Now I don't know. I THOUGHT it was the Quaker Gardners but I guess the DNA doesn't break it down that much. However, I am inclined to believe it is the Quaker Gardners. However, there were also Gardners who came into NC through New Bern on the coast and they were French Hugenots. It's a mess and if I could just get ONE of those Hugenot descdendants to get his DNA taken, it would settle the question, once and for all. Problem is, they all named their kids William, James, and Thomas. EVERYBODY who was a Gardner followed that pattern. Marilynn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joseph H. Gardner" <jgardner@iglou.com> To: <GARDNER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2002 9:57 PM Subject: Re: [GARDNER] DNA testing & New England Gardners > Marilynn: > > I'm interested in your statement saying you've "found a close connection to > a Gardner of the New England Gardners." I'm curious: which New England > Gardners? There're several Gardner lines that originate in New England in > the 1600's. The three major ones are: > > The Lion Gardner line (The Gardner's Island line). > The line of Thomas the Planter, which if I remember correctly includes > both the Gardners of Gardner, ME, and the Nantucket Quaker Gardners. (Some > of the later migrated to the Quaker settlements in NC.) > The line of George of London, who settled in Massachusetts Bay Colony > before following Anne Hutchinson to Rhode Island. He's said to have the > largerst number of descendants of any of the immigrant Gardners, but I don't > know if there's any hard evidence for this. > > Yours, > Joseph Gardner > > > ==== GARDNER Mailing List ==== > Rootsweb's GARDNER surname Mailing List > Acceptable Use Policy at: http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/aup.html > -- List admin. darrellm@sprynet.com > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >