Hi there, I apologize for the intrusion but I'm wondering if someone on the list might be able to help me. I'm trying to find out if there are any Gard(i)ners listed on the 1830, 1840, and 1850 censuses for Killingly and Plainfield. I'm especially interested in the possibility of a William or Betsy/Elizabeth Gardner who would have been born in the latter decades of the 18th century. (I have heritagequest access right now but not ancestry.com.) I've been searching off and on for several years for clues to the parentage of my ancestors William Gardner and his wife Betty Potter. I've understood them all along to be likely descendants of the Rhode Island Gardiners and Potters but the only record I've had suggesting their existence is an 1880 death record for their daughter Amy (Gardner) Clark (born in South Kingstown, Rhode Island about 1807). Unfortunately, South Kingstown vital records (birth, marriage, death) are scant from the late 18th and early 19th century and there are no relevant records for this family from there, nor is there a probate record for this William or Betsy/Elizabeth Gardner during the relevant period (1807-1850). There are however a number of records relating to their daughter Am(e)y Gardner who married Daniel Lyman Clark (s/o an uncertain Rhode Island Clark and Amy Greene) by the early 1820s. At that time they were living in Killingly, Connecticut (several of their children were born there). They moved (back, presumably) to Rhode Island by 1830 (South Kingstown first then Smithfield - daughters Susan and Lydia were born in Smithfield); Daniel Clark seems to have died by 1840 as Amy Clark is from then on listed as the head of household. It appears that at the end of her life Amy Clark moved to Attleboro, Mass (where Susan and Lydia [who were married to business partners Ephraim Hunt Tappan {my ancestor} and Albert Frost Briggs, respectively] lived). Census records indicate that Gardners were living in Killingly in 1820 and 1860 (years that have been indexed on heritagequest) and there is a William Gardner in the 1860 Killingly census (born 1804); he's the right age to be the brother of Amy (Gardner) Clark, and son of my William Gardner. Further research suggests that the Gardners present in Killingly by 1820 may be from the Swansea, Massachusetts branch of the Rhode Island Gardners. Thank you for any help you might be able to provide. Best regards, Kenneth