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John Edgerton, son of Richard and Mary (Sylvester) Edgerton.

Mary Reynolds, daughter of John and Sarah (Backus) Reynolds.

Children:

1. John, b. February 26, 1689/90; Norwich, New London Co., CT. 

John Edgerton I was born at Norwich, Connecticut on June 12, 1662, the fourth child and eldest son of Richard and Mary (Sylvester) Edgerton.   His parents had settled in Norwich just two years previously as part of the original migration from Saybrook along the southern coastline.  John’s birth was among the first in the new settlement.

John Edgerton was married at Norwich on March 20, 1688/9 to Mary Reynolds, the daughter of John and Sarah (Backus) Reynolds, who were also among the original settlers of Norwich.  Mary was born in Norwich in April 1664.

John, like his father, was a farmer and  landowner at Norwich.  He and his wife had only one child: a son, John, born in Norwich on February 26, 1689/90.   John Sr. died just two year later, in May of 1692 at the age of thirty years (VRp I:43).  His widow, Mary, was remarried on December 30, 1697 in Norwich to Samuel Lathrop, a grandson of Rev. John Lathrop who had emigrated to Scituate, in Plymouth County, Massachusetts.   The record of Mary’s second marriage at Norwich (VRp I:12) duly notes her as “Mary Edgerton, widow of John”.

Mrs. Mary (Reynolds) Edgerton Lathrop died on January 31, 1727/8 at Norwich, Connecticut – her death being noted in the family entry of her second husband, Samuel Lathrop (Norwich VRp I:12).  Burial sites for John Edgerton and Mary (Reynolds) Edgerton Lathrop have not been found.  They may have been buried in the “Post and Gager” Cemetery, where John’s father was buried, or in one of the other early Norwich Cemeteries whose gravestones are now either eroded or otherwise illegible.