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Pierpont Edwards (April 8, 1750 – April 5, 1826) was a delegate to the Congress of the Confederation and was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut.
The Pierpont Edwards Papers are most significant for the information they contain on the extensive land speculations of Edwards. They also help document his legal career and his work on loyalist claims under
Biography Pierpont Edwards (8 April 1750 - 5 April 1826) was born in Northampton, Massachusetts. He was the youngest son of Reverend Jonathan Edwards, the famous New England Calvinist preacher, and Sarah Pierpont. He graduated from Princeton University in 1768, and moved to New Haven, Conn. in 1771 to practive law.
The Pierpont Edwards Papers are most significant for the information they contain on the extensive land speculations of Edwards. They also help document his legal career and his work on loyalist claims under terms of the Jay Treaty.
Pierpont Edwards. The first Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Connecticut was the youngest son of that famous New England preacher and philosopher Jonathan Edwards and Sarah Pierpont, daughter of James Pierpont, a founder of Yale College. He was born in Northampton, Mass., April 8, 1750.
Pierpont Edwards (April 8, 1750 – April 5, 1826) was a delegate to the Congress of the Confederation and was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut.
Edwards Pierrepont, attorney, judge, Attorney General of the United States, and minister to Great Britain, was born in North Haven, Connecticut, the son of Giles and Eunice (Munson) Pierpont (Edwards later adopted an early family spelling of his surname), March 4, 1817.
