Margaret Kemble

1734 - 1824  (90 years)

• Name	Margaret Kemble
  Birth	1734	New Brunswick, New Jersey, American Colonies
  Gender	Female
  Death	9 Feb 1824	England
  Person ID	I188878	First tree
  Last Modified	17 Feb 2021

  
  

  Family	General Thomas Gage,   b. 10 Mar 1719, Firle, Sussex, England d. 2 Apr 1787, Isle of Portland, Dorset, England (Age 68 years)
  Marriage	8 Dec 1758	New Jersey, American Colonies
  Children	1. John Gage,   b. 23 Dec 1767   d. 24 Dec 1846 (Age 79 years)
  Family ID	F44431	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	17 Feb 2021

  
  

• Notes

  Margaret Kemble was born in the colony of New Jersey to an immigrant father of half English and half Ottoman Greek ancestry. Her mother was from a prominent Dutch family in the colony of New York. On 8 Dec 1758 in New Jersey, well before the outbreak of revolution, Margaret married "The Honorable Brigadier General" Thomas Gage, who was the last Royal Governor of the colony of Massachusetts. By the time of the Revolutionary War, Gage was a Major General and commander in chief of the British military in the colonies