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Enoch Edwards (1751 – April 18, 1802, Frankford, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was an American physician and a leading Patriot during the American Revolution.[1] Born in Lower Dublin Township, Pennsylvania, Edwards was a member of the Provincial Congress in Carpenters' Hall on June 18, 1776, which led to the Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776.[2] He was also a signatory of the 1790 Pennsylvania Constitution.[3] During the war he served as attending physician for George Washington,[2][4] was a close friend of both Benjamin Rush[2] and Thomas Jefferson,[4][5] and kept up correspondence with James Monroe[6] and John Quincy Adams.[7]

On October 26, 1779, Edwards married Frances Gordon (half-sister of Henry Benbridge) at Christ Church, Philadelphia.[4]

The Edwards family were prominent during the American Revolution.

Dr. Enoch Edwards was associated with James Monroe when the latter was minister to France, and was also on the staff of Lord Sterling.

A brother, Major Evan Edwards, was on the staff of General Charles Lee, and was General Lee's second in his celebrated duel with Laurens, in which Alexander Hamilton was the second on the other side.

It is said that Jefferson made his first draft of the Declaration of Independence in the summer house located in the garden of Dr. Edwards, in Frankford.

The mansion on these grounds, which was only recently torn down, was in its day the resort of the most eminent men of the time, including George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Monroe, and many others foremost in the history of our country.

Aaron Burr, who was a cousin of Dr. Edwards, and of Dr. Britton's great-grandmother, was also a frequent visitor.[8]

As a living eyewitness to Jefferson's return to Frankford, Fanny Saltar makes the following entry while writing her memoirs:

After my uncle's return, he purchased a place in Frankford

of Mr. Drinker. The house was pleasantly situated at

some distance from the street, but the beauty of the

place consisted in the lovely view presented from the

summer-house, of the pastures, streams, bridges, mills,

the village, numberless roads winding through tall

trees, luxuriant shade, and rising above all other objects,

was seen Christ Church steeple, five miles distant.

One day when Mr. Jefferson was on a visit to my uncle,

they walked up to this summer-house. He looked round

and said: This is the spot on which the signers of the Declaration of Independence dined the day they signed the Declaration.[9]

References

1. ^{{cite book |last=Higginson |first=Thomas Wentworth |authorlink=Thomas Wentworth Higginson |title=A Larger History of the United States of America to the Close of President Jackson's Administration |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YP_LzycXndQC&pg=PA281 |page=281 |publisher=Harper & Brothers |year=1886}}
2. ^1 2 {{cite book |last=Brooklyn Museum |authorlink=Brooklyn Museum |title=Early American Paintings: Catalogue of an Exhibition Held in the Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KI8EAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA125 |page=125 |publisher=Brooklyn Museum |year=1917}}
3. ^Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 1790
4. ^1 2 {{cite book |last=Pratt |first=Herbert L. |authorlink=Herbert L. Pratt |last2=Hart |first2=Charles Henry |authorlink2=Charles Henry Hart |title=Historical Descriptive and Critical Catalogue of the Works of American Artists in Collection of Herbert L. Pratt, Glen Cove, L.I. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yalNAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA23&dq=%22Enoch+Edwards%22#v=onepage&q=%22Enoch%20Edwards%22&f=false |pages=22–24 |publisher=Sun Printing Company |year=1917}}
5. ^{{cite book |last=Jefferson |first=Thomas |authorlink=Thomas Jefferson |last2=Ford |first2=Paul Leicester |authorlink2=Paul Leicester Ford |title=The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: 1792–1794 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PAh3AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA494&dq=Enoch+Edwards+Thomas+Jefferson&cd=2#v=onepage&q=&f=false |pages=494–495 |publisher=G. P. Putnam's Sons |year=1895}}
6. ^{{cite book |last=Monroe |first=James |authorlink=James Monroe |last2=Hamilton |first2=Stanislaus Murray |title=The Writings of James Monroe: Including a Collection of His Public and Private Papers and Correspondence Now for the First Time Printed - Volume Three |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rWISAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA98&dq=Enoch+Edwards+James+Monroe&cd=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false |pages=98–100 |publisher=G. P. Putnam's Sons |year=1906}}
7. ^{{cite book |last=Adams |first=John Quincy |authorlink=John Quincy Adams |title=Writings of John Quincy Adams |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=71gZ-aqx-NUC&pg=PA14&lpg=PA14&dq=Enoch+Edwards+John+Quincy+Adams#v=onepage&q=&f=false |pages=14–16 |publisher=BiblioBazaar, LLC |isbn=0-559-90787-7 |year=2009}}
8. ^Genealogical and Personal Memorial of Mercer County, New Jersey, pg. 160 By Francis Bazley Lee, Lewis Publishing Company, Lewis Publishing Company, 1907
9. ^FANNY SALTAR'S REMINISCENCES OFCOLONIAL DAYS IN PHILADELPHIA.CONTRIBUTED BY MRS. E. B. HOSKINS., Page 198PA. MAG. HIST., XL (Apr. 1916)

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  • "House and ground where the 1st "4th of July" was celebrated." Enoch Edwards, Womrath property; 4216 Frankford Ave.", ca 1870, P.9062.53b (Brenner) 7⅛ × 9½ in. Notes: Reduced image in HSP: Bd 862 N447, 6th Series with printed label.
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