Anne

- Aft 1685

• Name	Anne   [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Aft 1685  [3, 4]
  Person ID	I28435	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of GFS
  Last Modified	1 May 2020

  
  

  Family	William Edwards   d. Bef 21 Oct 1685
  Children	+ 1. Thomas Edwards,   b. 28 Nov 1647, East Hampton, Suffolk, Long Island, New York d. 16 Apr 1698, East Hampton, Suffolk, Long Island, New York (Age 50 years)
  Family ID	F16967	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 May 2020

  
  

• Notes

  "Ann Edwards seems to have had an independent nature, to judge from the records, but her husband upheld her. The town records teem with the quarrels of the early settlers. She seems to have been ordered to appear at court, for on March 2, 1651: 'It is ordered that Goody Edwards shal pay 3 pounds or have her tongue in a cleft stick for the contempt of a warrant, in sainge she would not come, but if they had bin Govnor or magistrate then she would come and Desiringe the warrant that she might burne it.' The end of the story is not given. Again on June 13, 1653: 'William Edwards has entered an accon of Defamation against Benj. Price and his wife, his wife sayinge that the wife of William Edwards was a base lie- ing woman and that she would prove her a lier in many pticu- lers, wch I take to bee a great Defamation to me and my posterity in that hereafter it may be spoken, - there goe the bratts of a base lyer - wch I would not have made out against my wife for a hundred pounds, my wife being an ancient woman and the other a yonge woman….'" [Ancestry and Descendants of Amaziah Hall and Betsey Baldwin, citation details below]

  
  

• Sources

  [S4056] Arthur Adams, "Some Descendants of William Edwards of East Hampton, Long Island." New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 82:5, 1951. [S4060] A History of the Town of East-Hampton, N.Y. by Henry P. Hedges. Sag Harbor, New York: J. H. Hunt, 1897. [S4058] Edward Doubleday Harris, "Ancient Burial-Grounds of Long Island, N.Y." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 55:200, 1901. [S4059] Ancestry and Descendants of Amaziah Hall and Betsey Baldwin by Edith Bartlett Sumner. Los Angeles, 1954.