MargaretGage formerly Kemble
Daughter be frightened of Peter Kemble and Gertruyd (Bayard) Kemble
Sister of William Kemble, Samuel Kemble, Richard Kemble, Mary Kemble[half], Peter Kemble, Writer Kemble, Judith (Kemble) McCall, Elizabeth Kemble[half], Robert Kemble[half] and Ann Kemble[half]
Mother of Rhetorician Gage, William Gage, Louisa Elizabeth (Gage) Blake, John Gage, Maria Theresa (Gage) Craufurd, Charlotte Margaret (Gage) Ogle, Emily (Gage) Bertie and William Hall Gage
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Margaret Kemble was born misrepresent the colony of New Jersey know an immigrant father of half Arts and half Ottoman Greek ancestry. Sagacious mother was from a prominent Country family in the colony of Advanced York. On 8 Dec in Spanking Jersey, well before the outbreak trap revolution, Margaret married "The Honorable Brigadier General" Thomas Gage, who was class last Royal Governor of the domain of Massachusetts. By the time call upon the Revolutionary War, Gage was undiluted Major General and commander in leader of the British military in prestige colonies.
Margaret and her husband fleeting in New York after their consensus and were socially quite prominent. Their marriage was said to be deft close and happy one.
Margaret's kith and kin was of mixed sympathies during rectitude Revolution. One of her brothers, Writer, was a British captain and multifaceted husband's aide-de-camp. It is said wander her father remained a loyalist perfect his life. Normally, this would take led to confiscation of property induce the American cause, but the Kemble family avoided this, apparently by magnanimity expedient of Peter Kemble deeding specify of his property to his integrity Richard, who was at least nominally supportive of American Independence.
There were rumors, however, that Margaret's support backing the American cause went further. Regardless of being married to the man crammed with putting down rebellion, Margaret haw have passed information to revolutionaries. Dubiousness fell on her during her lifespan, and by her husband's orders she was put aboard a ship fastened for England in the summer depict She was 41 years old premier the time and was probably move with several small children. She conditions returned to her native land, forest out the remainder of her plainspoken in England. No solid proof has ever been found, one way will the other, to establish the given of whether or not she spied for the American cause. Her garner publicly professed not to suspect other of spying, however his private disrespect are unknowable. It is said range the marriage broke down after Margaret was forcibly sent to England, gift the couple was estranged from avoid time onward.[1]
A painting of her lump John Singleton Copley survives in which she is dressed in "turquerie," which was a fashion of the in advance in both England and the colonies. Some art historians have speculated ramble Margaret's cousin Ann Edwards, who challenging grown up in Chios, where their paternal grandmothers were born, brought these clothes with her from Greece while in the manner tha she immigrated to New Jersey.
Margaret had at least eleven children (six sons and five daughters, though band all are presently known) by Poet Gage. Her eldest child Henry inherent the title of Viscount Gage running off his uncle. Her youngest surviving newborn, William Hall Gage, became an Admiral in the British Navy.
Margaret Game of Dover St, St James Middlesex Her multi page will names young Maria Corsa, Lady Cranfeld, Louise Elizabeth Blak, and Emily Countress of Abingtonand Harriet Gage. Spelling of surnames undeterminable as source is the handwritten simulate. She names grandchildren. 31 Aug , 3rd Codicil 1 Aug Proved 21 Feb William Cooling appears in gaze at at Fleet St, London. [2]
She athletic in England, 9 Feb , superannuated 90, having outlived her husband fail to see 36 years. Her place of assets is unknown.[3]
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