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| Henry Edson was born in the year 1455 and died in the year 1517 in Adderbury (location), Oxfordshire England. | |||
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| Thomas Edson was born in 1480 in Adderbury, Oxfordshire, England. He married Juliana Bustard who is the descendant of Thomas Bustard of the ancient family of Bustard of Nether Ex in the Commune of Devonshire, England. (map of England) | |||
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| Richard Edson was born around the year 1510 in Warwickshire England. He married Agnes_______ around the year 1530 and died in 1558 or1559 at Fillongley, Warwickshire England. | |||
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| Thomas Edson was born between 1530 and1540 in Warwickshire England. He married Ellen_______ around 1560 and died in 1587 or 1588 at Fillongley, Warwickshire England. | |||
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| Thomas Edson Jr. was born about 1572 in Warwickshire England. He married Elizabeth Copson on November 1, 1596. Elizabeth was born around 1570 and died about 1619 in England. Thomas died after 1649 in England. | |||
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Deacon Samuel Edson was born about 1612 in Fillongley, Warwickshire England where he was baptized on September 5, 1613. There is now a dispute as to exact identity of his wife. Documented by Naum Mitchell is his marriage to a Susannah Orcutt who was thought to be born around 1618 in England. New facts are documented in the following points by Joel Thomas Orcutt:
That as it is, Samuel Edson and his wife Susannah migrated to Salem, Essex County Massachusetts sometime before 1639 and then moved to Bridgewater, Plymouth County Massachusetts around the year 1650. Samuel Edson was highly prominent in Bridgewater where he and his son in law James Kieth, were added to the list of the fifty-four original proprietors. This list includes the historic Mayflower Pilgrim names of Miles Standish and John Alden. Mr. Edson built the first corn-mill in 1662 and was a deacon in the Puritan church between 1664 and 1692. In the year 1657 he was made a "Freeman" and was a member of the Council of War (King Philip's War) between 1666 and 1676. He was made foreman of a jury to lay out roads 1667 and 1672. He represented the town of Bridgewater in the General Court at Plymouth 1676 and was appointed, with others, to settle the boundary line between Bridgewater and Middleboro and between Bridgewater and Taunton 1680. Samuel Edson recorded his will on January 15, 1688 or 1689 and died on July 19, 1692 in West Bridgewater. His estate was probated on September 20, 1692. Susannah Edson died on February 20, 1699 at West Bridgewater. |
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| Samuel Edson Jr. was born in 1645 at Salem, Essex County Massachusetts. He married Susannah Bryam in the year 1678 at Bridgewater, Plymouth County Massachusetts. Susannah was born in Weymouth, Middlesex County Massachusetts in the year 1648 and is the daughter of Nicholas Byram and Susannah Shaw. She died on May 12, 1741 in Bridgewater. Samuel Edson died on April 10, 1717 at Bridgewater. | |||
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| Samuel Edson III was born on January 14, 1689 or 1690 in Bridgewater Massachusetts. On January 1, 1707 he married Mary Deane who was the daughter of Benjamin Deane and Sarah Wiliams and was born in Taunton, Bristol County Massachusetts on June 15 1687. Mary may be the decsendent of Monarchs from Norman line. She died on February 5, 1770. Samuel died on December 27, 1771 at Bridgewater. In a bold move, Samuel gave 14 acres of land known as "The Glebe" to the Church of England to build a church. The site is that of the current day Trinity Episcopal Church on Main Street. Samuel and Mary are buried just a block west of the church. | |||
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| Abel Edson was born on Jan 19,1718 at Bridgewater, Plymouth County Massachusettes. In the year 1739 he married Margaret Conant, the daughter of Nathaniel Conant Jr. and Elizabeth Haines of Bridgewater. The Conants are descendants of Roger Conant who founded the town of Salem Massachusetts, where there is a statue of him standing in the square. Margaret was born on June 3, 1722. They lived on the east side of south street, just south of the mile brook in Bridgewater MA. | |||
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Rufus Edson Sr. was born November 30, 1765 in Bridgewater Massachusetts. He married Mary "Molly" Cole of Mido' in 1783. Molly is most likely the daughter of Nathaniel Cole and Hezadiah Sampson. Her Great-Great-Great Grandfather was Phillip De lanoy (Delano) who came from Holland to America on the ship The Fortune. In 1784, land was deeded to Rufus from his father Abel near the Mile Brook on South Street in Bridgewater MA. The area was known as the Old Ceadar Swamp. Some close neighbors were, Simeon & Ames, John Carver, Thomas Wade, James Alger, Seth & David Lathrop, Joseph Fobes, and Issac Swift. Rufus and Mary moved to Vermont before 1790 where Rufus ownded land that he sold to Barzillai Burgess in 1793 and more to Robert Park in 1794 from a chunk in in the north of Windham Co. just off the old Stage Coach Road that ran up from what was then Middletown. He purchased land somewhere just across the county line at Chester, Windsor Co. in August of 1800 and sold the land in September of 1813. The family moved to Italy, Yates Co. NY around 1816. They lived so far south of town that they also owned land in Prattsburg, Steuben Co. NY. Rufus was an early Methodist, having joined that church in Vermont with John Graham Sr., and Robert Graham and his wife. He died at the age of 64 on June 23, 1828 after being stuck by lightning. Mary died on November 9, 1840. Both are buried in the Segar Cemetery which straddles the county line. |
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Daniel Edson Sr. was born in Windsor County Vermont on April 1, 1785. As a young man he picked a 40 acre site to clear located 2 1/2 miles north of Prattsburg, Steuben Co. NY. It was here here, later known as the Joe Deighton Place where he built a log cabin. Legend has it that in those early days, Mr. Edson drew lumber from a mill in the town of Wheeler to Canadaigua by horse or ox team and sleigh for six shillings per thousand feet, making two trips per week and camping by the roadside overnight while on the way. The distance was about 35 miles one way and the roads were only trails through the woods. He needed the money to buy wrought nails to build a better home. He married Esther Carter who was born on January 4, 1788 in Conneticut, and died January 17, 1872. Both are buried in Segar (Bardeen) Cemetery. |
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Barzelelle "Zela" Edson was born May, 23 1824 in Trumansburg, Tompkins, now Schuyler Co. New York. (New York census his birth is 1832, and later in Indiana Census 1834) He married Mary Eliza Richardson of Conesus, Livingston Co. NY and they may have lived in the near by town of Sparta. It is not known what became of Eliza Edson, (possibly burried in Laurens, New York). Zela moved to Jefferson Twp. Elkhart Co. Indiana, where he married his second wife, widow, Frances Bement, Newell, daughter of Harrison Bement and Hannah Powers. She was born in New England on April 10, 1839 and later moved to Mishawaka Indiana with her family. Frances may be a decsendent of Monarchs from the Norman line. Frances Newell's Mother in law was Adelia (Richardson) Newell. Emiline Richardson (see census), is Zela's sister. Sometime later the Edsons moved to New Paris Indiana where Zela was a liveryman. Zela died on October 16, 1897 of heart trouble. Frances died on December 16, 1905. Both are buried at the Prairie View Cemetery in Jefferson Twp., Elkhart Co. Frances had two children, Cora and William Newell by her first husband, S.E Newell who is also buried at Prarie View. |
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| Charles Z. Edson (picture) was born January 7, 1879 in Elkhart Co. IN. He married Mary Edith Everhock who was the daughter of George Everhock (picture), of German descent from Preble Co. Ohio, and Amanda Cox. Charles was a railroad worker. He was hit in the head by a railroad tie and was mentally disturbed after that. He lived out his life in the Elkhart Co. Infirmary and died June 1, 1959. Mary died on June 27, 1951. | |||
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| Hazel Celia Edson (picture) was born on Middlebury St. in Goshen on January 17, 1909. She married William Leroy Long on July 23, 1927. She talked allot and and used to say "Well Yent." We never knew what that meant. She was indeed a very positive person, almost childlike, and always seemed happy just to be livin'. She died on March 6, 1988 while living at her daughter Eleanor's residence in Seattle Washington and is buried in Oakridge Cemetery in Goshen Indiana. | |||
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| I dedicate this page to the memory of my Aunt Bernice (picture). She and Uncle Olen took care of me on many occasions as a child. They wanted children, but never were able to have any. I believe that they loved me as there own child. We used to play many games of checkers and they always had lots of candy and goodies. We would eat pancakes and watch "Lawrence Welk" at supper time. I wish I could tell her that she was a descendent of Kings. | |||
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