In 1637 or 1638, a London businessman named Anthony Stoddard crossed the Atlantic and settled in what became downtown Boston. There he married Mary Downing, who was the neice of the Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, John Winthrop.
Among his progeny are Solomon Stoddard, the famous clergyman who opposed Cotton Mather in the Congregational Church, Jonathan Edwards, perhaps the most influential religionist in American history, Aaron Burr, Vice President of the United States, and General William Tecumseh Sherman of Civil War fame.
I have completed a book about the Stoddard line which begins in 1558 in England. Each chapter is a short biography of one man, but includes information about his children and his wife. There are charts and pictures, detailing every child and who that child married. Find out if your line connects to this rich source of genealogical data. My research covered more than ten years.
Robert A. Stoddard
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