John Edson, s/o Samuel Edson and Mary Dean, b. Bridgewater 30 Mar 1729, d. Boston 1777 [a Loyalist, imprisoned on a prison ship in Boston Harbor, on 15 Aug 1777 found "an unfit subject for confinement on board the Cunard ship", moved to house of Mr Pierpont, where he caught smallpox and died], m. Bridgewater 25 Jul 1751 Hannah Allen.