Preview, Gardner's Beacon, Vol X, No 1

TL;DR -- When will the next issue of Gardner's Beacon come out?  

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Our last issue was Gardner's Beacon, Vol. IX, No. 3 which published in late December. We had anticipated an early spring issue this year but are a little late. Part of that has to do with the uncertain future that we are all facing. So, we have a lot of unknowns while going forward, some of which we hope can be resolved earlier than others.

Technology has shown its use in ways that were unexpected, albeit there might have been a hope. For one, interest in managing demands for streaming video resulted in a beef'd up set of communication modes whose presence turned out to be useful for people locked up at home. As well, business found great use for the facilities, as will we (see TGSoc.org for ongoing discussions and demonstrations).

A hundred years ago, Dr. Frank's The Massachusetts Magazine quit publishing which was puzzling when we first started to look at the archives as he had excellent contributors. But, later, we were reminded of the Spanish Flu and WWI. That was a couple of years ago. This year really brought it home as we cannot have much to say about when things will quiet down. Nor do we have much to say about what the new normal might be. Just like our ancestors made it through those times, we can expect some future event that will include a thoughtful recap. However, just as the Spanish Flu was around for over two years, we might expect something similar or not. A vaccine would cut the time; a much longer time would not be outside of the realm of possibilities.

In the meantime, we will be reviewing the past decade's work while thinking of how things ought to progress. Too, we will be publishing the next issue of The Gardner Annals (Vol. V, No. 1). With that volume, we can go back and restructure material to put into book form. We expect to have a couple of issues in Vol. V. There is still time to contribute (inquiries@tgsoc.org).

While doing research the past few months related to the American Revolution, we have been considering how the periods line up and overlap. So, we're facing the 250th of that event soon, about the same time as the Cape Ann celebration. Then, we have the post-revolution periods related to the growth of the U.S. in stature and wealth. In looking further at the GSMD books on the fifth generation, we saw that Dr. Frank had come forward to the seventh, for some parts of the family.

However, too, one could see that the 4th and 5th bore the onus of the attainment of freedom. Then, it was the 6th who carried on with the new country. The 7th? The first to enjoy the fruits of those turmoil that the earlier generations face.

Remarks: Modified: 11/10/2020

09/29/2020 -- We're making progress: GB Vol X No 1. 

10/28/2020 -- Yes. It's at the virtual print shop (where PDFs are created ;>). 

Generations, 1907 book

TL;DR -- The table shows four of the lines in Dr. Frank's 1907 book.

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The earlier post listed the first and last person for each of the generations in the 1907 book of Dr. Frank. The table summarizes the lineages where we can see that Thomas, George, and Samuel were the main families with the last having the most coverage, basically from Dr. Frank's work on his lineage. Our next step will be to go to WikiTree and do another table based upon the work there that is being driven by the Great Migration Project.

In this table, all surnames are Gardner.

1	2	#2 Lt Thomas	#3 George	#6 Samuel	#6 Samuel
2	3	#12 Lt Thomas	#22 Samuel	#59 Abel	#59 Abel
3	4	#62 Habukkuk	#69 John	#79 Abel	#82 Joseph
4	5	#87 Habukkuk	#90 John	#129 Simon Stacey	#133 Joseph
5	6		#139 John	#188 Jonathan	#192 John
6	7		#197 Elizabeth	#345 Benjamin Brown

Comparison list between 1907 and 1933 books.

Remarks: Modified: 08/09/2020

07/29/2020 -- 

Generations, again

TL;DR -- Starting with  Dr. Frank's 1907 book, we begin a look at the generational stack with the intent to go to WikiTree, next.

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Lately, the generation theme has looked at major events in the U.S. history, starting with the Revolution. That was the ordeal of the 4th and 5th generations. Then, we had the 6th and 7th that were involved with the expansion of the American sphere of influence both internally (western expansion, et al) and in the world. Part of that was generating wealth, unbounded, for some families. At the same time, there were turmoils to consider. So, we will be trying to organizing these topics and the corresponding studies with respect to generations using several (actually many) families.

In terms of time spread of the generations, we can use the Mayflower example for comparison. Say, during the Revolution, we would have had people from the 4th, 5th, and 6th generations involved. Too, there may have even been some remnants of the 3rd and early entrants of the 7th generations around and about. The theme is, though, that 'cohort' is a useful concept which can be used to help with the categorizations. Using generations allows us to have a focus on families.

In his 1907 book, Dr. Frank starts the 3rd generation with #12 Lt. Thomas Gardner (bp 1645 - 1695), son of #2 Lt. Thomas Gardner ( - 1682) and Hannah (pg 101).

• He starts the 4th generation with #61 Thomas Gardner (1671 - 1696), son of #12 Thomas (pg 134). This generation includes #69 John Gardner (1681 - 1732), son of #22 Samuel Gardner (1647 - 1724) and Elizabeth Browne (pg 140). 
• He starts the 5th generation with #87 Habakkuk Gardner (1707 - 1762), son of #62 Capt Habakkuk Gardner (1673 - 1732) and Ruth Gedney (pg 162). This generation includes #105 Capt Jonathan Gardner (1728 - 1791) who served in both the French-Indian and Revolutionary wars (pg 178). Also, included is #129 Simon Stacey Gardner (bp 1743 - b 1787) who is the 2nd-great-grandfather of Dr. Frank. (pg 195). 
• He starts the 6th generation with #139 John Gardner (1739 - 1805), son of #90 Capt John Gardner (bp 1706 - 1784) and Elizabeth Putnam. (pg 198). This generation includes #188 Jonathan Gardner (bp 1773 -1839), son of Simon Stacey Gardner (pg 283), and concludes with #192 John Gardner (1793 - 1834), son of #133 Joseph Gardner () and Anna Edee (pg 301). His daughter, #368 Harriett (1833 - 1887), is the last person named in the 1907 book of Dr. Frank. 

In the details for generation six, Dr. Frank gives information about the children and grand children. That gets us to the 7th and 8th generations. Given that we want to use Thomas' children as the 1st generation, Dr. Frank has given us a start on looking at the first of the seven generations. In that last generation, we will be looking at the U.S. Civil War.

Earlier, we did a table that listed the names in the two books. This list will be extended.

Remarks: Modified: 07/29/2020

07/29/2020 -- See next post for a Table of names from above.

5th generation

TL;DR -- Marked by the arrival by boat, it was the 5th generation that bore the onus of establishing the new country. The 6th generation got things going with regard to progress and growth of the country. The 7th generation were the first to see proceeds start to accumulate.

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Here, we are looking at a broad-scope generation rather than for the 25-year assumption that can be used for a family. We will use some lines of descendancy from Thomas and Margaret and a few of the closely related families. As well as look further at the 6th and 7th generations, we have to note that the 5th generation from Thomas' time was responsible for the start of the U.S. Here are some posts related to the theme of the Revolution and its follow-on conflict, 1812. 

• Regimental History Series (July 2015)
• Spirit of '76 (March 2018) 
• Henry Gardner, the Loyalist (October 2016)
• USS Merrimack - 1798 (June 2012)
• Gardner-Pingree house (and murder) (December 2011)
• Samuel Knapp Gardner (July 2011) 
• Ebenezer Gardner of Maine (March 2011)

Spirit of '76

There have been several issues of Gardner's Beacon with the theme of the Revolution. Given the sacrifices of the 5th generation, we can set the tone for looking at the 7th. In this list, some are related to the time of Thomas and Margaret. Otherwise, they may be related to another colonial which we will identify.

Looking at the Elizabeth's that we featured, earlier in posts, their generation (fuzzily picked, until further notice) is 5th. That wasn't planned.

The list is in order of the posts.

• Elizabeth (Gardner) Blanchard - 6th generation (Note: 07/29/2020 -- she was marked 5th until we started to follow the generational lines.)  
• Elizabeth (Gardner) Gardner - 5th generation; her husband was 4th. 
• Elizabeth (Gardner) Dabney Bridges Stevens -  5th generation. 

It was the mention of the first Elizabeth in the American Ancestor's magazine that got the little study going. As noted, an Elizabeth (Gardner) Armory was mentioned even earlier; that was in reference to the "1st governor" reference that we saw in Dr. Frank's books. 

Remarks: Modified: 08/09/2020

07/26/2020 -- The 4th was involved with the Revolution, as well. They were trained for this via their support Crown in the French Indian War of the 1750s. We will look at that generation, as well.

07/28/2020 -- Have done several posts related to generations: 5th generation, 6th generation, 7th generation, 1900 back, American 100s, First five, and About generations.

08/09/2020 -- Added image for our portal to truth (TGSoc.org). 

6th generation

TL;DR -- The 5th accomplished the split from England; the 6th workhorse'd the 1812 ordeal; the 7th enjoyed the fruits of the labor of the prior two. Essentially.

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We can note that the fifth generation was involved with the start of the U.S. Too, there can be a focus on the seventh generation as the first to truly enjoy the benefits. International trade boomed after the 1812 conflict was resolved. Lots of families became quite prominent from various commercial activities.

So, what of the sixth, the sandwich generation? Well, we are doing this exercise to start collecting some notion of the descendants of Thomas and Margaret. The GSMD based their silver books on the fifth generation. We used a George descendant to look at the GSMD (Deeper dive - we'll have much more to write) and its relation to our goals. There were many intermarriages twixt people in Essex County and those in the lower set of counties.  

Also, we wanted to come further toward 1900, as that would include Dr. Frank's generation. However starting with the seventh has some appeal as they experienced the U.S. Civil War.  

first issue 

August 28, 1845

A cousin of Dr. Frank's was mentioned in a book review (WSJ, May 30-31). The book was about Colt (pistol king), but the reviewer took a look at some of his cohorts. One was Rufus Porter. That got our attention. As the George descendant is also a Porter descendant, through Hathorne as is Dr. Frank. There were two major Porter families (one of Essex County and another of Connecticut). John Porter of Essex County was neighbor of Thomas Gardner. Two of John's daughters married Hathorne. The daughter of one of these couples married the grandson of Thomas. This couple was buried near Thomas on Gardner's Hill, and their grave is one of those that needs further research. Though, their stone is in Harmony Grove Cemetery (see 29 December 1674 and several related posts). 

Rufus Porter via Wikitree

The book reviewer was noting that there had been a upsurge of industry with Rufus Porter's generation with lots of invention going on, the western movement, and wealth creation. Rufus, himself, went to California. What caught the eye, initially, was that he started Scientific American in 1845. He sold it, but the magazine made note of his passing. 

Having been born in 1792, Rufus was on the late side of the sixth generation.  We have not established a start year or end year, yet, but will be researching a reasonable selection. Perhaps, one approach might be to pick some example of the 5th (First five), 6th, and 7th generations for each of the children. And, picking both a son and a daughter, not necessarily the same couple, might interesting.

Remarks: Modified: 07/29/2020

07/28/2020 -- Have done several posts related to generations: 5th generation, 6th generation, 7th generation, 1900 back, American 100s, First five, and About generations.

07/29/2020 -- Have started to follow the generational lines, first using Dr. Frank's demarcations.

TL;DR

TL;DR -- we will be offering some bit of abstract with regard to a post's content early on.

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We first paid attention to this while working on Quora. This is definitely an artifact of types of modern technology but seems to have a purpose for us. By way of background, Wikipedia is our normal first stop.

• Wikipedia: Too long; didn't read - what's not to like; quotes Blaise: The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter. 
• Geek's view: What does TLDR mean and how do you use it? 
• Urban Dictionary 

There are other means to accomplish a similar purpose. For now, we'll just "TL;DR" and hope to get additional attention via merit.

Remarks: Modified: 07/22/2020

07/22/2020 -- 

Murrey and blue

TL;DR -- We found a new blog, today. 'new' in that it's less old than our own. We expect good things to be read at murrey and blue. Of course, this note being done later, we can fix an oversight: somehow, we forgot to mention William Marshal (without whom we would (might well) be speaking French - having lost the language of King Alfred the Great).

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We had a question recently about motives for people coming to New England, early on. We, more or less, have liked the overview given by the author of Albion's Seed which we first read in 2016 while first exploring all of the ways that New Englanders continued to move after their arrival. We can map out the movement through time. For Virginia, one can see a map that shows the extent of its reach plus the counties defined at the time from the beginning. The expansion was west, at one point, with a limit of the Rockies and points west later on. But, we know that there were eventual constraints, with  West Virginia being one of these.

In Albion's Seed, early New England (Thomas Gardner et al) were reconnaissance. The real deal started with Winthrop who represented on pathway of which were were three more. After the Revolution (coming up 250 years ago), the expansion started in earnest. However, there were facilitating changes, such as the establishment of the Cumberland Pass through which we had people going west. There is a lot to look at. In the case of one family, we found a hanging of an abolitionist minister out in Texas before the major conflict that split the country in the mid-1800s. Three years ago, we looked at the experiences of Col. T. W. Higginson a little further north. There have been conflict and turmoils continually throughout the U.S. history and before.

On FB, recently, we saw a post from the Richard III society. We have had posts about him as it involved the long War of the Roses whose aftermath was of importance. Too, his body was found and re-interned which brought Richard III's life back to attention which got several posts here. Too, other blogs came into existence. One of these is "Murrey and blue." 'Murrey' describes a color that comes from the mulberry fruit.

The post asked: What really happened in 1385, when the Earl of Stafford’s son and heir was killed on a Yorkshire road ...? It was the first time that we read this blog which covers the subject well with illustrations. A name caught our eye: John Holand. The family was familiar for several reasons.

As an aside, it was nice to see history covered, as the whole of the themes related to this was muddied by the Game of Thrones playing loose. We can say that the media, such as blogs, that are coming to fore will allow a more full look at history in ways not possible before technology got off the ground. And this 'murreyandblue' blog gets into detail that is quite refreshing.

Back to the theme, John's father was Henry Holand of a Lancastrian family. Henry married Anne of York. His territory included Dorset which got us to look at the Domesday Book of this region. One of our goals is to keep a long view of history as we proceed with learning more about Thomas, Margaret and others of the Cape Ann venture. So, we expect that we will be looking further at this blog and its cohorts as we pursue our studies further.

There is another view of motivation: The Great Puritan Migration. I like this blog, however, I don't know that we can assume that Thomas and Margaret came here for religious reasons. We had a post dealing with Origins - motivations. One thing looked at were the beheadings associated with the War of the Roses.

Another good one is that from the New England Historical Society. There are a lot more blogs to look at.

Postnote: Back in Holand's ancestry one will find several characters from the time of King John and the MC. We have had posts on those topics. One name to bring forward beyond the interest that has been shown in literature and the arts? William Marshal.

Remarks: Modified: 07/22/2020

07/22/2020 -- Added an image and a TL;DR.