Colonel Nahum Baldwin

Col. Nahum Baldwin

A Patriot of the American Revolution for DAR Ancestor # A005323
State: NEW HAMPSHIRE
Rank: COLONEL

• Families of Antrim, New Hampshire - Baldwin
• Founding Member, The Society of Cincinnati
• Find A Grave Memorial ID # 31096427

Colonel Nahum 4, Deacon Isaac 3, Henry 2, Deacon Henry 1 of Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Nahum Baldwin, son of Isaac Baldwin and Mary Flagg, was b. May 4, 1734, in Sudbury, Massachusetts; m. April 22, 1860, Martha Low, b. April 15, 1734, daughter of John Low. They both settled and d. in Amherst, New Hampshire. She d. November 7, 1802. He was a blacksmith, a man of great force of character; was chosen Deacon in Amherst, January 5, 1774; Representative in 1780. He was a Selectman in Amherst in 1769; said, in 1775, to have been a Representative to the Provincial Congress. He is said to have served in the French and Indian War and to have been taken prisoner by Indians, but to have escaped after a fierce struggle. In 1795, the family removed to Antrim, New Hampshire. He d. May 7, 1788; his widow on November 7, 1802.

His children, taken from his Family Bible, were: Nahum (1762), Martha (1764), Cyrus (1766), Isaac (1768), Frances (1771), Mary (1773) and Lucy (1776).

He was an officer of considerable note. His regiment was engaged in the Battle of White Plains October 27, 1776. He was elected a delegate from the state of New Hampshire to the Continental Congress March 3, 1781.

He was one of the parties in the first case brought before the grand juryin Hillsboro County. The other party was Jonas Stepleton, who, being brought to the bar, pleaded quilty, and threw himself upon the mercy of the court. It was a queer kind of mercy that the Stepleton received, according to the record, which says: "It is ordered that the Stepleton be whipped twenty stripes on the naked back at the public whipping post between the hours of one and two in the afternoon of this third day of October 1777, and that he pay Nahum Baldwin, the owner of the goods stolen, four-four pounds lawful money, being ten-fold damages and cost of prosecution.. the said Nahum Baldwin be authorized to dispose of said Jonas in servitude to any of His Majesty's .subjects for the space of seven years, to commence from this day."

The Baldwin Genealogy 1500-1881
Charles Candee Baldwin, Cleveland, Ohio, 1881.
Pgs 620 and 626

Nahum Baldwin of Amherst was paymaster in 1776; he commanded a regiment raised to reinforce Washington's army in the fighting about New York during the autumn of 1776 (September - December). He was treasurer of Hillsboro County, 1776; a justice, and trustee of the confiscated estate of Zacchaeus Cutler, an absentee (Tory). He was evidently a man of wealth and standing.

Nahum Baldwin was a blacksmith, a man of great force of character and real moral worth; was chosen as Deacon in Amherst on 5 January 1774; Representative in 1780. He was a Selectman in Amherst in 1769; said, in 1775, to have been a Representative to the Provincial Congress. He served as a colonel of the New Hampshire Militia from 1776-1778.

'To General Washington from Nathaniel Folsom, September 24th, 1776' - https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-06-02-0299