Col. Nathaniel Edwards

Biography

From page 82 of The William and Mary Quarterly, Volume 15 By Earl Gregg Swem

4 John3 Edwards (William,2 William1) lived in Surry County. In 1694, he was appointed deputy clerk of Surry County Court, during the necessary absence of William Edwards, at Jamestown, as clerk of the council. Nov. 21, 1695, Anne, wife of William Edwards, of "James City" gave a power of attorney to "Brother Mr. John Edwards."
He married .— and had issue: 31 William, 32 John, who probably settled in North Carolina, 33 Benjamin, who died unmarried, 34 Nathaniel, 35 Mary, 36 Sarah, 37 Ann.

Children include:

• 34 NATHANIEL EDWARDS (John,3 William,2 William1) settled in Brunswick County, where he was one of the first members of the county court, and where he became a major of militia. He married Jane Eaton, widow of Anthony Haynes, and his will dated April 29, 1771, was proved in Brunswick July 22, 1771. He had children:
  • 43 Nathaniel, who represented Brunswick in the House of Burgesses from 1769 to 1771, and died in the latter year,
  • 44 Sarah,
  • 45 Ann,
  • 46 ISAAC, Isaac Edwards used a book plate containing the arms of the Edwards family, which has been preserved.
  • 47 Benjamin,
  • 48 Mary, married in 1750, James Day Ridley,
  • 49 Elizabeth, married Col. Francis Willis,
  • 50 William, who in 1756 married Sarah Edmunds, daughter of Thomas Edmunds and sister of John Edmunds above.
  • 51 Rebecca married Allen (?) Jones.

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https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/edwards-isaac

Isaac Edwards, attorney, private secretary and aide-de-camp to Governor William Tryon, member of the First Provincial Congress of 1774, deputy auditor of the province under Governor Josiah Martin, and ardent convert to the cause of colonial American rights, was the eldest son of Colonel Nathaniel Edwards (d. 1771), burgess from Brunswick County, Va., and deputy secretary of the colony (1770), and Jane Eaton Haynes Edwards, daughter of William Eaton (d. 1759) and Mary Rives of Granville County, N.C., and widow of Anthony Haynes. Isaac Edwards was also the grandson of John Edwards (d. 1713) of Brunswick County and the brother of Mrs. Rebecca Edwards Jones, the beautiful "Indian Queen" and second wife of General Allen Jones.

References

• https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/edwards-isaac
• "Edwards Family." The William and Mary Quarterly 15, no. 3 (January 1907). 53-56. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1915757 (accessed July 29, 2013).
• Image Credits:
• [Isaac Edwards' signature]. From a warrant dated January 12, 1768. Image courtesy of Tryon Palace. http://www.tryonpalace.org
• "Isaac Edwards. North Carolina." A genealogical history. Columbia, S.C.: Printed by Ye Bryan printing company. 1900. 21. https://archive.org/stream/genealogicalhist00jone#page/n41/mode/2up (accessed July 29, 2013).