32 JUKES ED WARDS 



Mr. Edwards died at fifty-six, and his widow a few 

 weeks later. Both died away from home, for the 

 family was still among the Stockbridge Indians. 

 The oldest son was but twenty, and there were five 

 children younger than he. The youngest son was 

 eight and the other only thirteen. To make the pic- 

 ture more clear it must be understood that to these 

 six orphans, under twenty-one, there came at the 

 time of their father's and mother's deaths two little 

 orphans aged four and two respectively, Sarah Burr 

 and her brother Aaron. Here was a large family 

 from which father and mother, older sister and 

 brother-in-law had been taken almost at a single 

 blow, with two extra orphans to care for. 



And with all this there was no adequate financial 

 inheritance. The inventory of Jonathan Edwards' 

 property is interesting. Among the live stock, which 

 included horses and cows, was a slave upon whom a 

 moderate value was placed. The slave was named 

 Titus, and he was rated under "quick stock" and not 

 "live stock," at a value of $150. The silver was 

 inventoried as a tankard valued at $60, a can and 

 porringer at $47, and various other articles valued 

 at $85. The chief material legacy was his library, 

 which was inventoried as consisting of 301 volumes, 

 536 pamphlets, forty-eight maps, thirty unpublished 

 manuscripts and 1,074 manuscript sermons prepared 

 for the printer. It was valued at $415. 



If Jonathan Edwards did not leave a large finan- 

 cial legacy, he did impart to his children an intel- 

 lectual capacity and vigor, moral character, and 



