EDMOND IDDENDEN or EDENDEN, woollen-draper, of Cranbrook and Tenterden, co. Kent, and of New England, was baptized at Cranbrook 21 Oct. 1599. The date of his death is unknown. He married first, at Cranbrook, 12 July 1625, ELIZABETH WELLER, who was baptized there 21 Dec. 1600 and was buried at Tenterden 2 Aug. 1631. He married secondly, at Maidstonr, 1 Feb. 1631/2, ELIZABETH WIGHTMAN or WHITEMAN of Maidstone, aged about 25, as appears from the marriage license. He emigrated to New England after 9 Aug. 1636, being at that date a witness to the will of Susan Curtis of Tenterden. In 1637 he was a proprietor of Scituate, Mass. He took the oath of allegiance in 1638, was freeman in 1641, and representative to the General Court in 1642. He removed to Boston. His widow is mentioned in the will of her brother John Weightman of Charlestown, Mass., dated 12 Oct. 1681, as "my sister Elizabeth Skiff," and bequest are left to her daughter Rebecca Edington and to her married daughters Sarah Rand and Hannah Cleesby.
