Margaret Kemble

Margaret Kemble Gage
Portrait of Gage in the Turquerie style, circa 1771, by John Singleton Copley. This portrait is in the Timken Museum of Art in San Diego, California.
Born	1734 New Brunswick, New Jersey
Died	1824 (aged 89–90) England
Residence	East Brunswick Township
Parents	Peter Kemble & Gertrude Bayard
Spouse	Thomas Gage
Children	Charlotte Margaret Gage, Henry Gage

Margaret Kemble Gage (1734–1824) was the wife of General Thomas Gage, who led the British Army in Massachusetts early in the American Revolutionary War. She was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey and resided in East Brunswick Township. She died in England in 1824. Mrs. Gage was 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.

Margaret Kemble was the daughter of Peter Kemble, a well-to-do New Jersey businessman and politician, and of 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 City Stephanus Van Cortlandt and Gertrude Schuyler of the Schuyler family.

She married Thomas on 8 December 1758 at her father's 1200-acre Mount Kemble Plantation in New Jersey, where years later generals William Smallwood and Anthony Wayne were quartered in his modest wood-framed mansion, while the Continental Army encamped at Jockey Hollow during the brutal winter of 1779-80. Together they had eleven children. Their first son, the future 3rd Viscount Gage, was born in 1761. Gage's daughter, Charlotte Margaret Gage, married Admiral Sir Charles Ogle.

Descendants of Kemble Gage include: