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floor to Springfield and let the government hav 

 it for paper money at par. There were no greater 

 heroes in the Revolutionary war than such men as 

 Timothy Edwards. He was nearly fifty years old 

 when the war closed and he found himself the 

 father of thirteen children and without property 

 or business. Full of courage and enterprise he 

 succeeded in supporting his family in comfort and 

 in regaining a substantial property before his death, 

 which occurred in the midst of the next war, Octo- 

 ber 27, 1813. 



It was not an easy thing to educate children in 

 those times. When the Revolutionary war broke 

 out his oldest child was but thirteen, and when it 

 ended he had ten children under twenty-one. 

 There were only three books in the schools at Stock- 

 bridge during the war, Dilworth's Spelling Book 

 and Arithmetic and the Book of Psalms. From 

 these the children of Timothy Edwards received 

 their education and that it was a good training 

 subsequent events show. 



The first born, a daughter, married Benjamin 

 Chaplin, Jr., a graduate of Yale (1778), and for her 

 second husband Capt. Dan Tyler, of Brookline, Ct., 

 a graduate of Harvard. Her second child, Edward, 

 became Register of Probate. Jonathan, the second 

 born, had several children who became prominent 

 in professional and business life. Phoebe married 

 Rev. Asahel Hooker, an eminent graduate of Yale, 

 and for her second husband Rev. Samuel Farrer, a 

 graduate of Harvard, and for many years treasurer 



