Nathaniel Baldwin

Citations

1. [S324] Col. Joseph L. Chester, "Report of Investigations concerning the Family of Baldwin, of Aston Clinton, Co. Bucks", New England Historic Genealogical Register 38 (1884): 164-165. Will of Richard Baldwin II (1630), q.v. Also Charles Candee Baldwin's Baldwin Genealogy Supplement, pp. 990-991.
2. [S311] Charles Candee Baldwin, Baldwin Genealogy, from 1500 to 1881 (Cleveland, O.: The Leader Printing Company, 1881), p. 480: "It seems to be clear that Joseph was the brother of Timothy, and, if so, of Nathaniel, as these last two were brothers, as appears by page 118 of the same volume, in Milford Records. Joseph was probably the youngest, as he is named last in his father's will. There can be no practical doubt that Timothy, Nathaniel and Joseph were the three of that name, sons of Richard, of Cholesbury, County Bucks, England, whose will was proved in 1633, and whose children disappeared from Bucks."
3. [S311] Charles Candee Baldwin, Baldwin Genealogy, p. 406 (Milford records).
4. [S520] VWH.
5. [S325] Charles Candee Baldwin, Baldwin Genealogy Supplement of 1889 (Cleveland, O.: The Leader Printing Company, 1889), pp. 990-1, giving a date for the will as 23 Dec 1630.
6. [S324] Col. Joseph L. Chester, "Family of Baldwin": 164-165. Richard II is identified as the son of Richard I, as he is in the father's will. Then, "I find nothing positive about him beyond the facts in his father's Will, viz., that he was not 23 in 1552-3, and was to have the tithes and lands in Cholsbury."
   The article gives an abstract of the will of a Richard Baldwin, of Cholsbury, 'weaver,' dated 23 May 1630, "which must not be overlooked."
   To Isabell my wife one third of my goods & chattels-to Nathaniel my son £10-to Joseph my son half an acre of land called Hunt's Wick, when 21-to my daughter Mary Pratt 6s. 8d. & to her daughter Mary 2 sheep, & her other 2 children each a sheep -to my daughter Hannah £13. 6. 8, and my 2 other daughters Christian & Sarah each £10, when 21 or married-all residue to Timothy my eldest son, and he to be my executor.
   The conclusion is that "this Richard [father of seven children] evidently could not have been the one who had the Cholsbury lands in 1552-3, unless he had these children in his extreme old age, yet it seems not unlikely that he was his son, and, as I can find no traces of the three sons Timothy, Nathaniel and Joseph named in the will, after the probate in 1633, I think there can be little if any doubt that they were the three of those names who emigrated to New England, appearing at Milford in 1639. The Registers of Cholsbury begin in 1583, and perhaps might clear up this matter."
   The full text of the will can be found in Charles Candee Baldwin's Baldwin Genealogy Supplement, pp. 990-1. This source gives the date of the will as 23 Dec 1630 and date of probate as 16 May 1633.
7. [S1342] Byron A. Baldwin, "Nathaniel Baldwin and One Line of His Descendants", The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 25 (1871): p. 153, without a place or date for the marriage.
8. [S936] Federal Writers' Project, History of Milford Connecticut 1639–1939 (Bridgeport, Conn.: Braunworth & Co., 1939), 2–7. "The Milford Colony was thus a settlement of Mr. [Peter] Prudden's followers, recruited from towns in England and New England where he had preached, and held together by personal devotion to their leader." Prudden's followers had first established, in 1638, their own colony as a part of the New Haven Colony (the "Hertfordshire" section). They soon determined to found a new settlement, along with some settlers from the Wethersfield colony. A tract of land, ten miles west of New Haven, was purchased from the native Indians.
   At the first meeting of the settlers, fourty-four church members became the first "free planters":
   
   Zachariah Whitman
   Thomas Welsh
   Thomas Wheeler
   Edmond Tappe
   Thomas Buckingham
   Richard Miles
   Richard Piatt
   Thomas Topping
   Mr. Peter Prudden
   William Fowler
   John Astwood
   Richard Baldwin
   Benjamin Fen
   Samuel Coley
   John Peacocke
   Henry Stonhill
   Nathaniel Baldwin
   James Prudden
   Thomas Baker
   George Clarke, Senr.
   George Hubburt
   Jasper Gunn
   John Fletcher
   Alex. Bryan
   Frances Bolt
   Micah Tomkins
   John Birdsey
   Edmond Harvy
   John Lane
   William East
   Thomas Lawrance
   Thomas Samford
   Timothy Baldwin
   George Clarke, Jr.
   John Burwell
   Henry Botsford
   Joseph Baldwin
   Philip Hatly
   Nicholas Camp
   John Rogers
   Thomas Uffott
   Nathaniell Briscoe
   Thomas Tibballs
   John Sharman.
9. [S1342] Byron A. Baldwin, "Nathaniel Baldwin and One Line of His Descendants", p. 153.
10. [S1343] The Editors, "Notice of Death of John C. Baldwin", The New England Historical and Genealogical Register (1870): John C. Baldwin of Orange, N. J., 1800–1870. His paternal ancestors included Nathaniel Baldwin of Milford, died in Fairfield in 1658, who married (1) Abigail Camp, and (2) Joanna Westcoat, widow of Richard Westcoat, who died in 1682; and Nathaniel's son, John Baldwin, spouse of Hannah Osborn, died in Newark in 1688; their son, John Baldwin, born in Newark ca. 1685, married Lydia Hanison, with whom he had five children, and died 21 Dec 1732; their son Moses, born in Newark 5 Nov 1732, married Rebecca Lee, with whom he had nine children, and died at Palmer, Mass., 2 Nov 1813.
11. [S311] Charles Candee Baldwin, Baldwin Genealogy, p. 407, "He died in 1650, and the Probate of his estate appears in Fairtield."
12. [S1085] Mrs. Elizabeth Hubbell Schenck, The History of Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut (New York: self-published, 1889, 1905), p. 401.