Edward, the eldest son of Balthazar, the ancestor of the branches of the family traced in this work, was a man of property, like his father living in Lyme, and highly respected. He was not only a carpenter, but a millwright, the builder and operator of two saw-mills, and a grist-mill. "That his high standing, integrity and good judgment," says Mr. Dolph, were well-known is proven by the fact that in, 1682, after long delays and difficulties between the people of New London and their contractors for building their new church, Edward de Wolf, of Lyme, and John Frinck, of Stonington. were called upon to go to New London and arbitrate between the builders and the people. It is recorded in the Lyme record that in May, 1686, the town of Lyme laid out to Edward De Wolf twenty-two acres of land on account of his work for the town in the matter of the new meeting house. In 1688, Edward settled upon the Eight Mile River, and in the same year liberty was granted to him to build a grist-mill. He subsequently built a second saw-mill near his home on the Eight Mile River. He lived near one of his mill sites, near the village of Laysville." "There was some condition or quality, either in education, character, family, respect, ability, personal attractions or other 'unknown quantity' which enabled them to marry into some of the best families in Lyme and the neighboring towns." (Salisbury work). Such families were the Lees; Lieutenant Thomas Lee marrying Mary, daughter of Balthazar de Wolf; the Griswolds, Matthew Griswold, who became the second husband of Mary, being "the largest landowner and most leading man in Lyme;" the Douglas family of New London; the Lays, Mathers, Calkins, Watermans, etc.