Thomas Baldwin

DAR PATRIOT BALDWIN, THOMAS Ancestor #: A005358
Service: MASSACHUSETTS
Rank: PRIVATE Birth: 2-22-1732 IN BILLERICA MASSACHUSETTS
Death: 3-1-1794 IN CAVENDISH VERMONT
Service Description:1) CAPT. FARMER, COL. GREENE

Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001

Name: Abel Baldwin
Event Type: Birth Event Date: 23 July 1764
Event Place: Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Gender: Male

Father's Name: Thomas Baldwin
Mother's Name: Abigail : https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4VH-BRP ____________________

THOMAS4, Joseph3, Thomas2, John1 (of Billerica)
The Baldwin Genealogy from 1500 to 1881 (1881)
Author: Baldwin, C.C. (Charles Candee), 1834-1895
Subject: Baldwin family
Publisher: Cleveland, Ohio [Leader printing company]
Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
Pg. 691 ,698

ESTHER MANNING (Wm., Saml., Wm.,” Wm.1) b. 1703, Aug. 5, at Billerica, Mass.; d. 1740, Apr. 13, at Town send, where she went to reside as early as 1733. She m. 1728, June 14, Joseph Baldwin, b. 1702, Sep. 14, at Billerica; a select man at Townsend, where he d. 1747, Dec. 2. Ch.: 194. Joseph (Baldwin) b. about 1729; m. Mary Searles, and had ch. Joseph and Reuben b. at Townsend. 195. EBENEzER (Baldwin) birth not recorded; prob. m. Mary Hubbard. 196. THOMAS (Baldwin) b. about 1732; m. Abigail Pollard. 197. DAVID (Baldwin) bap. 1734, Dec. 29, at Townsend. 198. REUBEN (Baldwin) bap. 1737, Aug. 21; d. 1741, Dec. 20. 199. ABEL (Baldwin) bap. 1739, Aug. 12. The Genealogy and Biography of the Manning Families of New England and Descendants by William H. Manning, p.169

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LAND GRANTS AND PROPRIETORS. 41

ships, Agreeable to y*' Order and Direction of y^ Gen- Court ( The whole of s^^ Com^ee viz W' Tailer & Samuel Tha.xter Esq'"', Capt. John Shipley Mr. Benja. Whittemore And Fra. Fullam Pe fent ) and accordingly Proceeded to Grant out f '^ Land to y^ Pefons whose Names are under written on y*^ other Sides, on v*^ Following Conditions & Provisions &c. Not otherwise.

" i^^ That Each and Every p e fon to Whome a Lot is or Shall be granted (No Allottment To Exceed y*^ quan- tity of 250) shall be at y'^' Entering his Name with v'^ Com^^" To Pay Down y^' Sum of Fifty Shillings* in part, and at the Drawing of His Lott, or when the same is Laid out y*^' Sum of Fifty Shillings more in full of y® Five Pounds for y^' use of y^' Province. And if any Pefon who enters his Name & Pays y'* First Fifty Shillings shall Negle(!:t or refuse to pay y*" Last Fifty to Compleat ^•^ five Pounds as ordered by y^ Gen- Court When his Lott is Laid out and Redv for Draft, Every such p efon shall Forfit his first Payment and y*^' Lott be Free to be granted to any other proper p efon as y Com'*^^' Shall See Meet.

Each man paid one hundred shillings (old tenor) for his one-eightieth part of Townsend, which was about $'2.2'2. reduced to Federal money. The province received according to this $177.60 for the township of Townsend. "As many people of the present dav. wduM prdbablv Ibid it dinb-ult to determine the diflerence between 'Old Tenor' ami -Lawful M.m.-v;- il ina\ 1... -tatr,l 1i,t,. that in tin- year 17(li'. rccourM- was liad in tlie iinivinco t(. a iiaini- ,inicnr\ . t . -upiiint tlu- exiieiiM's of <;ovenuiit'iit, and furnisli a .-uli-titutc t(ir coin as a cin-iilal iiil;- im'.lium. 'I'he bills puriiorted that tliev would 111- rnlcriiicd at a certain time, whirh was done at lir.st, but it soon lu'c.auio cns- toniar\ lo nMhi^n them bv new cniis-i.m-. This being done pretty lilnTally, they began'lo di|ir(_iate in value. In .Ma--;i'l,n-ctt - where their value was kc|it np better than in the other provinces, the depreciatiuu was at the rate of seve7i and a half for one in specie. This acquired the name of Old 7e«or— seven shillings and sixpence being equal to one shilling in silver, which was called 'Lawful money' or nin'epence sterling of Great Britain." HISTORY OF TOWNSEND.

Proportions Towards 3 building & Finishing a convenient House for y*^ Public Worship of God in Such Town Where his Lot shall Fall, s House To be Finished in four Years according to y*" Order of Court, and Do also pay the Necessary Charge of y Survey's and y Com^^® for Their Service in & about y P mises.

3That Every Grantee to Whom to Whom a Lott is or may be Granted Shall be & is Enjoyned Effectually to Settle & Inhabit the Same in his Own prop^' p e fon and Not have Liberty In Any Way whatsoever to Sell or Alienate or any Ways Dispose of his Interest or Allottm in Either of ys Towns to any p e fon What So Ever Until y® Whole conditions Enjoyned by y General Court be Fully complied with & Pe formed Without the Leave and Approbation of yCom or the Majer part of Them, Nor to any p e fon or p e fons but Such as they Shall ap- pro\'e & to be Accepted by Com." •• Worcester

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13 Thomas Baldwin

Joseph Baldwin:"Voted to proceed to a third division of land in said town and lay out to each proprietor sixty acres of land and qualify the same, excluding all meadows, and that Timothy Heald, Shadrack Whitney, Jasher Wyman, Ens. Jonathan Page, Joseph Baldwin, Amos Whitney, and Daniel Ta}-lor, be a committee to lay out said lands, and that each proprietor draw for his lot when laid out." Jacob Baldwin Baptist Church of Christ in New Ipswich-Resolved that we humbly trust that we have the approbation of the great Head of the church in acknowl- edging Brethren and Sisters, Asa Baldwin, Joseph Walker, Solomon Stevens, Joseph Simonds, Levi Ball, Susanna Holt, Chloe Ball, Elizabeth Stevens, Unity Manning,

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Jesse Baldwin Phinehas Baldwin The first record of any effort for a public school was in 1744, when the town "Voted to raise twenty pounds old tenor for the support of a school, and chose two men as a committee to provide a school-master : John Conant chosen first, Josiah Robbins second." The record further states where the school should be kept at different dwelling- houses, in different parts of the town ; the north school at the house of Benjamin Brooks, the school at the middle of the town at Joseph Baldwin's and the south school at Dan- iel Taylor's. One man, without doubt, taught the school at these three places. There is no record to show the name of the first teacher in Townsend.

Life Baldwin- on school committee.

Ester, Ebenezer, David Baldwin. Mrs. Mary Baldwin. Jesse Baldwin of Townsend married Chloe Gassett of Townsend Susey Baldwin Molly Baldwin. Esther Baldwin. Abigail Baldwin. Abiel Baldwin. Sally Searle Baldwin. Dolly Baldwin. Ruth Baldwin. Polly Baldwin. Sukey Baldwin. Eli Baldwin. 1759 Jonas Baldwin married Ruth Wilson. 1791 Jonas Baldwin Jr. married Prudence Haven. 1760 Jacob Baldwin of Townsend married Elizabeth Lewis of Billerica. M.W. Baldwin manufactured locamotives on an extensive scale in Philadelphia. In 1847 made car wheels. William Clark Jacob Baldwin. REv. War- Jonas and Joseph Baldwin- ♦Massachusetts Revolutionary Rolls, vol. 19, page 177. Jesse, Joseph, Phinehas Baldwin-About thirty of the young men, whose names appear in the above list, marched to Concord under Lieut. Peter Butterfield, and were present at the time the court was stopped.

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