Name: edwards_thompson -- Descendants of Thomas Edwards

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  1. Mary Edwards: Birth: 26 JAN 1672 in Stonington, New London, CT. Death: AFT 07 APR 1738 in Coventry, Tolland Co., CT

  2. Daniel Edwards: Birth: 19 JUN 1673 in Stonington, New London, CT. Death: 30 DEC 1756 in Coventry, Tolland Co., CT

  3. Jane Edwards: Birth: 08 NOV 1675 in Stonington, New London, CT.

  4. Hannah Edwards: Birth: 28 JAN 1677 in Stonington, New London, CT.

  5. Sarah Edwards: Birth: 28 JAN 1680 in Stonington, New London, CT.

  6. Ann Edwards: Birth: 10 MAR 1683 in Stonington, New London, CT.

  7. (twin) Edwards: Birth: 24 MAY 1685 in Stonington, New London, CT. Death: MAY 1685 in Stonington, New London, CT

  8. (twin2) Edwards: Birth: 24 MAY 1685 in Stonington, New London, CT. Death: MAY 1685 in Stonington, New London, CT

  9. Thomas Edwards: Birth: 28 NOV 1687 in Stonington, New London, CT. Death: BEF 28 APR 1740 in Westerly, Washington Co., RI

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Notes
a. Note:   The first Caucasian in Stonington was the Chesebrough family in 1649. Thos. Edwards was probably not born in Stonington. I'm looking at Dorchester and Salem which had ties with the Stonington area because of the Winthrop fleets.
  Genealogies of CT Families, Vol. 1 states that the Edwardses had been in Stonington for 30 years and had not joined the church at the time of their daughter Mary (Marie)'s wedding in 1700. But the records of the First Congregational Church of Stonington have a Thomas Edwards' admission in 1689 along with several Chesebroughs, Miners, and Palmers and Mr. Wheeler, all original settlers' families. If the Edwardses had been in Stonington 30 years, their arrival would have been about 1670. They were married in Dorchester, MA in 1670, and their first child Mary (Marie) was born in 1671in Stonington. Travel was by foot, so Mary Birch Edwards would have had to be able to make the trip. The time of her arrival in Stonington has to be closer to her wedding date than to the birth of her first baby.
  Genealogical Guide to the Early Settlers of America has a Thomas Edwards "of Stonington" 1667. 1667 is the year Jeremiah Burch, brother of Mary Birch, "removed" to Stonington and settled in what is now North Stonington of which he is considered the co-founder.
  About May 22, 1668 the court refers to a land grant to another person as being 6 miles from Thos Edwardses on the road to New London.
  Thomas Edwards was given 100 acres of land by the town of Stonington. His oldest daughter Mary inherited it and later (1738) sold it to his son Daniel.
  In 1677 Thomas Edwards took part in a town meeting and volunteered to cut thatch for the roof of a home for the blacksmith the town was trying to entice to settle among them. History of Stonington by Wheeler, p. 140
  Thomas bought more land in Stonington in 1681 from Luke Bromley. (Land Records at Stonington, CT)
  In 1689 there was a large number of people admitted to the 1st Congregational Church of Stonington. Thomas Edwards was one of them. History of the First Congregational Church, Wheeler, p. 194

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