Obituary |
Mortuary Notice, American Recorder (Boston), Friday, Jan 26, 1787, vol. II, Issue 93, p3:
—At Harvard yesterday morning, in the 83rd year of his age, Mr. Peter Edes, formerly belonging to this town. |
Notes |
- Also Eads, Edes. Name is from her daughter's birth record.
Fromt an article in NEHGR, vol. 16:
PETER EDES, hatter, a respectable citizen of Charlestown; son of John and Grace (Lawrence) E., born in Charlestown, Sept. 15th, 1705, and died 1787 or '88. His grandparents were John and Mary (Tufts) E., (married Oct. 15th, 1674) who were also of Charlestown, and from whom all persons of the name Edes or Eades, now living in this country, are probably descended. Whether William E., Salem, 1629, was the original ancestor of all, as no records remain to show, conjecture only can determine. Peter Edes married Esther, daughter of Stephen and Grace (Willis) Hall, Dec. 10th, 1729; and by her had seven children, among whom was Benjamin, born Oct. 14 th, 1732, printer, afterwards of the firm of Edes & Gill, publishers of the Boston Gazette and Coventry Journal, Benjamin married Martha Starr, somewhere about 1754, and by her had a family of ten children. Their descendants are living in Bangor, Me.; Georgetown, D. C; and other places. They claim to own the punch bowl out of which the "Indians" drank on the evening when the tea was destroyed in Boston Harbor.
This is one of the only sources that gives the last name of Grace his mother (Willis), and of Mary his grandmother (Tufts). Both, however, need substatiation. [2]
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