Ten of Edwards’s eleven children survived to adulthood, above the colonial average

Evidence

The eleven children: ten of them survived to adulthood — substantially better than the contemporaneous colonial-New-England average. Several of them — Sarah, Esther, Jonathan Jr. specifically — became substantively prominent figures in their own right. Esther Edwards Burr married Aaron Burr Sr. — the second president of the College of New Jersey, later Princeton — and was the mother of Aaron Burr Jr., the third Vice President of the United States. — , The Rod and the Child, 3145