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passing notices other than those detailed above. We do not know where
they were buried. Their eldest son, Edward (2), was born about 1646, and
was twenty-two years old, as has been said, when a member of the train-
band in 1668. He married Rebecca ,
by 1670, and had five sons,
of whom all we know will be found in our Pedigree of De Wolf. He is
spoken of in the Lyme records as " Edward de Wolf, carpenter," being
so designated in deeds of land given by him. That his high standing,
integrity and good judgment were well known and relied upon, is proved
by the fact that, about 1682, after long delays and difficulties between the
people of New London and their carpenters, relative to the building of a
church, "John Frink of Stonington and Edward de Wolf of Lyme were
called in to view the work, and arbitrate between builders and people."
It is noted in Lyme records that in May 1686 twenty-two acres of land
were laid out by the town to " Edward de Wolf, upon the account what
he had engaged to do for the town about the meeting-house." This refers,
doubtless, to the second house built for religious worship upon the top of
Meeting-house Hills, actually built in 1689. About a year before the time
set for building it, liberty was granted to four persons, among whom was
Edward De Wolf, to build a saw-mill at Eight-Mile River,"' they agreeing
to saw the timber for the meeting-house. In 1677 an agreement was made
between the town of Lyme and Mr. Thomas Terry, by which liberty was
given him by the town to "setup a saw-mill on Mill Brook, upon the
place called the Lieutenant River, provided the saw-mill doth not damnify
the corn-mill." Balthasar De Wolf was one of the two witnesses. In 1688
' Caulkins's History of New London, p. 192.
That in the exigencies of life, in a new settlement, the useful trades were sometimes taken up by
men of good family, education and superior social station, is shown by the fact that, in 1642, Richard
and John Ogden, then of Stamford, Conn., contracted to build a stone church within the fort of New
Amsterdam, a famous work for the time. The great political and social prominence of John Ogden,
who afterwards founded towns, and governed all the English settlements in New Jersey, under Dutch
rule, as Burgomaster, will be seen in our Ogden-Johnson monograph.
^ Eight-Mile River is in the north quarter of the town, several miles from the center of the village
of Lyme.
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