Edward Spalding (1672 - 1740)

Born 18 Jun 1672 in Braintree, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Mary Mercy (Adams) Spalding — married 1696 in Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 29 Nov 1740 at age 68 in Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut

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Biography

Edward was born on 18 June 1672 in Chelmsford.^[1]

Edward (2), son of Benjamin and Olive (Farwell) Spalding, was born June 18, 1672, died November 29, 1740. He inherited the Canterbury homestead of his father, and according to Miss Larned "was the third settler within the present limits of Brooklyn" and that he bought land there in 1707. He was a member of the first committee of the Religious Society organized in 1731. He married Mary Adams, died September 20, 1754, aged seventy-eight years. His first child was born in Chelmsford, Massachusetts; the others in Canterbury, Connecticut, where he died. Children:

1. Benjamin, married (first) Abigail Wright; (second) Deborah Wheeler;
2. Elizabeth, married William Darbe;
3. Ephraim, of further mention;
4. Jonathan, married Eunice Woodward;
5. Ezekiel, married Martha Kimball;
6. Ruth, married John Bacon;
7. Abigail, married Benjamin Douglass;
8. Ebenezer, married Mary Fassett;
9. Thomas, married Abigail Brown;
10. John, served in the war of the revolution as surgeon in Colonel John Durkee's regiment, Twentieth Continental Line, 1776.

Sources

1. ↑ Birth: "Massachusetts, U.S., Town Birth Records, 1620-1850"
   Ancestry Record 4094 #230285 (accessed 19 November 2023)
   Edward Spalding born on 18 Jun 1672 in Chelmsford.

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• Spalding, Charles Warren, EDWARD SPALDING AND HIS DESCENDANTS, (Chicago: American Publishing Association, 1897), p. 29
• Stearns, Ezra L., compiler, GENEALOGICAL & FAMILY HISTORY OF....NEW HAMPSHIRE, (New York: Lewis Publishing Co., 1908), v. 1, p. 47
• G.B.S.W., "Adams/Spalding", BOSTON TRANSCRIPT, (May 11, 1931, #886)
• Bachelder, Glen L. "NEW ENGLAND ANCESTORS OF BACHELDER of Kalamazoo Co., Michigan; compiler, (Lansing, MI: 2002), p. 206
• Ancestry Family Trees http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=14012016&pid=1031
• Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs: Spalding