John Gardner

Birth: Sep. 7, 1697 Newport Newport County Rhode Island, USA Death: Jan. 29, 1764

John Gardner (17 September 1697[1] - January 1764[2]) served for more than eight years as the deputy governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, and was also a Chief Justice of the colony's Superior Court.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gardner_%28Rhode_Island%29

Most of the given ancestry of Gardner is found in John O. Austin's Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island.[9]

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Deputy Governor of Rhode Island 1756-1764.

He married Frances Sanford on Oct 23,1720. She was the daughter of John Sanford and Francis Clarke Sanford.

Children: Mary Gardiner Wickham, Frances Gardiner Benson, John Holmes Gardiner, George Gardiner, Catherine Gardiner Rodman, Lydia Gardiner Rodman, Elizabeth Gardiner Wanton, William Gardiner, Sanford Gardiner, Ann Gardiner Carpenter, and Abigail Carpenter Wallace.

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Parents:

 Joseph Gardiner (1669 - 1726)

 Catherine Holmes Gardiner Wightman (1673 - 1758)

Sibling:

 John Gardiner (1697 - 1764)

 William Gardner (1711 - 1774)*

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Burial: Common Burying Ground Newport Newport County Rhode Island, USA

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