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[Thanks to Brian Smith and Mardie Campbell for transcribing the Gardner family]

   5.   STEPHEN2 (John1), b. in Hing. Aug. 14, 1662.   m. Dec. 22, 1687, Sarah Warren, dau. of John and Deborah (Wilson) Warren of Boston.   She survived him, and m. secondly, Nov. 15, 1737, John Pratt of Wey.   Stephen d. 2 Nov. 1715, æt. 53 yrs.   Upon a gravestone erected to the memory of his wid., in the cemetery at "Liberty Plain," South Hing. is the following inscription: —

HERE   LIES   BURIED   Ye
BODY   OF   SARAH   PRATT
WHO   DIED   OCT   22nd
1761   IN   Ye   101st   YEAR
OF   HER   AGE   LATELY
Ye   WIFE   of   LIEUT   JOHN
PRATT   BUT   FORMERLY
Ye   WIFE   OF   Mr   STEPHEN
GARNET   BY   HIM   SHE   HAD
A   NUMEROUS   POSTERITY
RUNNING   TO   Ye   5th   GEN
ERATION   IN   NUMBERS
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   The ch., of Stephen and Sarah, all b. in Hing., were —

   i.   DEBORAH, Oct. 9, 1689.   m. Jan. 6, 1714-15, John Stowell.
   ii.   SARAH, July 31, 1691.   m. Feb. 16, 1715-16, Hezekiah Ripley.
   iii.   STEPHEN, Feb. 6, 1692-93, d. 26 Aug. 1697.
   iv.   LYDIA, Jan. 22, 1694-95.   m. March 17, 1720, Isaac Whiton.
12. v.   DAVID, March 13, 1696-97.
   vi.   ABIGAIL, Jan. 11, 1698-99.   m. Oct. 25, 1726, Nathaniel Stodder.
13. vii.   STEPHEN, Dec. 29, 1700.
   viii.   PATIENCE, Sept. 3, 1703.   m. May 11, 1727, Peter Tower
   ix.   JOSHUA, Dec. 25, 1705, prob. d. young.

   6.   BENJAMIN2 (John1), b. in Hing. Apr. 7, 1666.   m. Jan. 13, 1695-96, Sarah, dau. of Robert and Rose Dunbar.   Benjamin d. 30 June, 1736, æt. 70 yrs.   Will dated 14 June, 1736, proved 8 July foll.   Constable 1707, and 1708.   Resided at "Liberty Plain," So. Hing.
   Ch., all b. in Hing., were —

   i.   SARAH, June 19, 1698, d. 12 Dec. 1716.
14. ii.   BENJAMIN, May 15, 1700.
   iii.   HANNAH, Nov. 20, 1703.   m. Dec. 22, 1726, Stephen Gardner (13).
15. iv.   ROBERT, Aug. 31, 1706.

   7.   JOHN3 (John2-1), b. in Hing. Jan. 4, 1683-84.   m. Rebecca ——.   She survived him, and m. secondly, Nov. 11, 1747, Samuel Whiton, widr.   John d. 20 Apr. 1742, æt. 58 yrs.   Resided at "Liberty Plain," So. Hing.
   Ch., all b. in Hing., were —

   i.   REBECCA, March 2, 1711-12.   m. Apr. 21, 1737, Benjamin Dunbar, widr.
   ii.   SUSANNA, Dec. 2, 1714.   m. Jan. 28, 1734-35, Jonathan Brown.
   iii.   MARY, Jan. 19, 1717-18.   m. Apr. 3, 1735, Emerson Orcutt.

 

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