Show w 55 ri t 5 5 L S 4 jN f I I 7 S GARDINER FAMILY 7 I Possesses an Honorable Record of Both Character and Achievement Picturesque Members of Family Have Figured in Verse and Ro Romance Fornance mance Grant of Land Be Bestowed Bestowed Bestowed Be- Be stowed as Reward of Heroism S BY ELEANOR LEXI LEXINGTON Gardiner Gardner Gardener and are the only variations of ot this name which is derived derived from the Sa Saxon on words gar a a. weapon and dyn a a. sound an alarm aarm Gardyn then means a a. martial sound or cla clashIng clash clash- hIne h- h Ing Ine of or arms or one who lead a martial life lire The Gardiners have been prominent In affairs all along alone the tho ages agee and since those days called calle poetically the twilight twilight twilight twi twi- light o or of fable Cable they have havo helped male make history Stephen Gardiner born 1483 at Bury St. St Edmunds was lord chan chani of or England and bishop of or Win Winch ch chester h Ht T. T j Waverly Scotts Scott's worIc work describe S the death of ot Colonel James a Ct Scottish h soldier born In whoso life lite was aR written by Very profligate proms In youth his whole life ute changed and he became very cry de- de out after what he regarded as u a su supernatural supernatural su- su vision to him In the thc colonial records tho the name ap appears zip zip- pears as Gardener and Gardner quite as frequently as Gardiner The Tho Thela May May- Hower pilgrim was Richard Gardiner r. r Thomas Gardiner came over in 1 i 52 1 to oversee the planting of the ciOn coi- coi on ony and for this reason he has been called the first governor of ot 1 sett He Hc had e extensive grants of or land landIn In Salem an and Danvers He married In England One of or the most picturesque figures I pf colonial times was was Sir Christopher Gardiner living liing in Boston before there was any Boston and accompanIed accompanied b by a lovel lovely woman his wife Ife He Fie wore a a. long cavalier hat and y neavy cloak and was ne never r without his long his long Spanish rapier A melodramatic matte matic personage he has ha figured d dIn In n the pages of at romance and anti Longfellow Longfellow Long Long- fellow writes of or him It was sas Sir Christopher Gardiner Knight of the Holy Sepulchre From merry England over ovel the sea Who dropped upon this continent As If IC his august presence lent lentA I A glory to the colon colony I IThe The physical prowess of John Gardiner Gardiner Gardiner Gar Gar- GarI I diner has hns been the theme of ot prose if lOt jot poetry On one occasion he ho walked oft off with ten bushels of wheat wheaton on In ri his lila back hack as easily as Sampson carried carried car car- ried ned off the gates of the Philistines Another memorable feat was assisting 1 x friend to catch his horse While try try- ng mug to seize the mane tile horse a a. strong board fence which he cleared Gardiner caught the horse by oy the tall tail an and drugged dragged him back fence ence and arid all Whether this story has pst ost anything traveling tra down th the pages f t history Is loft to the reader to dedde de- de Ido No o more romantic story stony Is found In ur national annals than that of Lion ir r I Lyon Lon Gardiner the only real lord so the stor story goes goos that this America of ot ours has vcr over been able to An Island In Lon Long Island I nine nine miles long by one and a 9 half wide wide was was purchased ed by Gardi Gardi- I acm ner nCI from Crom tho the Indians for o one one gun ft h few Cew ew Dutch blankets and one nf large larg-e black dog a year ear car or so after Garliner Oar Oar- liner landed In lu Bo Boston ton 1635 rh purchase of the land was confirmed b by the agents of or Lord Sterling Sterling- and b by bythe the he terms tho the Island was constituted a separate plantation In no wise depending depending de de- de- de pending upon New England or New NewYork w York and anti Its Us owner was empowered to 10 o make all an laws law necessary to lo church ChUlch and amid n d state A few tew years ears cars later the governor gov- gov or enol of New ew York consented to tho the erecting reeling of the tho Island Into Into a lordship and nd manor manol to be called Gardiners Gardiner's Island island Is- Is land and and Lion Gardiner Cardiner was ally king living In a a. handsome manor man- man or 01 r house with wife and two children and nd a retinue of ot 5 servants ant The prin- prin part of Smith town L. L I L I. I was given on l to Lion us as a n reward for r reacting lug Ing ng a the thc the daughter of an un Indian In- In dl dian lan m on on the night ht of hl her r She was as carried ore oft by a hostIle tribe of Indians but rescued i t hy y Gardiner Gardiner I Island Inland like an almost moyal domain had Its hundred or more retainers rarely Io loss s 8 than CO GU horses horse were Wele ere stabled there cattle grazed In n Its sunny pastures and amid five times as s many sheep The l island land Is still sUIl In possessIon of or descendants of or Lion who left eft It to his son ton David Julia daughter daugh- daugh ter er of oC David married Pre President John Tyler Iler Without mention of or Captain this ils story Is jt incomplete When ho tho pIrate Irate anchored in Gardiners Gardiner's bay ho lie helped himself to whatever cr ho wanted and nd added Insult to Injury by tying l' l h. h 4 F. F Mr Ir Gardiner to a a. mulberry tree Upon taking takIng- leave leavo of the tho Island he show showed d where he had buried burled a box of ot trea treasure ur and said that If ir he never ne returned it belonged to the family To 10 the Jad lady Jady of the manor he ho gave a a. pre present ent of of cloth of or gold sold a a. bit of or which is still stilla a Caroll family relic In the burled buried box were six diamonds rubles rubies small and great 67 61 green stones 69 o other her precious stones silver bars bars without without number and one gold bar bat bata a coral necklace necklace- and 85 Sri bales balei of silk somewhat d' d dby by water The Gardiner record Is a patriotic one Captain Gardiner was In King Philips Philip's war and Colonel Thomas Gardiner waa ivas as killed at Bunker Dunker Hilt Hill Ebenezer was was one ono oC ot the I committee of or safety of ot Boston For Fot Ford d j patriotic services Ices he had a n. grant rant of or r 1000 acres of ot land 1785 In Maine S Sylvester Gardiner of or the Rhode Island branch of oC the family tamU one ono ot of the founders lounders of at Kings King's chapel Boston was va also the time founder of oC the town of ot G Cardiner Gar Car r diner Maine l Characteristic of or the Gardiners are wit wH it 1 eloquence and learning one It was said ho he was a friend of ot learning In er c every form torm The rhe home homo of ot tho the Bishop of or Winchester was u-as spoken of ofas ofas as the sent seat of ot eloquence and the I special abode of ot the mures mus-es The arms cut on Gardiner tombstones tombstones tombstones tomb tomb- stones at Gardiners Gardiner's Island are sable a chevron between two griffins griffins' h heads ads ads erased In chief and a cross crose 7 on base hase |