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View Tree for John BaldwinJohn Baldwin (b. Abt. 1597, d. Aft. October 4, 1656)

John Baldwin was born Abt. 1597 in England, and died Aft. October 4, 1656 in Virginia.

 Includes NotesNotes for John Baldwin:
JOHN BALDWIN I, OF VIRGINIA

The "Muster Roll of Settlers in Virginia" (Hotten's "Emigrants") gives: John Baldwin, came from England in the Tyger, 1622, freeman. In the list of persons "Living in Virginia, February 16, 1623" (Hotten, Part I) is given: John Baldwine.

On Good Friday, March 22, 1622 -- nearly a year before the above Settlers list was made -- occurred the Indian Massacre at Jamestown, in which 347 settlers were killed out of a population of 1240 (William and Mary College Quarterly Magazine, v. 7, p. 216). One of the heroes of the massacre was John Baldwin. "John Baldwin or Baldwyn of Warrasquake, in the Indian assault in and about Jamestown, March 22, 1622, defended his household so valiantly (his wife so seriously wounded that she was thought to be dead), that he drove the foe from his house, which later became a refuge for many whose homes were destroyed by fire." (Burk's History of Virginia, v. 4, p. 242).

Out of the number of early Baldwin settlers at Jamestown, as shown above, it is this hero of 1622 who is claimed as the ancestor of the Maryland family, through his son, John the Quaker, will 1682. In its recent revision of its list of Colonial Ancestors -- a purging of the list of unfounded or unproven claims, -- the Society retains, as the Virginia progenitor of the Maryland family: "Baldwin, John. In Indian uprising, 1622. House afterwards used as a Garrison" ("Index of Ancestors," Society Colonial Wars, 1922).

Ref: Genealogy of the Welsh and Hyatt Families of Maryland and their Kin, Luther W. Welsh, 1928

Children of John Baldwin are:
  1. +John Baldwin, b. Aft. 1622, Northampton County, Virginia, d. 1684, South River Hundred, Anne Arundel County, Maryland.
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