Edward Wigglesworth married Esther Middlebrook 27 October 1629 in Wrawby, Lincolnshire, England. Prior to 1638 they made their home in Hedon, Yorkshire, England. On 18 October 1631 they had a son they named Michael. In Yorkshire Edward and Esther were "meeting with opposition and persecution for religion because they went from their own parish church to hear ye word & receive ye Lords supper, took up resolutions to pluck up their stakes and remove to New England. They landed at Charlestown in 1638. After seven weeks stay the family removed by sea to New Haven, Connecticut in the month of October." (History of Malden, Massachusetts 1633-1785) Son Michael later wrote: "Winter approaching, we dwelt in a cellar partly underground covered with earth the first winter" (ibid.) "Excavations in the high banks of the West Creek roughly covered with sod, were doubtless the cellars to which frequent reference is made in our earlier records" (Papers of the New Haven Historical Society Vol. 5 1894)
On 1 December 1640 their daughter Abigail was baptized at New Haven. At about that same time Edward became crippled. He "lived under great and sore affliction for ye space of 13 yeers, a pattern of faith, patience, humility and heavenlymindedness - (Michael Wigglesworth autobiogray as quoted in History of Malden Massachusetts 1633-1785) In the History of New Haven City to the Present Time written in 1887 Edward Atwater notes Edwards faithfulness in his description of a typical Sabbath "From every direction families are approaching the square. The limping Wigglesworth, whose lameness afterwards was so severe that he was not able to come to the meeting, and so is many times deprived of the ordinances, starting early from his house (which is in Chapel St. near the intersection since made by High St) is the first to enter the south door of the Sanctuary." In a letter Edward sent to John Winthrop 18 July 1652 he described his condition in detail as having begun when "I tooke a lift and strained myself, as I thought in the small of my back." This injury develped into progressive weakness, balance difficulties, numbness and muscle wasting over a twelve year period to the point "that I have not the ability to move one joint in my body, save only my neck a little." (Ibid) John Winthrop later became Governor of Connecticut and Edwards letter is preserved in the Winthrop-Davenport papers.
In his will, Edward left his son Michael 160 pounds and daughter Abigail 80 pounds directing that her share be paid to her when she reached 20 years of age. The residual he left to his wife Esther who he had made executrix of the will. He also committed the care of his wife and daughter to his son who, at the time, was at Cambridge studying medicine and theology. His instructions were that Michael "do endeavor, as far as he may with convenience, to have them near unto him wherever it pleaseth God to cast him."
Edward was buried in the meeting house green. When the current Center Church was built in 1814 it was built over a portion of the graveyard with the graves being preserved in a crypt below the church. In 1821 the headstones of those buried in the green were removed though the bodies were not. Those headstones were then placed in alphabetical order lining the wall of the newer Grove St. Cemetary. Edwards stone, however, was not removed along with the others as it was erroneously believed at the time to belong to a more famous former temporary resident of New Haven.
"There is however a stone on the green outside the walls of the church which is older than the Hodshun stone in the crypt. It is the stone, so small as to escape observation, inscribed E.W. standing near the inclosure of the Dixwell monument. It was too small seriously to obstruct either vision or motion, and was probably left in its original position because it was thought to be the tombstone of Edward Whalley, one of the regicide judges. A more critical age connects it with the memory of Edward Wigglesworth, who came in 1637 from Hedon, Yorkshire, and died in New Haven in 1653. (History of New Haven to the Present Time) In Papers of the New Haven Colony Historical Society Vol. 5 (1894) is written: "Edward Wigglesworth, a native of Hedon in Yorkshire whose memorial stone, marked E.W. in the rear of the Center Church, is sometimes mistaken for that of Edward Whalley the regicide.
The belief that Edward Wigglesworth grave was that of Edward Whalley was embraced when Rev. Ezra Stiles wrote A History Of Three Of The Judges of King Charles I published in 1794. These three men, Maj. Gen Edward Whalley, Maj. Gen William Goffe and Col. John Dixwell fled England in 1660 with the restoration of the monarchy. They lived and died under assumed names as many of the judges who signed King Charles death warrant were hunted down whether in England or elsewhere and executed. If they had already died, they were exhumed and publically hung. Warrants for the three New England fugitives arrest were issued and searches were made to apprehend them. All three men lived in New Haven for a time however only Dixwell remained until his death. Edward Whalley was known by a letter written by Goffe to have died in Hadley, Massachusetts about 1675 and to have been buried in the cellar of Rev. John Russell who had harboured Whalley & Goffe for about 15 years. Though Rev. Stiles knew and wrote of Whalleys burial in Rev Russells cellar, nevertheless, he put forward the theory that the bodies of Whalley and Goffe had been disinterred from their burials in Hadley and brought to New Haven to be buried with John Dixon.
Rev. Stiles visited the grave site and made a sketch of the head and footstone in which he depicts the headstone inscription as E W 1658 and the footstone as E W 1658 with a 7 etched over the 5. He believed the E W was deliberately cryptic to avoid identifying the grave as Whalleys and the 7 etched over the 5 to designate his year of death. He notes that his conclusion is unsupported, and that "on the whole I consider it by no means certain, yet rather probable that they all three lie buried in New Haven." Rev. Russells house was demolished 1794/95 (about the time Rev. Stiles book was printed) however the foundations and cellar remained undisturbed until about 1800 when human remains were found. Historian and Genealogist James Savage wrote: "both corpses were buried in his ground close to the foundation of his house, where, to contradict an absurd tradtion of the removal of the bones to New Haven, the authentic remains were, a few years since, ascertained by removal of the cellar wall for the railroad." Savage also wrote: "the stone wh. was fondly suppos. from the initial letters E.W. to have been erected over his remains at New Haven, belong, no doubt to the resting place of Edward Wigglesworth and bore date 1653 wh. was clumsi. attempt. to be alter. to 1673 or 8 as this might have been the year of his death. See Goffe.(Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England Vol 4) Multiple sources note the 3 in 1653 could be mistaken for an 8 on the weathered stone as well as noting the attempt to change the 5 to a 7 on the footstone as obvious while the 5 on the head stone was left untouched. Likewise muliple sources note that there are no records of anyone with the initial E W as having died and been buried in New Haven in either 1658 or 1678. Like Savage they conclude the grave is that of Edward Wigglesworth.
Whether the stone is still there or not I cannot say, but as the bodies from the green were not removed when the other stones were removed it can be known with certainty that Edward Wigglesworth is buried at the Center Church green. And it is certain that the confusion created by Dr. Stiles as to who is buried in the grave which was marked only with the initials E.W. and the date caused his stone to be left at the church rather than removed to the new cemetery. Likewise because of the interest in Edward Whalley, the regicide judge, the stone and burial location of Edward Wigglesworth is fixed in multiplereferences as : behind the church, near the wall and near to the Dixwell monument.
On 1 December 1640 their daughter Abigail was baptized at New Haven. At about that same time Edward became crippled. He "lived under great and sore affliction for ye space of 13 yeers, a pattern of faith, patience, humility and heavenlymindedness - (Michael Wigglesworth autobiogray as quoted in History of Malden Massachusetts 1633-1785) In the History of New Haven City to the Present Time written in 1887 Edward Atwater notes Edwards faithfulness in his description of a typical Sabbath "From every direction families are approaching the square. The limping Wigglesworth, whose lameness afterwards was so severe that he was not able to come to the meeting, and so is many times deprived of the ordinances, starting early from his house (which is in Chapel St. near the intersection since made by High St) is the first to enter the south door of the Sanctuary." In a letter Edward sent to John Winthrop 18 July 1652 he described his condition in detail as having begun when "I tooke a lift and strained myself, as I thought in the small of my back." This injury develped into progressive weakness, balance difficulties, numbness and muscle wasting over a twelve year period to the point "that I have not the ability to move one joint in my body, save only my neck a little." (Ibid) John Winthrop later became Governor of Connecticut and Edwards letter is preserved in the Winthrop-Davenport papers.
In his will, Edward left his son Michael 160 pounds and daughter Abigail 80 pounds directing that her share be paid to her when she reached 20 years of age. The residual he left to his wife Esther who he had made executrix of the will. He also committed the care of his wife and daughter to his son who, at the time, was at Cambridge studying medicine and theology. His instructions were that Michael "do endeavor, as far as he may with convenience, to have them near unto him wherever it pleaseth God to cast him."
Edward was buried in the meeting house green. When the current Center Church was built in 1814 it was built over a portion of the graveyard with the graves being preserved in a crypt below the church. In 1821 the headstones of those buried in the green were removed though the bodies were not. Those headstones were then placed in alphabetical order lining the wall of the newer Grove St. Cemetary. Edwards stone, however, was not removed along with the others as it was erroneously believed at the time to belong to a more famous former temporary resident of New Haven.
"There is however a stone on the green outside the walls of the church which is older than the Hodshun stone in the crypt. It is the stone, so small as to escape observation, inscribed E.W. standing near the inclosure of the Dixwell monument. It was too small seriously to obstruct either vision or motion, and was probably left in its original position because it was thought to be the tombstone of Edward Whalley, one of the regicide judges. A more critical age connects it with the memory of Edward Wigglesworth, who came in 1637 from Hedon, Yorkshire, and died in New Haven in 1653. (History of New Haven to the Present Time) In Papers of the New Haven Colony Historical Society Vol. 5 (1894) is written: "Edward Wigglesworth, a native of Hedon in Yorkshire whose memorial stone, marked E.W. in the rear of the Center Church, is sometimes mistaken for that of Edward Whalley the regicide.
The belief that Edward Wigglesworth grave was that of Edward Whalley was embraced when Rev. Ezra Stiles wrote A History Of Three Of The Judges of King Charles I published in 1794. These three men, Maj. Gen Edward Whalley, Maj. Gen William Goffe and Col. John Dixwell fled England in 1660 with the restoration of the monarchy. They lived and died under assumed names as many of the judges who signed King Charles death warrant were hunted down whether in England or elsewhere and executed. If they had already died, they were exhumed and publically hung. Warrants for the three New England fugitives arrest were issued and searches were made to apprehend them. All three men lived in New Haven for a time however only Dixwell remained until his death. Edward Whalley was known by a letter written by Goffe to have died in Hadley, Massachusetts about 1675 and to have been buried in the cellar of Rev. John Russell who had harboured Whalley & Goffe for about 15 years. Though Rev. Stiles knew and wrote of Whalleys burial in Rev Russells cellar, nevertheless, he put forward the theory that the bodies of Whalley and Goffe had been disinterred from their burials in Hadley and brought to New Haven to be buried with John Dixon.
Rev. Stiles visited the grave site and made a sketch of the head and footstone in which he depicts the headstone inscription as E W 1658 and the footstone as E W 1658 with a 7 etched over the 5. He believed the E W was deliberately cryptic to avoid identifying the grave as Whalleys and the 7 etched over the 5 to designate his year of death. He notes that his conclusion is unsupported, and that "on the whole I consider it by no means certain, yet rather probable that they all three lie buried in New Haven." Rev. Russells house was demolished 1794/95 (about the time Rev. Stiles book was printed) however the foundations and cellar remained undisturbed until about 1800 when human remains were found. Historian and Genealogist James Savage wrote: "both corpses were buried in his ground close to the foundation of his house, where, to contradict an absurd tradtion of the removal of the bones to New Haven, the authentic remains were, a few years since, ascertained by removal of the cellar wall for the railroad." Savage also wrote: "the stone wh. was fondly suppos. from the initial letters E.W. to have been erected over his remains at New Haven, belong, no doubt to the resting place of Edward Wigglesworth and bore date 1653 wh. was clumsi. attempt. to be alter. to 1673 or 8 as this might have been the year of his death. See Goffe.(Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England Vol 4) Multiple sources note the 3 in 1653 could be mistaken for an 8 on the weathered stone as well as noting the attempt to change the 5 to a 7 on the footstone as obvious while the 5 on the head stone was left untouched. Likewise muliple sources note that there are no records of anyone with the initial E W as having died and been buried in New Haven in either 1658 or 1678. Like Savage they conclude the grave is that of Edward Wigglesworth.
Whether the stone is still there or not I cannot say, but as the bodies from the green were not removed when the other stones were removed it can be known with certainty that Edward Wigglesworth is buried at the Center Church green. And it is certain that the confusion created by Dr. Stiles as to who is buried in the grave which was marked only with the initials E.W. and the date caused his stone to be left at the church rather than removed to the new cemetery. Likewise because of the interest in Edward Whalley, the regicide judge, the stone and burial location of Edward Wigglesworth is fixed in multiplereferences as : behind the church, near the wall and near to the Dixwell monument.
Edward Wigglesworth married Esther Middlebrook 27 October 1629 in Wrawby, Lincolnshire, England. Prior to 1638 they made their home in Hedon, Yorkshire, England. On 18 October 1631 they had a son they named Michael. In Yorkshire Edward and Esther were "meeting with opposition and persecution for religion because they went from their own parish church to hear ye word & receive ye Lords supper, took up resolutions to pluck up their stakes and remove to New England. They landed at Charlestown in 1638. After seven weeks stay the family removed by sea to New Haven, Connecticut in the month of October." (History of Malden, Massachusetts 1633-1785) Son Michael later wrote: "Winter approaching, we dwelt in a cellar partly underground covered with earth the first winter" (ibid.) "Excavations in the high banks of the West Creek roughly covered with sod, were doubtless the cellars to which frequent reference is made in our earlier records" (Papers of the New Haven Historical Society Vol. 5 1894)
On 1 December 1640 their daughter Abigail was baptized at New Haven. At about that same time Edward became crippled. He "lived under great and sore affliction for ye space of 13 yeers, a pattern of faith, patience, humility and heavenlymindedness - (Michael Wigglesworth autobiogray as quoted in History of Malden Massachusetts 1633-1785) In the History of New Haven City to the Present Time written in 1887 Edward Atwater notes Edwards faithfulness in his description of a typical Sabbath "From every direction families are approaching the square. The limping Wigglesworth, whose lameness afterwards was so severe that he was not able to come to the meeting, and so is many times deprived of the ordinances, starting early from his house (which is in Chapel St. near the intersection since made by High St) is the first to enter the south door of the Sanctuary." In a letter Edward sent to John Winthrop 18 July 1652 he described his condition in detail as having begun when "I tooke a lift and strained myself, as I thought in the small of my back." This injury develped into progressive weakness, balance difficulties, numbness and muscle wasting over a twelve year period to the point "that I have not the ability to move one joint in my body, save only my neck a little." (Ibid) John Winthrop later became Governor of Connecticut and Edwards letter is preserved in the Winthrop-Davenport papers.
In his will, Edward left his son Michael 160 pounds and daughter Abigail 80 pounds directing that her share be paid to her when she reached 20 years of age. The residual he left to his wife Esther who he had made executrix of the will. He also committed the care of his wife and daughter to his son who, at the time, was at Cambridge studying medicine and theology. His instructions were that Michael "do endeavor, as far as he may with convenience, to have them near unto him wherever it pleaseth God to cast him."
Edward was buried in the meeting house green. When the current Center Church was built in 1814 it was built over a portion of the graveyard with the graves being preserved in a crypt below the church. In 1821 the headstones of those buried in the green were removed though the bodies were not. Those headstones were then placed in alphabetical order lining the wall of the newer Grove St. Cemetary. Edwards stone, however, was not removed along with the others as it was erroneously believed at the time to belong to a more famous former temporary resident of New Haven.
"There is however a stone on the green outside the walls of the church which is older than the Hodshun stone in the crypt. It is the stone, so small as to escape observation, inscribed E.W. standing near the inclosure of the Dixwell monument. It was too small seriously to obstruct either vision or motion, and was probably left in its original position because it was thought to be the tombstone of Edward Whalley, one of the regicide judges. A more critical age connects it with the memory of Edward Wigglesworth, who came in 1637 from Hedon, Yorkshire, and died in New Haven in 1653. (History of New Haven to the Present Time) In Papers of the New Haven Colony Historical Society Vol. 5 (1894) is written: "Edward Wigglesworth, a native of Hedon in Yorkshire whose memorial stone, marked E.W. in the rear of the Center Church, is sometimes mistaken for that of Edward Whalley the regicide.
The belief that Edward Wigglesworth grave was that of Edward Whalley was embraced when Rev. Ezra Stiles wrote A History Of Three Of The Judges of King Charles I published in 1794. These three men, Maj. Gen Edward Whalley, Maj. Gen William Goffe and Col. John Dixwell fled England in 1660 with the restoration of the monarchy. They lived and died under assumed names as many of the judges who signed King Charles death warrant were hunted down whether in England or elsewhere and executed. If they had already died, they were exhumed and publically hung. Warrants for the three New England fugitives arrest were issued and searches were made to apprehend them. All three men lived in New Haven for a time however only Dixwell remained until his death. Edward Whalley was known by a letter written by Goffe to have died in Hadley, Massachusetts about 1675 and to have been buried in the cellar of Rev. John Russell who had harboured Whalley & Goffe for about 15 years. Though Rev. Stiles knew and wrote of Whalleys burial in Rev Russells cellar, nevertheless, he put forward the theory that the bodies of Whalley and Goffe had been disinterred from their burials in Hadley and brought to New Haven to be buried with John Dixon.
Rev. Stiles visited the grave site and made a sketch of the head and footstone in which he depicts the headstone inscription as E W 1658 and the footstone as E W 1658 with a 7 etched over the 5. He believed the E W was deliberately cryptic to avoid identifying the grave as Whalleys and the 7 etched over the 5 to designate his year of death. He notes that his conclusion is unsupported, and that "on the whole I consider it by no means certain, yet rather probable that they all three lie buried in New Haven." Rev. Russells house was demolished 1794/95 (about the time Rev. Stiles book was printed) however the foundations and cellar remained undisturbed until about 1800 when human remains were found. Historian and Genealogist James Savage wrote: "both corpses were buried in his ground close to the foundation of his house, where, to contradict an absurd tradtion of the removal of the bones to New Haven, the authentic remains were, a few years since, ascertained by removal of the cellar wall for the railroad." Savage also wrote: "the stone wh. was fondly suppos. from the initial letters E.W. to have been erected over his remains at New Haven, belong, no doubt to the resting place of Edward Wigglesworth and bore date 1653 wh. was clumsi. attempt. to be alter. to 1673 or 8 as this might have been the year of his death. See Goffe.(Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England Vol 4) Multiple sources note the 3 in 1653 could be mistaken for an 8 on the weathered stone as well as noting the attempt to change the 5 to a 7 on the footstone as obvious while the 5 on the head stone was left untouched. Likewise muliple sources note that there are no records of anyone with the initial E W as having died and been buried in New Haven in either 1658 or 1678. Like Savage they conclude the grave is that of Edward Wigglesworth.
Whether the stone is still there or not I cannot say, but as the bodies from the green were not removed when the other stones were removed it can be known with certainty that Edward Wigglesworth is buried at the Center Church green. And it is certain that the confusion created by Dr. Stiles as to who is buried in the grave which was marked only with the initials E.W. and the date caused his stone to be left at the church rather than removed to the new cemetery. Likewise because of the interest in Edward Whalley, the regicide judge, the stone and burial location of Edward Wigglesworth is fixed in multiplereferences as : behind the church, near the wall and near to the Dixwell monument.
On 1 December 1640 their daughter Abigail was baptized at New Haven. At about that same time Edward became crippled. He "lived under great and sore affliction for ye space of 13 yeers, a pattern of faith, patience, humility and heavenlymindedness - (Michael Wigglesworth autobiogray as quoted in History of Malden Massachusetts 1633-1785) In the History of New Haven City to the Present Time written in 1887 Edward Atwater notes Edwards faithfulness in his description of a typical Sabbath "From every direction families are approaching the square. The limping Wigglesworth, whose lameness afterwards was so severe that he was not able to come to the meeting, and so is many times deprived of the ordinances, starting early from his house (which is in Chapel St. near the intersection since made by High St) is the first to enter the south door of the Sanctuary." In a letter Edward sent to John Winthrop 18 July 1652 he described his condition in detail as having begun when "I tooke a lift and strained myself, as I thought in the small of my back." This injury develped into progressive weakness, balance difficulties, numbness and muscle wasting over a twelve year period to the point "that I have not the ability to move one joint in my body, save only my neck a little." (Ibid) John Winthrop later became Governor of Connecticut and Edwards letter is preserved in the Winthrop-Davenport papers.
In his will, Edward left his son Michael 160 pounds and daughter Abigail 80 pounds directing that her share be paid to her when she reached 20 years of age. The residual he left to his wife Esther who he had made executrix of the will. He also committed the care of his wife and daughter to his son who, at the time, was at Cambridge studying medicine and theology. His instructions were that Michael "do endeavor, as far as he may with convenience, to have them near unto him wherever it pleaseth God to cast him."
Edward was buried in the meeting house green. When the current Center Church was built in 1814 it was built over a portion of the graveyard with the graves being preserved in a crypt below the church. In 1821 the headstones of those buried in the green were removed though the bodies were not. Those headstones were then placed in alphabetical order lining the wall of the newer Grove St. Cemetary. Edwards stone, however, was not removed along with the others as it was erroneously believed at the time to belong to a more famous former temporary resident of New Haven.
"There is however a stone on the green outside the walls of the church which is older than the Hodshun stone in the crypt. It is the stone, so small as to escape observation, inscribed E.W. standing near the inclosure of the Dixwell monument. It was too small seriously to obstruct either vision or motion, and was probably left in its original position because it was thought to be the tombstone of Edward Whalley, one of the regicide judges. A more critical age connects it with the memory of Edward Wigglesworth, who came in 1637 from Hedon, Yorkshire, and died in New Haven in 1653. (History of New Haven to the Present Time) In Papers of the New Haven Colony Historical Society Vol. 5 (1894) is written: "Edward Wigglesworth, a native of Hedon in Yorkshire whose memorial stone, marked E.W. in the rear of the Center Church, is sometimes mistaken for that of Edward Whalley the regicide.
The belief that Edward Wigglesworth grave was that of Edward Whalley was embraced when Rev. Ezra Stiles wrote A History Of Three Of The Judges of King Charles I published in 1794. These three men, Maj. Gen Edward Whalley, Maj. Gen William Goffe and Col. John Dixwell fled England in 1660 with the restoration of the monarchy. They lived and died under assumed names as many of the judges who signed King Charles death warrant were hunted down whether in England or elsewhere and executed. If they had already died, they were exhumed and publically hung. Warrants for the three New England fugitives arrest were issued and searches were made to apprehend them. All three men lived in New Haven for a time however only Dixwell remained until his death. Edward Whalley was known by a letter written by Goffe to have died in Hadley, Massachusetts about 1675 and to have been buried in the cellar of Rev. John Russell who had harboured Whalley & Goffe for about 15 years. Though Rev. Stiles knew and wrote of Whalleys burial in Rev Russells cellar, nevertheless, he put forward the theory that the bodies of Whalley and Goffe had been disinterred from their burials in Hadley and brought to New Haven to be buried with John Dixon.
Rev. Stiles visited the grave site and made a sketch of the head and footstone in which he depicts the headstone inscription as E W 1658 and the footstone as E W 1658 with a 7 etched over the 5. He believed the E W was deliberately cryptic to avoid identifying the grave as Whalleys and the 7 etched over the 5 to designate his year of death. He notes that his conclusion is unsupported, and that "on the whole I consider it by no means certain, yet rather probable that they all three lie buried in New Haven." Rev. Russells house was demolished 1794/95 (about the time Rev. Stiles book was printed) however the foundations and cellar remained undisturbed until about 1800 when human remains were found. Historian and Genealogist James Savage wrote: "both corpses were buried in his ground close to the foundation of his house, where, to contradict an absurd tradtion of the removal of the bones to New Haven, the authentic remains were, a few years since, ascertained by removal of the cellar wall for the railroad." Savage also wrote: "the stone wh. was fondly suppos. from the initial letters E.W. to have been erected over his remains at New Haven, belong, no doubt to the resting place of Edward Wigglesworth and bore date 1653 wh. was clumsi. attempt. to be alter. to 1673 or 8 as this might have been the year of his death. See Goffe.(Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England Vol 4) Multiple sources note the 3 in 1653 could be mistaken for an 8 on the weathered stone as well as noting the attempt to change the 5 to a 7 on the footstone as obvious while the 5 on the head stone was left untouched. Likewise muliple sources note that there are no records of anyone with the initial E W as having died and been buried in New Haven in either 1658 or 1678. Like Savage they conclude the grave is that of Edward Wigglesworth.
Whether the stone is still there or not I cannot say, but as the bodies from the green were not removed when the other stones were removed it can be known with certainty that Edward Wigglesworth is buried at the Center Church green. And it is certain that the confusion created by Dr. Stiles as to who is buried in the grave which was marked only with the initials E.W. and the date caused his stone to be left at the church rather than removed to the new cemetery. Likewise because of the interest in Edward Whalley, the regicide judge, the stone and burial location of Edward Wigglesworth is fixed in multiplereferences as : behind the church, near the wall and near to the Dixwell monument.
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Headstone inscribed: E W 1653 (1658) Footstone Inscribed: E W 1653 (1658 with a 7 etched over the 5) see bio.
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