Early years
He was born in South Kingstown, Rhode Island, South Kingstown, Rhode Island, the son of William Gardiner and Abigail Remington.Hatch, 341 After studying medicine in New York, New York, New York, London, England, London and Paris, France, Paris, Dr. Gardiner opened a practice in Boston, Massachusetts, Boston, where he became a lecturer on anatomy. He actively promoted inoculation for small pox, for which he proposed and established a hospital in 1761. But he made his fortune importing drugs for distribution and sale. He contributed generously to the construction of Boston's King's Chapel, where he was a churchwarden, warden, and also to the compilation and publication of a Book of Common Prayer, prayer book. But he is most remembered for his purchase and development of over 100,000 acres (400 km2) of wilderness on the Kennebec River in Maine, where he founded what is today the city of Gardiner, Maine, Gardiner.Maine settlement
A proprietor of the old Plymouth Council for New England, Plymouth Patent, his efforts to settle the territory were unceasing between 1753 and the American Revolution. He selected the location of Gardinerstown Plantation, established in 1754 at the head of navigation on the Kennebec River, at its confluence with the Cobbosseecontee Stream, which had waterfall, falls to provide water power for industry. A millwright, carpenter and other workmen were induced to settle and build his town. He promoted immigration and land cultivation. He contributed a valuable library, and built the first Episcopal Church in the United States of America, Episcopal church in Pittston, Maine, Pittston, from which Gardinerstown would be set off in 1760. When Gardiner moved from Province of Massachusetts Bay, Massachusetts to Maine 1766, he compelled Isaac "Hazard" Stockbridge, a Black man whom he Slavery in the United States, enslaved, to move with him. Stockbridge brought his Free Negro, free Black wife, Cooper Loring, and their children. Stockbridge used sabotage in attempts to gain freedom from Gardiner, killing one of his horses, setting fire to his home, and attempting to poison his family. Gardiner sent Stockbridge and his family to live on a remote portion the property, where he lived under little supervision until his death in 1780.Political leanings
In 1774, Dr. Gardiner added his name to a letter addressed to Massachusetts Royal Governor Thomas Hutchinson (governor), Thomas Hutchinson, affirming his allegiance to the Loyalist (American Revolution), Loyalist cause. When the United Kingdom, British army evacuated Boston in 1776, Dr. Gardiner fled to City of Halifax, Halifax, Nova Scotia. With few of his possessions, he then lived in Poole, England throughout the American Revolutionary War, Revolutionary War. In 1778, his name appeared in the Massachusetts Banishment Act, and his vast landholdings were confiscation, confiscated. Even his personal collection of rare books were sold at auction. Because of an error in the confiscation of the Maine property, however, his heirs would be able to secure its return.Death
In 1783, Dr. Gardiner spent time in St. John's, Newfoundland, and in 1784 wrote a report enumerating its resources, advocating 11 reasons for settlement. In 1785, he returned to Newport, Rhode Island, where he died the following year and was buried under Trinity Episcopal Church (Newport, Rhode Island), Trinity Church. The Christ Episcopal Church, built in 1820 beside the Gardiner common land, common, bears his cenotaph.Family
He married three times, first to Anne Gibbins (or Gibbons) in around 1730, with whom he had all of his children prior to her death in 1771. His second marriage was to Abigail Eppes (née Pickman) sometime prior to his departure from Boston in 1776; she died on November 3, 1780, after they moved to England. His third wife was Catherine Goldthwaite, who was about 49 years younger than him; they married in February 1785. After Gardiner's death, Catherine married W. Powell of Boston. Gardiner's first son, John Gardiner (1731-1793), was Attorney General of Saint Christopher Island and father of John Sylvester John Gardiner.Webster 1913, pp. 8-9References
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