Descendants of Richard

 Descendants of:

Thomas, George, Richard, John, Sarah (Gardner) Balch,
Samuel, **, Miriam (Gardner) Hill, Seeth (Gardner) Grafton 
** Joseph (had no descendants)

This series will go through all of the children and identify some descendants. The list originally was on Wikipedia's page about Thomas Gardner (Planter). We'll put a header into each so that these can be linked, easily.

 For these lists, we will be adding more names. Chronological order:

• Mary Gardner (c. 1660s) – wife of Jethro Coffin
• Timothy Folger (c. 1700s) – studied the Gulf Stream with his cousin, Benjamin Franklin
• Nathaniel Gorham (c. 1730s) – Signer of US Constitution
• Mayhew Folger (c. 1770s) – rediscovered Pitcairn Islands in 1808
• Lucretia Coffin Mott (c. 1790s) – early abolitionist, feminist, and co-founder of Swarthmore College
• George Pollard, Jr. (c. 1791) – Captain of the Essex and the Two Brothers
• Ezra Cornell (c. 1800s) – founder of Cornell university
• Emily Lee (c. 1800s) – wife of U.S. Civil War General Daniel Tyler
• Edwin M. Stanton (c. 1810s) – Secretary of War, American Civil War
• Rowland Hussey Macy (c. 1820s) – founder of Macy's
• Phillips Brooks (c. 1830s) – author of a well-known carol.
• Charles Francis Adams II (c. 1830s) – Union General, President of Union Pacific Railroad
• James A. Folger (c. 1830s) – founder of Folger's
• Henry Clay Folger (c. 1850s) – head of Standard Oil of New York, founder of the Folger Library
• George William Coffin (c. 1840s) – Commander of 'Alert', Greely Relief Expedition
• Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt (c. 1860s) – 2nd wife of Theodore Roosevelt
• William Sydney Porter (c. 1860s) – author
• Charles Austin Beard (c. 1870s) – historian, co-founder of The New School
• Harold M. Stratton (c. 1870s) – founder of Briggs & Stratton
• Esther Williams (c. 1920s) – American swimmer and movie star
• William H. Macy (c. 1950s) - American actor
• John Goff (c. 20th century) -- Salem Preservationists and one of the Gems of Salem

Lucretia Mott 

The order of the children is that used by NEHGS' Great Migration (Anderson) and Dr. Frank.

Earlier look at Richard. 

Remarks: Modified: 08/27/2022

09/26/2020 -- Added image for the portal (https://TGSoc.org). 

10/24/2020 -- Added list of children. 

12/13/2020 -- Added link to earlier look. 

01/31/2021 -- Added William H. Macy. See American Cousins post. 

08/27/2022 -- Added John Goff to the list, finally.