Benjamin Edwards

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William Edwards Webb, educator, legislator, and first professor of classics at The University of North Carolina, was probably born in the town of Halifax, the son of John and Rebecca Edwards Webb. His mother was the daughter of Colonel William Edwards, of Brunswick County, Va., whose brother Isaac was the private secretary of Governor William Tryon; Rebecca Edwards, the second wife of Colonel Allen Jones, was a sister of Colonel Edwards.

Benjamin Edwards, the brother of Rebecca whom he had married in 1776, was appointed guardian of their only child. Benjamin Edwards was later the father of Weldon Nathaniel Edwards, the noted North Carolina statesman.

In 1804 William E. Webb married Sarah, the daughter of Lewis Williamson of Northampton County, and sister of Priscilla, the wife of his former guardian Benjamin Edwards.

References

• https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/weldon-daniel
• Virginia, Brunswick County, Will book 5, p. 8, will of William Edwards, 1776 https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9PH-S8M2
• Notes: Estate Records, Vol 65, Edmunds, William-Edwards, Grover C, 1800-1923 < AncestryImage >
• Historical Southern Families. Volume III [database on-line]. Section: Williamson Family of Isle of Wight County, VA. Page 162. < AncestrySharing > Lewis Williamson d 1780 m Priscilla, daughter of Samuel Weldon. Children: 1. Priscilla Williamso , married Benjamin Edwards, son of Col. Nathaniel Edwards. Issue: Sarah Edwards, William Edwards, Rebecca Edwards.
• page 82 of The William and Mary Quarterly, Volume 15 By Earl Gregg Swem
• Historical Southern Families. Volume III [database on-line]. Section: Williamson Family of Isle of Wight County, VA. Page 162. < AncestrySharing > Lewis Williamson d 1780 m Priscilla, daughter of Samuel Weldon.
• https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/weldon-daniel
• https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LTXG-T3X