Anna Baldwyn

F, b. March 1605, d. 20 February 1661
     Anna was born in March 1605 in North Church, Hertfordshire, England. Anna married Alexander Bryan, son of Thomas Bryan and Frances Bowling, in 1631 in Aylesbury. Alexander and Anna had a son Richard and possibly others. On the 16th of February 1633, her uncle, Richard Baldwin, bequeathed unto her and her son Richard, " unto Anne Bryant Daughter of Robert Baldwin my Brother and unto Richard Bryant her sonne all that tenement with the appurtentances beinge freeholde lying and being in Wendover towne to the saide Anne and her sonne Richard and their heires for ever and fortie eight pounds v shillings 8 pence in money to be paid within three moneths after my decease." In 1638, Anna & her husband, Alexander, along with their children, left England aboard the ship, "Martin", |They arrived at the Boston Harbor sometime before the 13th of July. Sylvester Baldwin and his family, 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: resiging in Milford. In 1643, Sarah was listed on the New Haven records with a family of five - herself & 4 children..1,2,3,4 Anna departed this life on Sunday, 20 February 1661 in Milford, New Haven County, Connecticut, at age 55 years and 11 months.5

Family

Alexander Bryan b. b 29 Sep 1602, d. bt 20 Jul 1679 - 6 Nov 1679

Citations

  1. [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.
  2. [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.
  3. [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.
  4. [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.
  5. [S2184] C. C. Baldwin, Alexander Bryan of Milford Connecticut, his ancestors and his descendants, page 11.