Jane Gregg Edgar was the wife of newcomer merchant David Edgar. She was born during the early 1720s. Married in Dublin in 1753, she accompanied her husband to America where he became a frontier trader based in Albany.

Their marriage produced several children and she became an Albany mainstay. Her husband died in 1776 leaving her trapped in wartime Albany. Without David's business activities, her fortune dwindled leaving her "in misery and want." In August 1780, she applied to Governor George Clinton for permission to take her four children and servants to Canada where her husband had owned property. Clinton was moved to grant her petition. However, others intervened and her permission was withdrawn.

In 1788, she was a boarder in the first ward home of George Nestle. Two years later, she was still in Albany and living in her son's second ward home. Jane Gregg Edgar died in September 1800 at the age of seventy-seven. She had lived in Albany for more than forty years.

Sources: The life of Jane Gregg Edgar is CAP biography number 7916. This profile is derived chiefly from family and community-based resources.