Suggested edit: “349. Edwards Ely, married December 28, 1791, RACHEL, daughter of Abijah PECK of Danbury, Conn., born in 1773, died July 31, 1847. He died at St. Bartholomew, W. I. (West Indies), October 11, 1809.”
“Edwards Ely with Nathan Douglas commenced, in 1790, the publication of the Farmer’s Journal, the first newspaper at Danbury and in Fairfield County…Later he carried the mail on horseback from Danbury to New York, then went to New York and was interested in several stage lines…Subsequently he went to St. Bartholomew, W. I., where he was a merchant and died there.”
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“Edwards Ely with Nathan Douglas commenced, in 1790, the publication of the Farmer’s Journal, the first newspaper at Danbury and in Fairfield County…Later he carried the mail on horseback from Danbury to New York, then went to New York and was interested in several stage lines…Subsequently he went to St. Bartholomew, W. I., where he was a merchant and died there.”
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Contributor: Marjorie Rusch Ellis (48902248) • [email protected]
Suggested edit: “349. Edwards Ely, married December 28, 1791, RACHEL, daughter of Abijah PECK of Danbury, Conn., born in 1773, died July 31, 1847. He died at St. Bartholomew, W. I. (West Indies), October 11, 1809.”
“Edwards Ely with Nathan Douglas commenced, in 1790, the publication of the Farmer’s Journal, the first newspaper at Danbury and in Fairfield County…Later he carried the mail on horseback from Danbury to New York, then went to New York and was interested in several stage lines…Subsequently he went to St. Bartholomew, W. I., where he was a merchant and died there.”
https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/61157/images/46155_b289905-00426?usePUB=true&usePUBJs=true&pId=1308787
Contributor: Marjorie Rusch Ellis (48902248) • [email protected]
“Edwards Ely with Nathan Douglas commenced, in 1790, the publication of the Farmer’s Journal, the first newspaper at Danbury and in Fairfield County…Later he carried the mail on horseback from Danbury to New York, then went to New York and was interested in several stage lines…Subsequently he went to St. Bartholomew, W. I., where he was a merchant and died there.”
https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/61157/images/46155_b289905-00426?usePUB=true&usePUBJs=true&pId=1308787
Contributor: Marjorie Rusch Ellis (48902248) • [email protected]
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