Mary Baldwin1

#2822, (say 1603 - )
Relationship7th great-grandaunt of William David Lewis
Father*Richard Baldwin III1 (s 1578 - b 1633)
Mother*Isabel Harding1 ( - c 1633)

Family

____ Pratt b. s 1592
Children 1.Mary Pratt1 (s 1625 - )
 2.___1 Pratt1 (s 1627 - )
 3.___2 Pratt1 (s 1629 - )
Her married name was Pratt.1 
Birth*say 1603She was born say 1603 at Buckinghamshire, EnglandG; of age and had at least three children at the time of her father's will in 1630.2 
Marriage*say 1624She married ____ Pratt say 1624 at EnglandG (Mary had at least three children at the time of her father's will in 1630.)1 
23 December 1630She witnessed the will of Richard Baldwin III on 23 December 1630 at Cholesbury, Buckinghamshire, EnglandG; Names wife Isabel and six children: sons Nathaniel, Joseph and Timothy (eldest son and executor; daughters Mary Pratt (and her three daughters, two unnamed), Hannah, Christian and Sarah.3,4 

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. [S325] Charles Candee Baldwin, Baldwin Genealogy Supplement of 1889 (Cleveland, O.: The Leader Printing Company, 1889), p. 990-1, will of her father: "I give unto Mary Pratt, my daughter xlllli. vis. vii d. Item: I give unto her daughter Mary two sheepe, and to her other two children each of them one sheepe."
  3. [S325] Charles Candee Baldwin, Baldwin Genealogy Supplement, pp. 990-1, giving a date for the will as 23 Dec 1630.
  4. [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.