Person:James Edmunds (5)

James' father died when he was a small child, leaving him a farm two miles from Providence, RI, which he subsequently exchanged for a house in that city, but eventually lost this property by going security for his father-in-law in the 1770s.^[2]

From “A Complete Record of the John Olin Family”: James Edmunds, third, [his son] who married Freelove Olin for his third wife, was born in Providence, Rhode Island, February 16, 1762; moved with his father, James Edmunds, second, to Clarendon, Rutland County, Vermont, in 1775. He was in the Revolutionary war, drafted for three months, but on acunt of his large family was excused, and James Edmunds, third, took his place. It appears that the Edmunds family were of Scotch descent, and the first one that emigrated to America was Reuben Edmundss; and after he came to America he took part in King Phillip’s War. He was a slim man, but very active. He never took an Indian alive, but killed all he took. he was a Quaker preacher, and also a good lawyer.

There is a memorial done many years later, in the Scottsville Cemetery, Danby, Rutland Co, VT [1]

James Edmunds II
Born Providence RI 1731 Died 1799
Settled at Claredon and Danby, VT 1775
and Sons
William Born 1757  Died 1837
Obadiah  Born 1759  Died 1809
Andrew   Born 1760  Died 1813
James III  Born 1762  Died 1846
Eliphalet  Born 1764  Died 1841
All served with honor in 
American Revolution 1776-1787
To their memory
Charlotte Edmunds Kimball

He was evidently actually buried in Edmunds Cemetery in Clarendon: Edmunds, James, VT Mil. Rev. War, no dates. [2]

1. ↑ Find A Grave.

   See notes in history

2. ↑ "Memorial & Biographical Record, Compendium of Local Biography: Including Biographical Sketches of Hundreds of Prominent Old Settlers and Representative Citizens of Bulter, Polk, Seward, York and Fillmore Counties" (Nebraska) Chicago, IL: Geo. A. Ogle & Co., 1899. pt.2, p250. "Hon. E. L. King" (his gg granddaughter)