Ruth (Paddock) Baldwin
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Ruth (Paddock) Baldwin (1745 - 1810)

Ruth Baldwin formerly Paddock
Born in Mansfield, Windham, Connecticut Colonymap
Ancestors ancestors
Daughter of and
Sister of , , , , , and
Wife of — married about 1767 (to 16 Feb 1810) in Tolland, Connecticut Colonymap
Descendants descendants
Mother of , and
Died at age 64 in Dorset, Bennington, Vermont, United Statesmap
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Contents

Biography

Birth and Parents

Ruth (Paddock) Baldwin was born in Connecticut.

Ruth, the eldest of eight children of Zachariah Paddack [sic] and Deborah Freeman was born on 8 August 1745 at Mansfield, Connecticut.[1]

Marriage and Children

Ruth married Benjamin Baldwin, the son of Thomas and Dorothy (Kidder) Baldwin say 1767 at Tolland, Connecticut. They had fourteen children:

  1. Sarah Baldwin (b. 1768; d. 1820) m. say 1791 at Mansfield, CT, Consider Hanks (1764-1818)
  2. Edmund Baldwin (b. 1768; d. 1819) m. Sally Tousley (1771-)
  3. Rachel Baldwin (b. 1769; d. 1836) m. 30 Jan 1798 at Dorset, VT, David Eldredge Crane (1763-1813)
  4. Benjamin Baldwin (b. 2 Dec 1771; d. 06 Sep 1772, Dorset, VT)[2][3]
  5. Asa Baldwin (b. 1772; d. 1827) m. 8 Jan 1789 at Dorset, VT, Chloe Underhill (1768-1842)
  6. Deborah Baldwin (b. 13 Jun 1773; d. )[4]m. Davis Beardsley (1784-1849)
  7. Elizabeth Baldwin (b. 16 Apr 1775; d. 1775)[5]
  8. Guy Carlton Baldwin (b. 1776; d. 1848) m. 1797 at Vermont, Tryphena Smith Harmon (1776-1808)
  9. William Baldwin (b. 05 Nov 1779; d. 1860)[6]m. Betsey Collins (1797-1869)
  10. Benjamin Baldwin (b. 08 Mar 1781; d. )[7]
  11. Thomas Kidder Baldwin (b. 1783; d. 1873) m. 15 Jul 1807 at Dorset, VT, Dorcas Green (1785-1840)
  12. Lorena Baldwin (b. 1785; d. 1862) m. 1810, Philo Adams (1787-1864)
  13. Ruth Baldwin (b. 1787; d. 1851) m. 6 Jul 1806 at Burlington, CT, Mosely Wells Abell (1781-1856)
  14. Mary "Molly" Baldwin (b. 30 Jul 1789; d. 1854)[8] m. 10 Feb 1814 at MA, George Washington Choate (1789-1846)

Ruth, Benjamin and their family settled in the new town of Dorset, Bennington, Vermont with his brothers Asa, Eleazer, and Ephraim. Two other relatives, Silas Baldwin and Thomas Baldwin, followed not long after.[9]

Death and Burial

Ruth (Paddock) Baldwin died on 16 February 1810 in her 64th year at Dorset.[10]She is buried in Maple Hill Cemetery at Dorset, Bennington, Vermont.[11]

Sources

  1. ↑ "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7WQ-BDM : 7 January 2020), Ruth Paddock, 1745.
  2. ↑ "Vermont Vital Records, 1760-1954", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XFFY-6XW : 19 February 2021), Benjamin Baldwin in entry for Benjamin Baldwin, 1771.
  3. ↑ "Vermont Vital Records, 1760-1954", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XFFY-6FQ : 19 February 2021), Benjamin Baldwin in entry for Benjamin Baldwin, 1772.
  4. ↑ "Vermont Vital Records, 1760-1954", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XFFY-NLS : 19 February 2021), Benjamin Baldwin in entry for Deborah Baldwin, 1773.
  5. ↑ "Vermont Vital Records, 1760-1954", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XFFY-JJV : 19 February 2021), Benjamin Baldwin in entry for Elizabeth Baldwin, 1775.
  6. ↑ "Vermont Births and Christenings, 1765-1908", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F8L2-M6D : 16 December 2019), Benjamin Baldwin in entry for William Baldwin, 1779.
  7. ↑ "Vermont Vital Records, 1760-1954", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XFFY-66Y : 19 February 2021), Benjamin Baldwin in entry for Benjamin Baldwin, 1781.
  8. ↑ "Vermont Vital Records, 1760-1954", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XFFY-BZ4 : 19 February 2021), Benjamin Baldwin in entry for Molley Baldwin, 1789.
  9. ↑ Aldrich, Lewis C., page 413
  10. ↑ "Vermont Vital Records, 1760-1954", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XFFB-94D : 19 February 2021), Ruth Baldwin, 1810.
  11. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/88348101/ruth-baldwin: accessed 22 July 2023), memorial page for Ruth Paddock Baldwin (8 Aug 1745–16 Feb 1810), Find a Grave Memorial ID 88348101, citing Maple Hill Cemetery, Dorset, Bennington County, Vermont, USA; Maintained by R Lerch (contributor 47507564).

Other Sources

  • Baldwin, Charles Candee. The Baldwin Genealogy From 1500 To 1881. Cleveland, OH: Leader Printing, 1881. Pages 694-695.694
  • Curfman, Robert Joseph, The Paddock genealogy: descendants of Robert Paddock of Plymouth Colony, blacksmith and constable 1646, page 65

Acknowledgements

  • Biography written in full with inline sources and photo added following additional research by Carol Baldwin on 22 July 2023.




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