The information on the Long Island Genealogy.com site says that he seems to have been a man of mind, heart and means, fully up to the average of his fellow townsmen.[1883344 William Edwards first six gen.FTW]
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c1639: From St. botolph, Addgate, England to Hartford with widowed mother and stepfather. 1648: On of the first settlers of East Hampton, NY. Cooper, Freeman. 1651, 17 Nov: East Hampton Records: "It is ordered that William Edwards, William Foithean, Richard Brooks, William Simons, Samuel Parsons shall gett Sixe loads of thach within these fourteene Dayes and if any shall neglect to Doe his share he shall be made to pay ten shillings." 1651/2, 2 Feb: East Hampton records re: wife: "It is ordered that Goody Edwards shal pay 3L or have her tonge in a cleft stick for the Comtempt of a warrant in sainge she would not come, but if they had bin Govenor or Magistrate then she would come as Desiringe the warrant that she may burne it." 1652, 4 May: East Hampton: "It is ordered that Ralph Dalton, Thomas Osborne, senior, William Edwards should Quietly enjoy their land that they now possess without any more Questioninge." 1653, 13 Jun: William Edwards brought an action for slander against Benjamin Price, alleging that Goody Price had called his wife a "lose lieinge woman." The record of the case is of interest chiefly because the statement is made incidentally that the Edwards family had been at Lynn before going to East Hampton. 1665, 21 Aug: William Edwards bought of Nathaniel Foster and Sarah, his wife, a house and land in East Hampton. This property he at once gave to his son John Edwards. 1669, 18 Dec: He gave to his daughter Sarah Edwards, a house lot between John Edwards and Samuel Parsons' land, together with other parcels; he also gave to Nathaniel Demmony, who is to marry his daughter Sarah, a house lot. 1672, 17 Jul: He brought an action for debt against Philip Alcock, at which time his occupation is given as Cooper. 1673, 24 June: He hired an Indian named Issaack as a servant for a half year. 1674/5, 22 Mar: Thomas Dyamant, Sr., in behalf of Mr. James' company of whalemen, brought an action against William Edwards and his whale companies for a debt of thirty shillings and a gallon of rum. 1674, 7 May: He gave several lots of land to William Rundle of East Hampton and his wife Hannah (William Edwards' daughter). 1676: William Edwards gave to John Squire, as his daughter Ann Edwards' marriage portion, certain tracts of land. 1677, 8 Jul: He gave to his son Thomas Edwards various tracts of land in East Hampton. 1680/1, 1 Jan: Will written in Southampton, L.I., NY. 1685, 21 Oct: Will was proved at Southold; wife Anne was made executrix. It was witnessed by John and Sarah Laughton. In the will he mentioned his sons John and Thomas Edwards, William and Ephraim Edwards, sons of his son Thomas, Josiah Edwards, son of his son John, his daughters Elizabeth Baker and Ann Squire, and his grandchildren Richard, Thomas, Isaac, Benjamin, and Elizabeth Stratton, children of his daughter Elizabeth Baker.
More About William Edwards: Ancestral File Number: 93GW-5J.654 Baptism (LDS): Nov 01, 1618, Baptized: London, co. Middlesex, England.655, 656 Date born 2: 1605, Mainstone, Kent, England.657, 658 Date born 3: 1618, Gloucester, England.659, 660 Date born 4: 1620, England.661, 662 Burial: 1685663, 664, 665, 666 Died 2: 1685, East Hampton, Long Island, NY.667, 668 Died 3: 1685, Hartford, CT.669, 670 Immigration: Bef. 1651, Lynn&Taunton, Mass>E. Hampton, NY.671, 672 Occupation: Occupation: Cooper.673, 674 Resided (2): Abt. 1639, Hartford, CT; Lynn, MA.675, 676 Resided (3) 1: 1648, East Hampton, NY.677, 678 Resided (3) 2: St. Botolph, Addgate, England.679, 680 Resided (4): 1680, Southampton, L.I., NY.681, 682 Ship: Abt. 1639, From England to Hartford, CT.683, 684 Will: Jan 01, 1680/81, Will dated: Proved 21 Oct 1685.685, 686
More About William Edwards and Anne Cole: Marriage 1: 1630, East Hampton, Suffolk, New York.687, 688, 689 Marriage 2: Dec 11, 1645690, 691 Marriage 3: 1653, Possibly Lynn, Mass.692, 693
William Edwards (b. 1605, d. 1685)
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