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George Gardiner

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Stephen A. Douglas — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 176 
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  • BY 14 Jun 1678 
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  • Herodias Long
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  • ABT 1644 
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  Henry Gardiner

  Benoni Gardiner

  George Gardner

  William Gardiner

  Nicholas Gardiner (Ahnentafel No:88 )

  Dorcas Gardiner

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  • George may have been the son of Rev. Michael and Margaret (Browne) Gardiner of Great Greenford, Middlesex, England, but this seems unlikely as pointed out by G. Andrews Moriarty (The American Genealogist, 1944, Vol. 21, pp. 191-200).

• Additional marriages for George Gardiner

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  • Lydia Ballou
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  • ABT 1665

• Sources for George Gardiner

  • ¹ Dutchess County, NY: The Settlers of the Beekman Patent, Vol. 5, p. 500.
  • ² Rhode Island Roots: Journal of the Rhode Island Genealogical Society, 1992, Vol. 18, p. 78.
  • ³ The American Genealogist, 1943, Vol. 20, p. 54.
  • ⁴ The American Genealogist, 1944, Vol. 21, pp. 191-200.
  • ⁵ The American Genealogist, 1962, Vol. 39, p. 2.
  • ⁶ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 126.
  • ⁷ Richmond, Joshua Bailey, The Richmond Family, 1594-1896 and Pre-American Ancestors, 1040-1594, Boston: Joshua Bailey Richmond (1897), 13.
  • ⁸ 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), 1-3.