1723 On 14 of month 3, Joseph Gardiner and Catharine Ridgway, daughter of Thomas Ridgway Sr, were married. [1] [2] [3]
A biosketch reports [4]:
Catharine, daughter of Thomas Ridgway, Sr., in the year 1724 married Joseph Gardiner, and immediately after the marriage they left Egg Harbor, he being a resident of some other section.
It is said that Joseph Gardiner died, and his widow married Ephraim Tomlinson, the noted Quaker minister.
[1] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Little Egg Harbor Monthly Meeting, Minutes, 1715-1762, 76, Intention and accomplished, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[2] Leah Blackman, "History of Little Egg Harbor Township," Proceedings, Constitution, By-Laws, List of Members, &c. of the Surveyors' Association of West New Jersey (1880), Appendix: 171-420, 427-468, at 201, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
[3] Major E. M. Woodward and John Hageman, History of Burlington and Mercer Counties, New Jersey (Philadelphia: Everts & Peck, 1883), 339, [HathiTrust].
[4] Leah Blackman, "History of Little Egg Harbor Township," Proceedings, Constitution, By-Laws, List of Members, &c. of the Surveyors' Association of West New Jersey (1880), Appendix: 171-420, 427-468, at 274, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].