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William GASTON

William GASTON

Male 1776 - 1853  (76 years)

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  • Name William GASTON 
    Born 18 Feb 1776  [1] 
    Gender Male 
    Military Revolutionary War  [2, 3] 
    Died 16 Feb 1853  [4] 
    Buried Old Tennent Church Cemetery, Monmouth Co, NJ Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5] 
    • Age at death on headstone: 76y 11m 28d.
    Notes 
    • Data on the children of William Gaston & Catharine Johnson, other than Gertrude & William, is from the baptismal records of Cranbury Church, NJ. Other data on this family was obtained from "History of Old Tennent Church," page 449. As a young man, William Gaston served in the Revolutionary War.
    Person ID I3280  Doddridge County Roots
    Last Modified 19 Jan 2006 

    Father James GASTON,   b. 1742,   d. Bef 1779  (Age 36 years) 
    Mother Lydia TAPSCOTT,   b. 1755,   d. 1791  (Age 36 years) 
    Family ID F1160  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Catharine ENGLISH,   b. 13 Mar 1778,   d. 22 Aug 1843  (Age 65 years)  [3] 
    Married 14 Mar 1804  [1, 6, 7] 
    Children 
     1. Lydia Tapscott GASTON,   b. 4 Dec 1804, New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aug 1872, Cranbury, Middlesex Co, NJ Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 67 years)
     2. John Baird GASTON,   b. 25 May 1806
     3. Maryann Perrine GASTON,   b. 20 Mar 1810,   d. 28 Mar 1845  (Age 35 years)
     4. Letitia Johnson GASTON,   b. 3 Sep 1811,   d. 20 Feb 1900  (Age 88 years)
     5. Gertrude GASTON,   b. 17 Sep 1813,   d. 16 Jul 1816  (Age 2 years)
     6. William Conover GASTON,   b. 26 Jan 1816,   d. 13 Sep 1821  (Age 5 years)
     7. Hannah English GASTON,   b. 26 Jan 1818,   d. 4 Feb 1904  (Age 86 years)
    Family ID F1161  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Photos
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  • Sources 
    1. [S1569] Family Bible.

    2. [S517] Gaston Family Lines of Somerset, "Somerset County Historical Quarterly," Somerville, NJ, Vol. 5 (1916), Anna Reger Gaston, (http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~windmill/html/somersev.html).

    3. [S504] Ohio Valley Genealogies, Charles A. Hanna, (Genealogical Publishing Co, Baltimore MD, 1989 (orig. pub. 1900)), p. 45.

    4. [S5] Headstone.

    5. [S1547] History of the Old Tennent Church, 2nd Edition, Rev. Frank R. Symmes, (1904), p. 294.

    6. [S1307] History of the Old Tennent Church, D. V. Perrine, Freehold, NJ, (as copied from a Bible record in possession of Miss B. F. Rightmire).

    7. [S1547] History of the Old Tennent Church, 2nd Edition, Rev. Frank R. Symmes, (1904), p. 449.