Notable Cousin · via the maternal line
?–1787 · Continental Army officer in Crane’s 3rd Continental Artillery. Died unmarried in North Carolina, 1787. His individual FamilySearch record is sparse, but his descent is documented through his father, Job Gardner, and Massachusetts Registrar primary sources.
Relationship
Capt.-Lt. James Gardner is the 4th cousin, 7 times removed of John, Perry, and Patrick Long.
Through Lt. George Gardiner Sr of Newport, Rhode Island. James Gardner descends from George Sr’s son Benoni Gardiner (by his first wife, Sara Slaughter — Herodias Long’s stepson, not her child); the family descends from George Sr’s sons by Herodias. George Gardiner Sr is the shared ancestor.
Lt. George Gardiner Sr (c. 1599–1677) — of Newport, Rhode Island; the shared ancestor — James by his son Benoni (Sara Slaughter line), the family by his sons with Herodias Long (individual PID for George Sr not yet resolved). This is the single shared ancestor that connects Capt.-Lt. James Gardner to John, Perry, and Patrick.
Both lines descending from the most recent common ancestor, Lt. George Gardiner Sr. The family’s line is the maternal Plantagenet descent documented in full on the Plantagenet Descent page; Research-in-Progress markers flag generations not yet enumerated. Click any PID to open the FamilySearch record.
VERIFIED on the family’s own Gardiner → Westcott → Perry line (George Gardiner II MLZH-F8N, Hannah Gardiner LHH8-J1M, Caleb Westcott, and onward), all enumerated on the Herodias Long and Plantagenet Descent pages. James Gardner’s descent is anchored at his father, Job Gardner (L7NC-64W). James’s own individual FamilySearch record is sparse and his PID is unresolved; the lineage is institutionally documented through his father, his siblings’ records, and the Massachusetts Registrar primary source — no identifier has been invented for him. The intermediate Gardiner generations (Benoni → Nathaniel → Benjamin) are marked Research-in-Progress.