Thomas Edwards (abt. 1693)

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Biography

Thomas Edwards was baptized on 7 July 1695. ^[1]

Thomas Edwards married Mary Clugstone (daughter of Michael Clugstone) sometime after the death of her first husband, Joseph Perry. ^[2]

Family

John Edwards Sr (Father)

Will of John Edwards Sr of Stratford^[3]
Written: 3 December 1735
Codicil: 4 July 1737
Proved: 23 September 1744
Wife Mary
Daughter Abigail Wheeler
Children of late daughter Mary Dennie
eldest son William
sons Thomas, John, Joseph
Witnesses: John Odell, Samuel Odell, and (Rev.) Samuel Cooke.
Codicil witnessed by Obadiah and Mercy Beardsley and Samuel Cooke. The son William appealed.

Mary Edwards (step mother)

Will of Mary Edwards, widow of John of Stratford^[4]
Written: 15 February 1745/6
Proved: 4 April 1749
Mary and Sarah, daughters of Thomas Edwards, and his wife Sarah
Prudence, Rhoda, Eunice, Joseph, and William, children of Joseph Edwards
son-in-law Joseph Edwards, youngest son of husband Mr. John Edwards deceased
Witnesses: James Beardsley, Ebenezer Wakelee, Theophilus Nichols.

Research Notes

Daughter Sarah m. Samuel Hawley, 18 Dec 1753

Sources

1. ↑ Jacobus: Vol. 1,Page 192
2. ↑ Perry, Kate E. 1882. The old burying ground of Fairfield, Conn A memorial of many of the early settlers in Fairfield, and an exhaustive and faithful transcript of the inscriptions and epitaphs on the 583 tombstones found in the oldest burying ground now within the limits of Fairfield. Hartford, Conn: American Pub. Co.
3. ↑ Jacobus: Vol. 1,Page 191-192
4. ↑ Jacobus: Vol. 1,Page 192

• Jacobus, Donald Lines, compiled & edited (1930-2). History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield. For the Eunice Dennie Burr Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution (Fairfield, Connecticut) Vol. 2, Part 1, page 321
• Jacobus, Donald Lines. History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield (Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., New Haven, Conn., 1930)