Brief Life History of Caleb
When Caleb Baldwin was born on 2 September 1791, in Nobletown, Columbia, New York, United States, his father, Philemon Baldwin Sr, was 33 and his mother, Esther, was 32. He married Nancy Kingsbury on 7 December 1814, in Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Warrensville, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States in 1830 and Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1839. He died on 11 June 1849, in Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 57, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Caleb Baldwin, "United States Census, 1830"
- Elizabeth Elmina Baldwin in the Family Data Collection - Births
- Caleb Baldwin, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-1994"
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1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
1797 · Albany is Named Capital of New York
Albany became the capital of New York in 1797. Albany is the oldest continuous settlement of the original 13 colonies.
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
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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CALEB BALDWIN LIBERTY JAIL A PIONEER OF 1848 Caleb Baldwin was my great-great grandfather. Ever since I was a little girl I have heard the story of his imprisonment in Liberty …
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