Notes:

A letter received from on 11/20/94
included a Will for David Garard, son of John Garard. David's wife was listed as Jane. His children were David, Justice, John, Nathaniel, Matthew Rippey, Sarah Quick, and Margaret Pugh, wife of Benjamin Pugh. David's father, John Garard, was me ntioned in the Will. No Caleb is
mentioned. Caleb must be the son of David Jr? A grandson, David, is mentioned as being the son of Justice.

THE HISTORICAL MARKER DATABASE: Inscription. Built by John Hays, 1743. Became home of Reverend David Gerard, who founded Gerrardstown in 1787. His father was Reverend John Gerard, the first Baptist Minister west of the Blue Ridge Mountains: http ://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?MarkerID=12793&Print=1

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9V1-FXMT?i=352&cat=323782 reverend John Gerrard David Gerrard 1782 militia of Berkeley county Virginia 1st battalion 1782

Family/Spouse: Margaret. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. David Jr. Gerard
2. Justice Garard
3. John Garard
4. Matthew Gerard
5. Sarah Garard
6. Margaret Garard
7. Nathaniel Garrard was born about 1778 in Berkeley County, WV; died on 25 Sep 1854 in Marshall County, IN; was buried in Salem Cemetery, Marshall County, IN.

Family/Spouse: Jane. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9V1-FXMT?i=352&cat=323782 reverend ?b?John Gerrard, David Gerrard?/b? 1782 militia of Berkeley county Virginia 1st battalion 1782

JOHN GERARD--A QUAKER FROM N.J./1740 VANCLEVESVILLE, BERKELEY
County, W.VA.

JOHN GERARD WESTMORELAND County, VA./1709

GERARD CONTACTS:
MEL AND ELAINE STEPHENS R 5 BOX 310 LIVINGTSTON, TX 77351
BRANDT BECKETT 1140 GIBSON AVE., INDIANAPOLLIS, IND.
ORION DEPINTER 8720 19 RD ARGOS, IND 46501
MAX WEAVER 5790 DENLINGER RD DAYTON, OHIO 45426
NANCY B. WALL 7255 W. COX RD PLEASANT HILL, OHIO 45359
GLENDA THOMPSON ... W. MILTON, OHIO
NORMA JENNINGS R.R.2 COLUMBUS JUNCTION, IOWA 52738

The 1699 birthdate as given on the PAF cannot be correct as Rev. John
would be 86 upon his last child's birth. Nancy (Ann) was born ca 1785.
The date of 1720 is probably closer to the truth.

Families tied into the Gerards (directly or indirectly) were the Van
Metre, Dubois, Sheperd, Hite..pps. 254-264 from West Virginia Families
show origins of these families as being near Pelmel , along the
Potomoc
R. , in Prince Georges County, Md; earlier origins might have been Salem
County,
N.J., even earlier in Long Island, N.Y.

6/20/94

Hugeunot Emigration to America by Charles W. Baird, D.D. Vol. II ,
Baltimore Regional Publishing County

Gerard: Pierre; Bordeaux, France, b. 1652; d. 1724. Pierre, with
family,
fled from Bordeaux through Belgium to England after the revocation of
The Edict of Nantes in 1684. He resided in London for thirty years.
His
five sons, including Justus, emigrated to America and settled in Va.
and
the Carolinas. Pierre finally returned to France in 1720 after the
death
of the French King. Justus settled in Orange County, Va. He was b. 1682;
d.
1744; m. Virginia Moss in Orange County Their son John B. Va. 1720; d
Berkeley County, Va. 1787...p. 93...this cam from Proceedings of Huguenot
Society of Pennsylavania..Vol. XXXIV..Halll of Historical Society of
Pa.,
1962.

The "Flight from Poitou" comes from Baird's works...Chap
VI....1681-1686--became associated with Gabriel Bernon in the Huguenot
settlement of New Oxford, Massachusetts. From the same place came
Pierre Girrard, one of the refugees in South Carolina, and Aman- and
Gousse Bonnin, of New York....Pierre Girrard, ne a Poitiers, fils e
Pierre
Girrard et de Judith Fruschard--(Liste des Francois et Suisses
refugiez
en Caroline, etc.) Elizabeth Damaris Girrard,Isaac Girrard and Marie
Roubin his wife, ---both of these names occur frequently among those
of
the Protestants of Poitou--were members of the French Church, New
York, in 1694 and after.

Huguento Ancestry--p. 136..Ga. Bicentennial Memoirs by Knight Vol. 3,
p.
412 (South Carolina Huguenot list.)..Gerrards--Guearrards--
Near the middle of the seventeenth century, Robert, John , and Jacob
Garrard, sons of Anthony Garrard and grandsons of Peter Garrard,French
Huguenot, came to America. They were cousins of Col. William Garrard
of
Stafford County, Virginia, who was the father of Governor James Garrard
of
Kentucky. The town of Garrodsburg was named for him. Robert (above)
settled in South Carolina; Jacob settled in Stafford County, Va. where
his
oldest son Anthony was christened 2-21-1756. This family removed to
North Carolina and Anthony later came to Wilked County,Georgia, and Jacob
Garrard came to Jackson County, Georgia. Anthony married 1777 Elizabeth
Green. He died in Wilked County, 1807. He was a soldier in the American
Revolution. Among his descendants was Gwuilliam (William), a prominent
lawyer of Savannah, Ga. Louis F. Garrard was speaker of Georgia
Senate.
John Garrard (third of the emigrants above), born in England 1730,
settled in South Carolina. He married Mary Bolt. In 1773, he received
a
land grant in Wilked County, Georgia, seven miles above Washington,
Georgia,
for his Revolutionary service. His wife died in 1804 and he married
again
and moved to Jones County, Ga. His children were by his first wife. Jacob
Garrard was also a Revolutionary soldier. He settled in 1807in Putnam
County, Ga. He married 1786 Elizabeth Barron. He died 1819; she died
1827.

John married Mehetable. Mehetable was born in 1720; died after May 1779 in Berkeley County, WV. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]