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Nathaniel Baldwin
Origin
Nathaniel Baldwin, most likely the 2nd son* born to Richard Baldwin and Isabell Harding ; his birth probably occurred between 1605 and 1610, the birth years shown for Timothy (1605) and Joseph (1610 or later).
*Note: Based on the will of Richard Baldwin, of Cholesbury, dated May 23, 1630; proved May 16, 1633 in the court of the Archdeaconry of Bucks; Richard mentions his sons with the following bequests:
Son Nathaniel, 10 pounds
Son Joseph, when he is 21 years old, one-half acre of land called "Hunt's Wick"
His son Timothy is named executor.[1]
Based on Richards bequests, it would seem Timothy is the oldest son, 2nd would be Nathaniel, and 3rd, Joseph, not yet 21 years old in 1630.Immigration
The three brothers, Timothy, Nathaniel, and Joseph are believed to have emigrated to New England, Connecticut approx. 1639.[2]
Nathaniel Baldwin was one of the first settlers of Milford, Connecticut, where he was a free planter, November 29, 1639 (p 406).[1]
In 1650, he conveys land in Milford to his brother Timothy (p 406).[1]
The 3 brothers settled in Milford together; Nathaniel, was a cooper, and removed to Fairfield, as he was there in 1641 (p 406).[1]
Marriages
Nathaniel married twice.
He married, before June 9, of 1644 (the date she joined the church at Milford and the month in which 2 of her children were baptized) to Abigail Camp] (p 406).[1] She died there March 22, 1648 (p 406).[1]
He married after March of 1648, and before 1650 (first child Sarah was born), as his 2nd, and as her 2nd, to Joanna (Unknown) Westcoat, widow of Richard Westcoat, of Fairfield, Conn (p 406).[1] After Nathaniel died, she married 3rd to Thomas Skidmore.
Nathaniel owned land in Fairfield, March 6, 1649; in which he acquired by virtue of marriage with Joan (Joanna) Westcoat, from her father; he built a house on several parcels of land.[3]Note: Baldwin originally believed that Joanna made a marriage contract with Thomas Skidmore, but did not marry him (p 407).[1] He was following Mr. Byron A Baldwin, "a careful genealogist." In Charles Baldwin's ...Supplement, he corrects this statement by saying "the Skidmore marriage came off after all" and cites the Judd Papers, which state that in 1677, Nathaniel's son Samuel had of his father-n-law (step-father), two pieces of land.[3]
Children
Children of Nathaniel Baldwin and Abigail (Camp) Baldwin (p 406):[1]
John, bapt. June 1644
Daniel, bapt. June 1644
Nathaniel, bapt. January, 1645
Abigail, bapt. March 19, 1648; and died in 1668
Children of Nathaniel Baldwin and Joanna (Unknown) Westcoat (p 406):[1]Sarah, b. 1650
Deborah, b. 1652
Samuel, b. 1655
Death and LegacyHe died in 1658,[3]
Charles Candee Baldwin, states "Mr. Savage, in his Genealogical Dictionary, makes his widow, marry Thomas Skidmore; but Mr. Byron A Baldwin, a careful genealogist, descended of this line, states that she made a contract with Skidmore in regard to marriage, which was recorded, but did not marry him (p 407).[1]
In Charles Baldwin's Supplement, pg 1082, to his original publication, pg 407, he corrects this statement by saying "the Skidmore marriage came off after all". He cites the Judd Papers, which states that in 1677, Nathaniel's son Samuel. had of his father-n-law (interpreted as step-father, common use of the term at that time) two pieces of land, "She married 3rd, Thomas Skidmore, not George Abbott, of Fairfield, and died in 1682" (p 408).[1][3]
Mr Charles Candee Baldwin, also makes a statement that "Numbers of Nathaniel's descendants have had substantial progress in tracing this family" and names: Lewis M. Norton, of Goshen, Conn.; Dr. Talcott, of Guilford Conn.; and Byron A Baldwin, Esq., of Chicago, who printed in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register for April of 1871, a partial genealogy, entitled "Nathaniel Baldwin and one Line of his Descendants; and Hon. Ralph D. Smith, of Gulford, "all of which are notable and respected experts in their research" (p 408)."
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Joanna Skidmore formerly [surname unknown] aka Westcott, Baldwin, Westcoat, Westcote
Born about 1620 in England
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of Richard Westcott — married before 1641 (to before 11 Mar 1650) in Wethersfield, Connecticutmap
Wife of Nathaniel Baldwin — married before 1650 in Fairfield, Connecticut [uncertain]
Wife of Thomas Skidmore — married 14 Feb 1664 in Fairfield, Connecticut
Wife of Thomas Skidmore — married 14 Feb 1664 in Fairfield, Connecticut, British Colonies
DESCENDANTS descendants
Mother of John Westcott, Joanna (Westcott) Weed, Abigail Westcott, Sarah (Baldwin) Barlow, Deborah (Baldwin) Reed and Samuel Baldwin
Died before 1672 in Huntington, Long Island, New York
From WikiTree
"Obadiah Bruen was born the son of John Bruen, Esq. and Anne Fox.[1][2][3] He was christened on 25 December 1606 at Tarvin, Cheshire, England.[1]
He married Sarah Seeley on 7 May 1633 at St. Martin's, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England. They had 1 son & 4 daughters:[1][2][3]
John
Mary, wife of John Baldwin
Sarah
Rebecca, wife of Thomas Post
Hannah, wife of John Baldwin, Jr.
Obadiah Bruen immigrated in 1640 to New England with entire family.In Gloucester, Massaachusetts from 1642-1650, he was the first Town clerk.[4]
He died between 1680 and 1690 at Newark, N.J.
A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England
OBADIAH, Gloucester, came, 1640, prob. with Rev. Richard Blinman, had first set down at Marshfield [North of Plymouth, MA], and ask. for adm. as freem. of Plymouth jurisdict. Mar. 1641, but speedily went to the opposite side of the Bay. He was freem. 19 May 1642; selectman in 1642, and sev. foll. yrs. and rep. 1647, 8, 9, and 51, in wh. last yr. with his spiritual guide he rem. again to New London [CT}, there was town clk. 15 yrs. often rep. and is nam. in the royal chart. 1662; but hav. purch. 11 June 1667, with assoc. the ld. in N.J. now the city of Newark, he rem. thither, where the fam. has always flour.
He was youngest s. of John B. Esq. of Bruen Stapleford, Cheshire, bapt. 25 Dec 1606, at Tarves, near Chester, bec. a draper at Shrewsbury in the adjoin. Co. Salop, had w. Sarah and ch. Mary, bef. com. over, and here Rebecca; Hannah, b. 9 Jan. 1644; and John, 2 June 1646. The time of his d. in unkn. but he was alive 1680. In spel. the name a slight variety occurs. A let. of 11 Oct. 1679 to his d. and her h. at New london, from Newark, to tell of the d. of their min. the first Pierson, is sign. Ob. Brewen, but by the w. Sarah Bruen.
First Town Clerk, Gloucester Mass 1642-1650, documented in latest 2002 History detailed by Mary Ray and Archives Committee. (7) Outstanding rich source of Gloucester History.
His d. Mary m. 1653, John Baldwin of Milford, as his sec. w.; Hannah m. 1663, John Baldwin of Milford, s. of the h. of her sis. but perhaps d. soon, as he is said to have d. on a voyage unm. but it may be that her h. was ano. of the frequent Johns; Rebecca m. 1663, Thomas Post of Norwich, as his sec. w. Rev. Matthias, b. at Newark, 11 Apr. 1793, Columb. Coll. 1812, d. 11 Nov. 1829, was a descend. of high reput.[5]
Sources↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 163.
↑ 2.0 2.1 Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 344-345.
↑ 3.0 3.1 Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. I, p. 585-586.
↑ Gloucester Mass Historic Timeline 1000-1999, Mary Ray & Gloucester Archives Comm. 2002. p15; source references Babson, John, J., History, pp65,591; Pringle, James R., History pp.40-41
↑ From "A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England" by James Savage (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1969: at Nichols Library, Naperville, IL) Vol 1, page 280 (Bruen)
See Also:"Pedigrees of Some of the Emperor Charlemagne's Descendants" Marcellus Donald Alexander R. von Redlich Vol 1 p 127
Tarvin, St. Andrew (C of E). An ancient parish church, originally serving the townships of Ashton, Bruen Stapleford, Burton (near Tarvin), Clotton Hoofield, Duddon, Foulk Stapleford, Hockenhull, Horton cum Peel, Kelsall, Mouldsworth and Tarvin. Extended in 1964 to include Prior's Heys. Registers of Baptisms 1563–1926, Marriages 1563–1999 and Burials 1563–1993 have been deposited at the Cheshire Record Office. Bishop's transcripts for Tarvin, 1584-1903 Cheshire, Church of England baptismal and marriage records are available online at FamilySearch Historical Records.
Interesting Familys of New Jersey - Bruen
Douglas Richardson, New Magna Carta Descent for Obadiah Bruen
Bruen Family Genealogy
Find A Grave Memorial# 111054658, Created by: JASNJ, Record added: May 23, 2013
Marlyn Lewis
Visitation of Cheshire 1613, Record Soc 58 (1909), page 47, Bruen of Stapleford."
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John STEELE First Secretary of the Connecticut Colony
John Steele was a founder of Hartford and the first Secretary of the Connecticut Colony. He was among those who explored the Litchfield area in 1657. He signed a trade treaty with the Indians.
From Ancestry.com "John Steeole" posted 10 JUN 2013 by dmcmnns"John Steele, bapt. Fairstead, England, Dec. 12, 1591, son of Richard (2).
Richard (1) Steele, son of Robert Steele, was buried at Fairstead, England, 10 Jan. 1595.
Richard Steele Jr., bapt. in Fairstead, Essex County, England 12 Apr. 1549, died and buried there 12 Jan. 1631, "aged 82". He married Elizabeth, v/ho was buried 1626 at Fairstead.
Children - Richard; George (died at Hartford, Conn. 1665); John, bapt. 1591, d. 1665, m. 1622 Rachel Talcott, daughter of John and Anne Skinner Talcott, b. 10 Oct. 1602. Braintree, Essex County, England. Died 24 Oct. 1653.
Arriving in America in 1630, he was to become best known as John Steele of Farmington, Conn.
From England, probably County Essex, near London. First appears in Dorchester, Mass., in 1630; a proprietor of Cambridge, 1632; freeman, 1634; representative to General Court, 1635.
In Autumn of 1635 he led a pioneer band to the wilderness to settle a new town, Hartford, and lay the foundations of a new Colony, Connecticut - 3d of the N.E. Colonies.
Having been educated in the duties of a magistrate, he was well qualified as a leader in the new community. For 23 years elected to the principal Colony Court - for four years its Secretary or Recorder. For nearly 20 years he was also Recorder of the town of Hartford, and upon the organization of the town of Farmington acted as its recorder. Here his closing years were passed, and here he died 25 Nov. 1665. He married second, Mary, widow of Richard Seamer or Seymour."
From WikiTree
"Rachel was born in Braintree, Essex, England to John & Anne (Skinner) Talcott.[citation needed]
It is estimated she was born about 1602, based on her marriage date of 1622.
She married John Steele 10 Oct 1622 in Fairsted, Essex, England. "John Steele, son of Richard of this parish, & Rachel Talcott of Brancktree [i.e., Braintree]." She died at Farmington, Connecticut on 24 October 1653.[1]
They had nine children: John, Samuel, Daniel, Rachel, Lydia Bird, Mary Judd, Sarah, Daniel, & Hannah. See John's profile
Rachel, wife of John Stone Sr. died 24 OCT 1653, at Farmington, Connecticut.[2]
Sources
↑ The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010), (Originally Published as: New England Historic Genealogical Society. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols., 1995). "John Steele" p. 1756
↑ Connecticut Vital Records to 1870 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) From original typescripts, Lucius Barnes Barbour Collection, 1928.
See AlsoTalcott Pedigree in England and America from 1588-1896 (Albany 1876). pgs 16-20.
Author: Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900. : Publication: Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date:2004; http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=worldmarr_ga&h=1195323&ti=0&indiv=try
Ancestry.com. Connecticut Town Death Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection) Publication: Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date:2006;
Find A Grave Memorial# 34190376 No photo, No cemetery, No sources."
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"From: Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (NEHGS, 1999-2011), I:347-350.
---JAMES BOOSEY--- ORIGIN: Colchester, Essex, or vicinity. MIGRATION: 1635 FIRST RESIDENCE: Wethersfield
OCCUPATION: Joiner and wheelwright (his inventory included "his joiner's & wheelwirght's tools" valued at £10. OFFICES: Deputy to Connecticut Court for Wethersfield, 1639-49 [CCCR 1:27, 29, 34, 41, 46, 50, 58, 64, 71, 93, 96, 103, 111, 116, 117, 124, 128, 130, 132, 133, 138, 145, 146, 155, 159, 161, 163, 166, 170, 174, 178, 185, 188]. Surveyor of arms for Wethersfield, 8 August 1639 [CCCR 1:30]. Committee to view lands 16 January 1639/40 [CCCR 1:42]. Committee to erect house of correction, 10 April 1640 [CCCR 1:47]. Committee to survey the line between Hartford and Wethersfield, 9 November 1641 [CCCR 1:69]. Clerk of the Westhersfield train band, 10 Apr 1641 [CCCR 1:157]. ESTATE: In the Wethersfield land inventory on 10 March 1641/22], "the lands of JAMES BOOSYE lying in Wethersfield" were as follows: "one piece whereon his house and barn standeth containing three acres one rood"; "one piece lying in the Great Meadow containing twelve acres"; "one piece lying in the West Swamp containing fourteen acres; "one piece lying in the West Field containing forty & two acres" [WetLR 1:142]. In the Wethersfield land inventory on 11 May 1644, "the lands of James Boosye which he bought of Ro[bert] Cooe lying in Wethersfield" are as follows: "one piece whereon his house standeth containing three acres"; one piece in the Great Meadow containing seven acres"; one piece lying in Beaver Meadow containing five acres"; and "one piece on the east side of Conecticutt River containing threescore & eighteen acres" [WetLR 1:134]. In his will, dated 21 June 1649 and proved on an unknown date, "James Boosey late of Wethersfield upon the River on Conecticoat who died the 22th of this instant month" bequeathed to "my eldest son Joseph Boosey" £200 at age twenty-one and also " my homelot with a barn standing upon it which I bought of Mr. Olcot which was Thomas Sherwood's the younger containing six acres..., 17 acres of my plain that is to say the little plain running to the great plain... and seven acres in the Great Meadow which I bought of Robt Coe... and twenty-nine pounds in such pay as his mother can conveniently pay him in, when my son Joseph comes to the enjoyment of this land according to this my will he shall repay back again the hundred pounds unless he take this hundred pound in land", to my daughter Mary Boosey" £50 at age twenty-one or marriage; to "my daughter Hanah Boosey" £50 at age twenty-one or marriage, to "my daughter Sarah Boosey" £50 at age twenty-one or marriage"; “my two sons Joseph & James shall have all my lands after the death of their mother, Joseph shall have all my purchased land, except four acres in Beaver Meadow, which is twenty acres on Great Plain and four acres in Beaver Meadow, which was John Simonses & Jarimiah Jagers, this with that before mentioned is the whole purchased land except the four acres in Beaver Meadow before expressed, my son James shall have my now dwelling house & houselot and barns & houses standing thereon with all the lands which was given me by the town that is now in my possession which is twelve acres in the Great Meadow, 56 acres of upland & swamp with four acres in Beaver Meadow which was named before", residue of land to be divided among children, with Joseph receiving four shares, James two shares, and each of the three daughters, Mary, Hannah, and Sarah, one share a piece; residue to "my wife", she to be sole executrix; "Mister Wells, Brother Smith Senior & Brother Dickinson" to be supervisors [HaPD Case #695]. The inventory of the estate of James Boosey, taken 4 August 1649, totalled £983 8s., of which £400 was real estate: "his house and lands"; "his joiner's and wheelwright's tools" were valued at £10 [HaPD Case #695]. On 15 May 1668, "[u]pon the petition of Ensign Steele, John Pratt and Nath[aniel] Standley &c. This Court do hereby order that the children of James Boosey or their heirs shall not be prejudiced or disenabled, by the law for claim of land and prosecution within twelve month & a day, to sue for or recover any right or title they may have or ought to have in any land in reversion after the death of their mother, either by will or heirship at common law" [CCCR 2:85; see also Connecticut Archives, Private Controversies, Series One, 1:62]. The inventory of the estate of "Alice Wakely deceased," taken 6 September 1683, totalled £384 19s., of which £233 was real estate: "homelot 7 acres with dwelling house, barn, outhouses, orchard, cider press," £150; and "11 acres of land in the Great Meadow," £83 [HaPR 4:131]. Within a few months of Alice's decease, her sons-in-law Samuel Steel, and Nathaniel Stanley instituted legal proceedings to recover the land which they believed Alice had illegally sold prior to 1668. This legal action generated a large number of informative documents, including copies of James Boosey's will and of the inventories of his Wethersfield landholdings, copies which are generally more legible than the originals [Connecticut Archives, Private Controversies, Series One, 2:172-189b].
BIRTH: By about 1604 based on estimated date of marriage. DEATH: Wethersfield 22 June 1649 (from will). MARRIAGE: By 1629 Alice ___ [WP 2:184, 195]. She married (2) Hartford 5 Oct 1652 James Wakeley [HaVR 608]. On 23 February 1652/3, Connecticut Court judged the account of the deputies "in marrying Jeames Wekely & widow Boosy to be legal" [CCCR 1:238]. She died at Wethersfield 30 August 1683 [WetVr Barbour 265, citing WetVR 1:58; FOOF 1:627].
COMMENTS: On 6 January 1629/30, Samuel Borrowes wrote to John Winthrop from Colchester, Essex, "that there is a friend of mine which is willing to go this voyage for New England, he hath been inclined to that voyage a great while buy he came not to me with a resolution for to go till this morning after my father's letter was writ and he desired me to write to you for to enter his name and his wife's and if it please you to undertake for them in their passage over and send word I pay whether you will undertake for them or no and for the half of the money for their charge going over and for half the money for carrying over the goods he means to carry... His name is James Boosye and alleso his wife" [WP2:184]. One 20 January 1629/30, Borrowes wrote further with reference to "Jhemes Boseye and his wife which I am very sorry that I did meddle in the business about sending to your worship for them, had I thought that he would have proved so inconstant he should have writ himself; he tells me the reason he cannot go this voyage is that he had sold his commodities and the party tells him since that he will not have them except he will stay for his money till after Michaelmas so he desired me to write to you to have him excused from this voyage" [WP 1:195]. Bossey and his wife apparently waited five more years before coming to New England.
BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: In 1915 Frank Farmsworth Starr, published a typically comprehensive account of this immigrant [Goodwin Anc 263-71]. In 1960 Donald Lines Jacobus prepared a briefer account [Ackley-Bosworth 258-59].
Sources
Pratt, Walter Wilcox. The Ancestry and the Descendants of John Pratt of Hartford, Conn. (Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1900) Page 13
Starr, Frank. Various Ancestral Lines of James Goodwin and Lucy (Morgan) Goodwin of Hartford, Connecticut (Hartford, Conn., 1915) Vol. 1, Page 263-71"
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"The ancestry of William Francis Joseph Boardman, Hartford, Connecticut Author: Boardman, William Francis Joseph Publication: The Case, Lockwood & Brainard company Page: p 203 Data: Text: 135. The Christian name of the wife of Lieutenant James Boosey was ALICE, whom he married before coming to Wethersfield and probably in England. After his death she married October 5, 1652, James Wakely, a " weaver " of Wethersfield, bnt this was not until two years after the same James Wakely brought an action against her for breach of promise. The Court decided that there was " some ingagement " between them, though no formal contract had been made. [County Court Records, 1649-63, pp. 15, 16.] Thev lived at Wethersfield where he had bv deed of gift conveyed property to her, the validity of which conveyance was afterwards questioned. On May 14, 1677, " Goodwife Alice Wakely " was fined by the court for selling liquor to the Indians. CONT Alice Wakely died in Wethersfield in 1683, her inventory being exhibited September 6th of that year. It amounted to £348 19s. 4d. This included, it seems, the property given her by James Wakely, and purchased of Thomas Welles February 10, 1656. To recover this he gave Nathaniel Foote power of attorney March 15, 1689-90. The property in question was a house, bam, and home lot situated on Broad street, and other lands. [State Archives, Private Controversies, I: 180-182; IV: 5; Records of the Court of Assistants, II : 5 ; Manwaring's Hartford Probate Records, I : 48, 98, 99.] CONT Children of James and Alice Boosey. CONT I. Joseph, m. Esther , and d. 1655. His wid. m. 2nd, John Burr. CONT II. Mary (No. 67). CONT III. Hannah, b. Feb. 10, 1641; m. John Pratt. CONT IV. Sarah, b. Nov. 12, 1643; m. June 2, 1659, Nathaniel Stanley. She d. Aug. 18, 1716. CONT V. James, b. Feb. 1, 1645-6 ; d. young."
From Tylcoat site:
John was a pewterer and involved in the wool cloth trade.
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Per Tylcoat site:
"Made a Will 24 Sept 1606, admitted to probate 12 Nov 1606.
Pewterer in the Parish of St Peters 1578, when sole executor to his cousin William 700 (B01TY/-3). Land owner.
Probably received the original family "Grant of Arms"."