History of Swansea, Massachusetts, 1667-1917; - citizen hylbom blog

224 History of Swansea
Dec. 17, 1767, Elizabeth Anthony (died Feb. 14, 1816); Israel, born April
14, 1747, died young; Israel (2) born March 29, 1748, died Oct. 22, 1783,
married Nov. 6, 1772, Elizabeth; Parthenia was born Sept. 2, 1750;
William, born Sept. 12, 1753, married Zerviah McKoon; Hannah, born
March 3, 1756, died July 16, 1835, married Capt. Simeon Cockran;
Patience, born Nov. 15, 1758, married May 14, 1778, Dr. Jonathan
Anthony, (born July 12, 1757) ; Mary, born Dec. 25, 1760, died Dec. 18,
1805, married Sept. 11, 1785, Caleb Mason (born Feb. 11, 1756, died July
2, 1812) ; Content was iDorn July 11, 1764; Stephen, born Aug. 4, 1766, died
Nov. 26, 1819, married July 22, 1788, Mary Lee (died June 20, 1829)
Parthenia, (2), born Aug. 11, 1767, died Oct. 15, 1828, married Feb. 14,
1790, Ehas D. Trafton.
(IV) William Gardner, son of Samuel (3), born Sept. 12, 1753,
married Jan. 17, 1779, Zerviah, daughter of James and Bathsheba (Luther)
McKoon. He died April 24, 1811, and she passed away Sept. 15, 1824.
Children: (1) Brayton, born Oct. 7, 1779, died June 7, 1863, married Feb.
2, 1806, (first) Mercy Wood, born Feb. 22, 1773, daughter of Aaron and
Freelove (Mason) Wood. She died Oct. 11, 1834, and he married (second)
Sarah AngeU, who died Sept. 22, 1840. On Dec. 13, 1841, he married
(third) Mrs. Almira Gardner, who was born Sept. 14, 1796, daughter of
Samuel and Hannah (Anthony) Mason, and was the widow of Hezekiah
Gardner. She died Feb. 11, 1875. (2) Partheny, born Nov. 28, 1781, died
Dec. 30, 1844, married Jan. 8, 1800, Henry Gardner, born Jan. 14, 1773,
died July 15, 1857. (3) Israel, born Feb. 19, 1784, died April 2, 1864,
married April 19, 1807, Rebecca Kelly, daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth,
born June 18, 1787, died March 10, 1832. (4) William, born Aug. 23, 1786,
is mentioned below. (5) Frances was born May 5, 1789. (6) Samuel, born
Dec. 14, 1791, died Mav 3, 1873, married March 20, 1820, Patience Hicks,
born Feb. 21, 1799, died July 6, 1880. (7) Sara, born April 21, 1794, died
Feb. 27, 1876, married Nov. 16, 1825, Martin E. Borden, born Feb. 2, 1800,
died July 14, 1870. (8) Zerviah, born Aug. 30, 1796, died May 6, 1882,
married March 18, 1827, John Mason, born March 31, 1800, died Nov. 20,
1884. (9) Elizabeth, born May 11, 1799, married Sept. 2, 1827, Nathan
Bosworth. (10) Joseph, born May 5, 1801, died Oct. 20, 1829. (11) James,
born Aug. 30, 1806, Lydia Bosworth, born Dec. 30. 1808, died March 26, 1880.
(V) William Gardner (2), son of William, born Aug. 23, 1786, died
March 31, 1872. He married Feb. 14, 1813, Anne L. Gardner, daughter of
Alexander and Anne (Luther), born Jan. 25,1795, died Feb. 3, 1879. Children:
Slade, born April 4, 1814, died June 1, 1848, married Feb. 21, 1842, Hannah
M. Luther, who died Oct. 20, 1872; Lydia, born March 19, 1815, died Nov.
16, 1826; Rosanna MacKoon, born Aug. 16, 1817, married Oct. 3, 1836,
William H. Pearse, born June 15, 1813, died May 9, 1892; Mary Taylor,
born April 12, 1822, died Sept. 13, 1893; Charles W., born Sept. 18, 1829,
died Sept. 20, 1875, married March 15, 1855, Sally Carr Cole, born Sept.
27, 1830 (deceased) ; Nathan Bosworth, born Jan. 3, 1833, died Oct. 17,
1903, married Nov. 15, 1860, Mary G. Hicks (born Jan. 28, 1831, died Feb,
5, 1900) and married (second) Nov. 6, 1902, Susan M. (Rounds) Barton,
born Sept. 28, 1841; Henry Augustus was born Sept. 12, 1835. Mr.
Gardner lived at Touisset for many years. He engaged in farming, and
though he was a shoemaker he did not work at that trade. Mr. and Mrs.
Gardner were members of the First Christian Church of Swansea. In
pohtics he was a Whig and later a Republican.
(VI) Henry Augustus Gardner, born Sept. 12, 1835, lived the early
part of his life at the old homestead where H. E. Wilbur owner, now resides,
and for several years has Uved at his present home near Touisset Station,
"Riverby." Farming has always been his occupation. Dec. 11, 1864, he
married Caroline Cole Mason, born Dec. 12, 1839, daughter of Zephaniah S.
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