Pierpont Edwards

The New Netherland Ancestors of

PIERPONT EDWARDS



Continental Congress Delegate, State Constitutional Convention Delegate, State Representative




       __JONATHAN EDWARDS3 
      |
PIERPONT EDWARDS3
      |
      |     __James Pierpont1,3
      |    |
      |__Sarah Pierrepont3
	   |
	   |     __Samuel Hooker1
	   |    |
	   |__Mary Hooker1,3
		|
		|     __Thomas Willet2
		|    |
		|__Mary Willett1
		     |
		     |__Mary Brown2



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Biography of PIERPONT EDWARDS

 
EDWARDS, Pierpont, (father of Henry Waggaman Edwards), a Delegate from Connecticut; born in Northampton, Mass., April 8, 1750; was graduated from Princeton College in 1768; studied law; was admitted to the bar and began practice in New Haven, Conn., in 1771; served in the Revolutionary Army; Member of the Continental Congress in 1788; member of the State house of representatives in 1789 and 1790 and served as speaker; appointed United States district judge for the district of Connecticut in 1806; member of the ratification convention in 1788 and of the constitutional convention which framed the constitution of Connecticut in 1818; died in Bridgeport, Conn., April 5, 1826; interment in Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, Conn.
 

 


Notes and Sources


   1.  Willett, Albert James, Jr., The Willett Families of North America,
       Volume I.  Easley:  Southern Historical Press, Inc., 1985.  15.
   2.  Ibid., p. 1-15.
   3.  Smith, Elizur Yale, "The Descendants of William Edwards Colonist of
       Connecticut Colony, 1639," The New York Genealogical and Biographical
       Record, 71 (1940):  216-224, 323-333; 72 (1941):  56-61, 124-132,
       213-220, 320-331; 73 (1942):  173-189, 251-254; 90 (1959):  193-197; 91
       (1960):  6-16, 110-118, 153-166, 233-235; 92 (1961):  23-34, 80-88,
       141-152, 221-226; 93 (1962):  13-21, 106-113, 143-148, 221-225; 94
       (1963):  15-26, 75-83, 148-154.

 

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