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Subject: Hannah "Shattuck" (d. 1653); wife of George Gardner; dt. of Samuel and Damaris?
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 00:50:44 EDT

Dear Friends,

We just returned from a couple of weeks in the Massachusetts Bay Colony where
I encountered conflicting information about two ancestors and I'm hoping
someone out there can shed light on this. The ancestors are:

Hannah Shattuck (d. 1653, Salem, Mass.), dt. of Samuel Shattuck (b. ca. 1660)
and Damaris (Sibley?) Shattuck (d. 28 Nov., 1674, Salem, Mass.) and Hannah's
husband…

George Gardner (1624-1679; d. in Salem, Mass.), son of Thomas Gardner (ca.
1592-1677; d. in Salem, Mass.) and Margaret Friar (b. ca. 1590-1659; d. in
Salem, Mass.)

Previously, I had relied on Lemuel Shattuck's 1855 genealogy of the Shattuck
family which identified Hannah as among Samuel and Damaris' five children:
Samuel, Damaris, Mary, Hannah and Sarah. (Sam Jr. is the famous Friend who,
in 1660, carried Charles II's order to Massachusetts officials, ordering them
to desist from persecuting Quakers.)

However, at the Peter Folger library on Nantucket - where George Gardner's
brothers Richard and John later moved - I plowed through the Gardner file and
found several (undocumented) manuscripts which stated that George Gardner
married his wife, Hannah, in England and that her maiden name was unknown.
This was repeated in Will Gardner's 1958 book, "Triumphant Captain John and
Gardners and Gardiners: Twelve Colonial Founders of Families," Riverside
Press.

So, does anyone out there have anything definitive showing that George
Gardner's wife, Hannah, was or was not a daughter of Samuel and Damaris
(Sibley?) Shattuck? Please respond directly to me since I'll be unsubbing
after posting this message.

Mark E. Dixon
Wayne, PA

P.S. Other Gardner descendants might be interested to know that, in the
1680s, John Gardner (George's brother) gave his daughter, Mary, a house upon
the occasion of her marriage to Jethro Coffin. (Actually, he gave the land;
Jethro's dad, Peter Coffin, built the house.) It still stands, is maintained
by the Nantucket Historical Association and is known in the tourist material
simply as Oldest House. If you can stomach the $200 per night high-season
room rates in this pricey summer resort, it's worth a visit.

P.S. Following is an alternative e-mail address:

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