Ancestry of
David Hartman

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Christopher Gardner

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of David Hartman — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 114 
  • Father:
  • Henry Gardner 
  • Mother:
  • Anne Champlin   
  • Birth Date:
  • 7 Feb 1737 
  • Birth Location:
  • South Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 22 May 1795 
  • Death Location:
  • South Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Captain Christopher Gardner Lot, South Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Brownell
  • Marriage Date:
  • Oct 1780 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Exeter, Washington, Rhode Island 
  • Children:
  
  

  Mary Anne Gardner (Ahnentafel No:57 )

  Christopher Gardner

  George Gardner

  Phebe A. Gardner

  James Champlain Gardner

  Robert Hazard Gardner

  • Notes: 

  • Revolutionary War veteran

    Christopher Gardner's tombstone says that he fought in the Battles of Concord, Lexington, and Bunker Hill.

    Christopher Gardner did not have a middle wife named Elizabeth Fones as is claimed by some including the inscription on his more recent tombstone. See The American Genealogist (2007) 82:57.

• Additional marriages for Christopher Gardner

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  • Spouse:
  • Mercy Wheeler
  • Marriage Date:
  • 23 Jan 1760
  • Marriage Location:
  • Stonington, New London, Connecticut

• Sources for Christopher Gardner

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 03/02/2021).
  • ² The American Genealogist, 2007, Vol. 82, pp. 49-62, 130-136.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 352.
  • ⁴ Robinson, Caroline E. and Daniel Goodwin, ed., The Gardiners of Narragansett: Being a Genealogy of the Descendants of George Gardiner The Colonist, 1638, Providence: Printed by the Editor (1919), 88.
  • ⁵ Wheeler, Albert Gallatin, Jr., The Genealogical and Encyclopedic History of the Wheeler Family in America, Boston, Massachusetts: American College of Genealogy (1914), 308.
  • ⁶ White, Elizabeth Pearson, John Howland of the Mayflower, Vol. 1, Camden, Maine: Picton Press (1990, 7th printing 2014), 476.

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