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William Gayer, b. 1647 of co. Devon, England, m. Dorcas Starbuck, and d. at Nantucket Island, MA on 23 Sept. 1710. In Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, Volume 28, Number 1, there is an article titled, "The Case of the Vanishing Ancestry", by Wallace Evan Davies. Mr. Davies disproves the contention that William Gayer, who had a brother Sir John Gayer, of Bombay, India and an unnamed brother, Richard, I believe, who was a mariner, were all descended from Humphrey Gayer. Humphrey Gayer's ancestors were supposed to go all the way back to Reginald Gayer who married Alice Courtenay, of Powderham Castle, co. Devon, England. This Reginald Gayer, though, was descended from an earlier Reginald Gayer, so that the Gayer line in co. Cornwall, England, which came through the younger Reginald's brother, did not go back to Royalty at all. William Gayer, b. 1647 of Plymouth, co. Devon, England, was probably related in some way to the wealthy merchant Gayers. It may be that William Gayer's father and grandfather were named William, too. Two William Gayers are mentioned in the Plymouth, England town records, one in the early 1600s and the other in the 1640s. They were stone masons. So many people, who have posted genealogies on the Internet linking William Gayer, of Nantucket Island, MA back to Reginald and Alice (Courtenay) Gayer, really should look at Wallace Evan Davies's article in Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine.
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