Timothy Edwards

1738 - 1813  (75 years)

• Name	Timothy Edwards
  Birth	25 Jul 1738	Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Death	28 Oct 1813	Stockbridge, Berkshire, Massachusetts   [4, 5, 6]
  Burial	Stockbridge Cemetery, Stockbridge, Berkshire, Massachusetts   [3, 5]
  Siblings	1 sibling
  + 1. Esther Edwards ,   b. 13 Feb 1732, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts d. 7 Apr 1758, Princeton, Mercer, New Jersey  (Age 26 years) ▻ Rev. Aaron Burr + 2. Timothy Edwards ,   b. 25 Jul 1738, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts d. 28 Oct 1813, Stockbridge, Berkshire, Massachusetts  (Age 75 years) ▻ Rhoda Ogden ,  m. 25 Sep 1760
  Person ID	I14860	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of JTS
  Last Modified	4 Apr 2020

  
  

  Father	Rev. Jonathan Edwards,   b. 5 Oct 1703, East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut d. 22 Mar 1758, Princeton, Mercer, New Jersey (Age 54 years)
  Mother	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, 3, 7]
  Family ID	F9368	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Rhoda Ogden,   b. 28 Sep 1742, Elizabethtown, Essex, New Jersey d. 2 Nov 1822, Litchfield, Litchfield, Connecticut (Age 80 years)
  Marriage	25 Sep 1760	Elizabethtown, Essex, New Jersey   [2, 4, 6, 8]
  Children	+ 1. Mary Ogden Edwards,   b. 11 Oct 1780, Stockbridge, Berkshire, Massachusetts d. 23 Jan 1873 (Age 92 years)
  Family ID	F9367	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	30 Mar 2020

  
  

• Notes

  In 1759 Timothy Edwards assumed the guardianship of his orphaned neice Sarah "Sally" Burr, age 5, and her brother Aaron Burr, age 3. The following year he married Rhoda Ogden and moved, with both children, to Elizabeth, New Jersey, where Burr spent the next decade. Edwards was a harsh disciplinarian, fond of corporal punishment, and the young Burr submitted to this with all the inclination toward conformity and obedience that he displayed in his later career, which is to say, he made multiple attempts to run away to sea. Eventually Edwards and the young Burr came to an understanding which included the hiring of a tutor to prepare the boy to enter the College of New Jersey (later Princeton). After an unsuccessful application in 1767, Burr was accepted in 1769, at age 13, with sophomore standing.

  
  

• 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. [S1557] The Ogden Family in America, Elizabethtown Branch, and Their English Ancestry by William Ogden Wheeler. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1907., 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. [S2044] George E. McCracken, "Who Was Aaron Burr?" The American Genealogist 40:65, April 1964. [S1557] The Ogden Family in America, Elizabethtown Branch, and Their English Ancestry by William Ogden Wheeler. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1907. [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. [S388] FamousKin.com., says 26 July. [S1547] Timothy and Rhoda Ogden Edwards of Stockbridge, Mass., and Their Descendants: A Genealogy by William Henry Edwards. Cincinnati: The R. Clarke Co., 1903., date only.