Esther Stoddard

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• Alternate death: 10 Jan 1770

Esther married Rev. Timothy Edwards on 6 Nov 1694 in Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts. Timothy (son of Richard Edwards and Elizabeth Tuttle) was born on 14 May 1669 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut; died on 27 Jan 1758 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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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.

Jonathan married Sarah Pierpont on 28 Jul 1727. Sarah (daughter of Rev. James Pierpont and Mary Hooker) was born on 9 Jan 1710 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut; died on 2 Oct 1758 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Seth Wetmore. Seth (son of Izrahia Wetmore and Rachel Stow) was born on 18 Nov 1700 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut; died on 10 Apr 1778 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut; was buried in Washington Street Cemetery, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Rev. Aaron Burr. Aaron was born on 4 Jan 1716 in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut; died on 24 Sep 1757 in Princeton, Mercer, New Jersey; was buried in Princeton Cemetery, Princeton, Mercer, New Jersey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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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.

Timothy married Rhoda Ogden on 25 Sep 1760 in Elizabethtown, Essex, New Jersey. Rhoda (daughter of Robert Ogden and Phebe Hatfield) was born on 28 Sep 1742 in Elizabethtown, Essex, New Jersey; died on 2 Nov 1822 in Litchfield, Litchfield, Connecticut; was buried in Stockbridge Cemetery, Stockbridge, Berkshire, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 21 Oct 1780
• Alternate birth: 27 Oct 1780
• Alternate death: 30 Jan 1873

Mary married Mason Whiting on 26 Apr 1800. Mason (son of Dr. William Whiting and Anna Mason) was born on 8 May 1774 in of Great Barrington, Massachusetts; died on 11 Jan 1849 in Binghamton, Broome, New York; was buried in Spring Forest Cemetery, Binghamton, Broome, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 25 Apr 1801, Great Barrington, Berkshire, Massachusetts

Mary married Col. John Tilden Doubleday on 19 Sep 1819. John (son of Ammi Doubleday and Lois Tilden) was born on 17 Aug 1795 in New Lebanon, Columbia, New York; died on 25 Jun 1857 in Brooklyn, Kings, New York; was buried on 27 Jun 1857 in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 5 Mar 1900, New York, New York

William married Ellen Maria Dickinson on 1 Oct 1850. Ellen (daughter of Horace Dickinson and Mercy Amelia Bigelow) was born on 31 Dec 1830 in Montréal, Québec; died on 14 Dec 1907 in New York, New York; was buried on 16 Dec 1907 in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Founder of the Doubleday publishing firm. Called "Effendi" by his friend Rudyard Kipling, a pun on his initials.

Frank married Neltje Blanchan De Graff on 9 Jun 1886 in Plainfield, Somerset, New Jersey. Neltje (daughter of Liverius De Graff and Alice Fair) was born on 23 Oct 1865 in Chicago, Illinois; died on 21 Feb 1918 in Canton, China. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Ellen George McCarter. Ellen (daughter of Thomas Nesbitt McCarter and Madeleine G. Barker) was born on 9 May 1898; died on 2 Apr 1978 in New York, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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In recent decades, she changed her name, by court order, to simply "Neltje." In 2016 her autobiography North of Crazy was published by St. Martin's Press. A profile of her can be found here, and her Wikipedia page is here.

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Neltje Doubleday and John Turner Sargent Sr. are 8th cousins, both being 7XG-grandchildren of the Rev. John Ward (1606-1693) and his wife Alice (1612-1680).

Neltje married John Turner Sargent, Sr. on 16 May 1953 in Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York, and was divorced in Sep 1965. John (son of Charles Sprague Sargent and Dagmar Wetmore) was born on 26 Jun 1924; died on 5 Feb 2012 in New York, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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CEO of Macmillan Publishers.

His philanthropic activities include longtime service on the board of directors of Graham Windham, more recently called simply Graham, a nonprofit foster care agency providing services to needy children and families in the New York metropolitan area. Founded in 1806, Graham, the oldest non-sectarian childcare agency in the United States, was originally the Orphan Asylum Society of the City of New York, co-founded by Eliza Hamilton after her husband Alexander Hamilton, himself an orphan, was killed in the famous duel with Aaron Burr — a grandson of John Sargent's 6X-grandfather the Rev. Jonathan Edwards. Thus Aaron Burr's first cousin six times removed has served for years on the board of Eliza Hamilton's orphanage.

He is also the author, under the anagrammatic pen name "S. T. Garne," of two children's books, One White Sail: A Caribbean Counting Book (1992) and By a Blazing Blue Sea (1999).

John married Constance Lane Murray on 21 Sep 1985. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]