Week 11 - Fortune

 Week 11 - Fortune


This week’s entry involves my cousin Jackie’s ancestors:


Could Jackie be a long-lost heiress? 

There is plenty of DNA evidence that shows Jackie is somehow connected to a Hatley family connected to Robert Edwards.  While it is unverified as of March 2019, it appears that Jackie’s 4th great grandmother could very well be Martha Edwards, married to Sherwood Hatley.  Which makes this story found on Ancestry very interesting:


Edwards Millions

1877

New York City

Martha Edwards, wife of Sherwood Hatley had an unmarried brother, Robert Edwards, who owned a valuable new York City property late in the 18th century and all his legal heirs were being advised to take a claim in this 18th long-ago Edwards estate (77 acres on Wall St., now thought to amount to 650 billion dollars).  The legend: the fortune is said to result from a lease in 1778 by a Welshman, Robert Edwards, of approximately 77 acres of land in New York, forming what is now a significant part of Manhattan and on which stands not only Wall Street and Broadway, but such valuable properties as The Stock Exchange and The World Trade Centre. The land was leased to the brothers John and George Cruger for 99 years with the condition that thereafter it would revert to the heirs of Robert Edwards named in the lease as his brothers William, Jacob, Leonard, Joshua, John and Thomas and his sister Martha. The lease expired in 1877 and ever since families called Edwards have been trying to stake claim to the fortune on the basis that they were descended from one of Robert's heirs. 

(Of course by this time there are probably so many descendants that even if they gained the property, each would probably have about $5's worth.)


 Submitted by RonSmothers4433 https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/collection/1030/tree/120308623/person/410196797868/media/ed30f2c0-1380-4fbe-9e2d-4b23cd904719?_phsrc=CTN43&usePUBJs=true







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