Lionel GARDINER

                   NOTE:
      Emmigrated 10 Jul 1635
      Actually Lion Gardener and his wife Merrichgen Dirksdr Duurcant were not married in 1635. That's the year of their immigration. They were married sometime before 25 Nov. 1624, left Woerden 10 Jul. 1635, and on 16 Aug. 1635 they and their servant Eliza Coles sailed from the port of London on the ship Batcheler. An entry from the journal of Governor Winthrop of Massachusetts reads- "Here [at Boston] arrived a small Norsey bark [a North Sea ship] of twenty-five tons sent by Lords Say &c with one Gardener an expert engineer of work base provisions of all sorts to begin a fort at the mouth of [the Connecticut River]. She came through many great tempests, yet, through the Lords great providence, her passengers, twelve men and two women, and goods all safe."