John Baldwin

1665 - 1736  (70 years)

• Name	John Baldwin  [1, 2]
  Birth	25 Sep 1665	Billerica, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	6 Apr 1736	Billerica, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts   [1, 2]
  Person ID	I680	Cooley Miller Sears Barnhouse
  Last Modified	20 Jul 2011

  
  

  Father	John Baldwin,   b. Abt 1622, Hertfordshire, England d. 25 Dec 1687, Billerica, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts (Age ~ 65 years)
  Mother	Mary Richardson,   b. Abt 1638, Charlestown, Massachusetts Bay Colony d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	Abt May 1655	Woburn, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts   [2]
  	Woburn was first settled in 1640 near Horn Pond, a primary source of the Mystic River, and was officially incorporated in 1642. At that time the area included present day towns of Woburn, Winchester, Burlington, and parts of Stoneham and Wilmington. In 1730 Wilmington separated from Woburn. In 1799 Burlington separated from Woburn; in 1850 Winchester did so, too. Middlesex county was created by the Massachusetts General Court on May 10, 1643, when it was ordered "that the whole plantation within this jurisdiction be divided into four sheires". Middlesex initially contained Charlestown, Cambridge, Watertown, Sudbury, Concord, Woburn, Medford, and Reading
  Family ID	F605	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sarah Heywood,   b. 30 Aug 1666, Concord, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts d. 9 Feb 1739/40, Billerica, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts (Age 73 years)
  Marriage	12 Feb 1689/90	Billerica, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts   [1]
  Children	1. Thomas Baldwin,   b. 3 Mar 1695/96, Billerica, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts d. 23 Feb 1749/50, Mansfield, Tolland Co, Connecticut (Age 53 years)
  Family ID	F451	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	10 Oct 2010

  
  

• Notes

  Billerica Massachusetts. In the early 1630s a Praying Indian village named Shawsheen was at the current site of Billerica. In 1638, Massachusetts Bay Colony Governor John Winthrop and Lt. Governor Thomas Dudley were granted land along the Concord River in the wilderness which was called Shawshin by the local Native Americans. Most of the settlement was to take place under the supervision of Cambridge; however, financial difficulties in the colony prevented this from taking place, and the issue of settling Shawshin continued to be deferred. Finally, in 1652, roughly a dozen families from Cambridge and Charlestown Village, later Woburn, had begun to occupy Shawshin as well. Wishing to replace the foreign-sounding Shawshin with a name more familiar, the settlers chose the name Billerica, likely due to the fact that the majority of the families living in the settlement were originally from the town of Billericay in Essex, England. The town was incorporated as Billerica in 1655, on the same day as nearby Chelmsford and Groton. [3]

  
  

• Sources

  [S228] Heywood descendants. [S534] Website, http://www.cyberancestors.com/cummins/wc08/wc08_290.htm (Reliability: 3). Author: Sally Winslow Cummings Pusey [S535] Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billerica,_Massachusetts (Reliability: 3).