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About Stephen Gardner
- Stephen Gardner Find A Grave Memorial# 11567153
- Gardner-Bulkeley Cemetery, Bozrah, New London County, Connecticut, USA
Coggeshall history of Montville says "Stephen Gardiner married, 1700. Amy Sherman, daughter of Benjamin and Hannah (Mowry) Sherman, of Kingstown, Rhode Island. Settled in New London County, Connecticut. He bought the Great Pond afterwards called Gardiner'- Lake. The following inscription on his tombstone at Gardiner's Lake was deciphered a few years ago by Mr. James Arnold of Providence, Rhode Island.
"Here lyes ye body of Stephen
Gardiner, who died February ye
9, 1743 and in ye 76 year of his age."
Son of Benoni Gardner and Mary Eldred
♦Newport Historical Magazine.
§ 19. STEPHEN GARDINER, 3 (Benoni, 2; George, i), was born, according to his tombstone record, in 1668.' He died February 9, 1743. He married, in 1700, Amey Sherman, a daughter of Benjamin and Hannah (Mowry) Sherman, of Kingstown.^' In 1705 his father gave him, by deed, land "with a house thereon," in Kingstown.
In 1731 Stephen deeded the same land to his uncle, John Watson, for twenty-three hundred dollars, signing the deed as Stephen Gardiner, of South Kingstown. This homestead farm was on or near Tower Hill.
In 1730, a number of deeds are recorded in Norwich, Connecticut, relating to the purchase of land in Colchester, by Stephen Gardiner, of South Kingstown. Also in 1733, other deeds are recorded in Colchester, signed by Stephen Gardiner, of Norwich. From this time till 1742 his name appears on the records as buying land in Colchester and Bozrah, also in Montville, around Gardiner's Lake.
Coggeshall's History of Montville says: "Stephen Gardiner . . . settled in New London Co., bought Great Pond, afterwards called 'Gardiner's Lake.' "^^ The following inscription on his tombstone at Gardiner's Lake was deciphered a few years ago by Mr. James N. Arnold, of Providence, Rhode Island:
"Here lyes ye body of Stephen Gardiner, who died February ye 9, 1743, and in ye 76 year of his age."
The following list of the children of Stephen and Amey Gardiner is from an old paper, evidently the return of the administrator of his estate, and is recorded in Norwich, Connecticut.
There is no record of the birth of his children in South Kingstown, possibly from the fact that the records of the Friends were lost when their meeting-house was burned, in 1742. The marriages of his daughter Abigail and son Peregrine are to be found in their later records.
Children of Stephen and Amey (Sherman) Gardiner
90. Amey Gardiner, was born June 13, 1701, and married, possibly, Jan. 28 (23?), 1719-20, Peter Boss. There were three children, the names of whom cannot be deciphered from the North Kings- town records. Possibly one of them was Susannali (Sarah?), who married, in 1742 , George Gardiner. (See No. j/p, below.)
91. Lydia Gardiner, was born Oct. lo, 1702, and married John Jenkins.
92. Stephen Gardiner, was born Feb. 24, 1704, and married Frances Congdon, a daughter o{ Benjamin.
93. Benjamin Gardiner, was born April i8, 1706.
94. Peregrine Gardiner, was born Jan. 24, 1707, and married Susannah Robinson, a daughter of John and Mary (Hazard) Robinson.
95. Daniel Gardiner, was born Dec. 14, 1709, and married Bathsheba Smith.
96. Sarah Gardiner, was born Oct. 25, 1711, and married Samuel Davis.
97. Hannah Gardiner, was born May 2, 1713, and married Samuel Rogers.
98. Mehitable Gardiner, was born May 22, 1715, and married John Congdon, Jr.
99. Abigail Gardiner, was born July 9, 1717, and married Richard Smith, in 1744.
100. David Gardiner, was born June 28, 1720, and married Jemima Gtistin.
101. Jonathan Gardiner, was born April 18, 1724, and married Mary Haughlon. He married, second, Abiah Fitch.
Inscription: Here lyes the body of Stephen Gardaner who died February ye 9 1743 and in ye 76 year of his age
Note: age 75 years
- Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Feb 14 2016, 8:14:33 UTC
GEDCOM Note
"Stephen Gardner, son of Benony and Mary Gardner, was born about 1667, at Kingstown, Rhode Island. Died February 9, 1743, in Bozrah, Conn., and buried in the Gardner cemetery on a large farm near Gardner's Lake, now owned by Alvah Frances Gardner.
Married Amy Sherman, daughter of Benjamin and Hannah (Mowery) Sherman of Kingstown, about 1700. She was born October 25, 1681.
1705, his father deeded land to son Stephen with house thereon in Kingstown.
1731, Stephen deeded the same land to his uncle, John Watson, for 2,300 pounds signed as Stephen Gardner of South Kingstown. (The town was divided into North and South Kingstown in 1722.) This homestead farm was possibly on or near Tower Hill.
1736. A number of deeds of this date are recorded in Norwich, Conn., relating to the purchase of land in Colchester by Stephen Gardner, of South Kingstown. In Colchester other deeds are found dated 1733. Signed by Stephen Gardner of Norwich. From this time till 1742 he appears in the records as buying land in Colchester and Bozrah and Montville around Gardner's Lake.
Coggeshall history of Montville says "Stephen Gardner married, 1700, Amy Sherman, daughter of Benjamin and Hannah (Mowry) Sherman, of Kingstown, Rhode Island. Settled in New London County, Connecticut. He bought the Great Pond afterwards called Gardner's Lake. The following inscription on his tombstone at Gardner's Lake was deciphered a few years ago by Mr. James Arnold of Providence, Rhode Island."
"Here lyes ye body of Stephen
Gardner, who died February ye
9, 1743 and in ye 76 year of his age"
Gardner History and Genealogy p.149-150
Stephen Gardner was a farmer and held no civil offices, so far as the records show, either in Rhode Island or Connecticut. The first mention of him in the Rhode Island records is when he was granted an ear-mark, April 19 1697. Where he lived during the first four years after his marriage is not known, but in September, 1705, his father deeded him (perhaps gave) to him 100 acres of the eastern half of the homestead farm of the said father. On this was a house and Stephen lived there until he removed to Connecticut. This farm was between Tower Hill and the present village of Mooresfield in South Kingstown. In 1715 he bought of his brother Jeremiah, 129 acres of land about a mile north of the present Village of Slocumville(on the N.Y.N.H. & Hartford R.R.) in North Kingstown. He sold this farm to his son Stephen on Jan. 10, 1728, but evidently held a mortgage on it, as on Jan 13, 1731 (N.S.) he joined with his son in the sale of it to Benjamin Congdon.
Early in 1730 Stephen Gardner begin buying land in New London County Conn. The first purchase was of Jos. Dewey who had bought of Joshua Hempstead. There was litigation between Dewey and Hempstead over possession of this land and it appears that Gardiner finally paid Hempstead for it on Dec. 216, 1730. Amount &516. This land was near the north end of Gardner Lake, and was later owned by Stephen's son Daniel. According to Joshua Hempstead's Diary, Stephen Gardnier was in New London Aug. 24th and 25th, 1730, paying Hempstead in part for the land and getting possession on the 25th. October 26, 27, and 28, 1730, Stephen and his son Stephen were in New London, and Dec 26th following, Stephen was again there and paid the balance of the purchase money for the land.
March 5, 1731, Stephen Gardnier sold his farm in South Kingstown to his step-cousin John Watson (not John Watson, Sr. as some have said , as he died in 1728), and removed soon after to Connecticut. In Rhode Island Stephen and his wife Amie were adherents of the Quaker faith and from the church records we learn the following: "On the 8th day 1st month 1731, Stephen Gardnier, a member of the East Greenwick meeting of Friends desired a few lines from this meeting by way of certificate, he being about to remove himself and family to Connecticut." (The date in this record being in Old Style when the first month was March, the date in the New Style was March 8th.) In Connecticut Stephen and his family were supporters of the Congregational Church. From these records it appears that Stephen Gardner settled in Connecticut in the spring of 1731. Where he lived for the first year is not surely known. It is thought that he stayed for a time in New London, but he was living in the North Parish ( the present Montville) in August, 1732, when his daughter Sarah was married (Joshua Hempstead's Diary). February 2, 1732/3, he bought of John P. Denison 300 acres of this land, partly in Norwich and partly in New London township. 300 acres of this land he sold to Stephen Loo(?), June 2, 1737, for &1000. (Norwich Land Records, Book 7, p. 378.)
"The house where his father" (Stephen Gardner) " lived stood probably in the then town of Colchester, which was set off and became a part of the town of Salem." History of Montville p. 543, 544
References
- Robinson, Caroline E., The Gardiners of Narragansett: being a genealogy of the descendants of George Gardiner, the colonist, 1638 (Providence, Rhode Island, 1919) Page 4 < GoogleBooks >; Page 11 < GoogleBooks >
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Stephen Gardner's Timeline
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1668
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Kingstown, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Colonial America
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| 1701 |
June 13, 1701
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South Kingstown, Kings County, Rhode Island
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October 10, 1702
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South Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island, United States
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September 24, 1704
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Kingston, Providence Plantations County, Rhode Island
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January 24, 1707
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RI, United States
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December 14, 1709
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South Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island, British Colonial America
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October 25, 1711
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Kingston, South Kingstown, Kings, Rhode Island, British Colonial America
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July 9, 1717
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New London, New London County, Connecticut, United States
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January 28, 1720
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Bozrah, New London County, Connecticut Colony
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