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Matt Bomer

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Richard Gardner

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• • 9th Great-grandfather of Matt Bomer — 12th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 3642 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Gardner 
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1632 
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  • Death Date:
  • 23 Mar 1688 
  • Death Location:
  • Nantucket, Nantucket Co., Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Shattuck
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1652 
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  Richard Gardner

  Deborah Gardner

  Sarah Gardner

  James Gardner

  Nathaniel Gardner

  Miriam Gardner (Ahnentafel No:1821 )

  Love Gardner

• Sources for Richard Gardner

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Nantucket Deaths, Vol. 5, pp. 261, 277.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Nantucket, Vol. 5, p. 310, Death record for daughter-in-law Mary Gardner.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Nantucket, Vol. 5, p. 304, Death record for son James Gardner.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Salem, Vol. 1, p. 339, Birth record for daughter Deborah Gardner.
  • ⁵ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Nantucket, Vol. 2, pp. 45-62, Birth records for children of Richard and Sarah Gardner.
  • ⁶ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, July 1862, Vol. 16, p. 270.
  • ⁷ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1870, Vol. 24, p. 151.
  • ⁸ The American Genealogist, 1953, Vol. 30, p. 168.
  • ⁹ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 2, G-O, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 734.
  • ¹⁰ Gardner, Frank Augustine, Thomas Gardner, Planter, (Cape Ann, 1623-1626; Salem, 1626-1674) and Some of His Descendants, Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute (1907), 40-52.
  • ¹¹ Hinchman, Lydia S., Early Settlers of Nantucket: Their Associates and Descendants, 2nd Edition, Philadelphia: Ferris and Leach (1901), 196, 275.
  • ¹² Hinchman, Lydia S., Early Settlers of Nantucket: Their Associates and Descendants, 3rd Edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Reprinted for Clearfield Company Inc. by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1926), 221-222.
  • ¹³ Macy, Silvanus J., Genealogy of the Macy Family from 1635 - 1868, Albany: Joel Munsell (1868), beware frequent errors in dates, 68.
  • ¹⁴ Nantucket Historical Society, The Barney Genealogical Record, (accessed 10/28/2018).
  • ¹⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 148.
  • ¹⁶ Starbuck, Alexander, Nantucket Genealogies, Baltimore, Maryland: Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co. for Clearfield Co. (1924, 2001), 825.
  • ¹⁷ Starbuck, Alexander, The History of Nantucket County, Island and Town including Genealogies of First Settlers, Boston: C. E. Goodspeed and Co. (1924), 741.

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