William Gardiner (abt. 1652 - abt. 1711)

Born about 1652 in Newport, Newport, Rhode Island

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Died about 11 Mar 1711 at about age 59 in Newport, Newport, Rhode Island

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Biography

William Gardiner, son of George Gardiner and Harwood "Herodias" Long, perhaps at Newport, RI.

Life Event Timeline

1687, Sep. 6: On 6 September 1687, he is cited on Gov. Andros' tax roll at Rochester (renamed later to Kingstown), Rhode Island owing a “pole” (poll) tax of 1s, and a property tax of 8s 1.5d, which places him as an adult resident and property landholder in Kingstown, RI on this date. ^[1] This tax roll identifies a sum total of 136 heads of house living in the roughly 22.5 square mile area associated with Kingstown, RI on this date in 1687; one consequence of this sparse population is that he would have been well acquainted with many, if not all, of the individuals identified on this list. Therefore, this tax list is a defacto definition of the people who were available to be his friends, neighbors, and allies; it would be essential to cultivate strong working relationships with these neighbors in order to survive on this frontier landscape. This cross reference tool provides hot links to peruse most of the 136 Wikitree families identified in this tax roll; families who were very frequently interconnected, or became interconnected, by marriage, over the course of their lives and throughout the ensuing generations, further binding a network of neighbors into extended families. ^[2]

Sources

Citations

1. ↑ Gary Boyd Roberts, Genealogies of Rhode Island Families, Vol. II, Niles - Wilson; (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1989), 591-94 "(RI) Taxes under Gov. Andros."
2. ↑ Randolph Beebe; Cross Reference: Gov. Andros 1687 Rochester RI Tax Register to Wikitree profile; Wikitree Free Space Profiles, 2024.

See Also

• Austin, John Osborne. Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island: Comprising Three Generations of Settlers Who Came Before 1690 : With Many Families Carried to the Fourth Generation (Albany, NY: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1887), 81 "Gardiner."The FamilySearch book library copy (preceding link) is superior to the images at Archive.org page 81.

• Moriarty, G. Andrews. "The Parentage of George Gardiner of Newport, R. I." The American Genealogist 21, no. 3 (Jan. 1945):191 - 200, also available at Archive.org: 191-200.

• 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), 2, 6, page 6.

• Gardner, Lillian May and Charles Morris Gardner. Gardner History and Genealogy. (Erie, Pa.: The Erie Printing Co., 1907), 37.

• Find a Grave, database and images (revision date: accessed February 29, 2024), memorial page for William Gardner (1650–Feb 1711), Find A Grave: Memorial #177284467; Burial Details Unknown; Maintained by Stan Arnold (contributor 48121400).