Subject:  American Minute - Oct. 5 - Jonathan Edwards & the "Jukes" Study
Date:  Thu, 4 Oct 2007 20:27:32 -0500
American Minute with Bill Federer

October 5

He entered Yale College at age 13 and graduated with honors.

He became a pastor, and his sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of An Angry
God," started the Great Awakening, a revival that swept America,
uniting the colonies prior to the Revolution.

He became President of Princeton College. His name was Jonathan
Edwards and he was born OCTOBER 5, 1703.

Jonathan married Sarah Pierrepont, and according to "A Study in
Education and Heredity" by A.E. Winship (1900), their descendants
included a U.S. Vice-President, 3 U.S. Senators, 3 governors, 3
mayors, 13 college presidents, 30 judges, 65 professors, 80 public
office holders, 100 lawyers and 100 missionaries.

This same study examined a family known as "Jukes."

In 1877, while visiting New York's prisons, Richard Dugdale found
inmates with 42 different last names all descending from one man,
called "Max." Born around 1720 of Dutch stock, Max was a hard
drinker, idle, irreverent and uneducated.

His descendants included 310 paupers, who, combined spent 2,300 years
in poorhouses, 50 women of debauchery, 400 physically wrecked by
indulgent living, 7 murderers, 60 thieves, and 130 other convicts.

The "Jukes" descendants cost the state more than $1,250,000.



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