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Edwards-Burr-Davenport family of Connecticut

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  Tapping Reeve (1744-1823) — Born in Brookhaven, Suffolk County, Long Island, N.Y., October 1, 1744. Lawyer; member of Connecticut council of assistants, 1792; superior court judge in Connecticut, 1798-1815. Founder of the Litchfield Law School, the first law school in the U.S. Died in Litchfield, Litchfield County, Conn., December 13, 1823 (age 79 years, 73 days). Interment at East Cemetery, Litchfield, Conn.
  Relatives: Son of Abner Reeve and Deborah (Topping) Reeve; married to Sarah Burr (sister of Aaron Burr) and Elizabeth Thompson.
  Political family: Edwards-Burr-Davenport family of Connecticut (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Pierpont Edwards (1750-1826) — of Connecticut. Born in Northampton, Hampshire County, Mass., April 8, 1750. Lawyer; served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; Delegate to Continental Congress from Connecticut, 1787-88; delegate to Connecticut convention to ratify U.S. constitution, 1788; member of Connecticut state house of representatives, 1789-90; U.S. Attorney for Connecticut, 1789; U.S. District Judge for Connecticut, 1806; delegate to Connecticut state constitutional convention, 1818. Member, Freemasons. Died in Bridgeport, Fairfield County, Conn., April 5, 1826 (age 75 years, 362 days). Interment at Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, Conn.
  Relatives: Son of Jonathan Edwards and Sarah (Pierpont) Edwards; married to Frances Ogden; father of Henry Waggaman Edwards; uncle of Aaron Burr and Theodore Dwight; second great-grandson of Thomas Willett; first cousin once removed of John Davenport and James Davenport; first cousin twice removed of Theodore Davenport; first cousin four times removed of Evert Harris Kittell; first cousin six times removed of Arthur Callen Kittell Jr.; second cousin once removed of Benjamin Tallmadge; second cousin twice removed of Charles Robert Sherman and Frederick Augustus Tallmadge; second cousin thrice removed of Charles Taylor Sherman, John Appleton, William Tecumseh Sherman, Lampson Parker Sherman, John Sherman, Joseph Pomeroy Root and Edward Williams Hooker; second cousin four times removed of Ezekiel Gilbert Stoddard, George Landon Ingraham, Charles Dunsmore Millard and Blanche M. Woodward; second cousin five times removed of Charles H. Chittenden, Bradford R. Lansing, Daniel Phoenix Ingraham and Louis Ezekiel Stoddard; third cousin once removed of Noah Phelps and Hezekiah Case; third cousin twice removed of Parmenio Adams, Elisha Phelps, Ambrose Tuttle, Jesse Hoyt, Abiel Case, Jairus Case, John Leslie Russell, George Washington Wolcott, William Dean Kellogg and Almon Case; third cousin thrice removed of Amos Pettibone, Walter Booth, Norman A. Phelps, Oliver Dwight Filley, William Warner Hoppin, John Smith Phelps, Asahel Pierson Case, Hiram Bidwell Case, Leslie Wead Russell, Charles Hazen Russell, John Clarence Keeler and Lovel Davis Parmelee; fourth cousin once removed of William Greene.
  Political families: Davenport-Huntington family of Stamford, Connecticut; Edwards-Burr-Davenport family of Connecticut (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  John Davenport (1752-1830) — of Stamford, Fairfield County, Conn. Born in Stamford, Fairfield County, Conn., January 16, 1752. Member of Connecticut state house of representatives, 1776; postmaster at Stamford, Conn., 1787-92; U.S. Representative from Connecticut, 1799-1817 (at-large 1799-1805, 2nd District 1805-07, at-large 1807-09, 3rd District 1809-11, at-large 1811-17). Died in Stamford, Fairfield County, Conn., November 28, 1830 (age 78 years, 316 days). Interment at Northfield Cemetery, Stamford, Conn.
  Relatives: Son of Abraham Davenport (1715-1789) and Elizabeth (Huntington) Davenport; brother of James Davenport; married to Mary Sylvester Welles; father of Theodore Davenport; first cousin of Henry Huntington and Gurdon Huntington; first cousin once removed of Pierpont Edwards, Abraham Davenport (1767-1837) and Benjamin Nicoll Huntington; first cousin twice removed of Thaddeus Betts; first cousin thrice removed of Joseph Pomeroy Root; first cousin five times removed of Alfred Collins Lockwood and Randolph Appleton Kidder; second cousin of Aaron Burr, Theodore Dwight, Abel Huntington and Henry Waggaman Edwards; second cousin once removed of Samuel Huntington; second cousin twice removed of Benjamin Huntington and Roger Wolcott; second cousin thrice removed of Evert Harris Kittell; second cousin four times removed of John Foster Dulles and Allen Welsh Dulles; second cousin five times removed of Arthur Callen Kittell Jr.; third cousin of Jabez Huntington, Aaron Kitchell, Joshua Coit, Samuel H. Huntington, Augustus Seymour Porter (1769-1849) and Peter Buell Porter; third cousin once removed of Jedediah Huntington, Ebenezer Huntington, Zina Hyde Jr., Charles Robert Sherman, Nathaniel Huntington, James Huntington, William Augustus Bird, Augustus Seymour Porter (1798-1872), Joseph Lyman Huntington, Peter Buell Porter Jr., Elisha Mills Huntington and Peter Augustus Porter (1827-1864); third cousin twice removed of William Woodbridge, Jabez Williams Huntington, Isaac Backus, John Hall Brockway, Henry Titus Backus, Charles Taylor Sherman, John Appleton, Edward Green Bradford, William Tecumseh Sherman, Lampson Parker Sherman, Ulysses Simpson Grant, John Sherman, Robert Coit Jr., Collins Dwight Huntington, George Milo Huntington, Thomas Worcester Hyde, Alonzo Mark Leffingwell, Abial Lathrop, Peter Augustus Porter (1853-1925) and Edward Williams Hooker; third cousin thrice removed of Alexander Hamilton Waterman, Matthew Griswold, George Douglas Perkins, Elias Mulford Condit, Ezekiel Gilbert Stoddard, Edward Green Bradford II, Frederick Dent Grant, Ulysses Simpson Grant Jr., William Barret Ridgely, Charles Edward Hyde, Clement Phineas Kellogg, Herman Arod Gager, William Brainard Coit, John Sedgwick Hyde, Edward Warden Hyde, John Leffingwell Randolph, Francis Watkinson Cole, George Leffingwell Reed and Blanche M. Woodward; fourth cousin of Chauncey Goodrich, Elizur Goodrich and Hezekiah Case; fourth cousin once removed of Parmenio Adams, Ambrose Tuttle, Jesse Hoyt, Abiel Case, Charles Phelps Huntington, Jairus Case, John Arnold Rockwell, John Leslie Russell, George Washington Wolcott, William Dean Kellogg, Almon Case and Alanson Pike.
  Political families: Huntington #1 family of Norwich, Connecticut; Davenport-Huntington family of Stamford, Connecticut; Edwards-Burr-Davenport family of Connecticut (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Aaron Burr (1756-1836) — also known as Aaron Edwards — of New York, New York County, N.Y. Born in Newark, Essex County, N.J., February 6, 1756. Democrat. Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; lawyer; member of New York state assembly, 1784-85, 1797-99, 1800-01 (New York County 1784-85, 1797-99, Orange County 1800-01); New York state attorney general, 1789-91; appointed 1789; U.S. Senator from New York, 1791-97; Vice President of the United States, 1801-05; Killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel, July 11, 1804; tried for treason in 1807; found not guilty. Presbyterian. Slaveowner. Died, after several strokes, at the Winants or Port Richmond Hotel, Port Richmond, Staten Island, Richmond County, N.Y., September 14, 1836 (age 80 years, 221 days). Interment at Princeton Cemetery, Princeton, N.J.
  Relatives: Son of Aaron Burr (1716-1757) and Esther (Edwards) Burr; brother of Sarah Burr (who married Tapping Reeve); married, July 2, 1782, to Theodosia (Bartow) Prevost (first cousin twice removed of Francis Stebbins Bartow); married 1833 to Eliza (Bowen) Jumel; father of Theodosia Burr (who married Joseph Alston); nephew of Pierpont Edwards; third great-grandson of Thomas Willett; ancestor of Karla Ballard; first cousin of Theodore Dwight and Henry Waggaman Edwards; first cousin four times removed of Anson Foster Keeler; second cousin of John Davenport and James Davenport; second cousin once removed of Theodore Davenport; second cousin twice removed of Charles Robert Sherman; second cousin thrice removed of Charles Taylor Sherman, William Tecumseh Sherman, Lampson Parker Sherman, John Sherman and Evert Harris Kittell; second cousin four times removed of Chauncey Mitchell Depew, Ezekiel Gilbert Stoddard, Stillman Stephen Light and Blanche M. Woodward; second cousin five times removed of Alfred Walstein Bangs, John Clarence Keeler, Louis Ezekiel Stoddard, John Cecil Purcell and Arthur Callen Kittell Jr.; third cousin of Benjamin Tallmadge; third cousin once removed of Frederick Augustus Tallmadge; third cousin twice removed of Eli Thacher Hoyt, George Smith Catlin, John Appleton, Howkin Bulkley Beardslee, Joseph Pomeroy Root and Edward Williams Hooker; third cousin thrice removed of Greene Carrier Bronson, Abijah Catlin, David Munson Osborne, George Landon Ingraham, Dwight Arthur Silliman and Charles Dunsmore Millard; fourth cousin of Noah Phelps and Hezekiah Case; fourth cousin once removed of Parmenio Adams, Elisha Phelps, Ambrose Tuttle, Jesse Hoyt, Abiel Case, Henry Fisk Janes, Jairus Case, John Leslie Russell, George Washington Wolcott, William Dean Kellogg and Almon Case.
  Political family: Edwards-Burr-Davenport family of Connecticut (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Cross-reference: Jonathan Dayton — Nathaniel Pendleton — John Smith — John Tayler — Walter D. Corrigan, Sr. — Cowles Mead — Luther Martin — William P. Van Ness — Samuel Swartwout — William Wirt — Theophilus W. Smith
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Books about Aaron Burr: Milton Lomask, Aaron Burr: The Years from Princeton to Vice President, 1756-1805 — Milton Lomask, Aaron Burr: The Conspiracy and Years of Exile, 1805-1836 — Joseph Wheelan, Jefferson's Vendetta : The Pursuit of Aaron Burr and the Judiciary — Buckner F. Melton Jr., Aaron Burr : Conspiracy to Treason — Thomas Fleming, Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Future of America — Arnold A. Rogow, A Fatal Friendship: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr — H. W. Brands, The Heartbreak of Aaron Burr — David O. Stewart, American Emperor: Aaron Burr's Challenge to Jefferson's America — Donald Barr Chidsey, The great conspiracy: Aaron Burr and his strange doings in the West — Mike Resnick, ed., Alternate Presidents [anthology]
  Fiction about Aaron Burr: Gore Vidal, Burr
  James Davenport (1758-1797) — of Stamford, Fairfield County, Conn. Born in Stamford, Fairfield County, Conn., October 12, 1758. Lawyer; member of Connecticut state house of representatives, 1785; member of Connecticut council of assistants, 1790-96; common pleas court judge in Connecticut, 1792; U.S. Representative from Connecticut at-large, 1796-97; died in office 1797. Died in Stamford, Fairfield County, Conn., August 3, 1797 (age 38 years, 295 days). Interment at Northfield Cemetery, Stamford, Conn.
  Relatives: Son of Abraham Davenport (1715-1789) and Elizabeth (Huntington) Davenport; brother of John Davenport; married, May 7, 1777, to Abigail Fitch; married, November 6, 1790, to Mehitable Coggeshall; uncle of Theodore Davenport; first cousin of Henry Huntington and Gurdon Huntington; first cousin once removed of Pierpont Edwards, Abraham Davenport (1767-1837) and Benjamin Nicoll Huntington; first cousin twice removed of Thaddeus Betts; first cousin thrice removed of Joseph Pomeroy Root; first cousin five times removed of Alfred Collins Lockwood and Randolph Appleton Kidder; second cousin of Aaron Burr, Theodore Dwight, Abel Huntington and Henry Waggaman Edwards; second cousin once removed of Samuel Huntington; second cousin twice removed of Benjamin Huntington and Roger Wolcott; second cousin thrice removed of Evert Harris Kittell; second cousin four times removed of John Foster Dulles and Allen Welsh Dulles; second cousin five times removed of Arthur Callen Kittell Jr.; third cousin of Jabez Huntington, Aaron Kitchell, Joshua Coit, Samuel H. Huntington, Augustus Seymour Porter (1769-1849) and Peter Buell Porter; third cousin once removed of Jedediah Huntington, Ebenezer Huntington, Zina Hyde Jr., Charles Robert Sherman, Nathaniel Huntington, James Huntington, William Augustus Bird, Augustus Seymour Porter (1798-1872), Joseph Lyman Huntington, Peter Buell Porter Jr., Elisha Mills Huntington and Peter Augustus Porter (1827-1864); third cousin twice removed of William Woodbridge, Jabez Williams Huntington, Isaac Backus, John Hall Brockway, Henry Titus Backus, Charles Taylor Sherman, John Appleton, Edward Green Bradford, William Tecumseh Sherman, Lampson Parker Sherman, Ulysses Simpson Grant, John Sherman, Robert Coit Jr., Collins Dwight Huntington, George Milo Huntington, Thomas Worcester Hyde, Alonzo Mark Leffingwell, Abial Lathrop, Peter Augustus Porter (1853-1925) and Edward Williams Hooker; third cousin thrice removed of Alexander Hamilton Waterman, Matthew Griswold, George Douglas Perkins, Elias Mulford Condit, Ezekiel Gilbert Stoddard, Edward Green Bradford II, Frederick Dent Grant, Ulysses Simpson Grant Jr., William Barret Ridgely, Charles Edward Hyde, Clement Phineas Kellogg, Herman Arod Gager, William Brainard Coit, John Sedgwick Hyde, Edward Warden Hyde, John Leffingwell Randolph, Francis Watkinson Cole, George Leffingwell Reed and Blanche M. Woodward; fourth cousin of Chauncey Goodrich, Elizur Goodrich and Hezekiah Case; fourth cousin once removed of Parmenio Adams, Ambrose Tuttle, Jesse Hoyt, Abiel Case, Charles Phelps Huntington, Jairus Case, John Arnold Rockwell, John Leslie Russell, George Washington Wolcott, William Dean Kellogg, Almon Case and Alanson Pike.
  Political families: Huntington #1 family of Norwich, Connecticut; Davenport-Huntington family of Stamford, Connecticut; Edwards-Burr-Davenport family of Connecticut (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Theodore Dwight (1764-1846) — of Hartford, Hartford County, Conn.; Albany, Albany County, N.Y.; New York, New York County, N.Y. Born in Northampton, Hampshire County, Mass., December 15, 1764. Lawyer; newspaper editor; U.S. Representative from Connecticut 6th District, 1806-07; member of Connecticut council of assistants, 1809-15. Died in New York, New York County, N.Y., June 12, 1846 (age 81 years, 179 days). Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
  Relatives: Son of Timothy Dwight and Mary (Edwards) Dwight; married to Abigail Alsop; nephew of Pierpont Edwards; third great-grandson of Thomas Willett; first cousin of Aaron Burr and Henry Waggaman Edwards; second cousin of John Davenport and James Davenport; second cousin once removed of Theodore Davenport; second cousin thrice removed of Evert Harris Kittell and Francis Watkinson Cole; second cousin five times removed of Arthur Callen Kittell Jr.; third cousin of Benjamin Tallmadge and Greene Carrier Bronson; third cousin once removed of Charles Robert Sherman, Frederick Augustus Tallmadge and Elisha Hunt Allen; third cousin twice removed of Charles Taylor Sherman, John Appleton, William Tecumseh Sherman, Lampson Parker Sherman, John Sherman, Joseph Pomeroy Root, William Chapman Williston, William Fessenden Allen, Frederick Hobbes Allen and Edward Williams Hooker; third cousin thrice removed of Ezekiel Gilbert Stoddard, Maurice Lauchlin Wright, George Landon Ingraham, George Williston Nash, Charles Dunsmore Millard, Franklin Clark Pomeroy and Blanche M. Woodward; fourth cousin of Noah Phelps and Hezekiah Case; fourth cousin once removed of Parmenio Adams, Morris Woodruff, Elisha Phelps, Ambrose Tuttle, Jesse Hoyt, Abiel Case, Silas Wright Jr., Jairus Case, John Leslie Russell, James Samuel Wadsworth, George Washington Wolcott, William Dean Kellogg and Almon Case.
  Political family: Edwards-Burr-Davenport family of Connecticut (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Henry Waggaman Edwards (1779-1847) — also known as Henry W. Edwards — of New Haven, New Haven County, Conn. Born in New Haven, New Haven County, Conn., October, 1779. Democrat. Lawyer; U.S. Representative from Connecticut at-large, 1819-23; U.S. Senator from Connecticut, 1823-27; member of Connecticut state senate at-large, 1828-29; member of Connecticut state house of representatives from New Haven, 1830; Speaker of the Connecticut State House of Representatives, 1830; Governor of Connecticut, 1833-34, 1835-38. Died in New Haven, New Haven County, Conn., July 22, 1847 (age 67 years, 0 days). Interment at Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, Conn.
  Relatives: Son of Frances (Ogden) Edwards and Pierpont Edwards; married to Lydia Miller; third great-grandson of Thomas Willett; first cousin of Aaron Burr and Theodore Dwight; second cousin of John Davenport and James Davenport; second cousin once removed of Theodore Davenport; second cousin thrice removed of Evert Harris Kittell; second cousin five times removed of Arthur Callen Kittell Jr.; third cousin of Benjamin Tallmadge; third cousin once removed of Charles Robert Sherman, Frederick Augustus Tallmadge and Simeon Harrison; third cousin twice removed of Charles Taylor Sherman, John Appleton, William Tecumseh Sherman, Lampson Parker Sherman, John Sherman, Joseph Pomeroy Root and Edward Williams Hooker; third cousin thrice removed of Ezekiel Gilbert Stoddard, George Landon Ingraham, Simeon Harrison Rollinson, Charles Dunsmore Millard and Blanche M. Woodward; fourth cousin of Noah Phelps, John Condit and Hezekiah Case; fourth cousin once removed of Parmenio Adams, Silas Condit, Elisha Phelps, Ambrose Tuttle, Jesse Hoyt, Abiel Case, Stephen Whitaker Fullerton, Jairus Case, John Leslie Russell, George Washington Wolcott, William Dean Kellogg and Almon Case.
  Political family: Edwards-Burr-Davenport family of Connecticut (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Joseph Alston (1779-1816) — of South Carolina. Born in All Saints Parish, Georgetown District (now Georgetown County), S.C., 1779. Lawyer; member of South Carolina state house of representatives, 1802-04, 1812 (Christ Church 1802-04, All Saints 1812); Governor of South Carolina, 1812-14. Died in Charleston, Charleston County, S.C., September 19, 1816 (age about 37 years). Interment at Oaks Cemetery, Murrells Inlet, S.C.
  Relatives: Son of Mary (Ashe) Alston and William Alston; brother of Charlotte Alston (who married John Lyde Wilson); married, February 2, 1801, to Theodosia Burr (daughter of Aaron Burr).
  Political family: Edwards-Burr-Davenport family of Connecticut (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Epitaph: "The life of this Citizen was common one to the State. To its service he devoted himself from his early years … This great man was also a goode one. He met Death with that fortitude with which his Ancestor did from whom he received his name & this estate & which is to be found only in the good hoping to rejoin those whose loss had left in his heart an 'aching void' that nothing on earth could fill."
  See also National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial

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