Ambrose Brydon

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Said by George E. McCracken (citation details below) to have been "sister of Sir Anthony Bridon or Brydon of Maidstone, Kent."

Family/Spouse: James Ware. James was born in of Dublin, Ireland; died on 14 May 1632 in Dublin, Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Sister to James Ware, the noted Irish antiquary.

Anne married Emanuel Downing on 7 Jun 1614. Emanuel (son of George Downing and (Unknown) Bellamy) was born before 12 Aug 1585; was christened on 12 Aug 1585 in St. Lawrence, Ipswich, Suffolk, England; died after Nov 1660 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1620

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Emigrated on the Mary and Jane in May 1633, in the care of Governor William Coddington. [Hale, House and Related Families]

Mary married Anthony Stoddard about 1639. Anthony was born about 1614; died on 16 Mar 1687 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 27 Sep 1643, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts

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From Hale, House and Related Families by Donald Lines Jacobus and Edgar Francis Waterman (citation details below)::

He went to school in Cambridge to the famous Master Corlet. He was graduated at Harvard College in 1662, and was chosen Tutor of the College, 25 Nov. 1666. He is the first Librarian of the College on record. His health becoming impaired by too close application to his studies, he went to Barbados as Chaplain to Governor Serle. There he preached to the Dissenters.

In 1669 he was planning a voyage to England and was to embark on the following day, when a request from the church in Northampton, Mass., caused him to change his plans and to go thither. On 4 Mar. 1669/70, the town voted him £100 annually if he settled with them, but he did not formally accept tor nearly two years, and was ordained 11 Sept. 1672. Soon after coming to Northampton, he married the young widow of Rev. Eleazer Mather, his predecessor in the pastorate.

He was skilled in the learned languages and had a great reputation as a scholar. As a minister he was remarkably successful in gaining converts and in retaining the respect of his congregation. He was above the average in height, with good features and a venerable presence. He had a strong constitution, was seldom ill, and was a constant preacher for sixty years.

A considerable number of his writings were published. The Doctrine of Instituted Churches in 1700 maintains that the Lord's table should be ac cessible to all persons who are not immoral. This brought him into conflict with the conservative Mathers, and as late as 1709 the subject was discussed in pamphleted sermons on either side of the controversy. The subject was ably treated by Stoddard, and his influence on the churches of Connecticut and of the river towns of central Massachusetts is seen in their adoption of the "Half-Way Covenant," which permitted the baptism of children of baptized but "unconverted" parents who were not full church members.

In his old age, his grandson Jonathan Edwards became his colleague, and eventually his successor in the pastorate of the Northampton church. Oddly enough, it was the turning of Edwards from his grandfather's liberal doctrine towards a stricter Calvinsim which caused the Northampton church to dismiss him.

Solomon married Esther Warham on 8 Mar 1670. Esther (daughter of Rev. John Warham and Jane) was born before 8 Dec 1644; was christened on 8 Dec 1644 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut; died on 10 Feb 1736 in Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts; was buried in Bridge Street Cemetery, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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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]