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Ruth Gardner (Coffin)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Nantucket Island
Death: May 28, 1748 (62-63)
Nantucket Island, Nantucket County, Province of Massachusetts
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Hon. James Coffin and Mary Coffin
Wife of Joseph Gardner
Mother of Patience Brock; Charles Gardner, I and Caleb Gardner
Sister of James Coffin; Mary Gardner; John Coffin; Captain Nathaniel Coffin; Dinah Starbuck and 7 others

Managed by: Linda Sue
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About Ruth Gardner

Ruth Coffin, a daughter of James Coffin and Mary Severance, was born in Nantucket, Massachusetts and died there May 28, 1748. She married Joseph Gardner, a son of Richard Gardner and Mary Austin.[1][2][3]

Children of Ruth Coffin and Joseph Gardner:

  • 1. Charles Gardner
  • 2. Caleb Gardner, d. 05 Jun 1791
  • 3. Margaret Gardner, d. 22 May 1796
  • 4. Bethuel Gardner, d. 11 Oct 1787
  • 5. Shubael Gardner
  • 6. Grendal Gardner, d. 05 Jul 1734
  • 7. Love Gardner, d. 18 May 1734
  • 8. Patience Gardner, b. 09 Jan 1705, d. 10 Jan 1792 (Age 87 years)

Ruth Gardner was born in Nantucket County not Dukes County which is MV


References

  1. http://www.nantuckethistoricalassociation.net/bgr/BGR-o/p224.htm#i6706
  2. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Coffin-73 cites
    1. Vital Records of Nantucket Massachusetts to the Year 1850, Volume V - Deaths, (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 1928) pg. 181.
    2. Vital Records of Nantucket Massachusetts to the Year 1850, Volume I - Births (A-F), (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 1925) pg. 155.
    3. Allen Coffin, The Coffin Family, (Hussey and Robinson, Nantucket, 1881) pgs. 55-56.
    4. Barney Genealogical Record
    5. Coffin, Allen, 1881. The Coffin Family: the life of Tristram Coffyn, of Nantucket, Mass., founder of the family line in America. Hussey & Robinson, publishers, Nantucket, Mass., page 56
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Ruth Gardner's Timeline

1685
1685
Nantucket Island
1705
January 9, 1705
Nantucket, Massachusetts, British Colonial America
1711
1711
Nantucket Island, Nantucket County, Province of Massachusetts Bay
1748
May 28, 1748
Age 63
Nantucket Island, Nantucket County, Province of Massachusetts
1905
July 11, 1905
Age 63
1907
July 11, 1907
Age 63
1944
January 10, 1944
Age 63
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