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by David D. Edwards
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THE MIRROR, TueJday, September 28, 1999 PAGE 15 PIRATE'S HEIRS TO
ATAKEMERICA may turn into MANHATTANa when he wa.s about to be sac.ki?d for By ANNE1TE W11HERJDGE modern-day treastre island for cruising Broadway 1n drag. of Edwards Heirs - with 3.200 Trinity Church lawyers · argue more than 5,000 descendants members in America and 2.000 in they know nothing of Edwards. of a 17th century Welsh pirate. Wales - are set to grab 78 prime But after years of delay, a feder They have been given the go acres worth S680billion. al court in Pittsburgh, Pemisylva. aheact. to claim a ch unk of Man The Edwards clan say Queen nia. says there is a claim because hatta.ri worth billions of pounds. Anne gave him 100 acres for raid records show that the pirate owned The relatives of swashbuckling ing treasure-laden Spanish galleons. land in New York in the 1690s. Robert Edwards have battled New Edwards leased lower Manhattan Family spokeswoman Cleoma York's Trinity Church through the to Trinity and the heirs say the Foore said: "This will be our best courts for years. church wardens had to hand it back bite at the Big Apple." ;_ A judge ha.s ruled that the group after 99 years. Claimant Glynn Powell, from have a legal claim to the land, Edwards died in 1762 sparking the Coven tI"Y. said: "Many people have which includes Wall Street, the ownersh ip battle. The colony 's becom e suicidal over this and World Trade Center and a streteh governor Colonel · Fletcher then others have spent the m oney of Broadway. Now the Association gave away chunks oiland in bribes already." PART 4 TiiE LOST MILLIONS The facts concerning the "Edwards Millions" a.re quite fascinating. I first heard of the so called 11 lost millions" when t was about 16 years old. My grandfather, Taliesin Jam~s. told me that our ancestor. William Edwards, the bridge bu1lder, had relations who owned a great deal of land in Merthyr Tydfil and some of these relations had emigrated to America in the 1700,s, in particular Robert Edwards. He bought a large parcel of land there. which is now occupied by Manhattan and the land· would be of considerable value today. My grandfather also told me that the family were robbed of their just ·entitlement to this land and that there had been several attempts by ~he family in the past to prove their legal entitlement ~o the said land. He also warned me never to be tempted to subscribe any money into any sort or collective claim as there was one piece of documentary evidence missing and the only people that would gain from such a v~nture would be the solicitors and lawyers. Whether he spoke trom his -own bitter experience or from the· experiences of other members or the family, I was never quite sure, but I think that certainly some members of his family had put m9ney into such a scheme to i prove legal claims to large sums of money from the· respective lands in Merthyr Tydfil and Manhattan. When I began to research this particular subject, I remembered a newspaper cutting I possessed. which was written in the 1960's about my great, great grandmother Jane James nee ' Edwards (reproduced on page 84). This mentions that "1n recent years attempts have been made to trace the Edwards Millions". So here is addit.ional evidence t~at the family considered that they ' were descended from the family of Hobert ..C:dwards. So first the facts concerning "The Edwards Milllons". The following account is derived from my correspondence with several people having a genuine interest in the Edwards family history, also by researching relevant newspapers and, in add1t1on, re searching the "Edward:3 Family Claimants' Association" tiles. held ... in the Glamorgan Archives Service office in Cardiff.
Thomas Nathaniel Edwards born in Edwards Hall, Cardiff in 1690, married Eliza.beth Downing also from Cardiff in March 1714. Today nothing remains of Edwards Hall but it is believed to have been built about the year 1100 AD by a Norman Knight at the time of William the Conqueror. It was situated somewhere in the centre 0 ~ present day Cardiff and had many different inhabitants before flnally becoming a ruin in the 18th century. Thomas Nathaniel ;~war~e was knighted and became Sir Thomas Nathaniel Edwards, and ls wife Lady Elizabeth.
The family tree overleaf is taken trom an art:icle that first ~~PP.~red in the 1984 Annual Report ot the Glamorgan Archivist by C ry __ McKenzie and I am grateful to the Glamorgan Record Office. ard1tf for permission to include the Edwards pedigree here.
- ..2.J - ,, ~ / Richard EDWARDS (1523-67)
Richc'.l.rd (c.1560)
Wi 1 l i am Joshua{c.1580) Thomas{b.1639)
William (b.1620) Robert(1662-1738)
: ---~------(alternative line Thomas (b.169,0) of descent)
Robert• Joshua Wi 11 iam Thomas Leonard John Jacob Martha 1716-78 b. 1718 b .1720 b.1723 b .1725 b.1727 b . 1729 b. 1731
Those brothers underlined, emigra~ed to Ame~ica . the remainde r stayed in Wales. Robert Edwards~ leased the land Jn New York which was later claimed by the Edwards family.
The following pedigree suggests a more likely ~i neag e a nd adds a little more up to date information with respect t o t he · marriage of Sir Thomas Edwards.
Richard EDWARDS (1523-67) Richard (c.1560)
William Joshua(c.1580)
William (b.1620)
Thomas (b.1639) I I Robert (1662- 1738)
Sir Thomas Nathaniel EDWARDS ---Elizabeth DOWNING m.March 1714 b . 1690 ( Ed~ards Hall ) b.1694 d.1778 (Swansea ) d.1783
Robert Joshua William Thomas Leonard ,John J acob Marth ~ b.1716 b.1718 b. 1720 b.1723 b. 1725 b . 17 27 b.1729 b . 1731 d . 1778 d.1756
Robert emigrated to America sometime bet~een 1 740 and 1750 with his three brothers Joshua. John and Jacob . Tney settled i n I
carolina. Virginia. where they all bought land. John w~s ·ed there and in 1752 they had a son they named Samuel. Jacob 1 - married there. but for some reason John and his family and · .~~b ·returned to Wales intending to return to North Carol ind at -~11a ter date· ~ ·•1-: (J~ Whilst back in Wales. first Jacob died and then later both f~-~~ and his wife both died. By_ this time Samuel was a young man and he returned alone to North Carolina to his father's.homesteod !nd land. He married there and had ten children. and in subsequent years these children spread all over North Carolina. ~irginia and the Southern States of America. Little is known at present of the fortunes of Joshua. Robert's other brother, and his life in America. I am in correspo~dence with other r·esearchers. both in this country and America. who are engaged in tracing the American descendants of these brothers. Tiieir findings are eagerly aw~ited. When Robert Edwards knew that both· .John and Jacob had died, he sold all the land he owned in North Carolina and went to New York. Here he bought 143 acres of land in Manhattan. married a Mary Hult in New York in 1758 and settled down there. There is in the family# a lovely story concerning the time when. Robert Edwards bought this land. in competition with other white settlers. from an old Indian Chief. After settling the size of the land and the price, the Indian Chief said that as Robert was the only whiteman with a hat on his head, he would sell the ldnd only to him and from that rnoment the piece of land became known as Manhattan. 'I ~ i In 1778 Sir Thomas Edwards died at Edwards Hall in Cardiff I J dnd it was necess4ry for Robert the eldest son to return to Wales I and take over Edwards Hall and his father's title. So in 1780 he set sail, with his wife. from New York to return to Cardiff. but before doing so. he leased all his land in Manhattan to two brothers called Cruger. for a period of 99 years. The lease was drawn up between Robert Edwards and the Cruger brothers with the Rector and the Treasurer of the local Trinity Church Estates as witnesses.
The sea crossing between America and this country in the sailing ships of those days was always a hazardous journey and in a storm in the Atlantic during the crossing, the ship with all hands. was lost. When news of the loss of the ship and it's passengers reached the Cruger brothers they ~ealised that they had an opportunity to own the said land themselves. So they decided not to send any details of the lease or monies to the Edwards family in Wales. as agreed. but sub-leased some of the land to the Trinity Church Estates. Both the Cruger brothers and the Trinity Church Estates then built on the land and after a certain nwnber of years had passed. they were able to claim the land by the American "law of adverse possession".
- :J.3- t:rigihal lease. as one would expect. was never found but ,}PY of the original lease is held in the New York ·State. chives in Chambers Street. New York City. The Glamorgan.Record {f ice obtained a copy of this Edwards Lease CD/DX 354/1/2) and ith their kind permission it is reproduced here:-
/ COPY OF EDWARDS' LEASE TAKEN FROM A COPY OF THE ORIGINAL LEASE LIB.43. Page 139. . MANHATTAN ISLAND, JUNE 1st 1778
Know all men by these present. that I. Robert Edwards. on this day lease to John and George Cruger. 77 acres. 3 rods and 32 · perches beginning at a stake set in the ground at high water mark near Beatavers Kittleje and running East along Prince Street 1.000 feet. thence North-Westerly in a zig-zag course along part of Old Jan's land to Christopher Street 2.500 feet. thence along Christopher Street to the high water mark 547 feet. thence South along the Hudson River following the line of high water m~rk. 2,276 feet to the point and place of beginning.
Said land being leased for 99 years at 1.000 pounds and a Pepper Corn rent yearly, rental. Said land to be held .by said · John and·George Cruger or by their heirs, so long as contract is filled. other~ise it must revert to me or my living heirs. and at the expiration of the 99 year lease, said land together with all such improvements shall revert to my living heirs, which will be the descendants of my brothers and sisters, which are as follows:- Thomas Edwards Robert Edwards Joshua Edwards Wi 11 iam Edwards Martha Edwards John Edwards
Witness my hand this June 1st. 1778. :f Robert Edwards. John Cruger George Cruger Anthony Barclay Nicholas !Jayard
John Cruger Sr .. was Mayor of New York City, 1739 to 1744. I John Cruger Jr .. was Mayor of New York City, 1757 to 1766. t Mr. Anthony Barclay was the Rector of Trinity Church.
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I I .. • t cause Robert Edwards died without issue. it follows that :t· ·others and sister. and t'Fleir descendants, would be entitled .. n~re his es~ates etc. There were several attempts during the i hand 20th centuries by many descendants of the Edwards family i 0~ claim the land in Manhattan through the courts of New York. n1~~ main problem encountered by· the claimants was the Statute Of L1mitations in the State of New York which requires claims to be nade within fifteen years of the expiration of any lease. This ~eant that the claim would have to be made by June 1st 1893 and I the claimants were never able to achieve this date. 11lere were ~ ~uite serious attempts to get around this Statute of Limitations in 1935 and again in the 1950's. Another problem for the :laimants was to prove their descent from the brothers and sister ,f Robert Edwards. This proved easier for Americ~n descendants of the brothers that emigrated than for the Welsh descendants of the ,rothers and sister who remained in Wales.
Anyone tracing their family history in Wales, will know of :he difficulties associated with many of the common names. Jones. )avies. Williams. Evans. Edwards etc .. Once back to the 18th ;entury one is almost entirely dependent on Parish Records and 3ishops Transcripts. These records are so limited in their family ;ontent that it is often difficult and even impossible sometimes. :o relate a listed person in one record with the same named Jerson in another. It was in the 1950'a that the Edwards Family Claimants' \ssociation was formed in South Wales. It seems that in the ~960's the Association was disbanded. and the records of the \Ssociation were deposited with the Glamorgan Archive Service, :ardiff in November 1983.
Tilese records contain copies of claimants pedigrees and :heir attempts to trace ancestors back to the brothers or sister )f Robert Edwards. One group of files in particular contain =ertificates and pedigrees of those claiming descent from William ~dwards (1719~1789). builder of the bridge in Pontypridd (my 5x rreat grandfather). Naturally I hoped these would provide me with 1 great deal of new information concerning the family. Tne Jediqrees contained in the files were disappointing, mainly Jecauee in some instances they went back to a different William ~dwards. Evidence of this is borne out by the fact that one 'ediqree ended up with the appar~nt correct William Edwards but a tife named 'Margaret'. while another had William Edwards and his ~ife 'Mary' etc. when we know beyond all doubt that his wife's 1ame was Elizabeth. Other groups of files contain certificates tnd pedigrees of individuals claiming descent from Richard ~dwards (1523-1567). Jacob Edwards (1729-1797) and Owen Edwards (1747-1826). Tilere can be little doub~ that practically all :hese claimants are descendants of the same family and someone. 3omeday. will have the patience and determination to complete an ~dwards family tree. In total there are nearly 100 principal ;laimants listed in this one particular claimants association : i le.
- ;J.5- From time to time over the past thirty years and even ve~, recently, I have heard members or the family talk of renewin~ 1ega1 cl aims for .the property in New York.. It is an interesting exercise to calculate the number of beneficiaries there would be in the 1990's even if euch a claim proved successful. Based on a very conservative formula or starting with only five brothers in 1700 and only four generations per century, wjth each descendant producing only five children, then today in 1992 we would have over 1 billion. 220 million clajmante~ It must be remembered that the area enclosed in the Edwards Manhattan lease encompasses some of the most valuable real estate in the world. including City Hall. the New York Stock Exchange ~nd Wall Street. The area muat now be valued in billions of pounds; even eo. you can have my share any time you like.
Juat ae this book is about to be published l am informed that the story of the Edwards Family.and their Lost Mill1ons has been taken up by a Bri~ah film maker and a film of the family history will almost certainly be made. . i ;
EDWARDS
·i' The original surname Eadweard, meaning "prospe.ri ty guard~ ;"fi:-: · rise to the present day names of . Edward. E~wardes an ·1gg~e ds In the 1066 Doomsday· Book there are nam~s silver "argent"·) ostrich teat hers·
Mottoes recorded under the surname Edwards include:- "Duw fyddo ein cryfdwr"- God be our strength. ~ "Duw ydi ein cryfdwr"- God is our strength. "Honor potestate honorantis"- Honour is in the power of him ~ who honours.
"Vincit veritas"- Truth conquers. I '
-.3.~ - 1 TllE El>WAIU>S Mii.i.iONS
One Welsh genealogical subject which continues to excite interest among many people is that or the Edwards family and their supposed millions. The Glamorgan Record Office hac; recently received the working p~1pcrs of the Edwards Family Claimants' Assodntion, which was estab lished in South Wales in the 1950s. This collection consists mainly of ccrlilkntes of claimants, together with pedigrees which atlempt to trace their ancestors back to the original Edwardses (DID X 354). . .
The aim of the Associal ion was 10 put forward several legal claims to large sums of money accruing from lam.I which allegedly belonged to descendants of members of the Edwards family. The two most signirtcant claims concerncu lanu in Wales and land in the United States. The Welsh lands were supposed to have been owned in the middle of the 18th century by one William Edwards, and were centred upon Merthyr Tydfil. The other more important claim to land in America arose from a lease for 99 years dated 1778, by which one Robert Edwards leased an area of 77 acres in New York to John and George Kruger. This lease, which appears to survive only in copies, described the land as 77 Acres. 3 Rod~ and 32 Perches, begi1111i11g at a stake set in the ground al high water mark, 11ee1r /Jestlwrer." KillleRiC' ru1111i11g East almtR Old Prince Street 1,000 feet hence North Ectslerley in u z.ig-~e1.'! co111:';e u/011R part of Old Jun's fund to Christopher Street 2550 Feet hence South along the llmlm11 Rfrer al Mary McKenzie -:i 1- I COULD it be that Roben Edward'. who in the 18th century head. he ·.11ould C //~ ~.....,,, c es r.cJC £,~o '' c Es -;-.t::i~S/"f/~E 71 K.Z.. ~"'1AR.. b.S I ~~ Hff~ A. JE: ']:) ~/LL1 rTM J(c S-o \..J 1l~1H-r-1. JG 76' } {; j Cf ;If W\LLir}H 1719 17 if.I E:b &..J Ail..~ J I /r.1 /7 70 €']::) ~ A-P.);l I 7 70 /7 'f ~ ~OHN I 8ol;- Hflft.THA ~1,.)/$ ~f\11€ .s I RlC..HA~ / 3 7g' l-J L-L'ft::K- LL~~ 11-5-~~ M£ f'£PrA..L Hfl.ti/iOMD 1qz.~ <;,·E. H~f/;./£H.-1 .S 22-/ ... 'r9· ' E· J. 13KIAc;< 14--/-7'!. C:,- .. HA~rto~'.JJ JfJ-J/-C/o. ~Ko M ~lif1~ s -rt ,e. IC r-/1+"2..J:.l, -rHE1 e,,Jel!..c tJo1!:.N JI\) "" f'rl!.ct.. R..cc..o~ .S fl.fl.£ . -rl --;l.~ )trt'ees -r1-1e .:1t-He 11s IJtl..U"IJVL IUE -(11e.s.: ,..~£ • Bit/A~-&~ \.JrtO J s SA-1~ -ro Ee /!!.o!Se~I Q\.J"tR.bS aR..tr1»E~. BLll Rt,1$1?~' t::°A.71-ltt:'A w .Q C' _'\ 1 I!. --r.;j_ ... "' - Al A..,...-i. .• - • • - • z~ r-i LL IUCll/\RD EDWARDS (152)-67) 0z I LU RICHARD (c.1560) a: I w - -- ··· 1 u~ W ILLIAM .IOSI IU/\ (c.1 580) W1 Tl IOM/\S (b. 1639) Cf I I (J Wll.1.1/\M (h. 1620) I . \ G I ,-----R (~ERT~l662-1 7 JR) ·o (.) CV) 0 Tl IOM/\S (b. 1690) 0 . I l l------T-- - T - - --i------,-----1 ROBERT JOSI IU/\ WI LLit\ tvl TllOM/\S LEONARD .IOllN JACOB MARTI IA (1716-78) (b. 1718) (b. 1720) (b. 1723) (b. 1725) (b. 1727) (h. 1729) (h. 1731) • Those brothers u 11d crli11cd emigrat cd to /\mcrkn, the re11rninder st ;iyed i11 Wales • Robert Edwnnls lensed the ln11d in New York which wns lat er clnimed by the Edwards fo11iil y · ------Alternntivc lines or descent ;:..._ ~ ti) -0 ~ c..u-0 N, z;-, f;J?oU--t: Edith Alberta, b 9 Ma~ 1870; m 8 Feb 1890 Samuel Hall l2) 27 Aug 1897 George Duane. CHARLES NELSON · EDWARDS, born 10 April 1855, ma.ri:.ied 20~ ~eptem'ber Eli~a. beth Ann Watkins, who was born 14 February. 1862. Chrles died 10 October 1922; Eliza.beth died 10 April 1949. Issue: 1. Bertha May, b J May 1884; m 19o6 Robert Hall; d May 1964. 2. Helen Hazel, b 21 Nov 1887; m 13 Aug 1917 Ruben G~enawa.lt; d 4 Feb 1961. No issue• J. Ethel Edna, b 20 Jun 1886; m 17 Sep 1913 Joseph Wheaton Smith; d 2 Jan 1945. No issue. 4. Howard Charles, b 7 Nov 1889; m 1920 Marian Barnicutt; d_ 4 May 1956. *5· Cordelia Durland, b lJ Mar 189J; m JO Sep 1919 Albred S. James. (Below) 6. Dorothy Elinor, b 11 Jun 1903; m 4 Apr 1925 Albert ii.Jnrners; d Dec 1966. No issue.'·· . . CORDELIA DURLAND EDWARDS~ born 3 March 1893, ·married 3.Q· September 1919 .Alf'r(:jd Sidney James, .who was born 10 March 1896. She died 28 May 198J. Alf'red died 14 July 1961. Issue: 1. Alf'red Sidney James, Jr., b 2 Jul 1920; m 20 August 1944 Doris Madden. *2. Marjorie Eliza.beth James, b 2~ Oct 1924; . married twice. (Below) · MARJORIE ELIZABETH JAMES, born 25 Oct 1924; m 19 Feb 1944, (2) 24 August 1968 Donald Thomas Nikkel. Issue first marriage& l. John Peter Van Wyngaarden, b 20 Dec 1944; m 6 Sep 1969 Gisela Kock. Issue. Sandra and Kevin. 2. Roger James . Van ~lyngaarden, o ·15 Apr 1946; m 11 May 1981. Ma.ry°·..B:rent M0hler . Issue; TI:liz-.i."c~th. 3. Gary .Lee Van Wynga.a.rden, b 11 Jul 1947· Issue. ,,...,...____. -· . - . __ _.. _. - - , --- > ..\-\ i s1J > GFN (Q1 cs ee. ffAPY I pl $Ti L-LL-V EL<..- FA-tVl . 5" i Bl Z-S t='"AM, 4?£cov-c-\_s · ~ N ,O• A~C..H drES H ISTOHIC SKETCHES OF THE EDWARDS AND TODD FAMILIES Al\'ll TH E!R DESCENDANTS. 1523--·1895. BY GEoRcn: HottTE!\SE Frnv111ms. :-.... Hl'lll-NOl'IELD. ILL.: II. w. ltOKKEn, PlllNTl:ll urn n1NDER, l ll!l4. University of Kentucky Library Kentucky Reprints III 1964 PREF A.CE. Home months ago an invitat.ion was extended to the writer to become ·a member of The Daughters of t he Arneri'." can Ilovolution. To do t.hie it became necessary to estab. lish t he fact that the applicant. for memoorehip is the deecendnnt, dit·ectly 01· collaterally, from one who had served hiA country durin~ the war of the American Tu!volu t.ion in the civil or militn.ry departments of t ho government. It wM not. the intention, when t his work woe commenced, to look boyond the period of tho ltevolutiouo.ry War in searching out the o.ntecctlcnte of the writP.r'H famil.v, but, dB tho rending and research of Hnch rer.ordH M were found in tho public libraries pl'Ogressetl , it wne determined to en large the scope of the inquiry, and, to that end, otber works and books of reference wnre purcha!icd. Much of tho i11formn1 ion obtni 11ahle hnR uct been included here, though li ttle has escnped not ice, it L'!in~ t he aim simply to mention the o fH cc 1·H of t he hig;her grndcs, or those whrn.ie clnims to distinction ure hiatorically ussured. The ancestry of t ho writer lrn.H Leen trnced from the .vear Ui2:\ down to t he present time. Such information os ho.s bE!en givf' n of thE: paternal nnd mnternul n.ncestors of the writer; •:if t li o various public pluceA filled by them, o.nd of the aorvic•!B rende1·ed by them to their country in Revolu tiona.rv tit\1eH, haH, nocerien.rily, been briefly riketched-wa.nt of time and other circumstances being accountable therefor. • 4 PREFACE. It. wos found. in the brief 1·esearches made, that of the rincestors of tho ~vriter who assisted in establishing Ameri can Ind~pendence during the War of the Revolution, the following are to be numbered: Eight brreat grnndff\the1·e, two great grnnclmotberR, and sixt®n great gt•and uncles; tho gi·eo.t µ:randfathers n.nd g1·eo.t grand uncleR having· held commissions in tl1e American army, ranking from· major generals do,vn to captains. The references and proofs of the foregoing are on file with tha ltecording Secl'etary of the Daughters of the American Revolution, in the city of Wosbington, dated October 4, 1894, a~d numbered 4,004. It wos found, also, in th~ investigations made by the writer, that six Presidents of the United Sta.tee, three Sec retaries of War, one Secretary of the Treasury, two Attor neys General~ five United Mt.ates .Ministers, five United Sta.tee Senatore and seven Governors, were descendents of, or f.!onnected by marriage \Tith, the writer's ancestors. o.·a. E. tiPRJNGFIELD, ILL., Dec. 18D4. f I HISTORIC SKETCHES OF THE EnwAHDS AND Tonn FAMILIES. Jt;2:J-l89!i. THE EDWARDS FAMILY. HIUllAHU El>WAHDS. ')';) ICHAHD EDWARDS, the fnther of Willil\m a nd great [\. ~randfatbcr of Ha,Yden, wl18 born in Somersetshire in l i'i2il. He wos n music:lun nnd writer of interlude!!; studied nt C01·pus (;hristi college, Oxford; took his Master of Arts degree in lu47, entet"c 1:1inµ;in g bO.}'i!. He died in t he yenr ] i>H 'l'hir'I hall WILR b uilt in t he time of Will!1t111 tlw Conqueror, by Rir f:odefory de Pomeroi,nN01·111 11n k11 iµ:ht,n11cl cume intothe Ed wu1·ds fa mily h,\' s11bseqnent marrini;c, n.1111 wo1:1 u bnndoned iibout t he year Hi20, when the brothers, John, 'l'homos, Rob. ert a nd William, eona of Willi111?1 n.nd !.!,'l'!lud1:1011s of nichard Etlwltl'cl s. ca.me to America to settle the lo.:1d grnnted t bPm for senice rendered to t he King. 'l'!Je ruins of the oh.I hull m·o Rtill sto.mling, n.nd a photog-rnpb is in the possei;sion of his ·µ;rent, g rcn t, great, grent, ~ ren t, g1·pat, grnnt, grent p;rnnd --- HIMTOHIC "'K~'CJll~M OF THF. In his own do..\• Richard Edwards wuH held in the hi[!beet eHUmntion. "He united," H1qA Warton, "all thoHO n.rtat ~nd Rf!Complb~huwntH which minit.;te1• tu popular pleMantry; he wn~ the most fo.Hhionobfo Honnet.eer, th(I reacllest. rhyfllel', nml the moRt· fnc·ctionK n1imic of tltn court.'' llAYURS. l~DWAHUS. Jlnyden I~clwnrdH, the Hon of Willinm and grancJHon of John l~dwnl' [Ll•ttcr from !•lrs. Pcnt')OJlC ft!. Crouch.) HT. Aum:MTl~E, TEXAA, Dec. lil, 1884. DRAJt Cous1s :-Yours of the 8t.h hlHt. bas ·been receiv.ed, toJ,!f•ther with 'tlm engra,·ing of your futhei·. both of which are g~nt:Jy o.pprerinted. I \•:ill now write you u hii-:1tory of our branch of the I~hmrds family, as fo.r as l know. I t1escended from H~yden I~dwcl.l'ds, who marriPd a Miss Pene101>e Sanfol'd, w110 emi grated from Englund to Amet·ic~ before the Hevolut1011ury wo.r, with o. broth,,•. and tmme other· young men, AlrA •. Penelope J~dwards being t.he onJy lady on board of the· wHsei. 1'hP brothflr settled in one of the northe~ States, Hayden and Pem•lope scttll't1 in Virµ:iuin. Their children we1·e EDWARDS AK, TODD FAMILIES, 7 as follows: Benjamin, the eldest and a prominent man, married o. lady of llal'yland 1 one eon, John, from whom I descend, wus o. member of Congress; one son, Sanford, who sett.led in South Cat'olina; the younAest, George, settled ·10 Kentucky. One of the daughters married Col. Pope, who bad tbl'ee distinguit:thed sonR,. as follows: .John Pope, senator, also gov~rnor of A··kansas, · Nut., governor of 111inoi~, Alexander Pope, law.rer, of LoulsviUe. My grandfather was Amos Edwards, who married h!s own cousin. Her nnme was Penelope ..\shmore, dnup:hter of Mnry Edwards, who married Wm. Ashmore. She wns the only child. lfy grandfather's brothers were as follows: Hayden, .John, Gustavus and Benjamin. I could write a great den.I about the family. Many I collld mention, but do not think it necessary. You will see from my statement thnt we are the HR.me family. I am proud of m.v l~d wards connection. They are nil people of iut.elligence. I believe you will be greatly surprised when I ten you I have in my pot:1seHsion the wedding dress of Penelope Sanford, who married Hn.y~n l~dwards. It is of elegant mo.tet-ial,-wo consider it a great cmfosity. I in h&rited it with the name Pene1op~. I still find it impossible to flnd out the name of the brother who cnme over to America. with Hayden Edwards~ or the name of Robert· Jt~dwnrd~' brothers. Could you not by some means assiHt in trn.ciiig up our heirHhip? ThcSecrctaryof the Edwards Heirs' Association writes me that thm·e was a Hayden Edwards in tlie family he was tracing, and I thought probably .we had proved oursel veR heirs, and that he bad not been able to trace his family. I think this proper·ty is weJl worth any exPrtion to recover it, as it i8 valued at between two 8 HiSTORIO BKETCIIEB OF THE or three hundred million& and the ~itY. of Troy l wouUl be much pleased . to bear from you again. Have you the life of your fatber-if so I would like to obtain a copy.;..and are you a mu.n advanced in age? I think you or your father are couHin to my mother. Your affectionate· cousin, P. E.··Cnoucu. DEN .J A !ti I ~'i J~ D WA It D S. Denjamln, ·eon of Hnyden !~dwardH, was my g1-eo.t, great· . '· gra.n,lfn.ther. Ho WtlH born in 17»2 and died lR20. Ile mnr1·ied. Mo.rga1·et Beo.11, of Montgomery county, Ma.ryland.· He was a mf•mber of t.110 Stute. conve.ntion, of Mo.i·yland, t~at ratified tl1e Pederal Constituti<;m. nod a .member of the General Assembly of Maryland and n member of the first Gaw"~ The Hou. William Wirt wns. a m.ember of Benjami~ Edwar'1t:1' family. Ile wns received into the family of Mr. Edwards at the age of fifteen, nominally as a private tnt01• ~or his ~on. '!'his a1·1·angt?me11t_ wns nu net of kindue1:1s and beneficence on the part of ~fr. I•:dwards to aid Mr. Wirt in his education without tho rcJo.;trnint that charity imposes. HA N P 0 H I> I~ D WA 1' D 8. Sanford Edwarcls, nnother Hon of Hayden J~dwarde, \t::te e~rgeon general in JO II N l~DW AltDS. John Ndwnrde, another eon of Hayden Edwn.rde, wae a member of the State convention of Vir~inia which ra'tifled the ]~ederal Constitution, aud was one of the first two senators from Kentucky. NIXIAN l~DWAUDH • .My great grnndfn.ther, Ninian Edwards, \VM born in l i7ri, and died in 1 HH:J. He was a a.on of Benjamin Edwards. He was 1'rmjor of tfte Kentucky militia in 1802, Judge of the Court of Appenh01 in rnou, Chief Ju.stice of the State of Kentucky in .1808, Governor of Illinois Tel'rirory from 180!> to 1818, United 8tates Senator from 111inoie, 1~ 18 to 18:M, Governor of Illinois from 1826 to 1830. He died in lRaa, aged a8. Jt,UO!\I Fono's l((STORY OF ILLINOIS. Nininn Edwar \Vn& appointed the flr8t governor of the Illinois territory in lROU. Edwards was o. lnr~e, well. made man,· with a noble, ptincc1y appea1·ance, which was n. circumHtance great1y in hiR favor, aa governor .over a l'Ud·e people, 01 whom it may be l!'n.id, tbo.t the ~nhnal greatly' pl'ndominnted over the intellectuul man. In fact, it mny well be qttt!Btioned whether mankind ever will become· so intollect.uo.1 and spiritual, t!tnt mere size, vigor of muscle, and consequent animnl spirits, will t>eaRe to ho.ve mo1·e influence with the • multitude than mere intellect. unaided by t.hese fleshly advnntns.,res, Gov.. I~tlwn1·tls hnd been governor of the ·Illinois te1·1'itory for nine ,\'ears. ancl .was ~hen elected to . th~ United States Senate. In this office he showed an exte11sh·o knowletli,re of public aff~irs, and beeame dis tinguished nH o. mnn of fine tnfent:ff througl1out the union. Whilst in the senate he w~s appointed by President l\Iool'oe to be minister to l\lexico. . It ia worthy of remark here, that be never condesended to tbe c~mmou,. Jow arts of electioneering. Whenever he weut out among the .Peo11Je he arrayed himself in the style of Ii gentleman of the olden time, clresstid in fine broadcloth, with aho1·t b1·eechee, long stockings, und high, fair-topped boots; was· druwu in u, flne cnri·inge, dri\'m1 by a negro; n.nd for enccetts, he t·elicd upon lJis speeches, whicl~ were deli\'Hred with great pomp, and in ·a style of diffuse nud florid eloquence. When he· was innugnrntetl in 1 H:m, he appeared before t11e Al!Ucro.1 ns Rembly wearing a gold-laced clonk, and with ~rent pomp he pronounced hiR fir~t messog-e to tbe hrn houi:1es Qf .the legislature. Governor l~thvnrda died of cholera in Belleville; in the year 1san. EDWAUDS AND TODD FAMILIEH. 11 NIN I AN \V. I~ D \VA ltD S. lfy grandfather, Ninian W. I•:dwards, woe the eon of Nininn Bdwa.rclH, the first and onJy territorial governor of Illinois, and was born A11ril 15, 18~9, near Frankfort, Ky. HiB father, e.t that time, was chief jm~tice of the court of e.ppe.'\ls of Kentucky. He was marl'ied to Elizabeth ·P. Todd, .in l.1exingtdn, Ky., Februm·y lG, 18:12. Mhe was the daughter of Robei·t S. 'l'odd. In l 8a4 Governor Reynolds appointed him attorney general of IHinois. In HUJO be was elected a represent.ativ~ in ·the legislature, and be aerved lrJ the legislature, eithor in the senate or the house, from 18:\6 to l8u~. Ho wus also a member of the constitutional convention of 184-8. In 18r>4 he was nppointEd by the govol'Dor attorney before the board of· commissionet·s to inve~~t.igat~ the claims of canal contraetors ogainHt the state, amounting to over $1,!'i00,000. In 1854 he received the appointment of State Superintendent o" Public lnstruc. tion by Uovernor Matteson, and woe the first incumbP.ot of that office. He wns retained in thiH office by the legis1a.ture until 18~'J7. He waa always a champion of free achools, and drafted the low in regard to them which waR first adopted hi the State. In 1862 P1·eHideot 1-'iucoln appointed him United States Commissary with the rank of major, which place be held until August, lRUa. He hnd four children: Julia, wife of Hon. R I.1. Baker, United States Consul at Buenos Ayre~, appointed in l 87H, nnd still holding the pluce (l 8H4); J~lizabcth E. Clover, Charles T~dwards, and my fatlwr, Albert S. J~dwn.rdH. Ninian W. I·~dwarda died Sept. 2, 18~!'. His wife died Ji'eb. 22, 1888. 8he was o. sistei· of Mrs. Abraham Lincoln. Mrs. Lincoln died at 12 HISTORIC"8KETCllE8 OF THE tho residence of my grandmother, ~Ire. Ninian W. Bdwards, July 10, 1882, the same l10ueo in ·which slie WM ma1·1~ied· November 2, 18-J2. (1',rom the Achlress of the JU. ltcv. GcorRc Jt,, Seymour, Dlsbop of Sprlogtleld, May let, 1888.J lfore recently our nPar neig-bbor, MrH. !\ininn W. Edwa1·cis, waK suddenly pl'ostro.ted by diHense, n.nd ns it were, h1 a moment, to.ken out of this world. 1,he loss to us iH lr~epar~ able. She wnR the sister of ~Ire. President Uncoln, O.nd as the wiro· of Mr. l·~dwnrdH, she wnH for many years one o( the m~et pro.minent ladiea of the State. Mrs. Edwardq' wimtin~ RweetocNe and gcntlcneHs of charnctP.r we have never seen excelled. Unck of thiM exterior, so atttnctive, was n· mo of devotion hid with Chrh.4t in God. The bettct• one knew ber, the higher he plnccd llP.r worth. As a. hosh~Hs, pwbnbly long practice hnd made her pro ficient, but no.~ive tact. and dt•licacy of fee!iiig nlone could have Pno.bled hc1· to ncquire the Mucrcse which @he attained to a rPmnrknble [From th~ Anoual .Address of the U.t. Hcv. George }'. Seymour, i880.] 'ri:ie departure of Ninian W. I~dwards was not a surprl.a&. Ha wus ol remcinbers t.hem, ,.;lu~ uevcr forg1~ts lwr chilflren, tdnce t1 1ey are n.lwny8iu her 0 Ii: N Ii: It A ... A ... n 1~ It T 0. I!: n w A Jt J) H. Gencrnl Albert.· G. l~dwards \VO.B born in T~xington, Ken tuck~·, on Octoher 1 r;, 1Hl2. lie was the Recond eon of Oov. Nininn I·MwnrclH. Benjamin Bdwm·dR, .tlm grand. father of General Edwimls, wnR a member of t.he l•,irst Con~reHe of the United StnteH. At the. nge of 14- yco.rH Goncrnl Bdwo.rds entered 1:1claool o.t West Point.! where ho· µ:rnc.lunted with honot·K, n.nd was commissioned ne a Recond lieutenant, and went with a compn.ny of nrtillory on tho cnmpo.ign against the lmtinns engaged in th" Black llnwk. \var. At the close of the Dlnck Howk wo.r he entered the United States Army as fmcond lieutenant and HCl'\•ccl ten yrm1·~. nnd then rcsig~ed hiH commiHsion RH major and wvnt to St·. Louis, '~l1cro 'he en~aged ·in the mercantile buKincAs. In 1802 Governor Gnmhle appointed him commnnde1• of the St. Louis division of Rtnte GunrdH, nnd fm· Rome time he J1ad commnml of the troops of St. J .. oniH. Lntcr. Ciovt:·rnor Gnmh1c appointed bim bunk commisHioner or Mis2-1out·i, which 1>osi'tion he held until he was nppointec.l Aub-trmumrnr of the United States, at Rt. J..ouiR, by Prc~i<1ent Lincoln, n. few dayH · before tbo PreHid(mt, wnA n~HnsHinatod. 1'his was t.he hu.-t nppc;>int. ment mode by PreHid1Jnt.LincoJn. I le held tho position of sub trensnrcr until 1887: On June 4, lS:;o, ho wa's mn1·1·ied to :\liss Mary Jencks, dnuA"htcr of llaniol Jenl'kH, whose father wns Go\·cmor of tho Stato of lthodo Ialaud. Benjamin Jt'., Georire J,,, and Albert N., sons of Guneral Edwards, o.re enJ!RA"ed in busineRs in 8t. Lonie. General Edwards 'died hi rnn2. EDWARDS AND TODD FAMILIES. 15 lll~N ,J Al\t IN S. J~DWAUDS. Benjamin S. I~dwarde was born on the 3d day of June, 1818, in Madison county, 111inois, and died in Springfield, Illinois, I~'ebruary 4, 1886. He was a brother of my grand father, Ninian Wirt Edwards, and tJ10 youngest son of Ninian I~clwartls, tho first g·overn0~· of Illinois territory, afterwardH United States acnator, and the third go\•crnor of t.he Stab~. Benjamin H. I~dwards graduated in Yale college in the claHs of 18B8, atudic~ i'lltS, llJU,EN JC J~DWAitI>S , Mrs. Hell!n K. Ed wari.l 1:1, \\'He of J ud ~e Edwu.rds, wns born in K nskaskin, ~ovember 1-1, 181!1. She rr·side11 at the old homestead in this cit.r 'mrrou11Jed by her three dau:.:-hters, Helen M .. wi fe of MoHE'S B. Contlell, n pl'Osperous farmer of this county, Alice, wife of Benjamin H. Fe r~·uso n, a pl'Om ineut banker of t his city, a nd ~fu1·y Stuo1·t, wifo of .Jo.meli II. naymond, n. prominent law.,·er of Cliicng-o, antl her grnudch ildnm. Mrs. Jo.11e Dey Dodµ:e, mot her of Mrs. Edwo.rd!i, was born in 17!>0; was 1110 rrierl to Col. Henry S. Dodge in 1H13. They removed in 1817 frnm New York City to Ko.a. ED\\' .UlDS AND TODl> F.UIJLl~3. 17 kaekia, 111. Here they resided seven years. As early settlers in Illinoi&, and living amo~g li'rench o.nd India.ns, they ex. perienced mony vicissiiudes and ~rials. In 18ml lfru. D .dge remo\'ed to this city and took . up he1• o.boda with her daughter, with whom she continuP.11 to l'esicle till her death, on December lU, 1870. DAN I I~ L P. C 0 0 I( • Dnniel ·P. Cook wns a native of Kentucky; i!umigro.ted to the t~1·1·itory of IJlinois in 181a. He mlirricd Julia, ·~ daught~1· of Gov: .gdwnrds. He wus the fh·st Atto1•ney General of tbe Htate of Illinoi"', and t•epresente 0 E 'N E It A L .J 0 II N C 0 0 J(.• General John Cook wnH the only chil C II A It J.,J~S IH>W A!~ DS. Charlet:1 Edward~. the second i;on of Nioian W. l~dward1:1. ~orn July o~ 18.t.6, in SprinA·H11ld, \\'LUI attPnding Yale coJ lege ht the l'o.rly part of the !tebe1Jion, nnd Je£t there in the latter part of lf~Oa to fill a position in the Commissary department of the United 8tate1:J army. After tho war he was ar~ instructor in Hryunt & Strutton'e commercial college in SpringftelCI for a Hhort time. ClmrleM gdwnrds was married in Spria~Held, Fcbruary" 18, 1808, to lfo.ry Hickox, daughter of Hon. Virgil I~ickox. 'l'hey hu.\'e one child, l~<.lit.h, and reHi.de in ~,ogrn.nge, Cook Count.y, Ill. Charle.~;.· Edwards was connecb~d with the Illinois Staft~ .Jourm1l, aud at one time \VO.S one of the proprietors of the 11/inois State Register. .... j HIB1'0RIC HK.ETCHES OF TUE About fifteen years ago be removed to Chicago to·. take o.n interest in the Shober-Cnrqncville L1tbogrnphing Company, of Chicago. He iH now secretary and treasurer of .the Rokke1·-0'Donnell Printing: Company, of Chicago. ,Ju.LIA 1~1> w A ltUS n A IUUt. Julia. C., nLJZAUl~TH EDWAUDS C f,OVEit. Elizabeth I~ .• second daughter of Ninian · W. l~dwards, born Jamiar,v 7~ 18-ta, in Springfield, lll., was ma.rried May 11, 1863, to Euge11e 11. Clover, son of Rev. Dr. Clover, at one time Hector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Springfteld, Ill. B. P. Clover was killed at the battle A 1.. n •~ n 'I' s. 1~ Jn\· Ann s. My father, Albert S. Edwards: was born Dec. 1.5, l.839. He is the son of Ninian · W. Eel wards, and grandson of Governor Ninian Edwards. On June. 3, 1863, he woe marrie .l\IAUY U. ltEMANN. My gramrmother, Mary B. Ilemann, wns born March o, 182a, and died Feb. 7, 1888, they were marrit!d April 15, 18-H. My mother, Josephine E. l~dwarde, I bavo one brother, and one sister, Ninian Wirt Edwards, and Mary E. Brown, wife of Cl1~rloe R. Brown, of Spokane, Wash. They were married May 4, 1880. :My father was appointed by P1'l1Hident Lincoln Assistant United States CommiHsary of SubsistanL'e for the State of Illinois, July 1, 1801, and served until Ju1y l, 180il; h& resigned to enter the mercantile business. THE TODD FAMILY. What iA. known of the antecedents of t.he .Todd fn.mily iR moRt· honol'8.ble. or tho cov~nn.ntel's cn.ptm·ed nt Dot.It. well Hrigc,:, two humll'c ltODl~ltT 1'0DD. My great, f.trent., great, p:reat. grandfather, Robert Todd was bom in ll'eland, in 1607; died in Montgomery county,, Pennsylvania, in 1775, and was buried in the chm·cbyard of the Providence Presbyterian Church. His first wife, whose name is supposed to have been Hmith, died and was buried in Ireland. In Ireland he married, fot• a .second wife, Isa· bella, sister of nenernl William Ilodley. The mother of hmbella nn C<)L, 1HHIN 'l,OUI>, Col. John 1'odd wnH 1111 oide t.o nenerul Andrew I,e\ViY in the battle. of Point Pleasant. HH HUCCt!edP.d General George ltogcrH Clarke in command u.t KnHknt~kiu., in 1778, and was Hevural yeo.l'H civil governor untl colonel of the county of lllinoiH. lie wns coriunnml.unt of the Kentucky forceR at the battle of BJ ue Licks, A uguat, 18, 1782, and was killed in this buttle. 24- Jli8TOIUC RKETCJIE9 OP TllF' GMN EltA r.. non IHtT TOO)). General Robert 'fodd, Hef!otttl Hon of David TodcJ, wne woundt'd in the cfoF~nse or lfcl'lellan 'K Fort, now <1eorge town, in 177H; continued to ho nn active and brave 1m1dier all through tl~u trouLJua with tho Indinm~, and woe often intrm1tcd with important commatids. G I•: X I~ It A l.1 L I~\' I T 0 n 1.> • General Levi· Todd, my greut irront grandfather, third son of J>avid Todd, wns born in PennHylvnnio, in 1 ;r.o; wnH educn.ted in Yh·:~foin, Atndied_ J11w, hccame u. st~l'veyor, W.?nt early to Kentucky, and wns .one of· the defenders of the f?rt n.t HnrrodKbnr~: lie afterwards nHHisted l .. ogan to hold St... \snphe: waH mnjor, colonel. bri~nr.Jier and major general of the Kcntuck~· forrPR until his death, in 1H07. He married Jane Dri~~M and hnd eleven childmn, Hannah, Elizabeth; J9hn, Nnncy, f>avid, Ann Mnrin, Hobert S., June, ~largaret, ltogP.r North and Snmuel. ,J A :S B U It I G U H, General 1... ,vi ·rodd married Jane Briggs, in the fort of St. Asnphs, in J,incoln County, Kentucky, (t,ehruary, 25, li7U. St. Asaphs wnH then a fortified station d~fended by _strong armtt u.nd hravL- heartH. We may he sur~ thore were no engraved ca1·ds tied \yitb eilkm1 ribbons to bid the gueAt to the wedding FenNt, no table.as decked with Hilve,r plate em. blazoned with coats of nrmR, no guest arrayed in immodest gown bought from 1:1ome mn.ntun.-mnker in I'nris. There wns no printing press, much JesH an engraver, within hun dreds of miles. 1'hose shrewd men and heroic women, to JmWAUDS AND 'l'ODD l•'AMILIE8, 25 whom our peopl~ are indebted for moRt tbat jy eitbea• good or powerful in them, were too seriomdy grappling witb the 8te1·n realities of life to think ot' .drua.m of the !ying vanities purnded in most American al'morial hen.rings. ~nd it is t~1e boast . of the W.!DRible decen 1 n 0 n ·~ It '1 s. '11 0 DD • .Hobert S. 'rod Payette County; in l 8-1-ri W0.8 el,~cted to the ~tn.teSenate, an1l was a candidate fol' re-elcrtion when he died. He was twice married; first to his near relative, Bliza .\nn Parker, a granddaughter of General Andrew Porter. They bad six c:.lldren, mizabeth, Levi, George, !•.,ranee~, Mary and Ano. Mary was t.he wife of President Lincoln, mizabcth, my grand mother, mal·ried Ninian W. gc)wards, Jt'ebruary 10th, 1832. · 2G RIHTORIC Hu;·rcHER Of' T• .. FltANCl·~H 1'01))) WA 14 f..1ACn. Prnnc~ 'l'odd W nllnco, a dnughtm· of Hobert S. '!'odd, and grnndda.ughter or Gem:rul Levi 'l,odd, \\'llM bm·u in 1817, in Lmcin~ton, K3 ., wne married to "!>1·. William tJ. Wallace, l\tay, Um9. Dr. Wallace co.me to Stwingfleld, Ill.-, in l ~an, and at once cnJtngecl in tho practice of bis pro fession. He WUH born August 10, 1802, in Lanf!ilHter County, Pennsylvania. In 1801. h~ was o.ppointod hy President Lincoln Paynu\Htcr in the TJnitetl St.r...W.H army. After tho supprcNsiou of the lteb(lJliou ho wns placed on the retit"ed list, and diPcl May ~!\, 18H7. lliH widow rmii Mury I•', Wallace WllH m11.1Til•d to Col. John P. Baker, Novcmhet· l:i, uu;:t, Col. Buker \\'UH horn July :H, 1838, n.t Kusknr:&kia, Ill. In Murch, 1HH1. 1 Im \\'rut nppoiute Wt\K nt the bnttlu or Hull Ihm .•Jul.v ~1, HCO!. Jfo 1-'Hl'\'l!d on Htnrr 1Jnt,v nt thn Jmmlqnnrtm·:-1 of the ~ixth Army Co1·pH, in tho Arm~· of tho Pot.omuc; nbm 011 a:stuff duty UH lnHpector· Ocnera.1 nt Rn\'tumnh, Oa.., in lHO:i. J,iuutmmn~ flaker \\'llH promotrnl, .July 1 ;, 1802, to Cn.ptoin in tho First United 8t.nteH Co.\"ttlr.'·· Apl'il 0, HHi·l, brc\'et .Major in tho 1·egnlnr nrmy for :.!nllnutr.v und mm·ito1·iom~ sm·vice nt t•Jen1-mnt Hill, Lu..; also brevet Lieufonunt Colonel for :rnllnnt nnd meritoriouH Ht~l'\'i<~eN during t.ho wnr. He resigned hiK commirtsion in July, 18HH. In lHfm Im was nppoinlttd PnynmHter in thl' ·Pnitc1I Sto.t~s n.rmy. EDWARDS AND TODD FAl\flLIEB. 27 Emilie Todd, the fourth child of Rl'bert S. Todd. by his second wife, married General Ben Hardin Heln1 in 1856. He wae the eon of Governor Jolm .I,. Helm, of Kentucky.~ ,.,,)l.J \ ,J\r" John L. Hehn was eleven times elected to the House of , ~ , -1" '"._ff-" I 11 0~ ~ "" RepreHentativee of Kentucky, bis terms of eer\•ice exteo.d '',.. ,J,;v ~ ' ( t/ ,1 - t (})'" I . r iug from 182U to 184-3, null was five times chosen Speaker of wnK to ~~r_,~... ~· ,LY that body. Ho elected the Senate 1844-48. He '.1 wn.H Governor in 1 Arm. ln lRU!') be wnR again elected to th.. Stnte Snnnte nnd Horved until 1H07. In the latter year ho wn'-1 again elHctcd Ho\·ernor of the State by o. very large mnjN·it.v. .\XS 'I' on I> !01 1•r11 • Ann 'l'o r~ I·; \" I To U fJ • LHvi Todd, Hon of Ot•1wrnl L1n·i 'rrnJcl. ninrried Louisa H11nrll•fl. o{ Lcxin~ton, Ky. 'J'hcir danµ:htur, lira. Louisa T1)1ltl Knyp"'· iH the wifo of Eclwnrcl 0. Ki'yctt, n. prominent banker, of 8prin:!fi•.•ld, llJ. lllATORIC RKETf'llER OF Tim ;\I.\ It\'. B 1, I, BS \' 0 F SU, mi.zo.heth, HC'Cond r.hHd of my :,!.'rPat., ~·reat, grandfather, fJenernl JJC,·i 'J'odd. mn.rriecl Chu.rlPH Cnrr, of Fayette County, K~ntuck~·, tmn of \\'nlb>r Ca.rr, who wns a member or t.be Kentucky Con\'ention of 17HU, nn'1 \\'8R to:e\•eral timett in tho J,egiHln.t.uro. 'fhey hnd tw~lrn cbil1lren. Their son, Chnr1os Cm·r, n Jnwyt~r, wn!!4 for ymrH JmJg;e of the I~nyette ConntyC0111·t. lliH wifo wnK n ~liHH Didlnkc. 'flmir clnuf.!.'htcr, Mar~· I~lfon YounA·· mnrriecl Alfr<'d ~f. Young, .Jul~· 8, 18-W. One of her daughter...;, Lizzin 'l'ocJcl nrcnt, is tho wifo of Chnrlt'H R. Brent, of Lexing;ton, K~·. .:\nothPr dnu~hter, Su1otnn, mnrricf) .John C. LnnphiPr, n prominent. Jn,\\'J<'r, of RfH'inµ:ffeM, Ill. ~fnry Ellen Youn:i:_,,·1s horn Deccmhor U, l~:U, and diod Jnnnary 22, lRH:>. Alfred M. Younµ: wnH horn .January R, H~o~. nnd f1icd ~larch 7, 1H70. D It ••JO II N 'l'O Ill>. Ih!. J~ihn T-odd, Aon of OP11ernl Levi 'rodd, was born A pr·il ·2;, 17R7, near Lexington, Ky. He was married July l, UH!\, to l~lizabeth Hmith, daughter of Hev. Jolm Illair Smith, D. D. She wns born April l R, l 'iO:S, in Philadelphia. Iler mother WU~ (t daughtur or GenoruJ NnHh, a lender in the American ltevolution, from Yirgioia. Dr. Todd was .nppointecl 8urgeon General of the K1,ntncky troops in the war of 1812, n.nd was at the hn.t.tle nncl massacre of the Rh·er Rniein in Cnnndn. where he wns captured. In 1827 Ill' wns appointed by Pr<'Hident John Quincy Adams Register of the United States l.1nnd Offico at Sp1'ingfteld, ·Ill. Dr. Todd and wire had six rhildren. He died Jnnum·y D, 18Gu, ED\\' AJU\8 .AND TODD ~·A~fff,IES. 29 and eho diec.l Mnrch 11. 18Wi. Dr. Todd and wife cele brated their golden wedding J1~1y 1, lHU!l. One of their da\ighters, ElizabP.th 'rodd, is. the widow of the Uev. John II. Brown~ and rPHideH in this city. She was born in Jo.nu. ary, 1H2a. Another daughter of Dr. John 'rodd, Frances . S., was the first wife of Thomns II. Shelby, a g·rnndsoo of Govemor leo.nc Shelby, of Kentt1cky, and John Todd Shelby, of Lexinµ:ton, Ky .• is her Ron. She was born De. ccmber 1 U, Hm:!, and died February 1, 18:il. It O G I~ It N 0 It 'l' 11 T 0 D D • Roget· North Todd. tmith child of Uenernl Levi Todd, married Miss Ferg·nson. They had eight children. Their son, Robert I,. 'l'odd, married. first,· Snllie Hall, a daughter of Rev. Nathan K. Hall, an eminent Presbyteriaq divine. The mother of Sallie Hall was a daughter of Colonel Wil liam Pope, one of tho first settlers at the J'alls of the Ohio, and o.n aunt of General John Pope. After the death of this wife, Mr. Todd mnrrif~d, eecomlly, ~lnrtha Edwards, daughter of Dr. D9njnmin Edwards, of St. Louie, w'l1mm wife was a daughter of Willis Green of Lincoln County, Kentucky. ,J 0 II N T 0 D D ST U A It T. Hannab, tho oldest daughter of General Levi Todd, was born in the fort at Harrodsburg, in the yenr 1780. Con temporary description represents her to have been of un usual beauty of face o.nd pertmn in her yout.b, and, in mn.turcr years, as a woman of uncommon force of char acte1•. In the early bloom of womanhood, she UP.came the wife of Rev. Robert Stuart, a native of Virginia.. She died in 18:32. They had seven childrl'n. John Todd Stuart, eon 30 HISTORIC SKETCHES OF TllR of Hannah Todd Stuart, wo.a born nen.r Lexington, Ky., November 1.0, l.R07. He wn1:1 mnrrietl October ~a, 18:l7, to Mo.ry Virginia, dil.nghte1• of General l•,J'ancie Nnsh. ile \~llB a gram.1-nophow of the Gcnoral l•'ranciH Nm1h who waR klllcd in the ba.ttlo of Germantown durin.µ; the. Uovolutiotinry War. They bad six childrma-J~etty, John 'r., I•'rauk, ltobcrt L;, Virginia, nntl Hannah. His widow resitleH in tliis city. John 'rodcl Stuart grn.duu.tcd at Ccntr13 Col1cg-o, Jlamrille. Ky., in 182U, stm~ied l~w with .Ju 1 H!l..J.. lie hncl RO grown in tho confltlcm!e nnd nttnclfment. of the people that there wns ·n p1·essi11g· dem~ncl fol' his s~rvices, although he hntl only nttnincd the ngo of 25 ycnrs. .As a lawyer, it is Hulficicnt. of .John T. Stuurt that he helcl bis own with such men as DnviK, Lincoln, OonglnH, J,oA"an, llnrlin, Bnkel', b 1ul other men of like cnlihet·. ln· ~H:lH he WU~ elected a mmnher ")f .Conp;reHH, nnd UJ?;Rif.l ill 1 H-1-0, from the Kprinµ:fleld diHtl·i~~. In 1 H-la ho formed 1J. partnership with Bcmjumin S. EtlwnrdH, under the firm name of Stuart "\:.:.. Edwn..rd~, ln.wyel's, nnd t.hey coutinuml toµ:cth~l' until tho death of Mr. Stun.rt. h 1.H..J.8 he wns elected to tho State ~enate. lie WD.H out of politir.u nftcr thut until l.802, when he wna elected to Congress from this district. EDWARl>S AND TODD FAMll.1rns. 31 1q• 11It.A11\l .l\i' DOW l~L J,. The grandfather of my p:reat, great, great p:rand~nother, Eliza.beth McDowell Porter, wue born in the yea~ 1672, in Arjlylcshiro, nnd emigrated t.o America in 17~!>, arriving on the µ:oml ship "Ocorge and Ann" on the 4t.b day ·of Septem her, and Rcttfod in Pennsylvania. The following ~ketch iH from the life of l~phraim .McDowell. Of all the fierce and warlike Empts that ranged tbP.mselves bc>side the CampbellH, undor the leaderHhip of the cbiefs of that 11111110, in the Ht1•u;.rµ:les so replete with deeds of crime · nncl herohnn, of oppreHsion nml Htubhorn re~;ist.ance, which had their fruit in the overthhrow of the right line of the Stuarttl, thnre was none more respectable, nor one which more perfectly illuHtrn'tccl the beHt qnali.ties of t.la~ir race than the sons of Dowall. Sprun~ from Dougall, the son of· RonuM, the son of the great and famou~ Somerled, they had, from the misty nµ:es, mnl'ched and fouµ:ht under the Cloudherry bmch, RH the bnclµ:e of their clan, and b1_1d marshn1ml muler the ho.nner of the Ancient LordH of Lorne, the c~hiefH of their racu. The form of llcDoweJI was adopted by t.hose of the 1\fcDougal clo.n who ~1.elcl lamlH in Galloway, to which they, the BJuck UuclR, l1ad given its name. The tntt.-r brnncli became ullicd by blood and intermarriages with t Im ·Campbells. PreHhytrrinns of the strictest sect, uncl dueply imlmod with that )ova of civil and re1igious frnodom which has ever chnrn(!teri?.ed the followers of John Knox, thoy found their nnt.ural leadors in the House of Arg,vle. In what degree related to the chiefs of the name was the McDowell who left b(~hind him the hills of his native Argyleshire, to settle with others of his nnme and kindred !\2 lllRTOIUC HICETCllER Oft' THE amr reliA'ion in the ~orth of IJ'e1n.nd, durin~ t.he Prot.cetoro.te of Cromwell, cn.n not he nccurato1y stuted; he wnH, so fnr ns ran be g1en.nell from vngUt~ trnditionA, one of the n1'>Rt reputnb1e of tho co]onists who t:wre founded the race known as the "f4cotch-Irhd1/' the chnrncteriHtics of which have Rh.co been so Rp1endi EDWARDS Atrn ·roDD FAMILIES. The name was and is one of note in Scotland, wbAre those who bore it had interma1 riod with the ·moYt prominent families of the kingdom, brnmling races or soldiers, states men~ orators n.nd divines. Remarkable in many ways, other than tho grant age of moro thnn a cP.ntury to whfoh ho lived, the Rpan of gphraim SlcDownll'H life covt.~rc pnndont an \ 34 lllHTOIUC HK1':TCllER 01" THE inµ: '1ovot.ion to tho cn.ueo of civil and rotigiouK liberty he ho. u on•~ u 'l' 1 11 0n1·.1·~ n. Rohm·t Port•~•· mni:.rmtml 1o Am~rirn1. from h1~huul in the y1mr 17~•~. m~. nimn from wiwt. iH known ll!i 1ho IHIO of HP1·t, whi1·h is •li~t nut ithout nine 111il1!H from tho llH'!l or l'IHWµ:,V uncl ch•cil'iiOll. lfo lnnd1•1l nt Lonclom.lorr.Y, N'1•w l!umpshiru, n.ntl soon nftp1·wn,rd:-; pnrchnR1.•d nnd :mttfod O•'. u fam1 in whnt is now Wurc'PHfm· townf'hip·, Montµ:onlcry count.'·· l'mmsyh·nnin, uhont four miles Ront.hwm·d. Thu moHt HUC<'t'HHfnl n.1111 prominont of hi~ eonH . . WI\~ my A'l'etlt·, A'l'en.t, µ:t•(m,t g-rn.rulfnt1wr. n.. unrn1 An!ll'mV Porter, born on hhc fu.t.1wr'H fnrm on thn :!-I th of St.•ptmubPr, 1 ;.1 a. •;KS E IC A 1, ,\'SH It I·~ W I" O It 'I' I·~ It, Oennnl Amlrcw Portur wn:-c t.wic•1' llJnt'l'ifld; tirtct.to Eliza. h.. th :\fcllowel1, 011 tlw loth of Murch, 17fi7, n clnug-hter of fiem•rnl :\lcUowu11: of the Hnvolnt iou, nml 1-1Prondl,r to Jo:lizn.. lmth, dnnid1ter of Willinm I 'au·lwr nnd Elhmbet.h 1'odd, on tlm :!Of.It of Mn.v. 1777. 'rim hrot.lmr of hiH Hreond wife waH tho µ:nlhrnt. :\fnjor Park1•r, of thfl ltfl\·nlut.ion. Eli:mht•th l'orh~r, th1• olclo~t. cJnnµ:t.l!r by his fh·Ht. wifP, mut'l'i~•1 Hohert ParkPI', 1'4on of .fn111PH Pn1·k1••· nml :\fury 'rOflcl. u.ncl first C01J!o(ill or OOJlf'f'UI. Pcwt••r'H l'll'C'otH] wifo. Hhr \\'IJ,H 1:111• µ:ram]. mot lwr ~)f Uw wif" of Prc•Hiclf'nt. Lh.c~olu nncJ of m.v µ:rum]. mot lwr, l•:liznheth 'l'oclcl l~dwnr1iR. 'rhiN ltolmrt Pnrkcr wns ul1m n. mnjor in tlm llc!volntion. '1'hiH m1trrinµ:e took pince in. 17HO, n.ncl tlw nmvl.v wrnldetl pnir mnclo Uwir hridn.I tri1, from Pnnm.;y)vnnin. to Lcxinµ:ton, Kilntucky, on horRehuck. The.v hnd four HOlll'i mu] ·two dn.nµ:hter:-i. Eliza Pnrker mnrriml Hohc~rt S. 'rocltl, nnd WUR t hr, mothP.r of Mary Todd Lnacoln, n.rul ·m.v g-rnnclmotlwr, Elbmtnt.h Tocl \ 36 HIRTORIC RKETCHE~ OF THiil I~ LIZA D l~TH PA JtJO~U. .POUT Elt. Somo •mrvice wnH rendered by my grent, great, g1·ent gr~ndmotl~er, Eliznbr.th Pnrkcr ,.Porte1·, townrds the eHtao Jif!lhmcnt or American hult•pendcnco during the war of tho Revolution. ThiH Indy wnR t.ho wife of fJenernl Anfll'PW Porter and the eh~trr of Liea:teunnt·, nfterwordR cnptnin nml then mnjor, l,nrker. 1'hey wern nmrriml 011 tho :.!Oth of l\fny, 177(. Slio was evidently a. \vonum of unmmnl p1•mlc11c~ in the conduct of hm• hommhold nfruil'H. J>uring: luar hnHhmutK 1011:.r nhf-!CTJl'f'H Rlw mnnng·f'Cl hiH ht1Hirw~H, enp1•1·intl'lttled tho fnrm um] im1trndccl her chitth-Pn wit.h lmnutiful tle,·otion anti fidelity. Her hm1hnnd wna 1wnrtl t.o iimy thnt, during t11e war, ho ncvm· WOl'f' n...g·1u·mtmt whida <.lid not diHpln.y tho evic1cncu of her Hkill in needlework. Gmwrul Knox snid to him: "Porter, how doeH it. hnppcn t.hitt yon look so genh•e1 wlwn tlm reHt of u..i nl'P. in t'ltj!'R, nnd ~·0tl nre i·~ ccivinµ: no liut.tcr pny thnn we'!'' 11 You must URk my wifo," ho replied: "I thong:ht thiH ('oat hnd ANm itM hm-1t dnys, but t·t~t~nt.I.'· Hhn took it hnmc•, took it npnrt, t.uruml th•~ lTIHilJo or the cloth out.w1mJ, Hllfl 110\V ,\"CHI Sl'fl it iH nht'IOHt QH ~nod llH tlC\\'.,, 'l'hiH lnil_v land .n rfml n wnR nt Vnlley ForA'e 14he WHH nccuHtome •~ll\\'AROB ANH Tnnn FAMILll-:R. complimrnt to tho nnimnl whirh, Rl10 lnformrfl him, wne of their own rniRing. On len.rning her nu.mo ho wn.1kPd Hlmvly hrAiclP. her hnrHr to tho co.mp, at~kinJ! her on t.lm wny o. vnrief.y oi qurttt.imtM l'CRpecting thr. inhnhitnnts, nnd eRpcci tt11.v thrir foC'linµ.·H t.ownrdH tlur nrm,\· u.ml tho wnr. 011 rc•1whinJ.?,' thn .l•nrnmpmrnt hn Haid: "I thinl< I tiCC your lm!-4hmul,'' nml, howinµ: polit~I~·. tnr1wrl ""'"'·'·· Tha fnr.o of tlw lnt.tl'l' wor~ nn t111t1H11nlly plc.'11Hn11t. tm1ilc•. ''"l""n, my ~ornl Indy," tmif) Jw, '",\'Oii 1•n11w into c•n mp hii.d11y ~Hcortfltl." ''H,\• whom.'' 1;lm nsk1•cl. "H,v t Im Com11111111lc 1 r-in-Chicf," wuH tho l'eply. 11 ~ot h,\' Wa~hi:1µ;f 011 !'' It. wnR nvc'n Ho. Hlw tnl'nccl to tu1.w unot ""'' look, hut hl'l' t>H<~orl iultl diH· np1wnrPcl. 'l'hii; wn~ 1111 incidc•nt. of whic:h ll()ither lmr 1.:hitdrcu nnr hr.r ~rnnclchil1l1'u11 Hpnrecl h~I' the rf>pctit ion, l'.JUI, nR n. fnithfnl <·11ro11idcr. I nm honncl to Hf.n.tc thnt Hilt' ditl not nvnic] nny JU'OJl<~I' Ql'(!llHiOll fol' l'f•JU?nling it. Tlu•1·1• iH nn incidt•nt whic~h <~omwct.:. th<' nu.me of Gemwnl l'or1f'r with thnt of Lnfnyf'tlo, who1-1t! rmnnrknhle memory or P''l'~OllH hn~ oft c•n lmuu 8pnkf~11 of. When th\! Frf-!t1Ch lwro vi"4it1•d t hiH •·onutry in H.r:! I, .Mr. ,J nrnc·~ ~I. Porter, of Enstou, PPnns,rlvnnin, wr.nt, UH did a vnttL m1111hm· of of lll'r~. to µTf'l't him in ~ .. w YOl'k. Wh~u ~Ir. Portcr't:1 pnrt of the~ col1111111 l'Ntchrnl t lw O(mernl Um lnttcr Hnicl, on lwnr- ' inµ: tho ··mrnm, "Porter, Porter, I remrmbcr thnt name. Au,v rclnUon of Cnpt.ain Portm·, whom I met. at tlm Rrnndy wim~'!" 0 YeH, i:tir; a son.'' "Well, sir, hle1-1H you for your fn.tlu~r'R Hake. Ho \\'f\8 n. hra\'e mnn. Ho hnd with him Uwru n y~nm~ man. a 1·clnth·n, I think, whoRO nsunc I hM·e forµ:ottPn: 'l'hP.y foui.d1t \'C!l'Y ucnrly tog(~tlw1'." Mr. J. !ti. l 1ol'h•r nsked, "\YnH it Pnrlwr'!'' ncn. t..nfnyette: "Yes, I • 1-:D\\'AllUH A:-11' TOl>ll FAMIJ,fF.~. thut, WllH tho nnmr>." Mr. l'ortm·:· "lfo \\' l\H m,v mother's hrotlwr." Or•11 l.11f11yPttl': "Ah, intlt'<'11r·hc1l tho.t. dt.y, llllll flR Adj11tnnt (ielll'l'lll o r thr> Co111111011wl'Hlf h of l'e1111H.vlvn11i11, took port in hhi rccrption. On hc1ll'i ng: of tlw incident. jm1t. relnt.t;il ,· lw invitNl tlw G1.'llcml t o ~iHit Ln111·u11h~r u111l to lJer.ottH! hiH µ'111.'Ht. while thurn. The i11vi tntio11 Wits ur.ccptml, 11111) 01'1fl'ml Lnfo.1·c1 h• tht1H l'P11cwcd wit-11 tho child1·1m 0.11 n<'q111tintniw1• IH!g·1111 with the father. '1'111' t.hr.n young-eHt. Hon of ~Ir . ficnrµ- 1.' fl . l'ortt~r 11·nt1 nn i11 fnnt nml witho11t a nnnw. llr \\' llH f.lwr1mpon 11n11wd L11f11yctt1 ~ , und durin:..r tlro 1'.c1·cmony of liuptiHm Urn IJl!'Cd t.1tnt e1m1 0.11 n11d wnrl'iot· Ju~hl I he infnnt in hh1 n1·111s. .. I ~ , EDWARDS Family TODD FA MI LY EPs tateR' L awrence '-- _ · 1 chmond occGS REFERENCE ONLy (_,1~(,Uµ_,~ t·~l·~l_' uL'" (/ c--rl ;:;_ .vJ )h. ;7vb>-- ~~-,~Zl------~-----l~V>-L/_. _c./~-7-1_.~, i1-~L -'------~~ 2:38 25!) 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Ox Ha11- 11 ah .;. ~ 1: 1 .fan,. .-,''''!'· 17::7. 1t1i1. r .. 1111 .;ft llll St.1•µh«u .-,_ . W :!. _~£a ry :> •. w:i ED\\":\ RD~ FA >UL Y. l'hrb•' .I l.;q..1. lilt>. !Ill El izm':,·tl1 "· •· 111adl' .1 \\'ill 111 11.11. 111cnt111.1- Da,·itl >L t::cl wards. 11[ t'>a y,·ille. :\. Y .. has pr ·par•·tl thP (ollo winno : 11 g thirt1 .. 'll \·l 1ildr·· 11 11.'· 11au1 •·. Lu l 7fio hl· 111 a dt• a nn thi·r e ha11:.d 11µ 1 ;..:t•th•alo~y \)t' thC aU Ci ~U t l iLl1tify Wh 0!"4t' flU..Jll P h~ iJ (•al'S. e ~1)111e 111' rh.-· t ... qll•·,.t-. H11th ,,(th•''" will,; are int h" 111>ssessiu 11 o f thl:! D LL!All EowA 1ms I settlPd in East-Haru pton lie run• the ,·ear Hi51. heirs of Da,·id .\. EJwanls ...f \\" :d11 :s~ 1Hl. p rttltahly iu Iii.Ill. p1u-,..i11g thro111:{h L\·nn and Taunton. )fa~:>. ·Tl.Jere are :.! 6 .J.\)f J::S -I 11. I 7111. .; . 17:::1. 111d ..\ bkail .Jnhn:;un 17 :.!:I : d1. lULi .fu:;eph .;. :;:0 11tl ri·aso11s f\1 r h 1•li1! ,·i11~ Ll.iat he hi,; wif,. ..\nn and 11111· child. 1:amP 107 ..\.bi;wil .-1 l1ap. L7::1. till' l'l11•I .... ."1 . . 1n 1111 >Iai<1,..Lo11••. ~0 1111 t.'· <> f K1•11 t . E11g1an Lta. u l. I l\" rLL L))( L 260 261 whPn• h•• hat! b•J•'H li nn:.: with hi~ 11111:1" ·• )fajor B~n. ·• marrierl ElizfL :!:l .Josm~.\ 7 h. P•ll7. d. t:-;it:. mrl. Luciuda ( 'lal'k 1832, r. X. Y. city; l1t•tu Lbcomb. •A ~a.n·W··. !tou::ht prnp<:>1·ty at Speonk aud settleJ there "11. ti:! Charlt>s A .. 1;4 .Eniih· .r. ti.,._, t,;;; Emilit~ .J. anti ht>ca1ue nott>d us a la r:..t .. lnud ow11•!r. The~· Liaci ch. Olive i, Silas 7. :!4: Lydia 7. h. 18:!0. 1mt. \Villiuni lL Gunct:-.·. l'. in Cnl. Elizalwth 7. Xarll'\" 7. ',\"iiliam 7. ~luithY 7. Charra 7. Of thesA Olh·er 7 :?ii CHAUI.Es 7 h. lXl:!. ti. lt'l ...,2. mu. Alice )foy, r. X. \". city; ch. lill Har mti. Elizitlleth T11i·11.~r. a11d had dl. Lo1ii:-:a I'\, .Jesse 8. Oliver 8, Augus rit•t. Iii Chnrl1~s H. d. y. ra :-- . •Ja1r .. "· Pht>l11•..., and Fa11nit> :-1. ::iilas '7 mcl. liary Rogers und had 21i Sarah 7 b. I:-10:1. d. 1~7'3, me.I. Watson Edwn.nls. tie~ 40 Watson, di d1. Smith l'i. )fn:;;e~ ·"· Paruwlia l". )lary l'i, Maltby 8, Charri~ 8. Gilbert \"ision X 11. 5. H. ~ noel llild1·eti L. I". 27 :\fatsc.•y 7 11. l~li. ti. l~i>:!. nu.l. Alfred Ranger, r. Xorthwest. L. I. Elizabeth i mll. Uol... •rt (i-orclon. r. )forit;ht.'S. :!~ LEWTs R. 7 h. l:-il·l. cl. ll'i~hl. md. Polly ('rnok. JR:J7. l'. Xoyac; eh ti8 ~nnc,· i rutl ..John Lara h\', r. )[orit'ltt•s. :\IarY E .. ti:) Adi-Ha C .. 70 Emily C., il 0:-ocur B .. 7:? Charles ~I.. 7j 1''rank \\"JI,LL\)l i 111d. Ha1·Li1•l c'turk. r. GrP1•uport, aml Liml ell. Williu.w ~. L .. 74 Lu\\'is lL • .Jan11•s :o< and Cbarl••s :--. :?!l Ph..-111• .\. 7 IJ. ts~~ . .i. i:-;s:;, 111d .•\llwrt Williamson, r. Goot.l Ground . )L\LTn\' 7 1•. 1.... 1111. d. i~;.oo;, 1ml. Haunuh Hisliop, r. lloriches. aud had :.10 \\'001rnn" 7 IJ. 1:-Wi, rml. 1st Phel>e Brown and :!u Catherine Gar eh. \rillia1U F. "· Ha1111all lf...... :. )faltb.'· 11-. ~. Elizabeth 8 and llary ~. diner: 1:h. 110111•: was lo-;t at s1•a: r. :-511g.Hi1rbor. Chana 7 111tl. .T\11rnthau Hallm·k. :n L.\.Wl!E:ScE 7 b. lHl L 1i. is1:.;. 11Ld. bt Susan J. Rogers ant.1 hnt.1 100 He111·y. 101 .Jo:-01•ph C.. 102 _.\.uua It. aml lU:J ~usun J. lld. :!d wife in l>l \' lSW~ Xo. :?. Lvnu. )fa,..:s, and wPnt to Cul. autl tlieti tl.u~r,.. :;n .J11H~ .111. 17:!7. d. l7~1i. md. '.\[••lwtnble Russell. i·. ::ioutluuupton; "a2 HE:s-n\" i 11:tl. )fary .r. ch'.. ~m. r. :.;a;.;-Harbor; dieli at sea: ell. 75 1'11. I .fnhu. :! !'\ila:-. :: .\1rn: l Pht>l11'. :i ~tia. 1j Jemima. He loft a lfam•tta. 71i Ucll••. ii < 'arrie. iH HerH',\·. will dat•'d '.\lareh 1:;. 17!1-!. i.·••ctH"cl••tl 111 Rh·erhea M H arriet 8 b. 1839, rnd. 1st Richard R iker. 2 ., .~. 264 265 101 Jos 11r,1. ]1. !l lo. l"':{r•. m d. Jl,.lia Co11l;!i11. IHl:". r. Ama:wnsctt: e ll. 52 T emperance , b. 1818, md. Shllrmnn Barnes. 11:141, r. Frnnkl~·n. H c rlocrt, E,·crc tt .J .. Hos r· li .. l>a\'id au.I :-;a111111 •l. 5::1 .llary l:i rurt. Geo rge Jnc ksou. J .J. !l. r. Uold Wntc r, )lith. io:; ,]ES.<;I: n. !I h. 1:;:1:;. lllll. ) lana 1:. lla\'l'Jl~. I . :\111agau-l'lt: ch. Ella 54. L11 c 1"' ti1~ 8 md. DuYi 1-(j HarncL · lo. lti;h . mu. Dame•\· ;:,111i lll. - 1 rua :;1uith. r . :-.a ,·,·ih··: l' •. •;.1· r• : ... ; .... ; J:,· ,1 •·u.' L L .... '.: ~ ·l liani .~ . i-I Hauuab E . 8 to. l"·ll.J. 111d. C. :\r. l7nlliu;.:. ] I' ) l artha . 11 .it•111 • : . • . ! ~ )l;.·t:. ··'-' •. :·-· 17: J;.i r ~. 1: ·••· 111· ~ Jl. all I•.' !< LT EOJWJ: B. b h H. 111d ..\l:i nha T uth i:I. r .. ·pri11;.:::..1'!1. ] :<'1tha. l1. I /~. Jir~; wil•·. It H eru c uds Lite " I !-:t'U<'rauou. ;.; ~TL PHJ: :\ i, ),. 1:1 . 1 •• l"'L!. llJ•· .\ 111 :--- 1 11~ · ,,. J. !: .,. "1' L 1.. 1·1.. J,; tl a1 u 1·~ :""I. d. ~- .. 11, :"'\.t :·;1J.. ~; .~ .q:_. ,. . J111i,., ! '°'\11 :.:u l':1 .. !1 1. 100 ALnF.llT 13. 9 cl. hi;). 111 5], Mary 6 b. 1772, mcl. Thomas Smith. r. Snn·i111>. !in Curolinu Rb. lk:J3 .. md. Thomuf' E. Wt•t•ks, r. lJP111!'=-1•·a11. G-JEnEMIAll 7 u. 178i. d. 1815, mcl. Ahigui( Smith. r. t:i:ty\"illC; ch. 30 51 L;..-din Ann ti 1.1. 1835, md. Nelso11 H. Dur~·eu. r. H1·11q•Ht1•;ul. Alfred who md. Phcho Hawkins and had no chililr••u. 52 1'HO:MAS 8 b. 1837. rl. 11'<~0, md. 1st Lu\'ina 8mitL, :!t! Lu11ra =-'tr1111g. 7 REunEN 'i b. 1788, d. 18G3. md. J>lwli1• Bmn•ll. r. ~11~·vi111•; ch. 31 Eliz- hy who111 lw hu 1:1 ~11pliin i I• HH;j. (I. Jl'i:lii. u11i. J>:l\·icl :;111Jtli. r. Soutl11u11pt.ou. 94 DANIEL N. 9 11. UUi3, md. Currie H .. Fi<•Jd. r. Bridg<>-Bampton; ch. J.J 1'AYW A.. i b. HHG. d. JIS~l4. md . .Margaret CoC1per, r. Wainscott; ch. GJ 8ophia. 52 l\lur;.rnl'et .. Daniel R .. Willis S .. Eth<'l l\I.. Isabel l\I., ElaiC' L. 96 LEWIS M. 9 b. 1866, md. Carrie E. Johnson, r. Rap·llle; ch. Helen, Iii .June i. li. 11-10!1. . I r I· 270 271 I .. ; Sllus E •• 122 Nathan W., 123 Augustus, 124 Emma J .. 12·> Ella L., l21i Florence. 127 Bertha, 12i}. William. ! 120 GEORGE 9 b. 1858, rnd. Ha·nnn.h W. Foster, r. Southampton: ch. 3!1 HENRY 8 b. 1802, d. l°BG9, md. 1st Elizabetl.J Edwards 1sec 31 Eliza Flora aod Susan. beth, division No. 2). 2d CathP.rint~ Osboru, r. Brid!?.-.-Harupton; ch. 121'! 121 SILAS E. !l h. 18fi0, md. l\Iaggi~ L. Kuy, r. Routbampton: ch. Mabel Esther, 129 Jesse, 130 Sarah. 131 Charles IL d '"·· la:! William ci. "·· 133 A. and Ardie 1~. by NATHAN !1 11. Phebe, all 1st wife. • · 122 lliti2, md. l\linnie Wilt&, r. Southampton; ch. Florence . ! · 34 GEORGE 8 b. 1808, d. 1850. md. Tubitha Howell. r-. Hag-Harbor; ch. 123 :\.t:Gus:rrs !t u. 18li3, unmJ. r. 8outhampton. 134 A. Smith, 13a Chu.rles. rnr. Mur,\· E .• 1:17 Sarah .J •• J:ts GMrgt~. 13!1 124 Emma J. fl b. 18G5, md. Robert A. Babcock, r. New Haven, Ct. Tht>odore d. y. an 27 2 273 1 n Hanna h 9 md ..J \'rem iah J ones. r, Pa tclw;:uc. T HE DHW~ FA?IIILY. r. 175 E L REil'J' !l b. 18·1!1, d. 18i ·J, 111 cl. Al.iloy Tut hill. E:u;i-H:L1t1)lio n: Cont ribu ted by Tcun i!< D. H u n t.ting. of Y ., anJ i nafh ·er t ell. Ch arles, J onnie . · Drookl ~·n . l\. ently printed ou r of 11 ,- nlpha lieLical o rder. 17G CHAJILES N . !) 1845, mll. lia r t h:. H cn\"cr tu H ull, r. ::ia;:-Harlior: ch. Otis A .. T HOMA!< 1. "'ho cam e tberf' from L~·nn, :\[as-.. in tlh' y ear HiGO . TI P H a ro ld G .. Carrie W ., Flo rence ~I.. Erm ina H .. )fan· : . died in Hi ':l and h i::; "·ift- i11 1101;. T IH'Y Lind 182 FRA!\K s. H rud. )fary L . Oakl<:y. r. E11st-Huw1:w11: ch. XanC\' 111d. l 2 I James. ll. Hi·1li : N o rroa n l:larnes. · II T homas. "·ho cl ierl in 1154. 185 J ARYIS !l md. 1st ,Jen ny Bak{·r: 1·h. G rnc·;•; sud. 2d Lucinda Ya rny, III .T ohu. wbo died y oua;.: . ch. Mary G. • JAME.-; 1T ho11111s J l b. Hicl.G, d . D<>c . J::. 1721. md. l s t JJnnnah daughtPr 183 J OH1" D. !l unmnd, r. ::iaydlle. o r Ile'" T llomus Jame ,.,. l Gll. sh<· di1•d S••JH. 211.1101; : 2rl E lizaliNh 184 G e rtrude !l u a u uJ. t'. Say,·illc. Day ton. ::iept. 2ii , 17U7, w h o dietJ :ira_,. 11. 17% . A ll 0f h is child rf'n we re b,· h is tt rst wife. ~ Dl\·1s10x Xo. 'i. 2 3 I T liomas b. JGbO . ....__ rt: 11_0 ABRAH.UI 5 I.'· _1_7:W, • •• , ii 111 ::\ atban i<>l ll. - . Yl . · , Ill . · ::;t H'r a n ws. r. as - a1upLO JJ: c . I\" )lnn · md. :II:nt hia;: H o ppin;::. Au::. 20. ](;!l!l. G Abraharu d . , .. , I ls)'!,\;· 1" He ts i-. :1 .\Ian-. JU E sL:oc r. 1 1 lla11nafi. \' E lizni.ict.h rnd . John Fithiau. A ug. 2~1 . Hi!l~' ~ l wisy G n1J. E uuc 1 fitlduu, i·. £ a ,.t- Li.a 1u p L011. \ I l:utb 1.i . J G:-, ~ . d . Ol·t. ·L l i lll;. i> D AXIEL li ha p. l l !H;. mJ. - - - r . East- llampLu!l: ch. :.\I u ry wbo md. T HO:UAS (James 2, Tl1omasl 1 1.i . l(j'='u. d. Apr il 16. l i 5 cl. . rud. Hannah F in ~ ~ Q:J:i:it '!' ~ a ud L t1l'Y wh11 1utl. ::iamuc! D a,·is. n ey, Jan. H . l i OI. 'I" _ 1 ls.v.e 13. 'i li. l b:!:!. d . l "uu, mt!. 1st liar r h·i l'<:~·u e, 2d lIPlcn P a yue : 3 I John, bnp. Ort. 21:. 1701. r. East.-HUmpLon; ch. 20 Char les\\'. . :! l H u rri••L A .. :! 2 lJa\·id d. \'..all II Hl'liecca. bap. llarch t:. l 1 0~1 . by 1st wifo. · I II .J onntba.11 , lmp. ) lay 11. JIJ2. 8 Betsy 7 md. S. H edges .llillcr. will• after deat 11 11f bt wi(,· 111a rrit•d I a 11! 2 thi- liruuch left. l::n"-t-Harnpton no<.l settled in B ristol, r.. T.. h er sis ter. w here t hen' wer P Iii«' 01.ber childr cu 1101"11 to Lhrm. 11 Hannah I mJ. S. H edge,, :\Iilh•r. r. E a st-H a111 1Jtou. Joux (J am<'s 2. Thomas 11 u. 1 C~11; . cl. :Il a~· :ll, l i t.ii. m<.l . lst D r horah \.I ?lla ry 7 w ll. Alben licd;.:c::;, r. £a~tr lla 111 ptu11. H l'df!e:o. Dc•c. JI. JIJ". wh11 di"d J"1•l1 . }". JI:!:!: :!d Eliza Da,·i;: . lU E s Ll.J e r 7 u n111d . lJec. :!ii , 112:!, who dire! :-iept. l:!, 11:.! U: :;d l t;tcl 11 ·l Da.nou. April 20 Cu..i.J:LES \\ '. 7 11 . lllii~ . 111 d . :.\kh·ill :r l >< •ll'llS. r . .l:.a st-lla 111plc•n : .-!1. 2:1. 17:1U. w l111 died ,\ug. I. llt.;2. L eroy 0 . ll, Gra1.. · ;\l. <.!. y .. :lfaud ::i. . 4 l lJ,'uorah, liap. F,·l1. :!:.1 . 11:! 1. 111 . SLC'phen C'o11 klin S1•pt . 3. ]/.JI. Il E lizali<'Lh . I.lap. F 1'b. (;. l i:!\• . ti . Ap11 l ! . l i:!I . Ill J ohn. 1Ja1" !Sc'pl. :l. 11:!1. FI LE!: F.D ULY. I\" Eliznl1f'Ll1. l1u)'. Au g . :!:i. 17:!). "" Samuel Fyler." Lllcr! so S)'ellcd. wa,; iu I a,.t-lla111pl1 >11 a,:: .- a r!Y a ,_ \' R a chel. I.in)'. :llan ·h 31. 17;.i::. l Gl l -5, and lru111 him th,. liu,• n~u,.. •it"1·n l<' 11 1.. J'l".. ~• ·111 da.1-. :\I :11i.1· of r; \ l Abraham. l.ia]'. ~l a .1· :! ::. . ;7;;1· . t his stuc·I; ha1·" r .:111111-.:cl lru111 Ea::.L- Ha1up1 .. 11 L" 1.. ,·al iti··,.. far disLant. l_I.IU~a ac . 1.iap. :\lay :!."•. l l ::r. o f w hon1 Zl.'phanial. t1n1ll1t'I' ul Tuu.u a.:-- th1• tuilvr r··1110\ ,.ti tu Tru\. ~. \'111 :llnry. lia1.. April :!::.. 17-i:!. Y. ncar l.1· or CJUILc Ull<' l.JumJr,.d .vcar::. :c::u . wl1<·r .. lc1- o1 ..... , ... 1Hlauts'noll' IX. I.:liz-.c ll. ) j\·"'· T hi· fa1uily 11:1::; ll•·Cu iuuu ~ triow- u11d a:,p11·.. d l" 11tt·11t.al l"Ult u r •: . ::\ATnAXlJ:L 1JamPS :!. T ho111as J. 1 uiol. L oii; ll<>d f!"S. ~ Ppt . l :l . 17:.! J. Thl)1na-; tht· tuihir icad ell. Tu·~n>u . ::nd Cll a1I.-- 1.;· Sa;.:-!larr"I!._ wh" ;::; 1 Jonathan. l.rnp. J uu•' l .... JI:!::. bot.L left dcbcc uda111 ::; . IlJan,.. Iinp. ).J:c ~· :!. 11 :!~1. T HJ:HOX haJ ell. uun1 i11tlii::-1.11-.1.. r: :-a:11u ··I l'. . :1l:cr." JI.. T h••!l1a,, .\ .. Ill L oi-. loa p . .July ! 1, 11:!7. Gevr :!« .!:.. a nJ lkun· C. T his lnnrih· l .. ft l:ast- lla111;ot1111 j:. 17:!1 :l!c d l•ll"at•·d i11 \'er11w1H. 0 C!i:il:LE~ had ,·h. l•ur u iu t11:- ur11 1•r : Xa111;\ L .. < 11:1111·,.. IL. li•·n,.·rt. AJWAHA)l 1-lc..llll .J. .la1c11·;:o :!. T homa- l 1 1• . 11.i~•. 1.. lH ~1 . 111. HanJJalt dau. Ozc1u, E1111Ucll, T ..\. )Yalc, ,\.ua . .l:ianic;.. · u1 ,J u:-•'I '" Fust••r. l 11 ;0. (j 1 A l1 J ah;1111. tu . A bigai l Dt k t.1 r. r Ptu . \o Tu111pki11 :-:. t\l. ~ . Y. 17: 1 . .~ 11 J ohu. IJ . ~la ,. J / \ii. 0 Ill H annuh. uu111d. 1 \' P"lly. uu111d. Ali;u a 11un11Jcr uf oLhcr s who di;·d youo;.:. Edwards Family \ l \ . r ·:'7' r:"' r-:- ,~ :: r '. ·.- .. : - p- ;re\? .c r ~:J ...... c ~...;J··: ~\. ... _... _ _ , ' ... '- _ , ... ,...., __ \ • .;; "i\.y l.r -._, .. ORANGE COUMTV ~At tJ:ORNIA G£t~EALOG fCi·\L SC ·~1lTY ,,.----- __,. \.. - ,, !".'fl ~ /!">.. -o"")\P r"'""' l'. ' ~_,_, tto ·-;,,,.1..i,,16..., \Jdu~· . ·~ ' ~ ,----:> 'c --. \ cc , ~ ( ( ' ~ ~ ....-...-~ -~ ~ ~ -z ~ '---7~ <- ,- .- A WELLES GENEALOGY Ancestors and Descendants of Francis Raymond Welles j and his wife r Anna Frances Thomas i One line of descent from Governor Thomas Welles of Connecticut Allied f amilies include Il I many in New England I and in Pennsylvania Hollenback, Page , and Thomas I' ' 'j I Com piled by 'f Gwen Fuller Reynolds J i' l t Merryall Manse Books Berkeley , Ca lifornia 1983 Chart C ,· WILLIAM EDWARDS ANN EDWARDS COLE AGNES TUCKER SPENCER Hartford, Connecticut IN ENGLAND Rev. RICHARD EDWARDS d. in England by 1639, leaving a widow, ANN 1 ---, and a son William , apparently their only child. His widow mar- ried in England James Cole, and in 1639 the three of them, Ann and James and young William, came t.~ New England, settling in Hartford. ab James Cole and his stepson seem to have got along well together; the former, a \ cooper, willed to the latter half his.cooper's tools. I WILLIAM EDWARDS AGNES. TUCKER. SPENCER. William1 Edwards, baptized in the Parish of St. Botolph, Aldgate, London, Middlesex County, 1 Nov. 1618, d. in Hartford ca. 1680. In 1645 hem. Agnes (probably Tucker), the widow of William Spencer, who had left her with three small children but also with ample resources to care for them. She was b. in England, probably in Devonshire,c and was said to have a brother James who was mayor of Exeter in 1638 and another brother Walter who was mayor· of Barnstaple in 16.39, both in Devon. She and William Spencer had· settled. first in Newtown (Cambridge), Mass., before joining the Hooker settlement in Hartford in 1639. He was a man of consequence in both the Mass. Bay and Conn. colonies; his name is listed on the Founders' Monument in Hartford, and he was a deputy to the General Court and on a committee to draw up the colony's first law code when an untimely death claimed him in 1640. a ·- · · Soon after arriving in Hartford in 1639, William1 Edwards owned a small homestead, separate from his mother's, with house and shop, on the north side of Meeting House Yard (now called State House Square), and registered ais cattle mark in 1645. Oddly enough, he seems never to have owned much property, most of the Edwards possessions being in the name of his mother and, later, his wife. He apparently worked as a cooper~ with apprentices indentured to him, and as a lawyer, various court records show ing him as an attorney for others. His name ap·pears often in the court records, when he sued or was sued for debt,~~as named security on bail bonds, and one time unsuccessfully accused Daniel Clarke, Secy •. of the Colony, of "breach of oath, unfaithfulness in trust committed to.him by 67 ~ ~~· )·~~j~..~!--.IDl--"'9111------or-..------freemen, to the dishonour of God, infringemen t of ye royall perogative of our Soueraign Lord the King, contempt of ye authority, etc ." Admitted as freeman in 1658, he took no very active part in community affairs , ap pointed only to a couple of minor off ices such as chimney viewer (s ome thing like a fire warden) and as an officer to correct "any disorder he might discover during public worship." He was on various occasions "ffyned" for "drawing wine contrary to the order of the Courte," for "smoaking in the street contra to the law," and for getting drunk a t Gov . Th omas Welles' funeral- - although the co~rt did not make him sit in the stocks for this last, which would have been the cust om . a He sounds like an unusual man, especially for one whose fame r ests lar gely on being the ancestor of a great number of clergymen. 1 Although no stones mark the graves of William Edwards, his mother, or his wife, they undoubtedly lie in the Anc i ent Burying Ground of First Church, Hart for d.a ~ 1 1 Child .of William and Agnes (Tucker, Spencer) Edwardsab s 2 + i. Richard . 1647-1718 m. 1 Elizabeth Tuttle, m. 2 +Mary Talcott 1 II RICHARD EDWARDS, E~Q . MARY TALCOTT 2 Richard Edwards, b . in Hartford, Conn. Colony , 1 May 1647, d. in a Hartford 20 Apr. 1718 and i s buried in the Ancient Burying Ground there. Hem. 1, in New Haven 19 Nov . 1667 , Elizabeth Tuttle , bap. 1645, by whom he had six or seven children . Af t er 23 year s of marriage , in Oct. 1691, ·+ he divorced her and m. 2. in Hartford, 1692 , Ma r y Talcott. Born 26 Aug. 1661 in Hartford , where she d. 19 Apr . 1723, she was the daughter of Lt . Col. John and Helena (Wakeman) Talcott. 1 One of the l eading l awyers in the Conn. Colony , Richard Edwards none- · theless did not go to Harvard, the only college in Ame r ica a t the time . So< · He inherited property from his gr andmother, Ann Edwards Col e , and f rom his of mother Agnes , so that· he had a good start in life . For a t ime he carried Pit on the cooperage business s tarted by his f a ther , and owned a farm, consider and able other l and, and a war ehouse on the river f ront. He was too busy as a Har lawyer to hold many civil or military offices ; however late in his car eer, Woo when he was past 60, in 1708, he was named Queen' s Attorney, or Crown · and Prosecutor, the first man so named in Conn.a Although divorce was very uncommon , he decided to divorce his first age at I 68 • \ \. \J \ \ \_\ I Jz I • r wife, Elizabeth, on the ground, among others, that she'was insane and un ! faithful, calling on two of his children, Timothy, 19, and Abigail, 18, to t make affidavits in support of his claims. While the first petition was denied, the following year the court saw fit to "release him from his con- juga11 tye. " Not 1 ong a f ter, h e m. 2 • Ma ry Ta 1 cott, wh o survive· d h im.· ab d" He and she. were admitted to full communion in the First Church of Hartford i the same day, 24 Feb. 1694/95 . His first wife seems not to have been a church member. I He was a rich man for his day, leaving an estate of £1125-12-11 . He sent one son to Harvard and one to newly- founded Yale, and left generous f l legacies to all µis living children.a Despite what must have been a very unhappy home life, he was an admired and respected man. J Child~en of Richard2 and Elizabeth (Tuttle) Edwards, b. Hartforda: l Mary, Timothy, Abigail, Elizabeth, Anne, Mabel, Martha. Of these Rev. t Timothy Edwards, 1669-1758, was the father of . "ten tall daughters and one son," the latter being Rev . Jonathan Edwards, the noted theologian, 1703- lcott 1758 . 2 Children of Richard and Mary (Talcott) Edwards, b. Hartforda I ~ 3 i. Jonathan 1692/93 d. the following month ii. John 1693/94- 1769 m. iii. Hannah 1695/96-1747 m. - (pl -'"?iv. Richard 1698-1765 m. ~r v. Rev. Daniel 1701- 1765 m. &,Lf ~>- r + vi. · Samuel 1702-1732 m. Jerusha Pitkin III SAMUEL EDWARDS JERUSHA PITKIN Samuel 3 Edwards, b. Hartford 1 Nov. 1702, was bap. in Second Church Society there, 1702. He d. Hartford 4 Nov. 1732, at the age of 30, cause of death not stated.a On l May 173lb he had m. in Hartford Jerusha 2 Pitkin, b. 22 June 1710, d. 31 July 1799, ae. 89, dau. of Judge William and Elizabeth (Stanley) Pitkin. She united with the First Church in. Hartford 28 Jan. 1732/33. After her husband's death, she m. 2 Rev. Ashbel Woodbridge, M.A . (Yale College 1724), pastor of the church in Glastonbury * and, in King George's War, 1746, Chaplain of the Connecticut forces.a Samuel3 Edwards, who was 16 when his f a ther died and who himself d. at age 30, did not go to college or hold public office . He owned the Covenant at First Church, Ha rtford, 4 Aug . 1728.b He managed and increased his real 69 ...... 0 EDWARDS Fam1 ly Donated by Shirley Bessinger . , estate holdin8S"so successfully that at his death his estate inventor ied £2547-13- 03. From a descendant's book comes this account:a The inventory of his estate shows he was an aristocrat . It is unfortunate no artist portrayed him, for among his per sonal effects he left "loofe coat [=loose] of Duffels," "Streight bodied coat o..C duroy," "Streight bodied coat of fustian," "Streight bodied coat of broadcloth," "Loofe coat of broadcloth. " He had waistcoats of black flowered silk, of white linen and fustian broadcloth, breeches of leather , fustian and broadcloth, black and light colored silk stock ings, Holland linen shirts, a "Na turall white wig," "Noted wigg, " and a "bes t bob wig, " beaver hats, white mus lin stocks, and white gloves. What a figure he must have been dressed in his best finery! Child of Samue13 and Jerusha (Pitkin) Edwardsa · 5 + i . Jerusha4 1732-1778 m. · John Welles a. E. Y. Smith . Descendants of William Edwards . 11-22. b. Barbour. Early Hartford . 231 . c. Parke. Ackley Genealogy. 251-2 . 1 ~\(·- ·& · fV Does "' ., c:rcU4c.1te - t~ I \J\J c) 2 ~ ;-< \; \ ' ( jrN \.' ~ ~/ ": I! 70 . 17:!7 d . 17.•'°'· ;-; .. ,. db·ioion X1 >. :!. 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