Died Between 28 Dec 1806 and 15 Jan 1807
MILITARY: Soldier in the Revolutionary War (Married 1st Presbyterian Church) Morris, New Jersey
(1) Stryker p.602,
(2) DAR Patriot's Index p.259,
(3) Will - Hamilton County, OHIO
(4) Genealogical Memoirs of the Huntington Family by Rev E B Huntington 1863
(5) Rockeway Records by Crayon
(6) p.212, March 15, 1770 will of Simon Huntington
"Wife Thankful one-third xxxx brother Samuel Huntington, my sermon books,
children - Samuel Huntington Jr Eunice Ogden, Phebe Gard, Elizabeth
Pierson, Sarah Winter, and Simon Huntington son of John Huntington my
Eldest son.
(7) Member of DAR: Mrs Floyd Sprinkle, 1030 N Washington, Bridgeport, IL and
Mr Robert G Tucker, 830 Northwood Drive, Deerfield, IL 60015
both have data on these individuals
(8) Mentioned by name in: "Sketches of Jacob Parkhurst,1772-1863" by himself.
Ed: Samuel Parkhurst married Sarah GARD (Sister of Gersham). Samuel and
Sarah (GARD) PARKHURST were parents of Jacob b: 19 Feb 1772 in Virginia.
(9) Rockaway Records - (Gard Family) by Percy Crayon
Crayon's "ROCKAWAY RECORDS" shows p-289 under The Gard Family: "Jeremiah [Gard], son of Joseph and wife Mary, born 1717, died at Morristown July 19, 1783, and wife Elizabeth is said to have had seven sons who served in the Revolution. Children: ... Gershom, married Phebe Huntington ..." On pp-137/138 under The Huntington Family Crayon says: "Phebe [Huntington] married Gershom Gard, son of Jemimah [Jeremiah?] and Elizabeth, Jan 18, 1758, lived at Ninkey, New Jersey, removed to Ohio in 1787. Capt Gershom Gard was one of the seven sons who served in the Revolution."
Descent from Gershom GARD is reflected in the records of the Daughters of the
American Revolution and is not the subject of question by any of those working on the GARD lineage. He served during the Revolutionary War as was a captain according the the GARD brothers "THE EARLY BACKGROUND OF THE GARD FAMILY IN AMERICA," however, military records in the Archives and History Bureau of the New Jersey State Library indicate that Gershom GARD was a private in Captain Keen's Company, Eastern Regiment, Morris County Militia.
Following the Revolutionary War, most of the GARDS moved from New Jersey to theSouth or West. In the Spring of 1790, Gershom GARD and his brother Daniel and cousin Alexander went to Ohio with a party organized by Judge John Cleves
Symmes of New Jersey. (For a number of years the family name was carried by
some as GUARD). They settled at or near North Bend, which is on the Ohio River just west of Cincinnati and not very far from the Indiana border. North Bend is also close to the junction of the Miami River and the Ohio River. The rest of the year was spent in rearing cabins and hunting to keep the family in venison. Old county histories attest to the difficulties of these early settlers in battles with the dense wilderness, cutting down huge trees to make clearings for cabins, enduring Indian forays and floods of the Miami River.
From the will of Gershom GARD probated in Hamilton County, Ohio, he had sons
and daughters identified as Seth, Job, Elizabeth, Ruth, Betsey, Jemima, Eunice, and Hanna. Executors were Seth and Job GARD.
While DAR papers indicate that Gershom GARD died in 1818, his tombstone
indicates that he died 15 Jan 1807 "in the 71st year of his life," which would establish 1736 as the year of his birth. He died in Springfield Township, Hamilton County, Ohio.
A descendant of Gershom GARD, Mary Joy JAMESON, the wife of Edward Bradner
PETERSEN of 795 Laguna Rd, Pasadena, CA 91105 (7/30/91) had correspondence
from Margie Gard Gray of LaCenter, WA who casts doubts that Jeremiah GARD
(b:1717) would have been the father of Gershom. She also thought Jospeh's
wife might have been Mary Elmer. She does not accept the lineage indicated by the GARD brothers in their "THE EARLY BACKGROUND OF THE GARD FAMILY IN AMERICA" and she also questions the lineage outlined in the "ROCKAWAY RECORDS". Margie thought it unlikely on the basis of ages that Jeremiah (b. 1717) was the father of Gershom (b.1734 or 1736 or even as early as 1732). Margie stated that Jeremiah had a brother Daniel Gard b 1707 in CT whom she thought might be Gershom's father. Accordingly she is working on a different line of descent (for which proof is now lacking, but is as follows:
1 - Richard GARD (GARRAD) Sr d. 1630/32 Charleston, Mass
2 - Daniel GARRAD (1612-1687) & Wife Margaret of Hartford, CT
3 - John GARD of around New London CT
4 - John GARD b. 1684
5 - Daniel GARD b. 1707 CT - d. 1777 NJ (Believed to be Brother of
Jeremiah GARD b. 1716 d. 1783 with a controversy as to their
parentage).
6 - Gershom GARD b. 1736 d. 1807
7 - Job GARD
Another GARD descendent, Paul HOLSEN of Nables, Florida expressed doubts that
Gershom's ancestors had come from Connecticut. He is familiar with the various reports mentioned above and has also corresponded with Margie Gray GARD, whose thinking on the Connecticut connection.
Gershom may have been a son of Daniel and not Jeremiah. Nellie Gard felt that Jeramiah was connected to Isaac Gard who came to NY from Bordeau, France, but she couldn't prove it.
