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Identifier: magazineofamericv13stev (find matches)
Title: The magazine of American history with notes and queries
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stevens, John Austin, 1827-1910. ed. cn DeCosta, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1831-1904. ed. cn Johnston, Henry Phelps, 1842-1923, ed. cn Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna), 1829-1893. ed. cn Pond, Nathan Gillett, 1832-1894 ed Abbatt, William, 1851-1935, comp
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Publisher: New York : A.S. Barnes
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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* During th<- time of the fifth lord, the family coat of arms was changed,n a om for which are at present unknown, since when the new arms have beenengraved upon the tombstones of the several proprietors, on the silver plate oftli*- family, etc. Mourning rings were used by the Gardiners in all the genera-ti.n -. One of these hears the design of a coffin with a skeleton in the center, theinscription upon it bcin^ J. Gardiner, Ob. 19 May 1764. AL 51. THE MANOR OF GARDINER S ISLAND *9 following passage : I leave to my eldest son John, my island calledGardiners Island, and after his decease to his eldest son, and after hisdecease to the eldest son of the said eldest son, and in that manner to de-scend to the male line of my family to the end of time. His sons were
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MARY GARDINER JOHNSON. educated at Yale College. John, the fifth lord, presided over the estatefor the next thirteen years. His daughter Mary was educated in Boston,and excelled in music, dancing, painting, embroidery, and all the variedaccomplishments of a fashionable lady of the period.* She made her debutin society in gay Boston, and her seeming infatuation for balls and partieswas only equaled by her extravagance in dress. Some of her imported * The exquisitely embroidered coat-of-arms of the Gardiners hanging over the mantel in thedrawing-room of the manor house (see sketch of the drawing-room, page 11), was the work ofthis accomplished Miss Mary Gardiner. THE MANOR OF GARDINERS ISLAND imes, still preserved—a hundred and thirty-five or more years old—are of the rarest elegance and richness. To the surprise of the family,iter all fell in love with the chaplain on the island, Rev. Mr. Blake,and persisted in marrying him, although her parents opposed the match.He died soon after

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