Edmund, b. in Newbury JUne 29, 1696, m. 1st, Nov. 18, 1714, Mary Plumer of Rowley.
He m. 2d, Ann Poor who survived him and d. July 15, 1762, "of Consumption & Dropsy." He and his wife were members of the Byfield Parish church, and there their children were baptized. He was bred to the business of a miller and fuller. His father conveyed to him a house and land in the town of Newbury at the outset of his business career; but he had the spirit of adventure, and in 1723, sold this, and removed to the Squadron river in Weston [afterward Sudbury,] buying a place of Josiah Brewer Dec. 4, 1723. Here he ground the farmers' grain, carded and fulled their cloth for some years, but returned about 1730 to his old home, where he finished his days. He d. "of a Consumptive Disorder" March 14, 1761, having lived an upright, enterprising, useful life.
