Timothy Edwards (1738 - 1813)

Born 25 Jul 1738 in Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay

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Died 28 Oct 1813 at age 75 in Stockbridge, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

Timothy Edwards, judge, eldest son of Jonathan and Sarah (Pierpont) Edwards, was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, 25 July 1738; died in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 27 October 1813.

He was graduated at Princeton in 1757, and began business as a merchant in Elizabeth, No J. He removed to Stockbridge about 1770, where he was a leading citizen for forty-three years, and sat as judge of probate for Berkshire County.

He married Rhoda Ogden.

He had fifteen children. His son, William, inventor, born in Elizabethtown, New Jersey, 11 November 1770; died in Brooklyn, New York, 1 December 1851, introduced the system, now employed in nearly all American tanneries, by which leather is made in about one fourth of the time required by the old European processes. His first tannery was built at Northampton, Massachusetts, and the first leather made in it was sent to Boston in 1794. Having exhausted the supply of hemlock bark in the Connecticut valley, he removed, in 1817, to Hunter, Greene County, New York, and erected a model tannery on Schoharie creek. It was in the midst of the hemlock forests of the Catskill Mountains, on an estate of twelve hundred acres.^[1]

Name

Timothy Edwards

Birth

25 JUL 1738 Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts

Death

28 OCT 1813 Stockbridge, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA

Marriage

ABT. 1765

Wife: Rhoda Ogden

Child: William T. Edwards

Children of Timothy Edwards and Rhoda Ogden

1. Mark Fielding Edwards, b. 1767, Elizabethton, NJ, USA288, 288, d. 1820, Maury, TN, USA288, 288.
2. Sarah Edwards, b. July 11, 1761, Elizabethtown, Union, NJ, USA288, d. April 25, 1841, Brooklyn, Windham, CT, USA288.
3. William Edwards, b. November 11, 1770, Elizabeth, Union, NJ, USA288, d. December 29, 1851, Brooklyn, Kings, NY, USA288.
4. Mary Ogden Edwards, b. April 09, 1776, Stockbridge, Berkshire, MA, USA288, d. February 13, 1777, Stockbridge, MA, USA288.
5. Rhoda Edwards, b. May 07, 1777, Stockbridge, MA, USA288, d. November 13, 1864288.
6. Robert Ogden Edwards, b. September 13, 1772, Stockbridge, Berkshire, MA, USA288, d. May 23, 1773, Stockbridge, MA, USA288.
7. Timothy Edwards, b. July 12, 1774, Stockbridge, Berkshire, MA, USA288, d. September 22, 1851, Jersey City, Hudson, NJ, USA288.
8. Richard Edwards, b. March 05, 1766, Stockbridge, Berkshire, MA, USA288, d. 1805, Coopertown, NY, USA288.
9. Robert Burr Edwards, b. September 14, 1786, Stockbridge, MA, USA288, d. 1823, Charleston, SC, USA288.
10. Anna Edwards, b. February 02, 1784, Stockbridge, Berkshire, MA, USA288, d. 1835, Hadley, Hampshire, MA, USA288.
11. Elizabeth Edwards, b. October 20, 1780, Stockbridge, Berkshire, MA, USA288, d. July 12, 1855, Stockbridge, MA, USA288.
12. Phebe Edwards, b. November 04, 1768, Stockbridge, Berkshire, MA, USA288, d. January 21, 1848, Andover, Essex, MA, USA288.
13. Joel Hulbert Edwards, b. August 1779, Northampton, Hampshire, MA, USA288, d. April 16, 1855, Northampton, Hampshire, MA, USA288.
14. Jonathan Edwards, b. October 16, 1764288, d. date unknown.
15. James Hulbert Edwards, b. August 04, 1782, Northampton, Hampshire, MA, USA288, d. date unknown.

Notes

"Princeton Coll. - 1757; Stockbridge, MA - 1772;"

Burial

Stockbridge Cemetery, Stockbridge, Berkshire, Massachusetts

Sources

1. ↑ Timothy Edwards

• Wheeler, William Ogden. The Ogden Family in America (J.B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia, 1907) Page 130.
• Find A Grave: Memorial #171423754
• Moffat, R. Burnham. Pierrepont Genealogies from Norman Times to 1913 (L. Middleditch Co., 1913) Page 53.
• http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/w/h/i/Deborah-T-White/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-1843.html
• Edwards Genealogy: http://www.peak.org/~wershos/edwards.html