William Lardner

He was born on 8 December 1758 in Philadelphia. He married Ann Shepard on 19 April 1792. She was the daughter of Jacob Shepard, a merchant of New Bern, Carteret county, North Carolina and one of the county’s representatives in the Assembly. Ann was born in about 1773 in Newberry, North Carolina. Ann's sister, Hannah, married Captain Charles Biddle of Philadelphia, a Revolutionary War privateer. I don't know why or how the Shepard family married so prominently into these Philadelphia family's, and later with Lardner Gibbon.

William and Ann had eleven children, including William, Frances, Sarah, James, Hannah, Catherine, Margaret, Ann, Elizabeth Branson, Lynford, and James Biddle [note the Biddle connection also seen with the Gibbon family and the Shepard family, above].

Ann died on 7 May 1811 in Holmesburg, Philadelphia. Willliam subsequently married Susan Elliott. William served in the both the Revolutinary and post-Revolutionary period militia. From the "Return of the First Troop of Light Horse of the Militia of the City of Philadelphia, Commanded by Capt. John Dunlap, 1794" : John Lardner & Will. Lardner. William died on 7 September 1827 in Philadelphia and was buried in Christ Church cemetary in Philadelphia.

Note that Lardner Gibbon married Alice Shepard whose parents were from North Carolina. Since Lardner's grandmother was a Shepard, that would make Alice what kind of cousin?