Hi Mary, I don't know if you received any other replies, but here's someone else who is stuck on Gladding/Gladden in CT. The families we are reseaching descend (probably!) from Joshua Gladding, who died about 1754. He is probably the son of another Joshua, who was a blacksmith in Saybrook and who MAY have been the son of John Gladding, a founder of Bristol RI. All of this has yet to be proven as far as I know and that's the reason I'm posting it to the list, just in case someone, somewhere has already linked them up. Your Anna could be the daughter of Azariah, son of the second Joshua. Azariah m. Ann Hudson in Farmington in 1766. It gets really complicated because they used the same names over and over again so your Anna could also be the daughter of one of Azariah's brothers or even an earlier offshoot of the family. Gladdings/Gladdens in general, after they left Saybrook, migrated right up the CT River and there are supposed to be tons of them around Farmington and Kensington CT. As for Bristol, RI, I think most of John Gladding's children must have remained there and I'm guessing that his youngest son, Joshua, migrated to Saybrook and that he is OURS. The Gladdings of Bristol RI are written up in the Gladding Book (which I do not have) and they must have been a prominent family by the sounds of it. I have a little bit more on the CT Gladdings, but not much because as far as I know, no one has been able to come up with very much. I plan on visiting the Farmington Library, and libraries in Middletown and Essex when I get the time because there just HAS to be an answer somewhere. Almost forgot, Azariah was a Rev. War Vet who died in Northampton, MA in 1833 and he was living near his son (another Azariah!!!) at the time. If anyone else out there is researching this name, please get in touch with me with any information or clues as to where to look because there are several other people that I know of across the country who are frantically searching for them and finding nothing. Lois My next big genealogy Mystery is GLADDING. I >have an ANNA GLADDING who is my husband's GGGG grandmother who married Jamin >GOODRICH. I have all of the Goodrich information but nothing on Anna other >than she was from CT. I recently got a clue that Gladdings were from >Middlesex County. I had been looking in Hartford County so this is progress. >But I am not sure of anything. Their marriage date was around 1795 which >would have put her being born around 1775. First I need to know what TOWN >the Gladdings were from. There aren't too many so I am supposing there was >only one family, who then removed to BRISTOL CTY RI. Any CLUES as to which >town or anything about great great great great grandma, I sure would >appreciate it!!!! > >Mary