Person:William Gard (2)

Children, born in Boston, Massachusetts:. 1668/69n

DEATH: William Gard wrote his will on 22 May 1679. It was proved on 28 Sept. 1685, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, with his widow Maria as executrix and sole legatee [Suffolk County, Massachusetts. Probate, Vol. 6, p. 509].

BIOGRAPHY: Posted by: Dorothy Forehand Wise-Kincaide Date: October 29, 1999 at 19:43:09 http://genforum.genealogy.com/gard/messages/77.html n in Frying Pan, Alligator Lake, Hyde co. or Tyrell co. N.C.. Family legend is that; they were shipwrecked off the Carolina coast and came from France. There is a brother of William's named Capt. Albert Gard and I have been in contact with that family. The whole family were either mariners or lighthouse keepers.Capt. William Gard died in Berkley, Va. (Norfolk) 1903 buried in Elizabeth City, N.C.

BIOGRAPHY: William Gard(e) was a skipper of a ship which sailed the seas from Boston to Barbados. He and his father were both merchants on the high seas. (see notes for John Garde, father to William.)

BIOGRAPHY: 5. William Gard was born in 1642 or 1643, based on his 1667 deposition in Maryland in which he states his age as 25 years [Maryland Archives (MDA) Vol. 57, p. 184]. His first appearance in the records occurs when he married Maria Jameson at Charlestown, Massachusetts on 30 July 1666. Maria was baptized at the First Church of Boston on 28 Nov. 1647, daughter of James and Sarah Jameson. The identity of her parents is proven by the deed recording the sale by her mother of a house lot in Boston to her husband in 1677 [SD Vol. 11, p. 216]. Maria was a member of the First Church of Boston, but her husband was never admitted to membership. William Gard was a mariner and a ship captain. While trading in Maryland in 1666 his ketch Hope was seized by the authorities for failure to list his cargo and post the bond required to load tobacco. The bark William, whose master was John Trerice, son of the Nicholas Trerice mentioned above, was also seized at the same time for the same reason. Both ships were described as "of New England". Gard and Trerice claimed that one John Pitt had promised to arrange the proper papers for them and that they were not aware that he had failed to do so. Their cases were tried at a special session of the Maryland Provincial Court on 19 March 1666/67, where they were both found guilty of the charges against them. As punishment, both of their vessels were confiscated [MDA, Vol. 57, pp. 158-163]. In spite of this rather harsh treatment, William Gard continued to trade in Maryland as late as March 1671/72 [MDA, Vol. 54, p.520]. The Gard-Trerice connection in these records, repeating as it does the Gard-Trerice connection of the 1643 bond discussed above, reinforces the belief that William Gard was most likely a son of John Gard and grandson of Roger Gard. BIOGRAPHY: By 1677 William Gard was master of the ship Society, engaged in Trans-Atlantic and Caribbean trade [The Original Lists of Persons of Quality, by John C. Hotten, 1874; The Complete Book of Immigrants, Vol. 2: 1661-1699, by Peter W. Coldham, 1990]. Specifically, he is recorded as having sailed the Society from London to New England in July 1677 and from Barbados to Boston in March 1679 and again in July 1679. These two known voyages to Barbados by William Gard provide an unexpected link with his probable brother John, to be discussed below.

BIOGRAPHY: Posted by: William E. Gard Date: March 03, 2001 at 17:33:13 ur comments about the maritime aspects of the family are very interesting. My great grandfather John Gard (believe born 1836 in Minehead, Somerset) went to sea under sail. I worked (landside) in shipping in Liverpool England and Montreal Canada for 44 years. I have found that a Gard worked on the Dreadnought battleship programme prior to WW1. Another Gard was a master boatbuilder in SE England and yet another was chief painter at a naval dockyard in SE England. There is a Gard who is harbourmaster in Hobart Tasmania so there is definitely a maritime thread here.es descendants of Huguenots. I had no luck in tracing Gards when I went to France (specifically Department Gard) but interestingly there is a St. Jean du Gard, still a centre of Protestantism in France today. Oh, and I did get to walk on our bridge, the famous Pont du Gard.l Gard