William Thomas Edwards, Sr.

EDWARDS, WILLIAM, an early settler in Middletown, is thought .to have come from Wales about the year 1682. There is no mention of a wife coming with him, but a son, John, accompanied him. In 1688, William. married Jane Atkinson, a native of Yorkshire, he being then about sixty and she about thirty years of age. He died in 1717, and his widow about 1736. It is supposed there were other children than John by the first wife, while by the second there was a daughter, Sarah, who married Joseph Pratt in 1717.

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1. History of Chester County, Pennsylvania, with Genealogical and Biographical Sketches (Google eBook) John Smith Futhey, Gilbert Cope L. H. Everts, 1881 - Chester County (Pa.) - 782 pages. Page 527
2. Welsh Founders of Pennsylvania. Thomas Allen Glenn, Genealogical Publishing Com, 1911 - Reference - 356 pages. Page 161
3. History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania: From the Discovery of the Territory Included Within Its Limit to the Present Time, with a Notice of the Geology of the County, and Catalogues of Its Minerals, Plants, Quadrupeds, and Birds, Written Under the Direction and Appointment of the Delaware County Institute of Science (Google eBook) George Smith. H.B. Ashmead, 1862 - Delaware County (Pa.) - 581 pages. Page 457