David Gardiner1,2

M, b. 29 April 1636, d. 10 July 1689
FatherLion Gardiner b. 1599, d. 1663
MotherMary Wilemson Deureant b. c 1601, d. b 6 Jun 1665
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     David was born on Tuesday, 29 April 1636 in Saybrook Fort, Middlesex County, Connecticut. David was in London studying when he got married. He inherited the Isle of Wright [alias Monchonock, alias Gardiner's Island] for his life & then to go to his next male heir... never to be sold. He was on a business trip to Hartford where he was suddenly struck ill and died. His tombstone says that he was well, sick, and dead within one hour. David married Mary Lingman on 4 June 1657 in London, County Middlesex, England, at St. Margaret, Westminister. She was the widow of John Herringham. David died on Sunday, 10 July 1689 in Hartford while attending the General Assembly of the Colony of Connecticut. He was buried there in the burying ground in the rear of the First Church in Hartford. His tombstone reads: "Here lyeth the body of Mr. David Gardiner, of Gardiner's Island, deceased July 10, 1689, in the fifty-fourth year of his age. Well, sick, dead, in an hour's space.
Engrave the rememberance of death on thine heart,
When as thou doest see how quickly hours depart.3 David died without a will and his sons arranged a written agreement which they each signed. The agreement gave one half of the estate to Lion, and the other half equally divided between David and John. There was also an undisclosed portion to go to his daughter that was to come in the same proportions from the sons.4

Family

Mary Lingman b. 14 Sep 1636
Children

Citations

  1. [S184] Judy Jacobson, Southold Connections, Historical and Biographical Sketches of Northeastern Long Island, page 27.
  2. [S318] Curtiss C. Gardiner, Lion Gardiner and His Descendants 1599-1890, page 86.
  3. [S318] Curtiss C. Gardiner, Lion Gardiner and His Descendants 1599-1890, page 91.
  4. [S318] Curtiss C. Gardiner, Lion Gardiner and His Descendants 1599-1890, page 89 - This writing witnesseth an agreement between Mr. John Gardiner, David Gardiner and Lion Gardimer, concerning the division of what estate was left by their father Mr. David Gardiner, deceased. They doe hereby mutually agree together and with each other that Lion Gardiner shall have one-half of all and singular ye goods and chattels both without doers and within, according as it is valued by inventory, he ye said Lion Gardiner to bear one-halfe of the debts contracted and made by their father, deceased; and David Gariner is to have one-fourth part of all and singular the goods and chattels of the estate aforesaid he bearing one-fourth part of all just debts by their deceased father; and John Gardiner to have the other one-fourth part of the estate he also bearing his equal portion in the loss and paying of just debts together with ninety pounds which all and every one of them doe hereby agree and have given their obligation to Mr James Parshall to pay according to their proportion of agreement viz.: Lion to pay one-halfe and John and David the other half equally according to their proportions and to pay their equal proportion of what necessary charge for frneral charges and inventorys and the like to which agreement they the said John Gardiner, David and Lion Gardiner, doe hereby bind themselves jointly and severally to each other in the penal sum of five hundred pounds currant money to be recovered of eyther of them that shall refuse to stand by said agreement and to take all and every one of their proportions according to ye division shall be now made between themselves and the assistance of John Tuthill and Jasper Griffin and Stephen Bailey – to which sum aforesaid.