Rev. Jonathan Edwards

1703 - 1758  (54 years)

• Name	Jonathan Edwards
  Prefix	Rev.
  Birth	5 Oct 1703	East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut   [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	22 Mar 1758	Princeton, Mercer, New Jersey   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Siblings	1 sibling
  + 1. Rev. Jonathan Edwards ,   b. 5 Oct 1703, East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut d. 22 Mar 1758, Princeton, Mercer, New Jersey  (Age 54 years) ▻ Sarah Pierpont ,  m. 28 Jul 1727   2. Hannah Edwards ,   b. 8 Feb 1713 ▻ Seth Wetmore
  Person ID	I14862	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of JTS
  Last Modified	20 Nov 2020

  
  

  Father	Rev. Timothy Edwards,   b. 14 May 1669, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut d. 27 Jan 1758, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut (Age 88 years)
  Mother	Esther Stoddard,   b. 2 Jun 1672, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts d. 19 Jan 1770, East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut (Age 97 years)
  Marriage	6 Nov 1694	Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts   [3, 5, 6, 7]
  Family ID	F9369	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sarah Pierpont,   b. 9 Jan 1710, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut d. 2 Oct 1758, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Age 48 years)
  Marriage	28 Jul 1727  [1, 2, 8]
  Children	+ 1. Esther Edwards,   b. 13 Feb 1732, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts d. 7 Apr 1758, Princeton, Mercer, New Jersey (Age 26 years) + 2. Timothy Edwards,   b. 25 Jul 1738, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts d. 28 Oct 1813, Stockbridge, Berkshire, Massachusetts (Age 75 years)
  Family ID	F9368	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	30 Mar 2020

  
  

• Notes

  Preacher, philosopher, theologian, leader of the Great Awakening. Author and deliverer of the sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." Died of smallpox. Maternal grandfather of Aaron Burr, making JTS and Burr first cousins six times removed.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1547] Timothy and Rhoda Ogden Edwards of Stockbridge, Mass., and Their Descendants: A Genealogy by William Henry Edwards. Cincinnati: The R. Clarke Co., 1903. [S1559] Autobiography of William Seymour Tyler, With a Genealogy of the Ancestors of Prof. and Mrs. William S. Tyler, prepared by Cornelius B. Tyler. 1912. [S2044] George E. McCracken, "Who Was Aaron Burr?" The American Genealogist 40:65, April 1964. [S388] FamousKin.com. [S1589] The Wetmore Family of America and Its Collateral Branches by James Carnahan Wetmore. Albany, New York: Munsell & Rowland, 1861., date only. [S1559] Autobiography of William Seymour Tyler, With a Genealogy of the Ancestors of Prof. and Mrs. William S. Tyler, prepared by Cornelius B. Tyler. 1912., date only. [S387] Hale, House and Related Families, Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley by Donald Lines Jacobus and Edgar Francis Waterman. Hartford, Connecticut: Connecticut Historical Society, 1952. [S388] FamousKin.com., says 26 July.