Major Josiah Gardner

Notes:

Death Notice:
New York NY Spectator 1840 - 1845 Grayscale - 0388.pdf http://fultonhistory.com/Newspapers%206/New%20York%20NY%20Spectator/New%20York%20NY%20Spectator%201840%20-%201845%20Grayscale/New%20York%20NY%20Spectator%201840%20-%201845%20Grayscale%20-%200388.pdf
At Attica, on the 29th ult, Major JOSIAH GARDNER, aged 88 years. Major G. was one of the remnant of that band whose toll purchased for us the civil liberty which we now enjoy.
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Cemetery:
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New York Pensioners, 1835
Name:Josiah Gardner
Rank:Private
County:Genesee Co.
Annual Allowance:36 66
Sums received:91 65
Description of service:Massachusetts mil.
When placed on the pension roll:5 Oct 1833
Commencement of pension:23 Apr 1818
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July 1956 Page 109
A REVOLUTIONARY HERITAGE (cont.)
Major Josiah Gardner
Still erect in the Vernal Cemetery, east of the Attica-
Middlebury line and the East Transit Line of the Holland Purchase,
is a marble slab to the memory of "Major Josiah Gardner, Died June
29, 1843; Aged 88 yrs? Here rests a soldier of the Revolution."
The burial site has been long neglected and is overgrown and the
tombstones scattered. Born at Brimfield, Mass., he enlisted in
August 1776 from South Brimfield and served four months in Capt.
Jehiel Munger's company under Col. Woodbridge's Massachusetts
Regiment. Again, in May 1777, he enlisted as a Private in Capt.
Caleb Keep's company with Col. William Shepherd commanding. He made
application for a pension Wo. 13,126, Oct. 16, 1832, when 77 years
old, and was allowed $36.66 per annum. This claim was located in
the National Archives by the late Miss Miriam Edwards, Attica
archivist. He died at Attica.
Quite probably Gardner's rank of Major came from the State
Militia, possibly in New York- State as he came to Attica about l8ll
or 1812. His wife was Katherine Fenton. The biographical review of
Livingston and Wyoming counties claims that Major Gardner was an
officer of the Continental Army, for which no proof was found, and
was a man of substance and a farmer of good circumstances in the
East. Major Gardner died at the home of his grandson, Patrick R.
Gardner. The Veteran accompanied his son Asher and family into
Attica, and the grandson Patrick, born in 1812, was said to have
been the very first white male child born in that section of town.
The biographical sketch further states that Major Gardner was a
member of the Massachusetts Legislature and was on Washington's
staff. Again, we have no substantiation for these claims.
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Warsaw NY Wyoming County Times 1929-1930 Grayscale - 0678.pdf
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D A . R .
A number of the Daughters of the American Revolution Chapter went over to a cemetery near Attica last Sunday afternoon to set a marker for Josiah Gardner, a Revolutionary soldier, a great grandfather of Mrs. E. T. Montmoery. After the ceremony a flag and flowers were placed on the grave.
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Lineage Book - National Society of the Daughters of the American ..., Volume 45
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MRS JULIA MAY GARDNER CLARKE Born in Muir Mich Wife of John Sherman Clarke Descendant of Josiah Gardner Daughter of Hiram Louis Gardner and Hannah Maria Lansing wife Granddaughter of Parley Gardner and Polly Shaw his wife Gr granddaughter of Josiah Gardner and Katherine Fenton his wife Josiah Gardner 1755 1843 was placed on the pension roll Genesee Co NY 1831 for service as private Mass militia He was born in Brimfield Mass died in NY

Josiah married Catharine Fenton on 3 Jan 1779 in Wales, , Massachusetts, USA. Catharine was born on 19 Sep 1757 in Wales, , Massachusetts, USA; died on 18 Feb 1838; was buried in West Middlebury, Wyoming Co, New York, USA (Vernal Cemetery). [Group Sheet]

1. Adolphus Gardner was born on 1 Jan 1786 in , Hampden Co, Massachusetts; died on 30 Jul 1853 in Attica, Wyoming Co, New York, USA.