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----- Original Message -----
From: Karen Wofford
To: WLS-RADNORSHIRE-admin(a)rootsweb.com
Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2006 9:52 AM
Subject: Phylipp Edwards/Edwardd and his son Abiah Edwards
Hi,
Looking for information on Phylipp Edwards/Edwardd admitted an inhabitant of Dorchester,
Suffolk, Massachusetts, America, in 1662 and deceased 1664. He was found drowned at the
castle in Boston Harbor (United Colonies I think then), by Captain Roger Clapp and burial
remains unknown at this time.
His son Abiah Edwards, shipwright, born ca 1650-51, deceased 1714/15 at Shrewsbury,
Monmouth, New Jersey, USA also burial remains unknown..
Family tradition says both men from Wales.possibly Llandewy, Radnor, Wales.
This is what I have, any help would be appreciated..thanks Karen
Tuesday, August 3, 2004 at 2:48 am.. typing what I found on
www.godfrey.org internet
site: Anonymous author, "Records of the Suffolk County Court : 1671-1680.
Boston: The Society, 1933, 1334 pgs. page 280 has the following regarding a court case
of miller vs roscoe: Abiah Edwards appears as a witness to viewing a vessel. The person
who is writing of the case says the following: "Abiah Edwards aged two & twenty
years or thereabouts testifieth yt hee was one of the persons who viewed the vessel above
& set his hand to this Returne & see it signed by the other persons this 30th 4
mo. 1673. Taken before me Walter Clarke Assistant ...true coppie..Jssac Addington cler.
Now calculating this means Abiah was born if you use the quaker system of march being the
first month, the fourth month would be June 30, 1673 that this document was made. Minus 22
years from 1673 and his date of birth calculates out as 1651 or thereabouts as the judge
says..
Source of information: Anonymous p. 280 Records of the Suffolk County Court Part 1 :
1671-1680.Boston: The Society, 1933, 1334 pgs. Volume XXIX.
Author or publisher is The Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Published in Boston,
Publisher: The Society, Date of Publication: 1933, Page Count: 2 volumes, Notes: includes
bibliographical references and indexes. This is one of the publications of The Colonial
Society of Massachusetts established from 1692-1892 (seal on the title page), and has The
University Press, Cambridge, USA. the book seems to have been at the Harvard College
Library as there is a stamp listing it as such.
I think that Abiah/ Obiah Edwards was named after his grandfather Obadiah Edwards of
Barbadoes.
I believe that the list of Obiah Edwards listed in 1669 in Shrewsbury, Monmouth County,
New Jersey is proof that Obiah Edwards was named after Obadiah Edwards, his grandfather,
who was living in Barbados and died probably in 1653/54 will proved in 1655. I think that
my 8 gg father Abiah Edwards, just changed his first name from Obiah to Abiah in the true
american fashion..
Now Abiah/Obiah Edwards my 8th gg father and his wife Naomi, the Indian Princess of the
Shinnecock tribe (perhaps Mohawk) off of Maine and Long Island , New York named his first
born son Phillip, after his father which would be in keeping with the English naming
traditions of the time.i.e. first born male after father, etc.
Now the proof will lie in the pudding if the wills have more family listed which I think
they will.
I also believe that Obiah/Abiah Edwards was a young lad when his father Phylipp
Edwardd/Edwards left Wales and traveled to Barbadoes to see his father <not proved
yet> Obadiah Edwards in the early 1600's who was a Captain of a Company in the
Regiment of Colonel Fortescue there. It's just a theory and perhaps in a future time
this riddle will be answered. Apr 29,2006.
After 28 years of searching, I'm getting tired and would like some answers..
Furthermore, I think<have a hunch> that the great grandfather of Abiah /Obiah
Edwards was ap Phillipp EDWARD, of parish of Llandewy Ystradenny, County Radnorshire,
Wales as proved by his grandfather's will proved 9 July 1655 in the Prerogative Of
Canterbury Court in London, England by David ap Griffith who remains unknown at this time.
The abstract reads as follows: " ap EDWARD, Phillip, of p. Llandewy Ystradenny, co.
Radnor, Will [299 Avlett] proved July 9 by David ap Griffith. Year 1655." If not
there has to be some kind of relationship here.
If I am wrong so be it, but right now I would like to see any kind of proof connecting
these guys to England, Scotland or Wales..