James Gardner

Male Abt 1743 - 1803  (60 years)


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  • Name James Gardner 
    Born Abt 1743  prob Lancaster County, PA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died Jul 1803  Sumner County, TN Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I1746  Bradley Family
    Last Modified 23 Dec 2015 

    Father Gardner 
    Family ID F3100  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family ID F1851  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Mary Ann,   b. Abt 1745,   d. Nov 1815, Sumner County, TN Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 70 years) 
    Married Abt 1763 
    Children 
     1. Nancy "Ann" Gardner,   b. Abt 1775, Mecklenburg County, NC Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
    Last Modified 7 Jan 2011 
    Family ID F689  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • (Research): 26 Jan 1767, James Gardner received 73 acres adj. Charles Harris, Saml Brown, and William Gamon(?) from H.E. McCulloh.   [Records of Mecklenburg County, NC, Vol 4, p. 99]

      Poplar Tent Cemetery, near Concord, NC
      Gardner, Hezekiah James, d. 6 May 1773, age 9mos, son of James and Margaret Gardner.  (WHO IS THIS?  Did James marry twice and this was son by first marriage or was transcription wrong and "Marg." really "Mary"?

      On 14 Sep 1776 James Gardner, shoemaker, purchased a lot on the west side of Trade Street in Charlotte, NC; #19,  for L130.  [Records of Mecklenburg County, NC, Vol 7, p. 211]

      Signer of 1778 Mecklenburg Petition (North Carolina General Assembly - Sessions, Apr-May 1778. Box 1, Joint Papers, North Carolina State Archives)

      July Session 1784:  Robt. Harris vs James Gardner.  Ordered that James Gardner and Att be advised that it is the Sentiment of this Court that James Gardner have the Lands agreeable to his Entry, But not to extend to the North of Charles Harris old line of the place that ____Galloway lately lived on or take in any improvements of said land and that Robert Harris pay the cost of this suit.  [Mecklenburg County Court Minutes, Book 1, p. 33]

      1790 Federal Census:  Mecklenburg County, NC
      Gardner, James
      1 male over 16 (James)
      1 male under 16 (Hezekiah James)
      6 females (wife Mary Ann, daughters Sophie, Nancy, Abigail, Rachael, Elizabeth)
      2 slaves

      April Session 1793:  Margaret Blackwood (of full age) a Minor of Thomas Blackwood, decd, came into Court and made choice of James Gardner as her Guardian who entered into Bond with Ezekial Alexander, security. [Mecklenburg County Court Minutes, Book 3, p. 129]

      July Session 1793:  An inventory of the amount of sales of the estate of Thomas Blackwood, decd, by James Gardner and John Gardner was shown. [Mecklenburg County Court Minutes, Book 3, p. 133]

      July Sesson 1796:  John Gardner and James Gardner, Executors of Thomas Blackwood, decd, to James Henry for 141 acres of Land, dated 19 July 1796, proved by John McKnitt Alexander.  [Mecklenburg County Court Minutes, Book 3, p. 171]