.) No children recorded of this marriage. Source: Anderson’s Great Migration Study Project.

My facts need checking but both my husband and myself are related by marriage to Damaris who we believe was the wife of Governor Thomas Gardner b 1591 Weymouth, Or Sherbourne, Dorset, England d 29 Dec 1674 Salem, Essex, Massachusetts and his first wife was Margaret Friar [SIC: Maiden name unknown] who bore him son George. Govn Gardner was father to Father of Richard Gardener; Thomas Gardner, of Salem; George Gardner of Salem; Capt. John Gardner, of Nantucket; Samuel Gardner, of Salem; Joseph Gardner, of Salem; Sarah Gardner; Miriam Gardner and Seeth Gardner.

References

• Torrey’s New England Marriages Prior to 1700. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. Page 600.
• "New England Marriages Prior to 1700" Clarence A. Torrey, Baltimore, MD, 1985, p. 664. "SHATTUCK, ? & Damaris ? (-1674), m/2 Thomas GARDNER; in Eng, b 1620; Salem"
• Shattuck, Lemuel. Memorials of the descendants of William Shattuck Printed by Dutton and Wentworth for the family (Boston, 1855) Image copy. OpenLibrary <Archive.Org> Accessed 2016. Page 361. <GoogleBooks>
• "Memorials of the Descendants of William Shattuck", Appendix Lemuel Shattuck, Boston, MA, 1855, p. 57
• Col_Rev_Fam_Penn, John W. Jordan, LL.D., (origianally published: New York and Chicago, 1911, Reprinted for Clearfield Company, Inc., by Genealogical Publsihing Co., Inc., Baltimore MD 1994, Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number 78-57073, ISBN 0-8063-0811-7), Vol III, Page 1262 (Reliability: 3) link
• Shattuck and associated family lines from a GEDCOM file. posted to RootsWeb by Robert Wylie.
• http://family.beacondeacon.com/bm.htm
• http://news.rootsweb.com/th/read/QUAKER-ROOTS/2009-01/1233023890 (see document attached)
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/35748611/damaris-gardner
• See also: Edward Norris Wentworth, Jr, The Genealogy of Edward Norris Wentworth Junior; Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA; Date: June 1928
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Ancestral File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:1:MCCQ-4HQ : accessed 2016-01-17), entry for Henry SIBLIE.
• "Early Settlers of Nantucket , Their Associates and Descendants", compiled by Lydia S Hinchman, Pub., Ferris & Leach, 1901
• ” McCracken, George E. "The Salem Gardners: Comments and Clues," The American Genealogist 30 (July 1954) :155-168; especially 168. Image copy. NEHGS link; Accessed 2106 at AmericanAncestors.org (subscription required)
• <“SHATTUCK -- THE MIND-NUMBING POST”>
• < “Samuel Shattuck of Salem”>
• Anderson's Great Migration Study Project: “Thomas Gardner married (3) Damaris (_____) Shattuck. She was the "widow Shattock" when she joined the Salem Church 2 July 1641; she died Salem 28 November 1674, one month before her husband. (See TAG 30:165-68 for discussion of this woman and her many connections to the Pope and Gardner families.) No children recorded of this marriage.” (See TAG 30:165-68 for discussion of this woman and her many connections to the Pope and Gardner families.) <AncestryImage>