Dr. Edwards was a son of Alexander Edwards and Ann (Marshall) Edwards, also interred in this cemetery. He was born at Lower Dublin Township, Philadelphia County.

He was the first medical student of Dr. Benjamin Rush in 1771, and served as a surgeon during the Revolutionary War in the Philadelphia Battalion of the Flying Camp 1776. His brother Major Marshall Edwards, who is also interred here, also served in that unit.

He was a member of the Provincial Conference held at Carpenter's Hall, June 18, 1776, and was a delegate to the Pennsylvania Convention on the adoption of the Constitution. In 1777 he was aide-de-camp to Lord Stirling with Col. James Monroe (who later became President of the U.S), and may have been an attending physician to General George Washington earlier in the war. He was appointed senior surgeon in the hospital department at Princeton until 1780, after which he settled at his plantation in the Frankford area, near where he was born.

He married Frances Gordon at Christ Church, Philadelphia in 1779 while he was a war prisoner on parole. She is buried at Christ Church Cemetery. They had no children. Governor Mifflin appointed Dr. Edwards in 1791 as one of the associated or lay justices of the Court of Common Pleas, a position which he held until his death in 1802.

The signing of the Declaration of Independence was reportedly celebrated by Thomas Jefferson and others at Dr. Edwards' summer house at Frankford, Philadelphia, on the eve of July 4/5, 1776. He later became an emissary to Europe and an advisor to Presidents Washington, Jefferson and Monroe.

His friend, Benjamin West, painted his portrait (shown) in 1795. Artist Henry Benbridge painted "Family of Enoch Edwards 1779" (also shown here).

See also: http://teachingamericanhistory.org/ratification/mcmasterstone/chapterIX.html

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"Sally Wister's Journal, a true narrative; being a Quaker maiden's account of her experiences with officers of the Continental army, 1777-1778" where Enoch is mentioned.