Margaret kemble gage biography

Margaret Kemble Gage (1734–1824) was the wife of General Thomas Gage, who led the British Army in Massachusetts in the American Revolutionary War.

She was born in New Brunswick, Province of New Jersey and resided in East Brunswick Township. She died in England in 1824.

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Gage is 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's father was Peter Kemble, a well-to-do New Jersey businessman and politician, and her mother, Gertrude Bayard; thus the granddaughter of Judge Samuel Bayard (b.

1669) and Margaretta Van Cortlandt (b. 1674); hence the great-granddaughter of Mayor of New York CityStephanus Van Cortlandt and Gertrude Schuyler.

She married Thomas Gage on December 8, 1758, at her father's 1200-acre Mount Kemble Plantation in New Jersey (where years later generals Will