Rev Jonathan EDWARDS

Jonathan married Sarah PIERPONT on 28 Jul 1727. Sarah (daughter of Rev James PIERPONT and Mary HOOKER) was born about 1709; died on 2 Oct 1758 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: 1st Pastor of East Windsor, Connecticut

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Excerpts from Amos Richardson of Boston and Stonington: Timothy married Esther Stoddard, daughter of Rev. Solomon. He graduated at Harvard in 1691 and was the pastor of the Church in East Windsor. He had ten daughters and one son, Jonathan, the distinguished divine. The Rev. Jonathan Edwards, born 1703, married Sarah, daughter of Rev. James Pierpont, and died at Princeton, NJ, March 28, 1758, about six weeks after his installation as President of the College, where he succeeded his son-in-law.
Described as "the most distinguished metaphysician and divine of America."
He had eleven children. One daughter, Esther, was the wife of Rev. Aaron Burr, President of Princeton College and mother of Vice-President Burr, and his son Jonathan was President of Union College.
Pierpont, the younges child of Rev. Jonathan, resided in New Haven, married Frances Ogden, and their daughter Henrietta Frances was the wife of the celebrated inventor, Eli Whitney.

Timothy married Esther STODDARD on 06 Nov 1694 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Esther (daughter of Rev Solomon STODDARD and Esther WARHAM) was born on 02 Jun 1672 in Northampton, Hampshire Co., Massachusetts; died on 19 Jan 1770/1 in Windsor, Hartford Co., Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Daughter of Rev. Solomon Stoddard and Esther Warham