Samuel Baldwin

SAMUEL4, Samuel3, Josiah2, John1 (of Milford)

Samuel Baldwin, son of Sgt. Samuel Baldwin and Rebecca Wilkinson, was born in Milford, Conn. on Feb. 17, 1700. He married Dec. 25, 1723, with MERCY ALLEN, who died 1790. In 1737, he received a deed from his brothers.

Children were: Mercy(11/1/1724; m. Capt. Timothy Bradley), Cibil, or Sibella, or Sybil (all these forms appear, b 11/22/1728; m. Alexander Booth), and Samuel (4/10/1731).

In 1742, he is Samuel Baldwin Jr. of the Society of Amity, which afterwards became the town of Woodbridge, Connecticut. (Samuel Baldwin Sr. was the son of Nathaniel2, John1). In Milford, in 1724, he was "ye 3rd of ye name," the others being his father and the one just named.

His will is dated 1773, Society of Amity, Milford township, proved Apr. 5, 1785, when it was then the town of Woodbridge. His wife died about 1790 or 1791 (date gone), but identified as mother-in-law to Capt. Bradley.

By his will he gives his son his shop, tools, etc.,but survived him.

• 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]

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