- Edmund Chandler
Born about 1587 in England
married about 1630 in Plymouth, Massachusetts
Father of Samuel Chandler, Lydia (Chandler) Higgins, Mary Chandler, Anna (Chandler) Pickworth, Ruth Chandler, John Chandler, Ruth Chandler, Benjamin Chandler, Joseph Chandler and Sarah Chandler
Died after 2 May 1662 in Duxbury, Plymouth, MA
Biography
It has been said that there is much confusion and misinformation about Edmund Chandler who immigrated to Plymouth, Massachusetts before 1633. He probably was born in England between 1588 and 1592.
He seems to have lived in Leiden. He is listed in the Leiden records several times. He was a member of the Separatist (English religious dissenting) congregation. His profession was sayweaver. He married and had three children born at Leiden: Samuel, Lydia, and an unnamed child who died in 1619. The name of his first wife is unknown.
The last of the Leiden pilgrims arrived in Plymouth Colony about 1629. Edmund and Roger Chandler were among them. He resided at Plymouth, then at neighboring Duxbury. His profession is given as draper. He served as constable. He first married while in Leiden. He married again, to a woman whose first name was Sarah, but a record of his marriage has not been found. Edmund Chandler had seven surviving children: John, Sarah, Anna, Mary, Benjamin, Joseph, and Ruth[1]. He made his will on on May 3, 1662 and had passed away by June 4, 1662. The married names and husbands of his daughters are unknown.
Name: Elizabeth? Alden - She married a different Edmund Chandler. She was born man years too late to have been a wife to this Edmund.
Below information POSTED by Thomas Moody (sources listed in "Source" section.
Edmund died between May 2, 1662 when he made his Will and June 2, 1662 when the inventory of his estate was taken. His Will was proved June 4, 1662 (Plymouth Colony Probate, Book 2: pt. 2: 75, 76 as referred to in “Small”, see above) When he died, he bequeathed to his daughters, Sarah, Anna, and Mary “three thousand and five hundred of sugar which belonges to mee at Barbadoes.” Only the sugar was said to have been in Barbados, not the daughters also, as some have asserted.
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