Brief Life History of Mehitabel
When Mehitabel Baldwin was born on 17 December 1728, in Newhaven Towne, New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Lt. Barnabas Baldwin, was 37 and her mother, Mehitable Tuttle, was 29. She married James Thompson II on 6 March 1751, in Woodbridge, New Haven, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 8 daughters. She died on 31 August 1813, in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States.
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- Mehitable Baldwin, "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
- Thompson, "Find A Grave Index"
- Mehetabel in entry for Hannah Thompson, "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850"
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1781 · British Forces Capture Fort Griswold
The capture of Fort Griswold was the final act of treason that Benedict Arnold committed. This would be a British victory. On the American side 85 were killed, 35 wounded and paroled, 28 taken prisoner, 13 escaped, and 1 twelve year old was captured and released.
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.
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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