Calvin Edson (abt. 1745)

Born about 1745 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Lydia (Conant) Edson — married 1756 in Bridgewater

Descendants

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Biography

Private Calvin Edson served with 2nd Massachusetts Bay Provincial Regiment (1775), Continental Army during the American Revolution.

Calvin Edson is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A036477.

2nd MA serving with Captain Luther Bailey and Colonel John Bailey

Massachusetts Colony From John Maltby:

Anne Packard had children by Dr. Elijah Edson, order uncertain:^[1]

Calvin Edson, born say ca. 1745, the second son named in his father’s will. He chose a guardian in 1764,^[2] and he married Lydia Conant, daughter of Lot and Betty (Holmes) Conant (Jr.),^[3] on 6 Feb. 1766 in Bridgewater,^[4] and they moved to Oakham, MA. She was born on 2 Sept. 1746 in Bridgewater,^[5] and died on 25 July 1778.^[6] He was not a head of household in Massachusetts in the 1790 federal census, and no death record was found for Calvin Edson in Oakham.

They probably had at least 2 children, order uncertain:^[7]

• Lydia Edson, born say ca. 1768, married Thomas6 Conant, son of John and Abigail (Pratt) Conant, of Bridgewater, on 22 Apr. 1789 in Bridgewater, and settled in Oakham, MA.

• Lt. Calvin Edson (Jr.), born say ca. 1770, married Martha “Patty” Dunbar in 1797, and they also lived in Oakham, MA.

• (Possibly others)

Sources

1. ↑ Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 154, says they had Elijah, Calvin, Daniel, Hosea, Caleb, Silvester, Ann, Olive, Susanna, and Ruth.
2. ↑ Plymouth Co. Probate Docket #7159.
3. ↑ Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 139.
4. ↑ Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 122.
5. ↑ Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 1, p. 78.
6. ↑ Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 466, taken from a private record of burials in the South Precinct Burying Place kept by Lt. John Washburn.
7. ↑ No children were recorded to Calvin and Lydia Edson in Vital Records of Oakham, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849, Systematic History Fund, Worcester, MA, 1905, [hereinafter Oakham VRs].

• John A. Maltby Genealogies - Anne Leach # 1393 - c

• A History and Genealogy of the Contant Family in England and America, Thirteen Generations, 1520-1887; By Conant, Frederick Odell, M.A., Privately Printed, Portland:1887 p. 257