Marilyn, Thank you for the story of these Gardner relatives from Nantucket! This helps explain more of why the Gardner left Nantucket during the Revolution. I had been told that the British "boycotted" the whaling industry, cutting off the income of Nantucket. I had not read that they pirated the whalers! Muriah _____ Marilyn R Otterson wrote: > I am sorry I have forgotten the web site, but I think you might be able > to find it in Cindy's List. There is a website for New Brunswick > queries. It connects you to some big library (again, I have forgotten > becuase it was a couple of years ago that I queried there) in New > Brunswick that will do a look-up for you, of one name. I was working on > the possibility that one of my ancestors had come from there (one other > researcher on the same guy thought so) and put my query on. I was > answered, asked for my snail mail address, and a couple of weeks later > received the information I wanted. ( My mystery man did not come from > N.B. after all.) The problem is, however, is that you have to have some > idea of the county, as I remember. > > Sorry I cannot be more specific, but it would be worth a try to search > for N.B. info sites, or to try a rootsweb list for that province and see > if you can get some help with your John. From the year that he was born, > I suppose it might be possible that he was the son or grandson of a > Gardner who went to Canada during or just before the Revolution as many > people did.....just a thought. > > Hope you have some luck. Have you tried the rootsweb list MAINE-L......I > have had some good help there. > > I have been looking through some of my Gardner info in regard to other > surnames on Nantucket that married with my Gardner line. I just read > about one Richard Pinkham who was b. in Nantucket in 1752, and died in > Nova Scotia in 1830. He was a Quaker and was a blacksmith. He shipped > out as a blacksmith on a whaling vessel and while enroute home from > whaling in the north during the Revolution, his ship was taken by a > British man of war, and Richard Pinkham, with two others (not named) was > captured and impressed into the king's service. The British vessel > sailed for Nova Scotia coast and anchored in Margaret's Bay, near > Halifax. Pinkham and three others jumped overboard in the night and swam > ashore. For over a week they hid on one of the islands, and finally > reached the mainland. Knowing that some of the people of Nantucket had > settled around Barrington, N.S., Richard and a companion named Coffin > finally worked their way to that place where Richard settled, established > a blacksmith shop, married, raised a familly with a Lydia Coffin who was > also born on Nantucket. (From Pinkham Genealogical Notes prepared by > John C. Chadbourne) > > Anyway, this is one way folks from Nantucket got to Canada. I am sure > there were less adventurous ways some Gardners went from Nantucket and > settled there.........maybe yours? > > Regards, > Cousin Marilyn > ________________________________________________________________ > GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! > Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! > Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: > http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. > > ============================== > Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp