DOWNING, Sarah Isabella

  Noted events in her life were:

• Notes about life. Isabella's father was *SIR GEORGE THOMAS DOWNING M.P., who was keeper of the Palace at Whitehall and the first resident of Number 10 Downing Street in London, the present-day home of the British Prime Ministers. At the beginning of the Revolutionary War, her husband SIR THOMAS, although very old, was active in supporting the English government and became personally responsible for goods bought in New York for the British Army. (Even though his grandson Andrew Jackson Edwards was fighting for the Colonies)

At about that time he died, and Robert Edwards II administered the estate.

Sarah married Sir Thomas Nathaniel EDWARDS, son of Robert Hael EDWARDS and Margaret CUELIN, in Mar 1714. (Sir Thomas Nathaniel EDWARDS was born on 14 Oct 1690 and died on 2 Nov 1781 in Harford CT.)