Herodias Long

Female 1624 -


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  • Born  1624  England, Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender  Female 
    _CRE  15 Feb 2015 
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    • Reference Number: 973
    • To be a Quaker was to invite imprisonment and torture. On May 11, 1658, Herodias, then a nursing mother with babe in arms, and Mary Stanton, either a friend or sister-in-law, made an arduous journey of 60 miles through practically a wilderness and came from Newport to Weymouth to give religious testimony. They were arrested, thrown in jail and later taken before Governor John Endicott at Boston. He sentenced both to receive ten lashes with a three-fold knotted whip of cords and then to be imprisoned an additional 14 days. According to the record, after this "savage, inhuman and bloody execution upon her, Herodias kneeled down and prayed the Lord to forgive" Governor Endicott.
    Person ID  I4380  Moon Anderson Family History & Genealogy
    Last Modified  15 Feb 2015 

    Family  George Gardner,   b. 15 Feb 1599,   d. 1677 
    Married  Abt 1640  Newport, Rhode Island Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • 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.
    Divorced  3 May 1665  Newport, Rhode Island Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • 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.
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    • 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@
    Children 
     1. Benoni Gardiner,   b. Bef 1645, Narragansett, Rhode Island Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1731
     2. Henry Gardiner,   b. 1645, Narraganset, Plymouth, MA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 26 Apr 1744
     3. George Gardiner,   b. Bef 1650,   d. 1724
     4. Dorcas Gardiner,   b. Abt 1650, NEWPORT, RI Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 4 Aug 1702
     5. Rebecca Wells,   b. Abt 1650,   d. Bef 1710
     6. William Gardiner,   b. Abt 1651, Narragansett, Rhode Island Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1711
     7. Nicholas Gardner,   b. Abt 1654, Narragansett, Rhode Island Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1712
    Last Modified  25 Nov 2017 
    Family ID  F3555  Group Sheet


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