Thomas Edwards, of Wethersfield

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From https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Edwards-1939

Thomas Edwards was born in England about 1623, son of John Edwards (John (the Settler) and his unknown 1st wife who presumably died in England. Thomas married "the widow Loveland" about 1649 and they had one child, Ruth. He died in Wethersfield, CT, in 1683.

Thomas Edwards, son of John Edwards (John (the Settler) and Unknown 1st wife who presumably died in England (John m. 2nd Dorothy Moulton)

Thomas Edwards reportedly only had 1 child,

• a daughter named Ruth (b 1651 d.1682-1683) m. Samuel Hale[6]

Step Children

(spouse Loveland)[1] p.692

• Thomas Loveland (b.1641-[7]
• Mary Loveland (b.1644)
• John Loveland (d.1670)

Biography

THOMAS EDWARDS was born in England about 1623 and died at Wethersfield 27 July 1683 at "about 62 years" (Barbour, Wethersfield VRs, 102). The estimate of his age at death appears to be high. On 27 August 1667, stating his age as "43 years or thereabouts," he gave a deposition about land prices and rents at Hockanum in a lawsuit between Samuel Wyllys and Mrs. Ursula Gibbons (Wyllys Pnpers, 164), and he was "about 47" on 10 November 1670 when he testified to Samuel Benjamin's oral will at ockanum (Manwaring, 1:182). He married soon after September 1649 the widow _ LOVELAND (sometimes Lovenam) (Hale, House, 691). Thomas's "wife" was living 28 June 1667 when Winthrop treated her for a "hurt on side by fall" (JWJ Med. Rec., 740). Jacobus and Waterman showed that widow Loveland had children by her unknown previous husband, surname Loveland:

Citations

• http://www.goodrichfamilyassoc.org/p1.htm#i3
• Lafayette Wallace Case M.D., The Goodrich Family in America, page 33.
• Hathitrust Digital copy Donald Lines Jacobus and Edgar Francis Waterman, Hale, House and Related Families Hale, House, and related families, Jacobus, Donald Lines, 1887-1970. p.692-693 (marriage Widdow Lovenand/Loveland presumed spouse of Thomas); p.553 (birth 1621) </ref>
• Thomas Edwards We Relate (sourced)
• World Connect (Sourced)
• Geni (unsourced)
• IGI Index
• Adams, Charles Collard. “Middletown Upper Houses, A History of the North Society of Middletown, Connecticut, From 1650 to 1800, With Genealogical and Biographical Chapters on Early Families and A Full Genealogy of the Ranney Family.” (The Grafton Press Genealogical Publishers, New York) 1908. p. 536. https://archive.org/stream/middletownupperh00adam#page/536/mode/1up
• The Goodrich Family in America. A Genealogy of the Descendants of John and William Goodrich of Wethersfield, Conn., Richard Goodrich of Guilford, Conn., and William Goodridge of Watertown, Mass. Lafayette Wallace Case M.D., Author Role: Editor Publication: Fergus Printing Company, Chicago, Illinois, 1889, Second Date, 1984