 He died in Newtown, Fairfield County, Connecticut on August 1, 1838 and was buried in Newtown Village Cemetery with his two wives, Elizabeth J. Chandler and Elizabeth Payne, and his children Mary E., Elizabeth, Sarah, William Payne, Ann M. and Robert Edmond Edmond, M.D.His obituary from the Daily National Intelligencer (DC), Sep. 22, 1838, p. 3 reads,
"DEATHS.At Newtown, Conn. Hon.