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Joshua EDGE, Sr

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Name Joshua EDGE [1] Suffix Sr Birth 1700 Dorchester, Colony of Maryland, British Colonial America [1]
Gender Male FamilySearch ID L7YF-FCT _UID 6499FD64434F4EA6BE9C7513F4A134C352BB Death 25 Mar 1759 Upper, Somerset, Maryland [1]
Person ID I594762026 Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy Last Modified 31 Mar 2024
Father Thomas EDGE, b. Abt 1655, England d. 1741, Dorchester, Colony of Maryland, British Colonial America
(Age ~ 86 years)
Mother Margaret MAHANEY, b. 1649, , Talbot, Maryland d. Aft 1702, , , Maryland
(Age 54 years)
Marriage 1692 Dorchester, Maryland [2]
Family ID F536729907 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Elizabeth PONDER, b. 1703, Dorchester, Maryland, British Colonial America d. Nov 1764, Somerset, Maryland, British Colonial America
(Age 61 years)
Marriage 1728 Somerset, Maryland, British Colonial America Children 1. Nehemiah EDGE, Sr., b. 1729, Somerset, Maryland d. 3 Mar 1812, Meriwether, Baldwin, Georgia
(Age 83 years)
2. Joshua EDGE, b. Abt 1735, Somerset, Maryland, United d. 1795, Georgia
(Age ~ 60 years)
3. Jeremiah EDGE, b. 1738, Somerset, Maryland d. 7 Feb 1812, Hancock, Georgia
(Age 74 years)
4. Elizabeth EDGE, b. 8 Nov 1741, Stepney Parish, Somerset, Maryland, British Colonial America d. 1840 (Age 98 years)
5. Obediah EDGE, b. 9 Feb 1745, Stepney Parish, Somerset, Maryland d. Oct 1824, Campbell, Virginia
(Age 79 years)
6. Abigail EDGE, b. Abt 1751, Orange, North Carolina d. Yes, date unknown
Family ID F536727789 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 31 Mar 2024
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Notes - Liber 30, folio 656
14 June 1758
EDGE, JOSHUA, Somerset Co., copper [cooper?].
To wife, Elizabeth Edge, for widhood, my land & m. e., & on her d., to son & extr., Nemiah Edge, all my land & the boat belonging to me & him, on condition he keep the e. from being encumbered with an e. of John Hardys Olphants.
To son Joshua Edge, my clothes.
To dau. Abigal, L 6.10 for her schooling.
On the d. of sd. wife, the e. is to be equ. div. among all my chldn [not named].
Witn: Isaac Jones, John Stettey, William Jones.
21 March 1759, sworn to by Isaac Jones & John Stettey, & the widow elected her 1/3 of the e. r. & p.
Sources:
Maryland Archives
- Liber 30, folio 656
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Sources - [S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 11 Dec 2021), entry for Nehemiah Edge, person ID L7YF-ZSN. (Reliability: 3).
- [S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 31 Mar 2024), entry for Thomas Edge, person ID LWJT-8L7. (Reliability: 3).
- [S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 11 Dec 2021), entry for Nehemiah Edge, person ID L7YF-ZSN. (Reliability: 3).