Desire Gardiner (abt. 1700 - 1745)

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The Gardiners of Narrangansett Note 54 "Desire Gardiner." The reference should be to the MacSparran Diary, p.42, and not to St. Paul's Register, where there is no record of Desire Gardiner's funeral, it having been conducted entirely by a Quaker Preacher. Her father is called, in the Diary entry, great William Gardiner. It is likely that he was not identical with the man called "ong William Gardiner," referred to in the Narragansett Parish REgister, Oct. 18, 1726, as Willm Gardiner Commonly called Long William," and in the MacSparran Diary (p.20), where, Oct. 8, 1744, the Doctor remarks, "Long Wills's wife dined with us." In case this distinction is well founded, the reference, in the text, under "36. William Gardiner,3 (William,2: George 1)," to the baptism and death of Mary Gardiner, Oct.18 and 19,1726 (Narragansett Register), and to the gift of a Bible to "Long Will's wife," for her daughter, Oct. 8,1744 (Diary, p.20), do not relate to Mrs. Gardiner, wife of William,3 (William,2, George,1), known as "great William." He was, probably, like his father, a "friend," and it was naturally to be expected that he was ask his brother-in-law Joseph Hull, the Quaker preacher, to conduct his daughter's funeral. It is not improbable that "long William" was, on the other hand, a member of St. Paul's parish, his first wife having been baptized by Dr. MacSparran and his second wife having been evidently an intimate friend of the Doctor and his wife.

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• *The Gardiners of Narrangansett page 18 ref GN 174 as "died unmarried, "only daughter of William Gardiner," Sept. 27, 1745.