Edward Antill

Edward Antill (March 20 1658/1659–bef. April 7, 1725) was an English-born American merchant and attorney prominent in the early history of the Province of New York and the Province of New Jersey during the colonial period. He was the father of colonial politician and plantation owner Edward Antill (1701–1770) and grandfather of Lt. Colonel Edward Antill (1742–1789) who served as an officer in the Continental Army notably at the Battle of Quebec.

Antill was born on 20 March 1658/1659 in Richmond, County Surrey, England. Antill rose to prominence as an attorney and a merchant importing goods and slaves from the West Indies in the late seventeenth century. Antill was among the proprietors who signed the documents surrendering East Jersey to the Crown in preparation for Queen Anne's uniting East Jersey and West Jersey into a Crown colony in 1702. It is thought because of his name disappears from the legal history of New Jersey and New York that Antill died in or shortly after 1704.