An account of the life and public services of Captain Cader Edwards : a native of Wales and a soldier of the American Revolution/ by his great grandson, Cyrus Edwards

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Cover title: An account of the life and public services of Captain Cader Edwards, a native of Wales and a soldier of the American Revolution, who died in Holston Settlements, which is now Sullivan County, Tennessee in the month of March 1782, with some mention of his numerous descendants as far as known to the writer hereof.

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Cader Edwards was born in 1705 in Wales. His father, David Edwards, was a sea captain. Cader was also a sea captain and he supported his parents after his father's retirement until his mother's death in 1750. At that time he changed his residence to Baltimore, Maryland. He then married his landlady's daughter and settled in Greenbrier County, Virginia and took up farming. In 1764 they moved to North Carolina. He assisted in the cause of the American Revolution but was was not allowed to enlist because of his advanced age. He settled in Sullivan County, Tennessee in 1778 and died there in 1782.

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