4581.Lieut. Sylvanus Baldwin. Born ca 1646 in Milford, CT. Sylvanus was baptized in First Church of Milford, on 20 Nov 1646.64 Sylvanus died in Milford, CT in Jun 1727.64
From the Baldwin Genealogy:58
Sylvanus died in “‘the beginning of June, 1627.’ His will is recorded in New Haven. His name is this grandfather’s, with a latin termination, as became the fashion of the day, and likely his father’s London schooling. He is always called in the records, Lieut. Sylvanus, and hisname occurs in the town records as often in place of trust or responsibility as any of the town. He was a very leading man. He was generally the ‘surveyor’ in laying out town lnads; 1674, he was on committee to determine bounds between Milford and New Haven; 1690, Lieut. for Dragoons for New Haven County. This was ‘for the framing and carrying on a war against our French and Indian enemies at Canada.’ From may, 1685, to Oct., 1699, he was generally Deputy for Milford. In 1685, he was an agent for Milford to buy a tract of land for teh town of Milford from Conquepotanna and Ahuntaway.
“29 Feb’y, 1700, he was one of the agents to buy for the town a second tract from these and other Indains. The consideration was £15 in pay, and 15s. in silver. This land was the northwest part of Woodbridge, called, when laid out in 1759, the Two Bit purchase, and described as bein in Milford, north of Bladen’s Brook, unto a brook called Lebanon Brook, one mile sixty rods east and west. It was held in trust for inhabitants of Milford, or those paying, by Robert Treat, Esq., mr. Thomas Clark, Mr. Samuel Buckingham, Sen., Lieut. Sylvanus Baldwin and Esq. George Clark. This deed was from Comikapay, Nauhautaway, Suckatash, Durkin, Wonenutacum, Pequit, Waranunton, Winahan and Waurasconut, signing by odd-looking marks. The next deed on Midlford records is also from Indians, partly the same, dated 23 Feb’y, 1702, and there is added: ‘This may certify whom it may concern, that I, Sylvanus Baldwin, as an Interpreter, am fully satisfied that the Indians have sold the aforesaid lands, and signed this instrument with right understanding, as witness my hand.’ That he had skill in the Indian language, appears also in other instances. He is called in the church record, in 1686, Brother Sarjeant; but after that, Lieutenant. He was, in 1720, one of the patentee proprietors of Waterbury, but coninued to reside and died in Milford. He was a man of large wealth. Only two of his children surveved him, and the most prominent of the chilren of Richard has no descendants of his name.
“[Of his children] at his death, John was a bachelor; and Elizabeth, I [author Charles Candee Baldwin] doubt not, was living not very far from Waterbury. He remembers in his will liberally mary, w. of DAniel Munn, and I am inclined to think that they kept house for him.”
On 20 Sep 1671 Sylvanus married Mildred Prudden (4997) , daughter of Rev. Peter Prudden (1958) (1601-Jul 1656) & Johanna Boyce (-early 1683), in Milford, CT.65 Born ca 1653 in Milford, CT. Mildred was baptized in First Church of Milford, on 14 May 1653.64 Mildred died in Milford, CT 6 Jan 1711/2.65
John Baldwin (26 Mar 1693-between Jun 1757 and Jul 1758)
4582.Sarah Baldwin. Born ca 1649 in Milford, CT. Sarah was baptized in First Church of Milford, on 1 Apr 1649.64 Sarah died in Derby, CT ca 1713.
On 14 Jun 1667 Sarah married Ens. Samuel Riggs, son of Sergt. Edward Riggs (ca 1619-1 May 1671) & Elizabeth Roosa (ca 1618-1668), in Milford, CT.65 Born ca 1640 in Roxbury, MA. Samuel died in Derby, CT between 13 Nov 1732 and 2 May 1734.
Samuel, of Derby, will dated 13 Nov 1732, proved 2 May 1734.
4583.Temperance Baldwin. Born ca 1651 in Milford, CT. Temperance was baptized in First Church of Milford, on 29 Jun 1651.64
14 Jan 1682/3 Temperance first married Nathan Burwell, son of John Burwell (ca 1602-17 Aug 1649) & Alice Heath (-19 Dec 1666), in Milford, CT.65 Born in 1646 in Milford, CT. Nathan was baptized in First Church of Milford, on 2 Aug 1646.64
On 11 Jan 1686 Temperance second married John Fowler.
4584.Mary Baldwin. Born ca 1653 in Milford, CT. Mary was baptized in First Church of Milford, on 10 Nov 1653.64
Mary first married Isaac Nichols, second Daniel Comstock as his second wife.
Mary first married Isaac Nichols, son of Isaac Nichols (27 Dec 1617-between 28 sep 1694 and 5 Nov 1695) & Margaret. Born on 12 Mar 1654 in Stratford, CT. Isaac died in Stratford, CT bef 20 Jul 1690.
Bef 22 Oct 1711 Mary second married Daniel Comstock, son of Samuel Comstock (ca 1628-9 Mar 1660) & Anne (ca 1630-aft 10 Feb 1666/7). Born on 12 May 1656 in Providence, RI. Daniel died in 1725.
Daniel first married Alice DeWolfe, second Mary (Baldwin) Nichols, widow of Isaac Nichols.
4585.Theophilus Baldwin. Born on 26 Apr 1659 in Milford, CT.65 Theophilus died bef 22 Jun 1698.64
8 Feb 1682/3 Theophilus married Elizabeth Canfield, daughter of Sergt. Thomas Canfield (-1689) & Phebe, in Milford, CT.65 Born 14 Feb 1659/60 in Milford, CT.65 Elizabeth died in Milford, CT on 16 May 1730.64
Elizabeth first married Theophilus Baldwin, second John Merwin.
4586.Sergt. Zachariah Baldwin. Born on 22 Sep 1660 in Milford, CT.65 Zachariah died in Milford, CT, on 31 May 1722; he was 61.65
Ca 1678 Zachariah first married Mary Atkinson (13061) , daughter of Luke Atkinson (-bef Jan 1666/7) & Mary Platt (4457) (ca Nov 1629-11 Jun 1669). Born on 14 May 1652 in New Haven, CT.64 Mary died bef 1691.64
Bef 1689 Zachariah second married Elizabeth Ratliffe, daughter of William Ratliffe & Elizabeth Theale.64 Born ca 1666.64 Elizabeth died between 22 May 1732 and 6 Apr 1733.58
Elizabeth, of Greenwich, CT, widow of Ezekiel Sanford.64
4587.Martha Baldwin. Born on 1 Apr 1663 in Milford, CT.65 Martha was baptized in First Church of Milford, on 5 Apr 1663.64
On 8 Feb 1681 when Martha was 17, she married Samuel Nettleton, son of Samuel Nettleton (ca 1605/1610-29 Oct 1656) & Maria (-29 Oct 1658), in Milford, CT.65 Born ca 1655. Samuel died in Milford, CT on 7 Nov 1717.64
4588.Barnabus Baldwin. Born in 1665 in Milford, CT.64 Barnabus was baptized in First Church of Milford, on 14 Oct 1665.64 Barnabus died in Woodbridge, CT on 2 Aug 1741.64
From the Baldwin Genealogy:58
“Barnabas, b. 1665, after 23 July, in Milford. His misfortunes commenced before his birth. He was a posthumous child, and as the law then stood in Connecticut, was not entitled to, nor did he receive, in distribution, any share of the large estate of his father. He m. 1st Sarah, eldest dau. of Samuel Buckingham, of Milford, s. of Thomas, one of the first settlers. She was b. 8 Jan’y, 1664/5, and her mother was Sarah Baldwin, dau. Timothy, first settler at Milford, and m. 14 Dec., 1663. She died before 3 Dec., 1692, as appears from the will of her father of that date, wherein he remembers the husband, and oldest and youngest children (Thomas and Barnabas) of his deceased daughter. Barnabas soon m. again, for 1 Jan’y, 1698/9, he and Mary his wife are received to full communion in Milford ch., and his first four children are baptized.
“His will, dated 5 May, 1740, and proved 19 Oct., 1741, gives his wife Abigail ‘twenty shillings, besides what is in her joynture.’ It has been singularly difficult to get definite knowledge of the history of Barnabas. I [author Charles Candee Baldwin, writing in 1881] have failed to find any record of his birth, any marriage or death; and I have also looked in vain for any record of the jointure in the records of Milford, New Haven and Derby. There were until 1850, on the farm occupied by him, many papers which were of much interest, and which would have probably told fully the story of his life. About that time, they were made into a bonfire in house-cleaning. In the absence of records, I sought his grave, which I found after some time in the cemetery in the west part of Woodbridge, near Derby line. It is a slab, inscribed: ‘Here lyes the body of Mr. Barnabas Baldwin, aged 76 years; departed this life August y^e 22^nd 1741.’ Born of a rich father, legitamate but no heir, I know not what life he led until 1711 or ’12, when his brothers and sisters, by several conveyances appearing on Milford records, conveyed to him ‘Hogg Meadow,’ reciting that this was done because he was not included in the distribution of Richard’s estate, in 1665. He was then forty-five or forty-six years of age. They only had half left to convey, for 23 May, 1720, Barnabas makes an agreement (6 Milf. Rec., 292), reciting, that whereas his father Richard, once of Milford, did receive of Tantannomy, an Indian, a gift of that tract of land commonly known by the name of Hogg meadow purchase, partly in Milford and partly in Derby; and whereas my honored mother and eldest brother Sylvanus Baldwin sold half to Henry Allen, and my mother and Allen agreed to make partition, and Allen sold to Roger Newton and John Hine, and Roger Newton’s claim came to Fletcher Newton—then follows an agreement for partition, deed, &c. The partition was carried out, 1727, by sons of Barnabas, to whom their father had conveyed liberally of his property—one can but think—not wishing them to have the uncertain struggle his life must have been.
“This history has come down in tradition in Woodbridge. Dr. Goodsell, an aged and intelligent physician there twenty years ago [about 1861], told me that Sylvanus (son of Barnabas) was born after his father’s death, and left out of the inheritance—that his brothers and sisters, ashamed to leave him nothing, conveyed to him Hogg Meadow, then a swamp; but as the country was cleared up, Sylvanus was richest of all. I soon found that it could not be true of Sylvanus, but long after, by Milford records, that it was substantially true of his father. Hogg Meadow, originally a swamp in the southwest part of Woodbridge, is by far the best part of the township.
“The will of Barnabas does not mention Mary or Henry, but does mention the rest as ‘all my children.’ He leaves ‘to y^e College at New Haven, fourty shillings.’ He was one of the grantees of the charter of Derby, and in 1738, one of the fifteen inhabitants of Milford incorporated, with others of New Haven, to make the parish of Amity. He was a Selectman of Milford, a collector of Rev. Samuel Andrews’ rates, and, with Samuel Clark, Senior, an appraiser of Gov. Treat’s estate, in 1710. In 2 Sept., 1688, he was, with his brother Theophilus, witness in Milford to a deed from Sylvanus to Zachariah. About 1692, he had from Milford, on distribution, the 90th lot, nine acres (M. Rec. 2, p. 27, and p. 126). 1 March, 1693/4, he conveys land to Joseph Peck, Jun’r, and William Fowler.”
Barnabus first married Sarah Buckingham (30402) , daughter of Samuel Buckingham (13 Jun 1640-20 Jun 1728) & Sarah Baldwin (13193) (ca 1645-). Born 8 Jan 1664/5 in Milford, CT.65 Sarah died bef 3 Dec 1692.58
On 3 Dec 1692 Barnabus second married Mary Botsford (30394) , daughter of Elnathan Botsford (ca 1641-10 Sep 1691) & Hannah Baldwin (13192) (ca 1644-7 Aug 1706), in Milford, CT. Born 11 Feb 1671/2 in Milford, CT.64 Mary was baptized in First Church of Milford, 18 Feb 1671/2.64