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2. Lord1 Manor, on Grant from Charles I Gardiner Lion-481088 (Progenitor ) was born in 1599 in England. He died in 1663 in New York.
Newton, Colonising Puritans. A view is that the mother of David is Merrichjen Willemson Duercant, possible as Lion had fought in Holland. He is a military engineer first working on Saybrook Fort. He bought Gardiner's Island from the Montaukett Indians (whom he had helped in the Pequot War) for "a large black dog, some powder and shot, and a few Dutch blankets". He first called it Isle of Wight as it reminded him of there. Island worth $125 million in 1989. The 1990s owner was Alexandra Goelet. Another view is that Gardiner did not get it by royal gran tbut first by a trade with the Indians (the Montaukett a group of the Pequot Indians, led by Wyandanch), and secondly by a a direct purchase from Earl of Stirling who had it granted by Charles I. Later, Gardiner used English Law to have the island declared a manor to reduce his taxes.
Legend is that pirate Captain Kidd pillaged his manor and made it the hideout for his treasure. He gave Mrs Gardiner a gold cloth from a Moghul ship taken off Madagascar. Booty included, gold dust, bars of silver, Spanish dollars, rubies, diamonds, candlesticks and porringers. Gardiner's Island (10km x 5km and 43km of coastline) is first English settlement at New York at eastern end of Long Island. It is the only American real estate still intact as part of an original royal grant from the English Crown says a wikipedia page on Gardiner's Island. Last estimated worth $125 million. First had corn, wheat, fruit and tobacco plus livestock. Gardiners took the American side during Am Rev. The British Navy used Gardiner's Bay as a rendezvous,and did so again in 1812 War. But one descendant's modern view is that Gardiners worked both sides of the Am Rev. Not surprising, given the island's position.
Lion married GNotknown Mary-481089.
She is dr of Derike Willemson.
Lion and Mary had the following children:
+ 3 M i Lord2 of Manor Gardiner David-481028 was born about 1636. He died in 1689. 4 F ii Gardiner Elizabeth-481092 was born in 1641. She died about 1660.
She was once, as a teenager, an accuser in an early witch trial. She is the first English child born in New York.5 F iii Gardiner Mary-481158 was born in Fort Saybrook.
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