Thomas Gardner

Abt 1592 - 1674  (~ 82 years)

• Name	Thomas Gardner  [1, 2]
  Born	Abt 1592  [1, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Died	29 Dec 1674	Salem, Essex, Massachusetts   [1]
  Person ID	I17195	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of LDN, Ancestor of TD, Ancestor of TSW
  Last Modified	19 Sep 2018

  
  

  Family 1	Damaris,   d. 28 Nov 1674, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts
  Last Modified	13 Nov 2017
  Family ID	F11907	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	(Unknown first wife of Thomas Gardner),   d. 1636, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts
  Married	Bef 1614  [1]
  Children	+ 1. Sarah Gardner,   d. 5 Apr 1686, Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts + 2. Richard Gardner,   b. Abt 1632, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts ,   d. 23 Jan 1689  (Age ~ 57 years)
  Last Modified	11 Sep 2018
  Family ID	F11905	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 3	Margaret
  Married	Bef 1639  [1]
  Last Modified	11 Sep 2018
  Family ID	F10544	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  He was an Overseer of the "first planters" party of the Dorchester Company that landed in 1624 at Cape Ann, to form a colony at what is now Gloucester. By virtue of having been in authority at this first settlement of what later became the Massachusetts Bay Colony, he is considered by some to have been the first governor of Massachusetts.

  
  

• Sources

  [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England,1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011. [S2195] Genealogy of the Balch Families in America by Galusha Burchard Balch. Salem, Massachusetts: Eben Putnam, 1897. [S647] Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines by Mary Walton Ferris. Volume 1, 1943; volume 2, 1931.