Patience Stevens

     Patience was born on Saturday, 24 April 1683 in Wallingford, New Haven County, Connecticut. She was the daughter of James Stevens and Mary Wakelee. Patience married Daniel Baldwin, son of Jonathan Baldwin and Hannah Ward, circa 1712 in Milford, New Haven County, Connecticut, at the first Church of Milford. Daniel and Patience had children: Daniel [9/28/1713], Jehiel [6/21/1716-19/26/1793] [m. 1743 Mary Way & 2nd 1749 Bridget Goodwin], Patience [10/11/1724-7/__/1756] [m. 7/25/1750 Daniel Hall] & Lois [5/19/1727-12/07/1799] [m. 8/16/1753 John Yeomans].¹ Patience departed this life on Wednesday, 13 March 1771 in Meriden, New Haven County, Connecticut, at age 87 years, 10 months and 17 days. She was buried there in Broad Street Cemetery.