Archer and Sylvester Families: The Goodwin

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Title	Archer and Sylvester Families
Author	Dr. Robert Archer
Publisher	The William Byrd Press, Inc., Richmond, VA [April 1937 for Andrew D. Christian, a great grandsone of Dr Archer. ]
Source ID	S6
Text	My grandfather, Edward Archer, was born in Bermuda. I have no record that throws any light on his early history, or that of my grandmother. The old family Bible which I presume contained it, and which I rememeber when a child, has long since disappeared; but in St Paul's Church yard in Norfolk, there are three tombs in good preservation containing the remains of my grandmother and her deceased children: the slab which covered my grandfather is gone. I rememeber it was broken and sacrilegious hand has removed the fragments. I am therefore uncertain as to the date of his death, althoughI believe it was about the beginning of the Revolution; but I am more fortunate in being able to fix the time of his birth, for on the back of his protratint now in my possession, painted in the year 1769, his age is given as 56. This would make 1713 the year of his birth. As his first child was born in 1734, it is probably he settled in Norfolk some where about 1732 when 18 or 19 years of age.
Linked to	Edward Archer Edward Archer, , Capt Edward Sylvester Archer Eliza Frances Archer Samuel Bedfore Archer Susan Archer Mary Dail Mary Thornington Sylvester Edward Valentine Family: Edward Archer / Mary Cocke