From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Fri May 26 23:08:26 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k4R58Qjb031042; Fri, 26 May 2006 23:08:26 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k4R58Pt1008192 for ; Fri, 26 May 2006 23:08:25 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k4R2XWFI028256 for ; Fri, 26 May 2006 22:33:32 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k4R2XWa5028255 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Fri, 26 May 2006 22:33:32 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k4R1NcFI028103 for ; Fri, 26 May 2006 21:23:38 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k4R3wLOv020998 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Fri, 26 May 2006 21:58:21 -0600 X-Envelope-From: kenofnocal@yahoo.com Fri May 26 21:58:20 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k4R3wKjb020989 for ; Fri, 26 May 2006 21:58:20 -0600 Received: from web36115.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web36115.mail.mud.yahoo.com [66.163.179.229]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id k4R3wKED032205 for ; Fri, 26 May 2006 21:58:20 -0600 Received: (qmail 25185 invoked by uid 60001); 27 May 2006 03:58:15 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=oedPfUgxPItEqi4sxVcilX9c8OPb/K/xkyWeRbseHT9CJhz5aP9/HC7/drwPnOWSN9VhAUJFTRtCYTePaqmyOSAvbwKt7FzPrKHC0ZhLwDL8dSp6Gm+3CAZPaDObMJhRRr5xv7gDZNjZRW2TrxIILVWZR78yKw7aG6cYG4SxKH8= ; Message-ID: <20060527035815.25183.qmail@web36115.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [67.172.166.145] by web36115.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 26 May 2006 20:58:15 PDT Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 20:58:15 -0700 (PDT) From: K E To: roots-l@rootsweb.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Score: 2.71 (**) BAYES_00,FORGED_YAHOO_RCVD X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] RI Gardiners query: seeking parents and grandparents of Am(e)y Gardiner Greetings. I am trying to verify the names of the parents and determine the grandparents of one Am(e)y Gard(i)ner who married Daniel Lyman Clark(e) and lived most of her life in Rhode Island, and have reached a total impasse. Am(e)y Gard(i)ner was likely born between 1795 and 1810 in one of the Kingstowns, Washington County, Rhode Island to (possibly) William Gard(i)ner and Bets(e)y (Elizabeth?) Potter (more about her parents in a moment). She married Daniel Lyman Clark(e) (b 1798-1810 to William Clarke and Amy Greene), and lived for a time in Connecticut (where remains uncertain). The couple had at least one child in Connecticut (Sarah Clark[e], born 15 Sept 1828), and their first child (Mary Clark, b 28 Apr 1827) may have been born there as well. The Clarks moved back to Rhode Island by 1835 (possibly to one of the Kingstowns), as daughter Lydia was born there in the 1835-37 time frame. By 1838-39 they seem to have been living in the Smithfield/Central Falls/North Providence area when daughter Susan Clark(e) was born. Daniel Lyman and Am(e)y seem to have had at least three other children (Elizabeth, Daniel, and Roswell) although I have no idea at this point when they might have been born. There is no census record for a Daniel Lyman Clarke family in Rhode Island in 1850, but there is one for an Amey Clark household with daughters Susan and Lydia, and these may be our Clarks. It suggests but does not confirm that Daniel Lyman Clark(e) had died by 1850. Lydia Clark(e) married Albert Frost Briggs of Attleboro Mass, and settled there. Susan Clark(e) married Ephraim Hunt Tappan (s/o Abraham Tappan [Toppan] and Sarah Stockman of Newburyport, Mass) and settled in Attleboro as well. Ephraim and Albert may well have been partners in the jewelry business, or at least done business together. There is a *possible* death record for Am(e)y (Gard[i]ner) Clark(e) from January 1880 in Attleboro Mass. This Am(e)y (Gard[i[ner) Clark(e) would have been born in the same year (1806/07) as the Am(e)y Clark in the 1850 Rhode Island census record, and the death record for her lists her parents as William Gard(i)ner and Bets(e)y (Elizabeth?) Potter of the Kingstowns. (The one problem with the 1880 death record is that it lists Amy as having been married rather than widowed, but it is possible that this is either a mistake. It is also possible that it is not a mistake and may disqualify this Amy Clark.) There is another Amey Gardiner (Amey Easton Gardiner) born in March, 1807 (d/o Samuel Gardiner and Mary Carpenter) in North Kingstown who could *possibly* be our Am(e)y Gard(i)ner, but I have yet to discover a marriage or death record for this woman. At this point, I have exhausted perhaps every obvious source: the RI archives, Arnold's Vital Records, the Gardiners of Naragannsett book. So far no one has been unable to turn up a definite birth record for our Am(e)y (may be spelled Amie too) Gard(i)ner, or any records related to William Gard(i)ner and Bet(s)ey (Elizabeth?) Potter. I'm stumped! Thank you for any help you might be able to provide. Best regards, Kenneth __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com