Greetings. I am trying to determine the parentage of one William Gard(i)ner and Betsy (or Elizabeth) Potter - both apparently of one of the RI Kingstowns. The information I have about this couple comes exclusively from a death record for one of their daughters - Am(e)y (Gard[i]ner) Clark - who died in Attleboro, MA in January of 1880. Her death record lists her as the daughter of William Gardner and Betsy Potter of South Kingstown, Rhode Island, and suggests she was born about 1806/07. I should probably say in advance that I am not entirely positive that the Amy Clark represented in this death record is my 4th great-grandmother, but she is likeliest candidate. Here is what we know: According to census records and other sources, my 3rd great-grandmother Susan Clark was born in 1838/39 in the Smithfield/Central Falls/Pawtucket/North Providence area of Rhode Island. We have yet to locate a birth record for her, but she married Ephraim Hunt Tappan (Toppan) - son of Abraham Tappan and Sarah Stockman of Newburyport, MA - in 1856, and settled with him in Attleboro, MA. They had three children (who survived): Charles, William, and Ella. Susan Clark had a sister named Lydia (b abt 1835-37), and although we have yet to find a birth record for her either, we know that she married Albert Briggs (the business partner of Ephraim Hunt Tappan - Susan's husband), and settled with him in Attleboro as well. According to birth records for the children of Albert Briggs and Lydia Clark she was born in South Kingstown, RI, suggesting that the family had lived there before moving to the Smithfield area. Susan Clark's obituary (from the Attleboro Sun, January, 1912) indicates she was the daughter of Lyman Clark (b in Pawtucket). Her death record states that she was the daughter of Lyman Clark and Amy Gardner (of one of the Kingstowns). We have yet to locate a birth record for either Lyman Clark or Amy Gardner, but an entry from the 1850 census for an Amey Clark (age about 44) household in Smithfield, RI with two daughters (Susan, 12 and Lydia, 15) suggests she may have been widowed by 1850. Her approximate date of birth would be the same as the Amy Clark who died in Attleboro in 1880, and the fact that her two daughters were living there at the time is at least circumstantial evidence that this is our Am(e)y Gard(i)ner. (There was another Amey Easton Gardiner born to Samuel Eldred Gardiner and Mary Carpenter in March of 1807 but the Attleboro link for the Amy Gardner, d of William Gardiner and Betsy Potter strikes me as a more likely fit). There do seem to be multiple William Gard(i)ners and Betsy (which is often short for Elizabeth) Potters in the Washington County area at the time of Amy's birth, but I have yet to be able to connect any two of them by a marriage record. They seem both likely to have been born between 1765 and 1788, and married perhaps sometime between the early 1780s and 1806. Thank you for any help you might be able to provide. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com