William Edwards

Family/Spouse: Ann Mansfield. Ann was born in 1660 in Westmoreland County, Virginia, USA; died in 1707 in Surry, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Ann Harrison in 1700 in Surry, Virginia, USA. Ann was born in 1680 in Surry County, Virginia, USA; died in 1707 in Accomack County, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hannah married Jeremiah French on 28 Jul 1737 in Stratford, Connecticut, USA. Jeremiah (son of Samuel French and Mary Price) was born on 5 May 1712 in Stratford, Connecticut, USA; died on 29 Oct 1793 in Dover, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William Marsh. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

About 1760, Jeremiah French Jr. and others formed a group called the Nine Partners - a land developing company. They purchased the original patents the King gave to about 61 of his buddies, and subdivided and sold them. Jeremiah Jr. surveyed much of the town of Manchester, Bennington County, Vermont, and was the first Town Clerk. He eventually moved to Manchester.
Jeremiah French Jr, was a Loyalist and a Captain in the Queen's Loyal Rangers, then later a Lt. in the Royal Regiment of New York, (called the "Yorkers"). He forfeited much of his lands in Vermont and moved to Cornwall, Ontario where he became a very prominent citizen and was the area's first representative to Parliament in Ottawa. His house was actually moved from land now submerged to make way for the St. Lawrence Seaway Project in the 1950's, which he had sold to a son-in-law, George Robertson. That house is still standing at Upper Canada Villages, near Cornwall, Ontario, Canada. The house is called the "Robertson House?. Prior to this house, Jeremiah lived at the 1811 House in Manchester Village, Vermont.
--from the research of Mara French, Sutter Creek, California


Jeremiah French was a New York farmer and Loyalist who served with the British army during the American Revolution. When he fled to Canada in 1777, French was hunted by rebel Committees of Safety, who issued this wanted notice. THIRTY DOLLARS REWARD ESCAPED from the guards the 21st of April last, one Jerah FRENCH of Manchester, who was prov'd to be a notorious TORY and was confined therefore. Whoever will seize the said FRENCH and return him to the commanding officer at Ticonderoga shall be entitled to the above reward. Every friend of liberty is hereby requested to take him dead or alive. Per order, JOSEPH BRADLEY, chairman of the committee of several towns assembled at Dorset, Dorset 21st April 1777. Jeremiah French was perhaps not a typical Loyalist. Safe in Canada, he joined the Queen's Loyal Rangers as a lieutenant in 1777. According to the charges in his court martial in 1781, French immediately embarked upon a second career of fraud and embezzlement. The Loyalist lieutenant, said his commanding officer, had stolen and sold barrels of beef and flour that should have been issued to his troops. Acquitted, French nonetheless left the Queen's Loyal Rangers and joined the King's Royal Regiment of New York in November of 1781. A new regiment meant a new uniform, which French purchased in Montreal. The French family preserved this uniform for generations, until they donated it to the Canadian War Museum in 1983.
--from the Canadian War Museum

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Wheeler. Elizabeth was born in 1745; died on 14 Jul 1838; was buried in Maple Grove Cemetery, Cornwall, United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Glorianna married John Bryan, UE in Dover, New York, USA. John was born on 24 Feb 1754 in Milford, Connecticut, USA; died on 11 Dec 1840 in Orange, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]