John EDWARDS

                      John Edwards came with his wife, Mary, and their children, from Abington. Their son William became a prominent minister among Friends, and died in 1764, at the age of 52 [62*]. His wife was Martha Foulke, likewise  an accepted minister, who was appointed an elder in the Richland meeting in 1745, the first woman who held that position. After the death of her husband she married John Roberts in 1771, and died in 1781, in her 65th year. Source:  THE HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, CHAPTER XXVIII, RICHLAND, 1734. from the discovery of the Delaware to the present time by W. W. H. Davis, A.M., 1876 and 1905* editions..
THE WILL OF WILLIAM EDWARDS, DATED MARCH 8, 1764 PROBATED NOVEMBER 5, 1764, IN PHILADELPHIA, IS REGISTERED IN WILL BOOK N, PAGE 219.  WILLIAM EDWARDS AND HIS WIFE MARTHA (FOULKE) WERE ACCEPTED MINISTERS OF THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS FOR MANY YEARS,
MARTHA  CONTINUING IN THE SERVICE AFTER THE DEATH OF HER FIRST HUSBAND.
THE WILL OF WILLIAM EDWARDS, DATED MARCH 8, 1764 PROBATED NOVEMBER 5, 1764, IN PHILADELPHIA, IS REGISTERED IN WILL BOOK N, PAGE 219.
Of Milford, Bucks Co., Pennsylvania. Born "within the verge of Abington Monthly Meeting and removed with his parents in his youth to settle at or near the Great Swamp". He acquired the homestead plantation of 250 acres from his father by deeds of lease and release in 1743, and lived thereon until his death. It devises to wife Martha use of estate, real and personal, until the eldest son William comes to age of 21, when the plantation is to be divided between the two eldest sons William and Thomas, they paying out legacies to the other children. The wife and brother-in-law, Samuel Foulke, are named as executors, and the will is witnessed by Thomas Thomas, Thomas Roberts and Letitia Roberts.
                  

                   Was an infant when her parents settled in the Great Swamp, in Milford Township, Bucks Co., Pennsylvania. She did not long survive her marriage, and died without issue.
                  

                   He secured by patent from the proprietaries in 1758, a tract of 216 acres adjoining his father's farm, 100 acres of which he sold the same year to Abraham Roberts. The greater part of his life, however, was spent on the farm of his father-in-law, Willaim Newman, of which he was in possession as tenant in 1759 when William Newman died; and his wife and daughter Mary inheriting the farm of 220 acres, he aquired the greater part of it by deeds from his son John and daughter Mary Erhart, and spent the remainder of his life thereon. He lived, however, for a short period in Chester County soon after the death of his father-in-law. The will of John Edwards dated 16 Oct 1802, was probated 3 Nov 1802,and is registered in Will Book N0. 6, page 422. None of the children of the second marriage of John Edwards were married. Aaron was a shoemaker. He and his sister Jane, by a joint deed dated 10 Apr 1805, conveyed ton Daniel Shelly, of Milford, Pennsylvania, a turner, the real estate of which their father died siezed, being the 34 acres and 6 perches which William Hickenbottem conveyed to him in 1787, part of the Newman tract. Jane Edwards, the widow of John, Sr., and mother of Aaron and Jane, releasing her dowerrights therin.