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Subject: [EDWARDS-L] The Edwards Heirs II
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 15:18:31 EST

Hi all - The folowing article is reprinted from The Atlanta Journal,
Atlanta, Ga., February 22, 1925, issue. (This article is reprinted in The
Edwards Journal, Vol. 1, No. 2 Apr-Jun, 1983)

Legal Action Against Trinity Corporation Is First Step in an Effort to
Establish
Claim to Property in the Heart of New York's Financial District,
Including Parts of
Wall Street and Two of the World's Largest Office Buildings

By Cecil M. Jones

SPARTANBURG, S.C. -- Folowing the filing of a suit in New York courts on
January 25 by Albert J. Edwards, of Los Angeles, and Wesley J. Edwards, of
Guilford County, North Carolins, brothers, against the Trinity Church
Corporation, which owns Trinity church and its famous burial ground and other
properties in the heart of the Manhattan financial district valued at more
then $10,000,000, descendants of the Edwards family in this section have again
become active and representatives of the Edwards Heirs, Inc., left for New
York to enter another suit, or, cooperate with the brothers in the one already
filed.

While the two brothers are trying to gain possession of the land held by
Trinity church, the Edwards Heirs, Inc., probably will concentrate their
efforts on property on the east side of Broadway which includes Wall Street,
while members of the family from Alabama and Ohio, who also sent a delegation
to New York recently, will work on properties close to Trinity on the west
side of the street, on which stand the Woolworth, Singer and other world-
famous buildings.

The properties embraced in the three claims total about 69 acres of land
in lower Manhattan, eighteen blocks long and six wide. Various estimates as
to its value have been made, running from three to six billion dollars.

Members of the Edwards family claim that Robert Edwards, a ship captain
of prerevolutionary days, obtained the land under a charter granted by King
George III of England. He is said to have leased the land in 1772 to John
and George Kruger, brothers. The Krugers later subleased it to various
persons, among the leases being one to Trinity church. All were to run for a
period of 99 years. Robert Edwards later died intestate.

Since this is also a long account I will do it in sections. Carol

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