GARDINER: Lion Gardiner and his descendants. 1599-1890. 1890By Curtiss C. Gardiner This is a well done publication on Lion Gardiner, who lived from 1599 1663, and showing his descendants, from 1599 1890. He was married to Mary Willemson Deurcant. Part 1 contains letters, insignia, signature, papers and biography of Lion Gardiner, Part 2 is family records, wills, with eight generations traced, with some account of the ninth and tenth. Gardiner's Island lies east of Long Island about three and a half miles.