Brief Life History of Alfred
When Alfred Baldwin was born on 9 June 1796, in Rockingham, North Carolina, United States, his father, Jesse Baldwin, was 29 and his mother, Elizabeth Stringfellow, was 31. He married Jane Covington on 28 October 1824, in Richmond, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 10 daughters. He lived in Richmond, North Carolina, United States for about 30 years. He died on 15 August 1869, at the age of 73, and was buried in Capels Mill, Richmond, North Carolina, United States.
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- Alfred Baldin, "United States Census, 1850"
- Alfred Baldwin, "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 "
- Alfred Baldwin, "Find a Grave, database and images"
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1799 · Gold Nuggets Found
"In 1799, in Little Meadow Creak located in Cabarrus County, North Carolina a large yellow """"rock"""" was found by Conrad Reed. A few years later it was determined that the """"rock"""" was a gold nugget."
1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
Name Meaning
English and North German: from a personal name composed of the ancient Germanic elements bald ‘bold, brave’ + wine ‘friend’, which was extremely popular among the Normans and in Flanders in the early Middle Ages. It was the personal name of the Crusader who in 1100 became the first Christian king of Jerusalem, and of four more Crusader kings of Jerusalem. It was also borne by Baldwin, Count of Flanders (1172–1205), leader of the Fourth Crusade, who became first Latin Emperor of Constantinople (1204). In North America, this surname has absorbed Dutch forms such as Boudewijn.
Irish: surname adopted in Donegal by bearers of the Gaelic surname Ó Maolagáin (see Milligan ), due to association of Gaelic maol ‘bald, hairless’ with English bald.
History: A John Baldwin from Buckinghamshire, England, arrived in the US in 1638 and settled in Milford, CT.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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