Jul-28-2018                   
             Husband: Hugh Gaston, Jr.    
                Born: 1734                  1,2,3
                Died: Jun-25-1808          in New Jersey  4,5,3
              Buried:                      in Lamington Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Somerset Co, NJ  4
             Resided:                      in Peapack, Somerset Co, NJ  5
             Resided:                      in Bedminster Twp, Somerset Co, NJ  3
          Occupation:                      farmer & lay judge (appointed 1782)  5
              Father: Hugh Gaston   (1687 - 1772) 
              Mother: Jennet Kirkpatrick   (1698 - 1777) 
Other spouse 2
Other spouse 3
Notes 5,3 
                Wife: Mary Sloan     
                Born: 1742                  3,6
                Died: Aug-14-1766          in New Jersey  4 (see note 1)
              Buried:                      in Lamington Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Somerset Co, NJ  4
              Father: William Sloan   (1705 - 1758) 
              Mother: Mary Shields   (1717 - 1792) 
           M Child 1: William Gaston      
                Born: Apr- 2-1763           5,7 (see note 2)
                Died: Dec-15-1763          in New Jersey  5,3
              Buried:                      in Lamington Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Somerset Co, NJ  8


           M Child 2: Joseph Gaston      
                Born: Dec-18-1765           5,3
                Died: Aug-14-1777          in New Jersey  5,3
              Buried:                      in Lamington Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Somerset Co, NJ  9



Sources:
(1) Headstone, Inscription reads "Sacred to the memory of Hugh Gaston who departed this life on the 25th of June 1808 in the 
75th year of his age" 
(2) Anna Reger Gaston, Gaston Family Lines of Somerset, "Somerset County Historical Quarterly," Somerville, NJ, Vol. 5 
(1916) (http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~windmill/html/somersev.html), p. 37. 
(3) Charles A. Hanna, Ohio Valley Genealogies, Genealogical Publishing Co, Baltimore MD, 1989 (orig. pub. 1900), p. 45. 
(4) Headstone. 
(5) Anna Reger Gaston, Gaston Family Lines of Somerset, "Somerset County Historical Quarterly," Somerville, NJ, Vol. 5 
(1916) (http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~windmill/html/somersev.html) 
(6) Headstone - Date calculated from age at death, Inscription reads "In Memory of MARY the Wife of HUGH GASTON, Daughter of 
William and Mary Sloan, who departed this life August the 14th 1766 in the 25th year of her 
age" 
(7) Headstone - Date calculated from age at death. 
(8) Headstone, Age at death given as 8m 13d. 
(9) Headstone, Age at death given as 11y 7m 27d. 

Event Notes
Note (1) Anna Reger Gaston reports death date as April 14 1766, rather than
August.
Note (2) Hanna, p. 45, reports birth date as Apr 12 1763, but age on headstone
calculates to a birth date of Apr 2 1763.







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