Sylvester Baldwin1

M, b. circa 1598, d. 21 June 1638
FatherSylvester Baldwin b. c 1571, d. b 1 Jun 1632
MotherJane Wells
     Sylvester was born circa 1598 in Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire, England. Sylvester married Sarah (?) circa 1620 in the Parish of Aston Clinton. On the 18th of February 1633, his uncle, Richard Baldwin, after giving several bequests, left him the residue of his estate. In the late spring of 1638, Sylvester & his wife, Sarah, along with their two sons and four daughters, left England aboard the ship, "Martin", |They arrived at the Boston Harbor sometime before the 13th of July. Alexander Bryan, John Baldwin, Francis Bolt, the James Weeden family of Chesham, the Chad Brown family and others from Hertfordshire & Buckinghamshire were also on board. It is believed that John Baldwin of Norwich, then a young. orphaned child, accompanied Sylvester's family and that he lived with the family until his marriage. Another close family member, probably cousin of Sylvester, John Baldwin was also aboard the ship & witnessed Sylvester's will. At one time there were five of the name of "John Baldwin" residing in Milford. In 1643, Sarah was listed on the New Haven records with a family of five - herself & 4 children..2,3,4,5 On his death bed, he made a nuncupative will on 21 June 1638. He mentions his wife Sarah, his children: . Richard, Sarah, Mary, Martha, Ruth, and John. He appointed his wife, Sarah, & his son, Richard, as administrators. It was witnessed by John Baldwin and James Weeden.6 On 21 June 1638,Sylvester died while he was at sea aboard the ship "Martin." His will was probated on 13 July 1638 at Boston in the Massachuetts Bay Colony. The will was presented at the Court of Assistantants held in Boston 4 September 1638.7

Family

Sarah (?) b. 1600, d. b 20 Nov 1669
Children

Citations

  1. [S138] Charles Candee Baldwin, The Baldwin Genealody from 1500-1881, pages 41-44; page 989.
  2. [S708] Ship List for the ship "Martin": 1638 to Massachusetts at the Boston Harbor before 13 July 1638 - only known of because of the death of one of its passengers, Sylvester Baldwin.
  3. [S138] Charles Candee Baldwin, The Baldwin Genealody from 1500-1881, Page 41 - At a Court of Assistants, held at Boston, the 4th of the 7th month, 1638, (4 Sept., 1638.)
    “The will of Silvester Bauldwin was p’sented unto the Court, and his wife Sarah and sonne Rich’d were allowed executors according to the will.” (Mass. Records, Vol. 1, p. 23, inarg. 226.)
    page 42 - …The widow went with the emigrants to New Haven, and was the widow Baldwin enrolled among the first planters there, five in her family, and L300 in the list , and lots were afterward drawn in her right. She married, 1640, John Astwood, of Milford, Connecticut, when her property was valued at L800, besides several parcels of land.
  4. [S698] Honorable John D. Baldwin, John Baldwin of Stonington & Other John Baldwin's of Early Colonial Times, In a list of. the New Haven "planters," made in 1643, she appears as “the Widow Baldwin," with a family consisting of five persons. The Widow Baldwin's family included herself and four children. But, at that time, she had with her only three of her own children, the other three having married and left her; Sarah in 1638, Mary in 1640, and Richard in 1642. Who was this additional child?
    - Remembering that old Bible and its record,
    and remembering, also, the statement in a letter of the Hon. Simeon Baldwin, that, according to the traditions of the Norwich family to which he belonged, "John, the father of the Norwich family, came to this country with a respectable connection of the family, when a boy," I believe, without very serious hesitation, that it was John Baldwin, of Norwich.
  5. [S152] Assistant Professor of History in Wells College Isabel MacBeath Calder, The New Haven Colony
    , pages 73-74 - The small group headed by Peter Prudden that had coalesced with the Davenport Company in Massachusetts Bay and migrated with them to Quinnipiac drew toward the plantation on Long Island Sound Sarah [Bryan] Baldwin, widow of Sylvester Baldwin of Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire, who in the summer of 1638 died on board the Martin on his way to New England; her two sons and four daughters; Alexander Bryan, a native of Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, kinsman of Sarah Baldwin; John Baldwin, Francis Bolt, and others from Hertfordshire & Buckinghamshire.
  6. [S708] Ship List for the ship "Martin": MARTIN. The voyage of this ship is only known through the death of one of its passengers, and the settlement of his estate by depositions of witnesses as to the will. She arrived in Boston Harbor before July 13. SYLVESTER BALDWIN of Aston Clinton, county Bucks
    Mrs. Sarah Baldwin
    Richard Baldwin
    Sarah Baldwin

    JAMES WEEDEN of Chesham, County Bucks - Newport, Rhode Island
    Mrs. Phillippa Weeden
    John Weeden
    William Weeden
    Anna Weeden
    Martha Weeden
    CHAD BROWN Providence
    Mrs. Elizabeth Brown
    John Brown.
  7. [S645] Charles Edward Banks, "     New England Migration,, MARTIN. The voyage of this ship is only known through the death of one of its passengers, and the settlement of his estate by depositions of witnesses as to the will. She arrived in Boston Harbor before July 13.
    SYLVESTER BALDWIN of Aston Clinton, county Bucks
    Mrs. Sarah Baldwin
    Richard Baldwin
    Sarah Baldwin

    JAMES WEEDEN of Chesham, Newport
    county Bucks Rhode Island
    Mrs. Phillippa Weeden
    John Weeden
    William Weeden
    Anna Weeden
    Martha Weeden
    CHAD BROWN Providence
    Mrs. Elizabeth Brown
    John Brown.