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1761, daughter of Thomas, born September 15, 1650, and Sarah (Post) Vincent, grand- daughter of William, born 1627, and Susan- nah ( Browning) Vincent, born 1630.
(VI) Gamaliel, son of John (4) and Miriam (Cleveland) Marchant, married, May 19, 1763, Lydia Ripley. He served in the revo- lutionary war as corporal in Captain Benja- min Smith's company, service from January 19 to May 31, 1776, at Martha's Vineyard, in defense of the sea coast (see "Massachu- setts Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolution"). Lydia Ripley, born May 6, 1743, died Decem- ber 27, 1825, was a daughter of Peter and Damaris (Chase) Ripley, the latter of whom was baptized September 24. 1738, died Decem- ber 6, 1761, daughter of Joseph Chase, died May 1, 1749, "aged 60 years, 2 months, 20 days"; married Lydia -, died July 17, 1749, aged "52 years, 2 months, 11 days."
(VII) Phoebe, daughter of Gamaliel and Lydia (Ripley) Marchant, married Thomas Dornin (see Dornin I).
(The Gardner Line).
Elizabeth Gardner, great-grandmother of Mary Jane (Evans) Dornin, wife of William Coffin Dornin, was a descendant of John (1) Gardner.
(II) John (2), son of John (1) Gardner, was born December 20, 1653; married Susan- nah, daughter of Nathaniel and Mary Hou- chin, Honchin, or Howchin, daughter of Jere- my and Esther Houchin. Jeremy Houchin was a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Boston, son of William Houchin.
(III) Jeremiah, son of John (2) and Su- sannah (Houchin) Gardner, died May 5, 1768; married. August 8, 1711, Sarah, born January 9, 1695, died December 1, 1738, daughter of James (2) Coffin, died October 2, 1741 ; married, March 19, 1692, Ruth Gardner, born January 26, 1678, died October 4, 1748, daughter of Captain John Gardner, born 1624, died May, 1706; married, Febru- ary 20, 1654, Priscilla, daughter of Joseph Grafton. Captain John was a son of Thomas Gardner. died October 29, 1674, and Mar- garet ( Frier) Gardner.
(IV) George, son of Jeremiah and Sarah (Coffin) Gardner, married Elizabeth, daugh- ter of James Chase, born January 15. 1685, and Rachel Brown, daughter of John (2) Brown and Rachel Gardner; granddaughter of John (1) Brown and Hannah Hobart, and great-granddaughter of Elder John Brown. Hannah Hobart was the daughter of Rev. Peter Hobart, baptized October 13, 1604, died March 8, 1646; married Rebecca Ibrook, born
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1621, died September 9, 1693 (second wife), daughter of Richard Ibrook. Rev. Peter Ho- bart was the son of Edmund Hobart, died March 8, 1646; married, September 12, 1600, Margaret Dewey.
(V) Elisha, son of George and Elizabeth (Chase) Gardner, married Ruth Meder.
(VI) Elizabeth, daughter of Elisha and Ruth (Meder) Gardner, married. February 13, 1787, Samuel Badger.
(VII) Sarah, daughter of Samuel and Eliz- abeth ( Gardner) Badger, born June 10. 1792. died October 25, 1875; married, October 6, 1810, Solomon Westcott, born September 20, 1789, died January 5, 1874, son of Abraham and Lydia ( Wardell) Westcott.
(VIII) Harriet Elizabeth, daughter of Sol- omon and Sarah (Badger) Westcott, married Robert William, son of William Evans.
(IX) Mary Jane, daughter of Robert Wil- liam and Harriet Elizabeth (Westcott) Ev- ans, married William Coffin Dornin (see Dor- nin III).
(The Chase Line).
The Chase family, with whom the Gard- ners and Coffins intermarried, begins with Thomas Chase.
(II) Richard, son of Thomas Chase, was baptized November 30, 1540; married, April 16, 1564, Joan Bishop.
(III) Aquila, son of Richard and Joan (Bishop) Chase, was born August 14, 1580; married Sarah
(IV) Thomas (2), son of Aquila and Sa- rah Chase, was born 1618, died 1652; mar- ried, 1642, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Philbrick.
(V) Isaac, son of Thomas (2) and Eliza- beth ( Philbrick) Chase, born April 1, 1650, died May 19, 1727 ; married, October 5. 1675, Mary Tilton.
(VI) James, son of Isaac and Mary (Til- ton) Chase, was born January 15, 1685 ; mar- ried Rachel Brown (see Gardner IV).
(VII) Elizabeth, daughter of James and Rachel (Brown) Chase, married George Gardner (Gardner IV) and from them de- scent continues to William Coffin (2) Dornin, through his mother, Mary Jane (Evans) Dor- nin (see Gardner, Bunker and Coffin lines).
(Another Bunker Line).
Mary (Bunker) Coffin, wife of Stephen Coffin, descended from William Bunker and Mary Macy (see Bunker II), through their son, Jabez, born November 7, 1678, died May 6, 1750: married, November 19, 1706, Han- nah Gardner, born May 6, 1686, died March 25, 1773. daughter of Nathaniel and Abigail Coffin. Samuel, son of Jabez and Hannalı
Bunker, was born September 5. 1711, died September 3. 1786; married, November 17. 1731, Priscilla Coleman, born September 26, 1713, died July 11, 1797. daughter of John (2) and granddaughter of John (1) Cole- man, born 1644, died 1715; married Joanna Folger, died May 18, 1719. Jolin (2) Cole- man was born August 2, 1667, died January 10, 1762; married Priscilla Starbuck, born October 25, 1676, died March 14, 1762, daughter of Nathaniel Starbuck, born 1035, died February 2, 1719: married, 1662, Mary Coffin, born February 20. 1645. died Novem- ber 13, 1717. Mary, daughter of Samuel and Priscilla (Coleman) Bunker, married Ste- phen Coffin (see Coffin IV) ; from Stephen and Mary ( Bunker) Coffin, the line continues to William Coffin (2) Dornin, through his grandmother, Phoebe G. Coffin, daughter of George Bunker Coffin, son of Noah, son of Stephen Coffin.
Descriptions of coats-of-arms of the fami- lies herein recorded :
Dornin: Gu. a lion passant guardant or. In base a human heart arg., charged with a saltire, couped, of the field. Crest: A dexter cubit arm. erect, holding a flaming sword, all proper. Motto: Fortiter et fideliter.
Coffin : Az. semée of cross crosslets or, four bezants of the first. Crest: A martlet arg. Motto: Extant recte factis proemia.
Marchant: Az. a chevron or, between three owls arg., legged of the 2nd. Crest : Out of a ducal coronet, an owl's leg erect or. Motto: Patria cara carior libertas.
Coleman : Az. on a pale rayonne or, a lion rampant gu. Crest : A demi lion rampant gu.
Kimball: Arg. a lion rampant gu. Upon a chief sa. 3 crescents or. Crest : A lion rampant holding in his dexter paw a dagger proper.
Cleveland: Per chevron sa. and erm, a chevron engrailed, countercharged. Crest : A demi old man proper, habited az., having on a cap gu. turned up with a hair front. hold- ing in the dexter hand a spear-headed arg. on the top of which is fixed a line proper passing behind him and wound up in the sin- ister hand. Motto: Pro Deo et patria.
Ripley : Per chevron az. and or, 3 lions rampant countercharged. Crest: A demi lion vert. collared arg., holding between the paws an escutcheon per chevron or and arg.
Westcott (Lyttleton) : Arg. a chevron be- tween three escallops sa. Crest: A stag's head caboshed sa., attired or, between the attires a bugle horn of the second, hanging from a band gu.
Wing: Per pale arg. and vert a maunch
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countercharged. Crest : A maunch per pale arg. and vert between two wings or.
Severance (Severne) : Arg. on a chevron sa. nine bezants. Crest: A cinquefoil or. Motto: Virtus praestantior auro.
Hobart: Sa. an estoile of eight points or between two flaunches erm. Crest: A bull passant per pale sa. and gu. bezantee. In the nostrils an annulet or.
Winn: Vert three eagles displayed in fesse or. Crest : A boar's head gu., couped or.
Chase: Gu. four cross crosslets two and two or. On a canton az. a lion passant of the same. Crest : A demi lion rampant or. holding in his dexter paw a cross of the shield. Motto: Ne cede malis.
Dewey: Sa. on a fesse arg. between three dragons' heads erased or, langued gu. as many cinquefoils of the field. Motto: Co- rona veniet delectis. Crest : A dragon's head between two wings expanded sa. on each a cinquefoil or.
Tilton: Az. a fleur-de-lis arg. Crest : An ostrich holding in the beak a horseshoe, all proper. Motto: Deo non fortuna.
Starbuck : Sa. a fesse gu. charged with five mullets between three human hands two and one. Crest: A demi lion rampant hold- ing in his dexter paw a thistle and in his sinis- ter paw a fleur-de-lis.
(VII) Justine Van VAN RENSSELAER Rensselaer, seventh child of General Stephen Van Rensselaer and Harriet Eliza- beth Bayard, was born at Albany, New York. September 18, 1828; in 1911 resided in New York City; married in the Manor House at Albany, February 2, 1853, Howard Town- send, M. D.
He was born at Albany, November 22, 1823; died at his home, No. 15 Elk street, Albany, January 16, 1867, and was the son of Isaiah Townsend, who married Hannah Townsend. Children: 1. Justine Van Rens- selaer, born at Albany, New York, December 5, 1853 : died at Paris, France, April 22, 1881 ; married at Albany, January 23. 1877, Lieu- tenant Thomas Henry Barber, U. S. A., who was born at London, England, May 6, 1844; died at New York, March 16, 1905, and was
the son of Thomas Hunt Barber and Maria Thompson; no issue. 2. Helen Schuyler, born at Albany, New York, November 17. 1855; died there May 27, 1858. 3. Howard Townsend, born at Albany, New York, August 23. 1858; attorney practicing in New York City in 1911 : married at New York, April 17. 1888 (first) Sophie Witherspoon Dickey, who was born at New York, January 9, 1864; died at Saranac Lake, New York, January 29, 1892, and was the daughter of Charles Dens- ton Dickey and Mary Witherspoon ; children : Sophie Witherspoon, born at New York, Feb- ruary 5, 1889; married, New York, October IO, 1910, John Adams Dix; Howard, born at New York, January 27, 1800, died at Thom- asville, Georgia, February 17, 1891. Howard Townsend married (second), at New York, October 20, 1894. Anne Lowndes Langdon, who was born at New York, October 1I, 1865, and was the daughter of Eugene Langdon and Harriet Lowndes ; children : Anne Lang- don, born at New York, November 13, 1898. Howard Van Rensselaer, born at New York, March 25, 1900; Eugene Langdon, born at Southampton, New York, September 24, 1901 ; Philip Schuyler, born at New York, November 3, 1905; 4. Stephen Van Rens- selaer, born at Albany, New York. October 20. 1860 ; attorney ; died at Hempstead, Long Island, January '15, 1901; married, Grace Church Chantry, New York City, May 22, 1888, Janet Eckford King, who was born at Rome, February 19, 1866; died at Quogue, Long Island, August 19, 1890, and was the daughter of Cornelius Low King and Janet De Kay ; children: Janet King, born at New York, March 9, 1889: Margaret Schuyler, born at Bellows Falls, Vermont, July 19, 1890: Stephen Van Rensselaer, born at New York, October 21, 1891 ; died there, Septem- ber 3. 1893: Justine Van Rensselaer, born at New York, January 2, 1896. 5. Harriet Bay- ard, born at Albany, New York, March 23, 1864; married, New York, April 28, 1886, Thomas Henry Barber, who was born at Lon- don. England, May 6, 1844; died at New York, March 16, 1905; children: Thomas Hunt Barber, born at New York, January 20, 1889: Justine Van Rensselaer, born at New York, March 30, 1891.
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