Joseph Edwards1

#7768, (8 August 1647 - )
Relationship6th great-granduncle of William David Lewis
Father*Alexander Edwards2,3
Mother*Sarah Baldwin3 (s 1617 - )
Birth*8 August 1647He was born on 8 August 1647 at Springfield, Massachusetts.4,3 
1656He removed with Alexander Edwards and Sarah Baldwin to Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1656.5 

Citations

  1. [S331] Cuyler Reynolds, editor, Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1911), pp. 740-742: "The branch of the Edwards family to which the Albany family belong was founded in America by Alexander Edwards, a native of Wales, who settled in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1640. He removed to Northampton about 1655 and died there September 4, 1690. His wife, whom he married April 28, 1642, in Springfield, was Mrs. Sarah Baldwin Searle, widow of John Searle. They had children: Samuel, see forward, Hannah, Joseph, Mary, Benjamin, Sarah, Nathaniel and Elizabeth. All the sons married and reared families; the descendants are very numerous in the east, west and south."
  2. [S1218] Charles H. S. Davis, "Records of Springfield, Mass.", New England Historical and Genealogical Register 18–19 (1864): 84, "borne 6 mon 8 day 1647". Additions and corrections given by Ella May Lewis Volume 87:301–304 (Jul 1933).
  3. [S331] Cuyler Reynolds, Hudson-Mohawk Memoirs, pp. 740-742: "...Alexander Edwardsand [h]is wife...Mrs. Sarah Baldwin Searle, widow of John Searle...had children: Samuel..., Hannah, Joseph, Mary, Benjamin, Sarah, Nathaniel and Elizabeth."
  4. [S1218] Charles H. S. Davis, "Records of Springfield, Mass.", 18:84, "borne 6 mon 8 day 1647."
  5. [S1207] Henry M. Burt, The First Century of the History of Springfield (Springfield, Mass.: Henry M. Burt, 1898, 1899), p. 42, citing research of Thomas B. Warren: "1643. Alexander Edwards [settled in Springfield]. Went to Northampton in 1656 and died there in 1690."