Captain John Gardner

1624 - 1706  (82 years)

• Name	Captain John Gardner  [1]
  Title	Captain
  Born	1624  [2, 3]
  	Death record: "a. 82"
  Gender	Male
  Will	2 Dec 1705	Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts   [4, 5]
  	To wife Priscilla: life estate in all housing, lands, and cattle on Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard except the following bequests; to grandson John Gardner: my house and all my lands, my one eighth part of the water mill at Salem; to grandson Jeremiah Gardner: £30 when he comes of age; to son George Gardner: half a share of land and stock on Nantucket immediately, and all the land and stock bequeathed to my wife after her decease; to daughter Priscilla Arthur: £6 per year after my wife's decease; to daughter Rachel Gardner: £40 after my wife's decease; to daughter Anne Coffin: £40 after my wife's decease; to daughter Mary Coffin: one half of all my land and stock on Martha's Vineyard and £10 after my wife's decease; to daughter Mehetable Daws: £40 after my wife's decease; to daughter Ruth Coffin: one half of all my land and stock on Martha's Vineyard and £10 after my wife's decease; wife Priscilla, executrix, with son George executor after her decease; friend James Coffin, cousin Samuel Gardner, Richard Gardner, assistants to the executors
  Died	6 May 1706	Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts   [2, 3]
  Probate	2 Oct 1706	Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts   [5, 6]
  	Will proved; widow Priscilla appointed executrix
  Notes	"In the history of those times John Gardner stands as the greatest of all men who had to do with the beginnings of Nantucket." -- William Root Bliss, "Quaint Nantucket" 1896
  Person ID	I3673	Wm L Gann Ancestors
  Last Modified	26 Dec 2017

  
  

  Father	Thomas Gardner,   b. Abt 1592,   d. 29 Dec 1674, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts  (Age ~ 82 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Margaret
  Family ID	F1647	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Priscilla Grafton,   d. 1717, Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts
  Married	Y  [3]
  Last Modified	13 Jun 2014
  Family ID	F1652	Group Sheet

  
  

• Sources

  [S30] Probate Records of Essex Co., Massachusetts, (Salem, MA: The Essex Institute, 1916), v. 2, pp. 423-5 (Reliability: 3), 11 Jun 2014. [S49] Vital Records of Nantucket, MA, The Massachusetts Vital Records Project, (The Massachusetts Vital Records Project (http://ma-vitalrecords.org)), Deaths, p. 306 (Reliability: 2), 13 Jun 2014. [S48] Thomas Gardner, Planter, and Some of His Descendants, Frank A Gardner, MD, (Salem, MA: The Essex Institute, 1907), 20 (Reliability: 1), 13 Jun 2014. [S112] Massachusetts, Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991, Ancestry.com, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015), Nantucket Co., Probate Record, 1706-1730, pp. 12-13 (Reliability: 3), 26 Dec 2017. [S48] Thomas Gardner, Planter, and Some of His Descendants, Frank A Gardner, MD, (Salem, MA: The Essex Institute, 1907), 70-72 (Reliability: 1), 13 Jun 2014. [S112] Massachusetts, Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991, Ancestry.com, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015), Nantucket Co., Probate Record, 1706-1730, p. 10 (Reliability: 3), 26 Dec 2017.