Margaret Kemble Gage
| Margaret Kemble Gage | |
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 Portrait of Gage in the Turquerie style, circa 1771, by John Singleton Copley | |
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| Born |
1734 New Brunswick, New Jersey |
| Died |
1824 England |
| Residence | East Brunswick Township |
| Parents | Peter Kemble |
| Spouse | Thomas Gage |
| Children | Charlotte Margaret Gage, Henry Gage |
Margaret Kemble Gage (1734–1824) was the wife of General Thomas Gage, who led the British Army in Massachusetts early in the American Revolutionary War. She was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey[1] and resided in East Brunswick Township.[2] She died in England in 1824. Mrs. Gage was a gateway ancestor to centuries of English nobility who have Dutch and Huguenot ancestry from what was once New Netherlands and later the Thirteen Colonies of British North America.
Family life and descendants
Margaret Kemble was the great-granddaughter of Mayor of New York City Stephanus Van Cortlandt and Gertrude Schuyler of the Schuyler family.[1] She was the daughter of Peter Kemble, a well-to-do New Jersey businessman and politician, and of Gertrude Bayard. She married Thomas on December 8, 1758. Together they had eleven children. Their first son, the future 3rd Viscount Gage, was born in 1761.[1] Gage's daughter, Charlotte Margaret Gage, married Admiral Sir Charles Ogle.[1]
Descendants of Kemble Gage include:
- Lieutenant General Sir John Paul Foley (1939) retired British general
- Henry Hodgetts-Foley (1828-1894) former member of Parliament
- Montagu Bertie, 6th Earl of Abingdon (1808-1884) British peer and politician
- John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort (1886-1946) British military officer
- Gabriella Wilde (1989-) British model and actress
Her brother, Stephen Kemble, was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the British Army during the Revolution.[1]
See also
- Intelligence in the American Revolutionary War
- Intelligence operations in the American Revolutionary War
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 New York Historical Society, Vol. 17 of The Kemble Papers, (New York: New Historical Society, 1884), xiv, https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=Qq4FAAAAMAAJ.
- ↑ Allen, Thomas B. "Margaret+Kemble+Gage"+"east+brunswick" Tories: Fighting for the King in America's First Civil War, HarperCollins, 2010. ISBN 0-06-124180-6, p. 52. Accessed February 13, 2011. "Oliver was a nephew of General Gage's wife, the former Margaret Kemble, from East Brunswick, New Jersey, who adapted to British ways while clinging to her American identity."
Sources
- Biography of Thomas Gage at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
- New York Historical Society. Vol. 17 of The Kemble Papers. New York: New Historical Society, 1884. https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=Qq4FAAAAMAAJ.
- Fischer, David Hackett. Paul Revere's Ride. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.