Timothy Baldwin

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• Navn	Timothy Baldwin
  Fødsel	1601	Cholesbury, Buckinghamshire, England
  Køn	Mand
  Død	Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
  Person-ID	I33494	AALT
  Sidst ændret	6 jan. 2021

  
  

  Familie	Mary Welles,   f. ca. 1618, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England d. 1647, Connecticut, USA (Alder 29 år)
  Børn	1. Sarah Baldwin,   f. aug. 1645, Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA d. 11 jan. 1729, Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA (Alder 83 år)  [Far: natural]  [Mor: natural] g. Ensign Samuel Royce , Samuel Buckingham (1663)
  Familie-ID	F7078	Gruppeskema  |  Familietavle
  Sidst ændret	6 jan. 2021

  
  

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  This File Gets Changed Every Single Week. Please Do Not Make any changes unless you attach a PRIMARY OR ORIGINAL source Justifying Your Change. Changing the file to match your GEDCOM does not count as an ORIGINAL source. Let's see if we can go a whole month from now (August 24, 2016) without anyone decimating his family. Thanks so much. (March 2017 someone deleted his son, reasons unknown. May 18, 2017 someone moved all the children to the first wife.) TIMOTHY HAD TWO WIVES, BOTH NAMED MARY. PLEASE DO NOT DELETE OR MERGE HIS WIVES OR REARRANGE HIS CHILDREN. The author C.C. Baldwin seemed to be very confused about the two Marys but his work has since been corrected by many authors. See sources below. Find A Grave - many details on his findagrave.com listing are unfortunately inaccurate. He has no tombstone and his burial place is speculative. For proof that his second wife's MAIDEN name was not MEPHAM, but that it was her MARRIED NAME from her first short marriage to John Mepham Senior, please see Timothy's will, where he mentions his step-son John Mepham. Timothy Baldwin is mentioned in his father's will as the oldest son and was the executor of his father Richard Baldwin's will. A transcription of Richard's will can be found in the supplement to the Baldwin Genealogy, which can be found online here: https://archive.org/stream/baldwingenealogy1889bald#page/990/mode/2up (see page 990). This is a supplement to a genealogy written by C.C. Baldwin published in 1889. The full text of the original book can be found online (see Sources below). Richard's will is also transcribed in the full original book, see page 23. We know several things about Timothy's father: he had a wife named Isabel and 7 children living at the time he wrote his will in 1630. Those children are Timothy (the oldest son), Joseph, Nathaniel, Mary, Hanna, Christian (a daughter), and Sara. According to the above sources, several of this Richard's children - all of his sons mentioned in his will - emigrated to America and settled in Milford, Connecticut in 1639. His youngest sister Sarah also came. I don't believe that oldest sister Mary came with her husband John Pratt; I don't know about Hannah or Christian, but I haven't seen any proof of such. This family is also mentioned in some detail in Susan Woodruff Abbott's book, "Families of Early Milford, Connecticut" that can be found on ancestry.com. This book doesn't discuss Joseph, Timothy, or Nathaniel's parentage other than to say they were sons "of Richard and Isabell" (see page 27, 43, and 60). In general, settlers of Milford with the last name of Baldwin are discussed between pages 14 and 60 and span many generations. Timothy is mentioned on page 60. I haven't yet been able to make anything other than a guess as to his birth year, although he was over 21 when his father wrote his will in 1630, putting a possible birth year at or before 1609 - probably closer to 1600 (his parents may have been married in 1598) as he was the oldest son, and it looks like at least one other son was already 21 at the time the will was written. In his will, Richard mentions the boys first - Timothy the oldest, then Nathaniel who is already 21, and then Joseph who is under 21, and then mentions his girls - Mary appears to be the only married child, and she is already old enough to have 3 of her own children. I would suspect that perhaps she might be the oldest child. And then I don't know if it would be Hannah or Nathaniel next, followed by an uncertain order of the 3 children who weren't yet 21 in 1630. So there is some information on birth order of Timothy and his siblings, and the rest has to be speculation (except that we do have a baptism record for sister Christian). Sometime between 1633 when he proved his father's will in court and about 1637, Timothy and several of his family members moved to Connecticut/Massachusetts. His little sister Sarah married John Searle, Sr. in 1638 in Springfield, Massachusetts. Timothy first had a plot in the New Haven colony which he sold before going to Milford; he may or may not have ever lived in New Haven. See source below, "History of the Colony of New Haven." According to page 403 of The Baldwin Genealogy, Timothy was one of "the first settlers [of Milford, Conn.] in 1639 and joined the church in 1643, with Mary his wife, who died July 31, 1647 ...That he was a brother of Nathaniel, appears from an entry from the long, narrow book of Milford records...Timothy lived for awhile in Guilford, Conn., about 1650, having married, March 5, 1645 (?), Mary Mepham, widow of John, of Guilford...[this is a typo. it should say March 5, 1649.] About 1651 or 1652 they sold the Mepham property and moved back to Milford." His known children include Mary, Hannah, Sarah, Abigail, Anne, and Timothy. Sources for these children are attached below. C.C. Baldwin here seems hopelessly confused about Timothy's two wives. This source should only be used with caution. WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT TIMOTHY's WIVES? We know that Timothy's first wife was named Mary. His second wife was also named Mary. There has been quite a bit of confusion about his two wives, and some secondary sources have perpetuated bad information. There is, on ancestry.com, a collection of indexed records from primary sources known as the Barbour Collection. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Vital Records is an index to and transcription of most of Connecticut towns' vital (birth, marriage, death) records from the inception of the town to about the year 1850. There are two parts to the collection; a statewide surname index and a bound volume for each town. In this collection on ancestry.com there is a transcription of the original marriage record between Timothy and Mary Mopham, widow, of Guilford, Mar. 5, 1649. There is no original marriage record between Timothy and his first wife Mary, and consequently, we have had to look to other sources to find her maiden name. However, there are two pieces of information about Mary, the first wife, in the Barbour Collection. The first is that Mary, wife of Timothy, was admitted to the church March 5, 1643. The second was that she died July 21, 1647. There are many sources which identify her as Mary Welles, including this well-sourced book: Descendants of Gov. Thomas Welles of Connecticut, Volume 1, 2nd Edition, which can be found online (see Source below). This identification is made primarily through Governor Welles' will. There is a long discussion of the proof of the first Mary's maiden name in the book written by Donald Jacobus, "An American family : Botsford--Marble ancestral lines," source attached below. See page 30. So, any children born before 1647 belong to his first wife Mary, and after 1649 belong to his second wife Mary. Mary (bapt. 2 April 1643), Hannah (bapt. Aug. 1644) and Sarah (bapt. Aug. 1645) belonged to Timothy's first wife Mary (Welles), and Abigail (bapt. Dec. 29, 1650), Anne (born July 1, 1655, died age 3 weeks) and Timothy (born June 12, 1658) belonged to second wife Mary (widow of John Mepham of Guilford, whose maiden name is unknown). Timothy and his brothers are also mentioned In a book called the History of Milford, Connecticut, which can be found online (see Source below). Starting on page 7, there are 5 men with the last name of Baldwin who are mentioned in the first town meeting, held on November 20, 1639: Richard, Nathaniel, Timothy, Joseph, and John. Timothy's widow Mary remarried after his death. An indexed, typewritten copy of Timothy's will can be found in the book, "A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records," which can be found online (see Sources below). The will was dated 31 January 1664/5. The text of his will is generally as follows: Timothy Baldwin of Milford do make this my last Will and Testament: I give to my eldest daughter Mary Smith, the wife of Benjamin Smith, Lands adjoyning Samuel Buckingham and John Lane. Item. I give to my daughter Hannah Baldwin œ50. Item. I give to my daughter Sarah Buckingham œ50. Item. I give to my son Timothy Baldwin all my houses, Lands and Meadows Lying in Milford that is undisposed of, to enter upon, but two thirds thereof until after the decease of my wife. I give to my three grand children, to each of them, a ewe sheep. Item. I give unto John Mappam, my wive's son, œ4 upon this condition, if he be obediant to his mother and carry dutifully towards her...." In 1664 he counted 3 grandchildren, likely Mary Smith, Sarah Buckingham, and who? I don't know - maybe unborn Hannah Smith? Or else we are missing a grandchild somewhere. His wife was sole executor. The inventory taken 6 Feb 1664/[5?] amounted to 529 pounds 18 shillings and 6 pence. (We know from this will that his second wife Mary had at least 1 son before her first husband died). I think it likely that Timothy helped to raise this stepson from his wife's first marriage. In all, it looks like he had 4 children and one step-son who lived to adulthood. Of these, only son Timothy could have passed on the family name, and it doesn't look like he had any sons who lived to adulthood. There are a variety of sources for a death date for Timothy, which is complicated by the "double dating" method used in those days for the months of January, February, and March. Here is a rundown of the variety of opinions: 1. According to The Baldwin Genealogy, p. 403, Timothy died "the night following January 17, 1664/65." 2. According to An American family : Botsford--Marble ancestral lines, page 29, he died January 17, 1664/65, see page 29, even though in the very next paragraph he says his will was signed 31 January, 1664/5. I am pretty sure that isn't possible. 3. According to Families of Early Milford, Connecticut, page 60, Timothy died 17 January 1664/5. 4. A digest of the early Connecticut probate records, page 177, doesn't give a death date, but says his will was dated 31 January 1664-5, and was proven in court 2 March, 1664-5. 5. The Barbour Collection, which contains is a typewritten indexed copy of the Milford church record which mentions Timothy's baptism and death (see source below, Connecticut, Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920) indicates he died 17 January 1664 (no double dating). 6. The book, "Descendants of Gov. Thomas Welles of Connecticut, Volume 1, 2nd Edition" on page 203 sums this date problem up nicely: "This 17 January 1664 death date is listed as part of the church membership list where it is appended to the note that Timothy joined the church, so it is not found in any list of deaths by date order. The 31 January 1664 date on which his will was written was taken from the probate court register book and not from the original will. Thus, there is no simple way of evaluating which date might have been incorrectly understood."