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, Connecticut, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 7 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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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
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.
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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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