Thanks for the follow-up, Dwayne.

I'll relate an interesting historical connection. My ex's father's name was William Henry Gardner Foote. An ancestor of his, having the surname of Gardner, is listed on the manifest of the Mayflower. Over the generations the extended Gardner family evidently reached some prominence, and recent descendants have visited a section of a cemetary on Nantucket dedicated to them.

About the time of the revolution, a branch of the family identifed as loyalists broke away and fled to Upper Canada.

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