Person:Matthew Edwards (3)

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Matthew Edwards
b.Abt 1631
Facts and Events
Name[1] Matthew Edwards
Gender Male
Birth[1] Abt 1631
Emigration[1] 1657
Marriage 2 Dec 1657 Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United Statesto Mary Poole
Other[2] 19 May 1669 Admitted freeman of Massachusetts Bay.
Death[1][3] 22 Dec 1683 Wakefield, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Burial[4] Old Congregational Church Burying Ground, Wakefield, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Eaton, Lilley. Genealogical History of the Town of Reading, Mass: Including the Present Towns of Wakefield, Reading, and North Reading, with Chronological and Historical sketches, from 1639 to 1874. (Boston, Massachusetts: Alfred Mudge & Son, 1874)
    67-68.

    "Edwards, Matthew, came in the 'Speedwell' from London in 1657; m. 1657, Mary, dau. of John Poole; was a freeman in 1669; d. 1683, aged 52. Chil.: Mary, b. 1659; Sarah, b. 1660; Matthew, b. 1662, and d. 1663; Elizabeth, b. 1664; Matthew, 2d, d. 1689, aged 21; Sarah, b. 1673; Abigail, b. 1675; Elizabeth, b. 1679."

  2. Paige, Lucius R. List of Freemen. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jan, Apr, Jul, Oct 1849)
    3:240.
  3. Baldwin, Thomas W. Vital Records of Reading, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. (Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Co., 1912)
    516.

    "Edwards, … Mat[t]hew, [died] Dec. 22, 1683."

  4. Matthew Edwards, in Find A Grave.