... The will of his [Richard Edelen's] widow Anne Edelen was dated May 12, 1765, and proved in Charles County on October 17, 1765. She named her four Gardiner children - Ignatius; Richard; Mary (Gardiner) Chum; Jane (Gardiner) Edelen; and grandchildren - Henrietta Smith; Clement Smith; Mary Smith; Joseph Mudd; and Richard Edelen [Wills, Liber 33, folio 419] ...
... He [Philip Edelen] married his step-sister Jane, the daughter of Luke and Anne (Craycroft) Gardiner, of Prince Georges and Charles Counties. ...
... The will of the widow Jane Edelen was dated December 9, 1790, and proved in Charles County on December 2, 1793. She bequeathed slaves and other personalty to her four children - Richard Edelen, Anne Semmes, Mary Boarman, and Elizabeth Reeves on the condition that they each pay their sister, Sarah, a resident of France, L5 annually. Slaves were also willed to her three granddaughters - Elizabeth Boarman, Jane Boarman, and Rachel Gardiner. She left a dwelling to the Roman Catholic Church and 1,000 pounds of tobacco to the Catholic clergy of Charles County, appointing her son Richard Edelen and son-in-law Charles Boarman the executors. [Wills, Liber A K no. 11, folio 194] ...