Baptist ministry. I find also that one "Enoch Edwards" was baptised June 5, 1769, in the First Baptist Church, Philadelphia, of which the Rev. Morgan Edwards was the pastor from 1761 until 1772. (Boogher's Reposi tory, p. 16.) I would appreciate any biographical additions to what I have, concerning Doctor Enoch Edwards, particularly the dates of his birth and death and incidentally some account of his family. CHARLES HENRY HART. DOCTOR ENOCH EDWARDS: Since writing the above query I have found that Doctor Enoch Edwards was a delegate, from Philadelphia county, to the Pennsylvania Convention of 1787 to ratify the Constitution of the United States and consequently there is a biographical notice of him in Egle's Sketches of the Members, published in the PENNA. MAG. OF HIST. AND BIOG. (vol. xi, p. 74). From it I glean that he was the son of ALEXANDER EDWARDS and was born in Lower Dublin township, Philadelphia county, in 1751. 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