Brief Life History of William
When William Baldwin was born on 20 February 1720, in Falls Township, Bucks, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America, his father, John Baldwin II, was 50 and his mother, Anne Scott, was 31. He married Mary Elizabeth Morgan in 1745, in Hopewell MM, Frederick, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 9 August 1802, in Guilford, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Alleghany, North Carolina, United States.
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- Virginia, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1607-1890
- William Baldwin, "Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Births and Baptisms, 1520-1999"
- Virginia, U.S., Select Marriages, 1785-1940
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776
North Carolina is the 12th state.
1786 · Shays' Rebellion
Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
Name Meaning
English and North German: from a personal name composed of the ancient Germanic elements bald ‘bold, brave’ + wine ‘friend’, which was extremely popular among the Normans and in Flanders in the early Middle Ages. It was the personal name of the Crusader who in 1100 became the first Christian king of Jerusalem, and of four more Crusader kings of Jerusalem. It was also borne by Baldwin, Count of Flanders (1172–1205), leader of the Fourth Crusade, who became first Latin Emperor of Constantinople (1204). In North America, this surname has absorbed Dutch forms such as Boudewijn.
Irish: surname adopted in Donegal by bearers of the Gaelic surname Ó Maolagáin (see Milligan ), due to association of Gaelic maol ‘bald, hairless’ with English bald.
History: A John Baldwin from Buckinghamshire, England, arrived in the US in 1638 and settled in Milford, CT.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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William Baldwin, son of John Baldwin and Anna Scott was born on 20 Feb 1720 in Falls, Bucks, Pennsylvania, USA. He died on 19 Aug 1802 in New Garden, Guilford, North Carolina, USA. He married Elizabet …
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