Category: Sarah Pierpont

  • A Father’s Prayer for His Daughter

    Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) and his wife Sarah Pierpont (1710-1758) had eleven children (three sons and eight daughters). One of their daughters was Mary Edwards (1734-1807) who became the wife of Timothy Dwight Jr. (1726-1777). When Mary was fifteen years old and was in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Jonathan Edwards wrote her a letter of comfort and…