Baldwin Resources

The Baldwin Genealogy, From 1500-1881, Charles Candee Baldwin, 1881, is the classic beginning point for Baldwin research. An attempt to catalog all pre-Revolutionary War Baldwin lines and their progeny, where possible down to 1881. LDS Microfilm No. 0547101. I have also seen this in Bookstores on the web, including Alden's On-line Book Store. It is quite expensive. Abt 982 pgs. It is also available at the downtown Los Angeles library, private stacks (ask at the genealogy counter).

The Baldwin Genealogy Supplement, Charles Candee Baldwin, 1889, LDS Film No. 6089173.

Heritage, Doug Geist, 1986. Not a genealogy. A family history book with diaries and articles by folks who remember the 19th century. It was boutique published for the family. Probably very hard to get, but might be on LDS film.

Investigations Concerning the Family of Baldwin of Ashton, Clinton, Bucks (England), by J.L.  Chester. 28 pages 1884. I've not read this book. I saw it at Alden's On-line Book Store.

Church Transcriptions I have transcribed all Baldwin entries in the Congregational Church Records for Canterbury, CT from 1711-1844 in this file.

Other Sources. There are Baldwin write-ups and genealogies included in Sewall's History of Woburn and Cutter's Historic Homes and Genealogical Memoirs of Woburn. See Massachusetts Resources.

Where Can I Get These?

The first place to look is your local LDS Family History Center. Do a surname search or a locality search, as the case may be. You might be able to do an author search.

If you want to buy one of these, I found a bunch of the books listed below at this website, including Charles Candee Baldwin's Baldwin Genealogy and Vinton's Richardson Memorial at: Blair's On-line Book Store.

Tuttle's also has a large collection of surname books.

If that store doesn't have what you want, try the Book Store section of Cindi's List.

Then, you can always post queries on the web: mail lists, newsgroups, GenWeb query sites.
 

The Origins of Henry Baldwin
 

I have seen on various web sites where folks have identified Henry Baldwins parents. Charles Candee Baldwin, in his 1881 Baldwin Genealogy or 1889 supplement raises several possibilities for the origin of  Henry. He seemed to be quite confident that Henry of Woburn was the brother of John Baldwin of Billerica. (Henry witnessed John's will, they married cousins, and children's names were similar.) If anyone knows of a more recent exploration of this area that documents the origin of Henry of Woburn, I'd sure like to hear about it. I've yet to see it.

I have seen some genealogies (on the web, FTM cd's, ancestry.com gedcoms, etc) that show the date of death of Benjamin Baldwin, youngest son of immigrant Henry Baldwin of Woburn, as April 28, 1736 and/or his wife, Hannah, as Sep 28, 1736, with a place of Woburn. These dates are dubious. The involved records in Woburn's Vital Records are:

Benjman Baldwin, s of ________, April 28, 1736
Hannah Baldwin, widow of _________, September 28, 1736
 
There is also a record for a Benjamin Baldwin in Canterbury, Connecticut Death Records of Dec 11, 1759.

Henry and Hannah purchased their first property in Canterbury, Conn in 1704 and all subsequent children were born there and I'm not aware of any of the children that returned to Woburn. I am inclined to believe the date of death in Canterbury of 1759 is our guy. The Hannah in Woburn could be the widow of the Benjamin who died in Wobrun in 1736. Benjamin's brother, Daniel, had a Benjamin born in 1707, who could be that Benjamin, or could be a descendant of John Baldwin of Billerica or some other line. I am showing Benjamin as dying in 1759 in Canterbury and Hannah as unaccounted for.

I have seen several references on the web and other places that all of Benjamin's children were born in Canterbury. The first two children were baptized in Woburn, Mass on dates before the first deed that Benjamin entered into in Canterbury. I am showing them as born in Woburn.

Charles Candee Baldwin indicated in his 1881 Baldwin Genealogy that the descendants of Daniel II said he had a son named Daniel, but he could find no record. I have found a record in the Barbour Collection for a Daniel Baldwin born to a Daniel and Anna Baldwin, but in Windham, Connecticut, whereas all the others for which I've found a record were born in Mansfield, where Candee said that Daniel II lived.

So, I think this Daniel is theirs, as there is no other Daniel/Anna match for parents at that time in that place. The larger question revolves, however, over the Revolutionary War Record of one Daniel Baldwin of Connecticut. The DAR files for folks claiming Elijah Baldwin as a Revolutionary War veteran also say that his father, Daniel Baldwin II was in the Revolution in a Vermont unit. But, he would have been 45 at the time with children still at home. Daniel III would have been 22 in 1776. It would seem more likely that the younger Daniel would have been serving than his father. I have no evidence either way, but a "smell test" suggests further research is called for to prove one way or the other whether the Daniel who served in the Vermont unit was Daniel II or Daniel III.

Candee Baldwin had nothing further on this Daniel, nor do I.

The Abstracts of Early Woburn Deeds, 1649-1700, by Edward F. Johnson, shows John Sears quitclaiming his homestead over to Daniel Baldwin. Daniel Baldwin, in exchange, promised to take care of his GRANDPARENTS, John and Ann Sears, for the rest of their lives. Deed acknowledged and recorded Oct 8, 1697.(B12, Pg 97).

If our bunch is the only Baldwin bunch in Woburn, I can only place Henry's son as this Daniel. We already know who his mom's folks are, and it wasn't Sears. His wife's parents were Joseph and Hannah (Green) Richardson. Who is this Daniel Baldwin?
 

The vital records of Norwich, CN are on-line, which show the marriage Henry, son of Henry, and births of his children, son of Benjamin (Henry > Benjamin).

The cemetery records for Benjamin Baldwin and many in his family while they were in Connecticut is at this web page: Canterbury Death Records, From the Barbour Collection at the CT State Library.
 
Baldwin By-Lines  is a print periodical publication. You can subscribe or order back-isses at this site.

The Baldwin Discussion Group at Genforum.

The Baldwin Mail List: BALDWIN. A mailing list for the discussion and sharing of information regarding the Baldwin surname in any place and at any time. To subscribe send the word "subscribe" (without the quotes) as the only text in the body of a message to baldwin-l-request@rootsweb.com (mail mode) or  baldwin-d-request@rootsweb.com (digest mode).

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