Person:John Gager (2)
John Gager
chr.25 May 1620 Little Waldingfield, Suffolk, England
d.10 Dec 1703 Norwich, New London, Connecticut, United States
Parents and Siblings
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m. Bef 1618
  1. Sarah Gager1618 - 1627
  2. John Gager1620 - 1703
  3. William Gager1622 - 1622
  4. William Gager1623 - 1626
  5. Rebecca Gager1625 - 1625
  6. William Gager1626 - 1626
  7. Thomas Gager1627 - 1627
  8. Sarah Gager1628 - Bef 1630
  9. Rebecca Gager1630 - Bef 1630
Spouse and Children
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m. Bef 1647
  1. John Gager1647 - 1691
  2. Elizabeth Gager1649 -
  3. Sarah Gager1651 - Bet 1701 & 1703
  4. Hannah Gager1653 - 1653
  5. Samuel Gager1654 - 1740
  6. Bethia Gager1657 - 1723
  7. William Gager1660 - 1662
  8. Lydia Gager1663 - 1737
  9. Hannah Gager1666 - 1727
  10. Mary Gager1671 - 1721
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Facts and Events
Name[1][2][3] John Gager
Gender Male
Christening[1] 25 May 1620 Little Waldingfield, Suffolk, England
Marriage Bef 1647 Estimate based on date of birth of eldest known child (John).
to Elizabeth Gore
Will[2] 21 Nov 1695
Death[2][4] 10 Dec 1703 Norwich, New London, Connecticut, United States
Probate[2] 9 Jan 1703/04 Will proved.
References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 William Gager, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)
    2:723.

    "John (Gager), bp. (Little Waldingfield) 25 May 1620 (deposed 25 April 1655 aged 'about thirty years' [WP 6:281]); …"

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 John2 Gager, in Jacobus, Donald Lines, and Edgar Francis Waterman. The Granberry Family and Allied Families: including the ancestry of Helen (Woodward) Granberry. (Hartford, Conn.: E.F. Waterman, 1945)
    223-25.

    "John2 Gager, born in England, by 1625 or earlier, died at Norwich, Conn., 10 Dec. 1703; … The elder Governor Winthrop, in his will, 29 Oct. 1639, directed: 'I will that Jo: Gager shall have a Cowe, one of the best I shall have, in recompence of a heifer his father bought of me: and an 2 ewe goats, and 10 bushels of Indian Corne.' Doubtless he came to Pequot (New London) with the younger Winthrop. He is recorded as present at a Town Meeting in New London, 10 Nov. 1650, and as one of those who 'wrought at the Mill Dam,' July 1651. He sold his homestead to Miles Moore about 1657, and settled with Robert Allyn in the extreme northern section of New London. In 1660 he became an original proprietor of Norwich, Conn., where all his children were recorded, though the first six must have been born in New London. He was Constable of Norwich in 1674 and 1688. …

    The will of John Gager of Norwich, dated 21 Dec. 1695, proved 9 Jan. 1703/4, calls himself 'now Aged & full of dayes,' and gave twenty shillings each to 'my six sons that married my daughters (viz.) John Allen, Daniell Bruster, Jeremiah Ripply, Simon Huntington, Joshua Abell, Caleb ffobes.' He gave to his 'loueing & kind son only son & heire the one halfe of all my personable & mooueable estate his mother haueing taken her first choice,' and afterward referred to this son as Samuell. He also mentioned deeds given to the husbands of his daughters, and made his wife and son Executors. Mrs. Elizabeth Gager made oath to the inventory, 10 Jan. 1703/4. [New London Probate Records, File No. 2131.]"

  3. ↑ Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
    2:221.

    "Gager, John, New London, came prob. with his f. deac. William, to Boston, 1630, and may have been at Hampton 1640; perhaps accomp. young John Winthrop, when he went to plant the Pequot conquest, a. 1645, had w. Eliz. named in his will, yet she may not have been mo. of the ch. either six b. bef. rem. or three after he went, 1660, to Norwich; John, Sept. 1647; Eliz. 1649; Sarah, 1651; Hannah, 1653, d. young; Samuel, 1654; Bethia, 1657; William, 1662, d. young; Lydia, 1663; Hannah, again, 1666; and Mary, 1671. He was freem. 1675, constable of Norwich 1681, and d. 10 Dec. 1703. His eldest s. d. bef. and the will ment. only s. Samuel, and 'my six s. that m. my ds.' John Allyn, h. of Eliz. Daniel Brewster, Jeremiah Ripley, Simon Huntington, Joshua Abel, and Caleb Forbes; but this order does not relate to the priority of the ds. nor can I appropriate the ds. to their hs. exc. the eldest of them, after long inq."

  4. ↑ Norwich, New London, Connecticut, United States. Vital Records of Norwich, 1659-1848. (Hartford, Conn.: Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut, 1913)
    1:23.

    "John Gager Senior Deceafed Decembr 10th 1703"

  5.   John Gager, in Find A Grave.

    This monument is a cenotaph.

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