Thomas Edgerton, Sr. was born in 1710 in Colledine, Ireland. He emigrated to New Jersey sometime after 1732. He married Sarah Stephens in 1733 at the Haddonfield Friends (Quaker) Meeting. Their son, Thomas Jr., was born in 1735. Thomas Sr. died in Haddonfield, New Jersey in 1768. Thomas Jr. moved to North Carolina where he married Sarah Cox in Neuse River in 1778. They had five children whose descendants settled primarily in North Carolina.