Dorcas Gardner

Dorcas married John Watson Abt 1675. John died Abt Mar 1728/29, North Kingstown, RI. [Group Sheet]

1. Frances Watson was born Abt 1676; died Aft 1726.
2. Herodias Watson was born Abt 1688, Narragansett, RI.

Notes:

It is not know just when and how George Gardner came to America. He first appeared at Portsmouth, RI, in 1638. He was admitted as an inhabitant of Aquidneck (the island on which Newport is situated) in October of 1639, and was made a freeman of Newport on 17 Dec 1639. On 17 Mar 1641/42 he was chosen Constable & Senior Sergeant of Newport.

Shortly after this, George began a close relationship with Herodias (Long) Hicks, wife of John Hicks of MA, RI, and later of Long Island, NY. George & Herodias eventually lived together in a common law marriage, while John Hicks divorced Herodias and moved to Long Island, where he remarried.

George & Herodias lived together for over 20 years and had at least seven children together: Benoni, Henry, George William, Nicholas, Dorcas, & Rebecca. However, the couple separated in 1665. Around this time a man named John Porter separated from his wife Margaret, and not long afterwards he married Herodias.

George then married Lydia, daughter of Robert Ballou of Portsmouth, RI, and Boston, MA. George & Lydia had five children: Joseph, Robert, Mary, Lydia, & Peregrine. After George's death c.1677, Lydia remarried to William Hawkins of Providence, and had four children with him.

George married Herodias Long Between 1641 and 1645. Herodias was born 1623. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Boyd Scott Remington's ancestry chart has her surname as Hicks. However, that was the surname of her first husband.