Edwards to the Reverend Joseph Bellamy, January 15, 1747, Works, 16: 217.
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Williams Family and the Connecticut River Valley, 1637–1790'' (Ph.D. diss., Yale University, 1986), 374–75.
31. Quoted in Sibley's Harvard Graduates, 5: 115. 32. Trumbull, History of Northampton, 2: 147–52. 33. At least she did as an adult. See The Journal of Esther Edwards Burr, 1754–1757, ed. Carol Karlsen and Laurie Crumpacker (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984), e.g., 60–61 and 142. See below, chapter 25. 34. Edwards to Esther Edwards, November 3, 1746, Works, 16: 214–15. The war had touched the Edwards family most directly with the death of Jonathan's brother-in-law, the Reverend Simon Backus, husband of his sister Eunice. Backus had been a chaplain to the troops at Louisbourg and died there in February 1746. Edwards to MacLaurin, May 12, 1746, Works, 16: 205. 35. Edwards' account book, Beinecke, Works of Edwards transcription, indicates he sent to Rhode Island for wool and molasses in May 1745 (before the local Indian threat) and May 1746.
36. Edwards to the Reverend Joseph Bellamy, October 3, 1746, Works, 16: 211; and Edwards to the Reverend Joseph Bellamy, January 15, 1747, Works, 16: 217.
37. Edwards to the Reverend Joseph Bellamy, January 15, 1747, Works, 16: 217. 38. Trumbull, History of Northampton, 2: 153–64. 39. John Stoddard to Governor William Shirley, May 13, 1747, quoted in Trumbull, History of Northampton, 2: 169.
chapter 20. ''Thy Will Be Done''
1. James R. Trumbull, History of Northampton, Massachusetts, from Its Settlement in 1654, 2 vols. (Northampton, Mass., 1898, 1902), 2: 177–78. How many were living in 1747 is not clear.
2. Edwards to Joseph Bellamy, June 11, 1747, Works, 14: 223. 3. At the time of Jonathan's death eleven years later, the family owned one armchair and twenty chairs, presumably straight. They owned one table, plus a writing table, a book table, and Edwards' elaborate, many-compartmented desk. The family also owned two foot wheels, a great wheel, a carding machine, a substantial store of cloth, and some unwrought leather and rawhide, all evidence of the typical family industries of the day. Jonathan's possessions left in Stockbridge included two pairs of spectacles, one gun, and two powder horns. In Stockbridge, where they did not keep their own sheep, they owned a yoke of oxen, a yoke of steer, nine cattle, six pigs, and all the standard farm equipment. As would have been true in Northampton, in addition to their house lot, they owned a number of other tracts of land for farming or grazing. ''Jonathan Edwards' Last Will, and the Inventory of His Estate,'' is printed in Bibliotheca Sacra 33 (1876): 438–46. The original is at the Hampshire County Courthouse, Northampton, and a MS copy is at the Beinecke, Works of Edwards transcription. Most of their assets in 1758 were in some hundreds of acres of land they owned in and around Stockbridge, presumably more than they had in Northampton. The inventory of ''quick stock'' included ''a negro boy named Titus.'' See chapter 16, note 5, above.
4. Hopkins, Life, 43.