Family: George Gardner/Herodias Long (F3555)

m. Abt 1640


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  • Father | Male
    George Gardner

    Born  15 Feb 1599   
    Died  1677   
    Buried     
    Married  Abt 1640  Newport, Rhode Island Find all individuals with events at this location
    Divorced  3 May 1665  Newport, Rhode Island Find all individuals with events at this location
    Other Spouse  Lydia Ballou | F7873 
    Married     
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    Mother | Female
    Herodias Long

    Born  1624  England, Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died     
    Buried     
    Father   
    Mother   

    Child 1 | Male
    Benoni Gardiner

    Born  Bef 1645  Narragansett, Rhode Island Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  1731   
    Buried     
    Spouse  Mary Eldred | F794 
    Married     

    Child 2 | Male
    Henry Gardiner

    Born  1645  Narraganset, Plymouth, MA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  26 Apr 1744   
    Buried     
    Spouse  Joan Unknown | F6282 
    Married     
    Spouse  Abigail Richmond | F4151 
    Married     

    Child 3 | Male
    George Gardiner

    Born  Bef 1650   
    Died  1724   
    Buried     
    Spouse  Tabatha Tefft | F2755 
    Married  17 Feb 1670   

    Child 4 | Female
    Dorcas Gardiner

    Born  Abt 1650  NEWPORT, RI Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  Bef 4 Aug 1702   
    Buried     
    Spouse  John Watson | F7187 
    Married  Abt 1673   

    Child 5 | Female
    Rebecca Wells

    Born  Abt 1650   
    Died  Bef 1710   
    Buried     
    Spouse  John Watson | F9746 
    Married  4 Aug 1702   

    Child 6 | Male
    William Gardiner

    Born  Abt 1651  Narragansett, Rhode Island Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  1711   
    Buried     
    Spouse  Elizabeth Unknown | F1403 
    Married     

    Child 7 | Male
    Nicholas Gardner

    Born  Abt 1654  Narragansett, Rhode Island Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  1712   
    Buried     
    Spouse  Hannah Palmer | F3554 
    Married  Abt 1680   

  • Notes 
    • Divorce
      Date: 01 JUN 1655
      Place: New Amsterdam, New Netherlands
      Memo: John Hicks was granted a divorce from Herodias in the court at New Amsterdam by Governor Peter Stuyvesant. The original decree is in the state archives at Albany and an abstract follows:
      "Wij de Heeren Raaden van N. Nederlant gesien en geleesen sijnde t request van John Hicks Schout tot Flissingen opt Lange Eijlant waer bij hij remonstreert en te kennen geeft dat sinj huijsvrouw Hardwood Longh van hem weck geloopen en met een ander omtrent 9 jaeren getrout is geweest en daer bij 5 a 6 kinderen heeft geprocureert; versocht derhalven dewijlen sijn huijsvrouw den bant vant houwelijcx hadden gebroocken (: sonder dat hij haer eenige reden daertoe hadde gegeven) dat hij mocht gequalificeert enhem teegelaten worden omme met eenich eerbare Dochter ofte Wedue te moogen in den houwelijken staat (:volgens politique en Ecclisiastique ordannantien) treeden. Soo is dat de welgemelde heeren Raaden gelet hebbende opt versoeck vande gemelde John Hicks mitsgaders op de attestatien en getuijgenissen van verscheijde waerlycke inwoonderen deser provincie aende voors. requeste geannexeert , bevinden dat John Hicks volgens goddel. & wereltl. rechten sijn versoeck niet can gewijert worden hebben hem dierhalvenmits deesen verleent brieven van divortie en frij en vranck vande ... wedue ind H Staet... te moogen begeven volgens politique en ecclesiastique ordonnatie. Alsus gedaen ... engegeven in onse vergaderinge Advy ut supra N. Nederlant en met onse cachet inRooden wassche hier opgedruct bevestigt. Was getreeckent, Nicasius De Sille, La mantagne, Corn. van Tienhove."@S287@

    Divorced:
    • They quarreled (probably because she became an emotional Quaker) and separated. In 1642 he left and went to the western part of Long Island, then under Dutch rule.
      On 12 December 1645 John Hicks wrote from Flushing to John Coggesall at Newport the following:
      "Now for parting what way there is seeing she have carried the matter so subtilly as she have I know nt, but if there be anyway to bee used to untie that Knott, wch was at first by man tyed that so the world may be satisfied I am willing thereunto, for the Knot of affection on her part have been untied long since, and her whoredome have freed my conscience on the other part, so I leave myself to yor advice being free to condissend to yor advice if ther may be such a way used for the final parting for us."
      Herodias obtained a divorce from Hicks in Rhode Island.

    Married:
    • After Hicks went to New Netherland, and possibly before, Herodias went to live with George Gardiner of Newport as his common-law wife and had a numerous family.


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