Ancestry of
Jonathan Edwards

(1703–1758)

Jonathan Edwards

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Timothy Edwards 
  • Mother:
  • Esther Stoddard   
  • Birth Date:
  • 5 Oct 1703 
  • Birth Location:
  • East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 22 Mar 1758 
  • Death Location:
  • Princeton, Mercer, New Jersey 
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  • Notes: 

  • 3rd President of the College of New Jersey

• Marriages for Jonathan Edwards

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  • Spouse:
  • Sarah Pierpont
  • Marriage Date:
  • 26 Jul 1727

• Sources for Jonathan Edwards

  • ¹ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 1, A-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 579-580.
  • ² Dwight, Benjamin W., The History of the Descendants of John Dwight, of Dedham, Mass., Vol. 2, 1041.
  • ³ Edwards, William H., Timothy and Rhoda Ogden Edwards of Stockbridge, Mass., and their Descendants: A Genealogy, Cincinnati: The Robert Clarke Company (1903), 6-16, 20.
  • ⁴ Jacobus, Donald Lines, comp., History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, Vol. 1, Baltimore: Reprinted for Clearfield Company (2007, originally published 1930-1932), 125.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#58 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: Elizabeth Boyd Roberts: A Genealogical Tribute with 50 New . . .", (accessed 07/06/2017).
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "The Royal Descents of Jane Pierce, Alice and Edith Roosevelt, Helen Taft, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Barbara Bush", (accessed 09/30/2014).
  • ⁷ Wikipedia, "Jonathan Edwards (theologian)", (accessed 10/25/2012).