Thomas Gardner

Abt 1592 - 1674  (~ 82 years)

• Name	Thomas Gardner  [1, 2, 3]
  Birth	Abt 1592  [1, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Death	29 Dec 1674	Salem, Essex, Massachusetts   [1]
  Person ID	I17195	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	9 Feb 2024

  
  

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

  
  

  Family 2	(Unknown first wife of Thomas Gardner)   d. 1636, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts
  Marriage	Bef 1614  [1]
  Children	+ 1. Sarah Gardner   d. 5 Apr 1686, Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts + 2. George Gardner,   b. Abt 1616   d. 20 Aug 1679, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts (Age ~ 63 years) + 3. Richard Gardner,   b. Abt 1632, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts d. 23 Jan 1689 (Age ~ 57 years)
  Family ID	F11905	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	23 Jun 2022

  
  

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

  
  

• 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. [S7376] The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1636-1638 by Ian Watson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2024. [S647] Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines by Mary Walton Ferris. Volume 1, 1943; volume 2, 1931.