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} } == Biography ==[[Category: Spotsylvania County, Virginia]] [[Category: Madison County, Kentucky]] [[Category: Franklin County, Kentucky]][[Category: American Revolution Veterans]]Benjamin was born about 1769. At the early age of 14, he acted as a private soldier in the Virginia line, for which he was rewarded with a land warrant for 500 acres in 1783 and later received a pension for his service. He passed away in 1846. Entered by Keith Baker ''No more info is currently available for Benjamin Edwards. Can you add to his biography?'' == Sources =="Kentucky, Marriages, 1785-1979," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FWTM-34B : accessed 09 Sep 2012), Benjamin Edwards and Elizabeth Braydon, 28 May 1788; citing reference p 72, FHL microfilm 183302. "Kentucky, Marriages, 1785-1979," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F4QL-9J6 : accessed 25 June 2012), Benjamin Edwards in entry for Morgan Jenkins and Jane Edwards, 1834. The Last Will and Testament of Benjamin Edwards is to be found in Will Book 2, page 178, Franklin County, Frankfort, Kentucky. In 1810 he was recieving a Revolutionary War pension. 4 July 1839, he declares he is a brother of Rebecca Hawkins, and lived with her at her father's home in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, at the time she married Reuben Hawkins. * Entered by[[Forrester-158 | Keith Baker]]. See the [http://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Special:NetworkFeed&who=Edwards-2300 Changes page] for the details of edits by Keith and others.

Birth	Abt 1769	Spotsylvania, VA
Death	1846	Benson, Franklin County, KY

Father	Uriah Edwards Sr. (1714 - 1781)
Mother	Mildred Head (1725 - 1813)
Sibling	Benjamin Edwards (1769 - 1846)
Sibling	Rebecca Edwards (1746 - )
Sibling	Mary Edwards (1748 - )
Sibling	Uriah Edwards Jr. (1754 - 1831)
Sibling	Elizabeth Edwards (1749 - )
Sibling	John Edwards (1751 - )
Sibling	Uriah Edwards Jr. (1754 - )
Sibling	Moses Edwards (1775 - )