Edwards, Catherine (b. )

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Fenhagen
Title: Mary Pringle Fenhagen, "John Edwards and Some of His Descendants" (The S
outh Carolina Magazine of History and Genealogy)
outh Carolina Magazine of History and Genealogy.

Given Name: Catherine

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Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Fenhagen
Title: Mary Pringle Fenhagen, "John Edwards and Some of His Descendants" (The S
outh Carolina Magazine of History and Genealogy)
outh Carolina Magazine of History and Genealogy.

Given Name: Rebecca

Death: 26 JUN 1798

Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Fenhagen
Title: Mary Pringle Fenhagen, "John Edwards and Some of His Descendants" (The S
outh Carolina Magazine of History and Genealogy)
outh Carolina Magazine of History and Genealogy.

Given Name: John Bee

Death: 5 SEP 1827

Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Fenhagen
Title: Mary Pringle Fenhagen, "John Edwards and Some of His Descendants" (The S
outh Carolina Magazine of History and Genealogy)
outh Carolina Magazine of History and Genealogy.

Given Name: Mary

Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Fenhagen
Title: Mary Pringle Fenhagen, "John Edwards and Some of His Descendants" (The S
outh Carolina Magazine of History and Genealogy)
outh Carolina Magazine of History and Genealogy.

Given Name: William

Death: BEF 12 NOV 1820

Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Fenhagen
Title: Mary Pringle Fenhagen, "John Edwards and Some of His Descendants" (The S
outh Carolina Magazine of History and Genealogy)
outh Carolina Magazine of History and Genealogy.

Given Name: Philip

Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Fenhagen
Title: Mary Pringle Fenhagen, "John Edwards and Some of His Descendants" (The S
outh Carolina Magazine of History and Genealogy)
outh Carolina Magazine of History and Genealogy.

Given Name: Alexander DeSaussure

Death: young

Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Fenhagen
Title: Mary Pringle Fenhagen, "John Edwards and Some of His Descendants" (The S
outh Carolina Magazine of History and Genealogy)
outh Carolina Magazine of History and Genealogy.

Given Name: Henry Williams

Death: young

Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Fenhagen
Title: Mary Pringle Fenhagen, "John Edwards and Some of His Descendants" (The S
outh Carolina Magazine of History and Genealogy)
outh Carolina Magazine of History and Genealogy.

Given Name: John Daniel

Death: ABT 1857

Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Fenhagen
Title: Mary Pringle Fenhagen, "John Edwards and Some of His Descendants" (The S
outh Carolina Magazine of History and Genealogy)
outh Carolina Magazine of History and Genealogy.

Given Name: Alexander McPherson

Death: young

Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Fenhagen
Title: Mary Pringle Fenhagen, "John Edwards and Some of His Descendants" (The S
outh Carolina Magazine of History and Genealogy)
outh Carolina Magazine of History and Genealogy.

Given Name: Sarah Amelia

Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Fenhagen
Title: Mary Pringle Fenhagen, "John Edwards and Some of His Descendants" (The S
outh Carolina Magazine of History and Genealogy)
outh Carolina Magazine of History and Genealogy.

Given Name: Abigail

Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Fenhagen
Title: Mary Pringle Fenhagen, "John Edwards and Some of His Descendants" (The S
outh Carolina Magazine of History and Genealogy)
outh Carolina Magazine of History and Genealogy.

Given Name: Malachai

Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: TG
Title: The Genealogist Magazine

Data:
Text: "Ancestors of Elizabeth Archer, Grandmother of Anne Stacie Who Was Wife of Thomas Fitch of early Norwalk, Connecticut" by Myrtle Stevens Hyde, Spring, 1998, pp. 91-98.

Given Name: Alice

Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: TG
Title: The Genealogist Magazine

Data:
Text: "Ancestors of Elizabeth Archer, Grandmother of Anne Stacie Who Was Wife of Thomas Fitch of early Norwalk, Connecticut" by Myrtle Stevens Hyde, Spring, 1998, pp. 91-98.

Given Name: Henry

Death: BEF 9 APR 1559

Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: TG
Title: The Genealogist Magazine

Data:
Text: "Ancestors of Elizabeth Archer, Grandmother of Anne Stacie Who Was Wife of Thomas Fitch of early Norwalk, Connecticut" by Myrtle Stevens Hyde, Spring, 1998, pp. 91-98.

Given Name: John

Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: TG
Title: The Genealogist Magazine

Data:
Text: "Ancestors of Elizabeth Archer, Grandmother of Anne Stacie Who Was Wife of Thomas Fitch of early Norwalk, Connecticut" by Myrtle Stevens Hyde, Spring, 1998, pp. 91-98.

Given Name: Ellen

Death: 1546

Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: TG
Title: The Genealogist Magazine

Data:
Text: "Ancestors of Elizabeth Archer, Grandmother of Anne Stacie Who Was Wife of Thomas Fitch of early Norwalk, Connecticut" by Myrtle Stevens Hyde, Spring, 1998, pp. 91-98.

Given Name: John

Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003

Note: William Burrows commanded the sloop-of-war Enterprise in its battle with the Royal Navy brig <i>Boxer</i>, one of the most famous naval episodes in the War of 1812.

Educated in the classics, and speaking both French and German fluently, Burrows was warranted a midshipman in 1799 and joined the frigate U.S.S. <i>Portsmouth </i>in January 1800. During his cruise on the Portsmouth he participated in the capture of two French privateers. In 1803 he was posted aboard the U.S.S. Constitution as an acting lieutenant and served on her all during the Tripolitan war. He also served aboard the President and the Hornet, serving on the latter as first lieutenant.

In 1811 he took a leave of absence for a year and sailed to India and China on board the merchant ship <i>Thomas Penrose.</i> On his return the vessel was captured by a British ship, the War of 1812 having broken out, and he was taken to Barbados as a prisoner of war. He was soon paroled and on his return to the United States was given command of the 16-gun <i>Enterprise.
</i>

Sailing from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on Sep 5 1813, he fell in with the <i>Boxer </i>off Portland, Maine, the next day, and a fierce forty-five minute engagement followed. The British captain was cut in two by chain shot and Burrows himself was mortally wounded, but lived long enough to accept the British surrender.

The <i>Enterprise </i>and its captive put into Portland, and there the two captains were buried side by side, where they remain to this day, a touching monument to a long-forgotten family quarrel among the English-speaking peoples.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, a native of Portland, wrote of the battle in his famous poem "My Lost Youth":

I remember the sea-fight far away
How it thundered o'er the tide!
And the dead captains, as they lay
In their graves, o'erlooking the tranquil bay,
Where they in battle died.
And the sound of the mournful song
Goes through me with a thrill:
A boy's will is the wind's will,
And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.

Congress awarded a gold medal to his nearest surviving male relative and two ships in the U.S. Navy, DD-29 in the First World War and DE-105 in the Second were named for him. The name of his ship, Enterprise, has been borne by a number of United States naval vessels since, most notably the aircraft carrier that fought gallantly throughout the Second World War in the Pacific. She was one of the three American carriers at the Battle of Midway, facing a vastly superior Japanese fleet. And it was from her deck that the dive-bomber strike that sank four Japanese carriers and carried the day was launched. It gave the United States Navy the greatest victory in its history, one that ranks in consequence with Salamis and Trafalgar. The current U.S.S. <i>Enterprise</i>, the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, was built in the 1960's.

There are articles on Captain Burrows in the <i>Dictionary of American Biography</i> and <i>American National Biography.</i>

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: DAB
Title: Dictionary of American Biography

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: SCHGM
Title: South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine

Data:
Text: "The William Burrows House of Charleston" by Harriett P and Alberts Simons, Vol. 70 (1969), pp. 155-176.

Given Name: William

Death: 6 SEP 1813 at sea, off Portland, Maine

Change: Date: 5 Apr 2003

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Faris
Title: David Faris, Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists: The D
escent from the Later Plantagenet Kings of England, Henry III, Edward I
, Edward II, and Edward III, of Emigrants from England and Wales to the N
orth American Colonies before 1701 (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical P
ublishing Company, 1996)
escent from the Later Plantagenet Kings of England, Henry III, Edward I
, Edward II, and Edward III, of Emigrants from England and Wales to the N
orth American Colonies before 1701
escent from the Later Plantagenet Kings of England, Henry III, Edward I
, Edward II, and Edward III, of Emigrants from England and Wales to the N
orth American Colonies before 1701. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical P
ublishing Company, 1996.

Given Name: Margaret

Death: 9 APR 1342

Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003