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Scintilla,

Thanks for the look up. 1607 matches my William's approximate birthdate.
Don't know about a father named Hugh or a sister Elizabeth.

One account has it my William and his mother moved to Massachusetts after his father's death. Early records of East Hampton, Long Island mention Maidstone, Kent having been William's home city. Other accounts say William was already married when he moved to New England.

I did bump into a parish removal record on-line of a Rhychyrd Edwardes (in St Aslaph?) who was  the right age to be William's father. This spelling of Richard seems Welsh. Maybe this Richard was moving from Wales to Kent at that time.

Tom,
I'm a descendant of William Edwards of Maidstone. He landed in Taunton, MA sometime around 1643, then made his way to Long Island, NY where he settled. Many of his descendants have lived their lives on Long Island, and others, like the part of the family I came from, moved up into Connecticut. We're relatives. Nice to make your acquaintance.

Here is a website that has many Long Island genealogy resources. http://longislandgenealogy.com/

More to the point, however, is the actual family tree data of the Long Island William Edwards family in .pdf format. which is here: http://longislandgenealogy.com/edwards.pdf

Here's my genealogy from that document:
11) James M. Edwards son of
10) Earle Clifford Edwards, son of
9) Earle Cecil Edwards, son of
8') Walter Loren Edwards, son of
7) Robert Ransom Edwards, son of
6) Touisant Edwards, son of
5) Jonathan Edwards (not the famous New England minister), son of
4) Timothy Edwards, son of
3) John Edwards, son of
2) John Edwards, son of
1) William Edwards and Ann Cole