Eleazer Baldwin

ELEAZER4, Josiah3, Josiah2, John1 (of Milford)

Eleazer Baldwin, son of Josiah Baldwin and Mary Pierson, was b. in Kilingworth, Conn., Aug. 31,1717. He m. Oct. 3,1744, with EXPERIENCE BUELL, and d. in Killingworth. Adm. was granted on his estate in 1753; inventory, 2070 pounds, His wife survived many years, to be nearly a hundred years old, never used glasses, and retained her faculties very completely.

Children were: Jared (1745), Frederick (1748), Mary (1750), and Joel (1752).

By tradition, the two sons, other than Frederick, were in the Battle of Saratoga, at the surrender of Burgoyne. Just before the surrender of Burgoyne, their mother went on horseback from Saybrook to the American camp, laden with stockings, shirts and other articles of comfort for her children. Jared, her son, says: "A few days after her departure, the battle was fought, during which our guns became so heated firing, that they were unfit for use, and the guns of the killed were picked up and used instead."

• The Baldwin genealogy from 1500 to 1881 (1881)

Author: Baldwin, C. C. (Charles Candee), 1834-1895

Subject: Baldwin family

Publisher: Cleveland, O, [Leader printing company]

Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT

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