Abel
Edwards
Born about in England
[uncertain]
[uncertain]Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of
Mary (Potts) Edwards
— married
24 Jan 1764 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
John Edwards, Thomas Edwards, Nancy Edwards, Owen Edwards, Joshua Edwards, Abel Edwards and Arthur Jethan Edwards
Died
at about age 85
in Erwin, Unicoi, Tennessee, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 19 Apr 2015
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Biography
Abel Edwards is said to have married Polly Potts in Henry County, Virginia (which didn't exist until 1777, so it may have been Spotsylvania). He may be a son of the Henry County Edwards family, possibly a grandson of its founder, Thomas Edwards (c.1697-1751) who died testate in Lunenburg Co., VA. Abel appears in deed books of Henry County, Virginia in the late 1770s and 1780s.
Abel Edwards with his wife named as Mary, appeared in court in Franklin County, Virginia in 1786-1787.
"Portrait and Biographical Record of Leavenworth, Douglas and Franklin Counties, Kansas" notes that an Abel Edwards immigrated from England to Virginia before the Revolution, served in the war and later moved to Tennessee.
In 1790 Abel was living in Sullivan County, Tennessee, United States.
In 1796 Abel was living in No Township Listed, Sullivan County, TN Residence: Tennessee, Early Tax List Records, 1783-1895. Residence': Tennessee Census, 1810-91.
Civil: 3 May 1825 in Washington, Tennessee.
- 'Civil: North Carolina and Tennessee, Early Land Records, 1753-1931.
The death of Abel Edwards at the of age 85 was recorded in First Baptist Church Records of Erwin, Tennessee in 1827.
Sources
- Franklin County, Virginia, Court Records, Justice Biographies, and Famous Case Stories, 1786-1789
Court, Governmental & Criminal Records.
- Residence': Ohio, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1790-1890.
- Residence: U.S. Census Reconstructed Records, 1660-1820.
Document: Territorial Papers of the US; Volume Number: Vol 4; Page Number: 435; Family Number: 7 Document: Territorial Papers of the US; Volume Number: Vol 4; Page Number: 435; Family Number: 7.;
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- Henry County, VA Deeds 1776-84 (document file): http:///trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=document&guid=3c5f69a2-55ed-461c-a270-18be822154af&tid=70689642&pid=397
- Edwards Bible Notes (document file): http:///trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=document&guid=0e023e14-c0d2-4436-8207-7bcd57218746&tid=70689642&pid=397
- Abel Edwards (image file): http:///trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=b5e263b4-270b-432e-ad58-7df08e6e57dc&tid=70689642&pid=397
- Abel Edwards Polly Potts Borden Town NJ (document file): http:///trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=document&guid=fae05684-7ea7-41d3-a762-be5ab6c9c4f8&tid=70689642&pid=397
- Morgan Edwards History of the Baptists (document file): http:///trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=document&guid=7fe81113-f131-413e-9dc7-d8b0ed68de95&tid=70689642&pid=397
- Edwards Bible Notes (document file): http:///trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=document&guid=aac56d7d-71fc-4520-9fc1-da2a0bdd45f0&tid=70689642&pid=397
- Loudoun County, VA Tithes 1770-78 (document file): http:///trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=document&guid=c06c754a-5c68-4c13-b5e1-fdd9d8820d6e&tid=70689642&pid=397
- Mary Polly Farnsworth (document file): http:///trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=document&guid=3cb8ebb5-2b3c-48e0-a68d-66ebeff9ebf6&tid=70689642&pid=397
- Edwards Family Bible,Renfro Library, Mars Hill College (image file): http:///trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=c12f4c99-ca5c-4557-9591-253e98030c90&tid=70689642&pid=397
- Abel Edwards Father Possibility (document file): http:///trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=document&guid=73d11830-aa33-4ddf-bc61-2111d6b56acd&tid=70689642&pid=397
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Abel by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Abel:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Abel by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Abel:
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So... since Abel obviously existed, I think his profile needs to be detached from Thomas Nathaniel Edwards and Elizabeth Dowling.
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https://archive.org/stream/AbelEdwardsVol2JoshuaEdwards/Abel%20Edwards%20vol%202%20joshua%20edwards_djvu.txt
edited by Jason F.
edited by Liz (Noland) Shifflett