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Colonel Nahum Baldwin

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Colonial America
Death: May 07, 1788 (54)
Amherst, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States
Place of Burial: 2 Main Street, Plot # 79, Amherst, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Deacon Isaac Baldwin; Isaac William (Capt) Baldwin; Mary Abigail Baldwin and Mary Abigail Flagg-Baldwin
Husband of Martha Baldwin
Father of Pvt. Nahum Baldwin, Jr.; Martha Burge; Rev. Cyrus Baldwin, Sr.; Isaac Baldwin; Frances Boyd and 2 others
Brother of Pvt. Luke Baldwin; Colonel Jeduthan Baldwin; Capt. Isaac Baldwin and Pvt. Josiah Baldwin

Occupation: Congressman, Paymaster, Treasurer, Selectman
DAR: Ancestor #: A005323
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About Colonel Nahum Baldwin

Col. Nahum Baldwin

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

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

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Colonel Nahum Baldwin's Timeline

1734
May 3, 1734
Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Colonial America
1762
January 30, 1762
Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Colonial America
1764
March 8, 1764
Hollis, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States
1766
February 27, 1766
Nashua, Hillsborough County, Colonial America, United States
1768
April 23, 1768
Nashua, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States
1771
May 22, 1771
Antrim, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States
1773
July 6, 1773
Antrim, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States
1776
February 13, 1776
Antrim, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States
1788
May 7, 1788
Age 54
Amherst, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States