Noah Baldwin, Jr., was born in
Durham, Conn., Feb 20, 1768. His first wife was
Phebe Hull, and
this family consisted of six children, viz:
Charles, Henry, Dan,
Lemuel, Ada, and
Phebe. His last wife
was the widow of
Deacon Beach, of Lexington, NY. Her maiden
name was
Betsey Lockwood. I believe she was an aunt of
Hon.
Horatio S. Lockwood, of Hunter. They had four children, viz:
Nancy,
Hexekiah, Elizabeth, and
Hannah. Charles
married
Rachel Cornwall, daughter of
Dan
Cornwall, of Cornwallsville, and settled in Volney, NY.
Henry
married
Ruth Kellogg, of Volney, and lived and died there.
Dan
married
Mary Robinson, of Durham, Conn., and settled in
Volney; but after the death of his wife, he removed to Greenville, married
there and died recently.
Lemuel was twice married:
first to
Abigail Hedges, and had children--
Lewis, (died
young);
William, Joseph, Horace, Amanda and
Ezra.
His second wife was
Samantha Strong; her children
were
Mary and
Lewis. Ada married a
Mr.
Lamphier, and
Phebe married a
Mr. Stearns, and
both lived in Volney, NY.
Nancy married a
Mr. Barker,
and went to Michigan.
Hezekiah and
Elizabeth
are living unmarried on the farm.
Hannah married
Luman
Ramsdell, of Norton Hill. I have been thus minute in relation
to this family because of the curious fact that all of the
Baldwins
named who came from Durham, Conn., to this town, the descendants of
Deacon
Noah, viz:
Hezekiah, Elizabeth, William and family,
and
Lewis and family, are all living here. And just here I
will mention another curious fact. Durham, Conn., as we have seen, was the
home of the
Baldwins; now, according to
Prof. Fowler
in his "History" of the town, there is not one left. The last
representative of the name was
Eunice, who died Feb 16, 1860,
at 75 years of age. She was the youngest daughter of
Reuben
Baldwin, who was the youngest brother of
Abiel, Sr., and
Noah, Sr. Her tombstone in Durham Conn, says: "She
was the last surviving descendant of
Reuben Baldwin, and the
last surviving resident in Durham of that ancient and numerous family of
Baldwins,
whose remains lie interred beneath the adjoining monuments erected to their
memory."
When Deacon Noah and Phebe,
his wife, (who was a sister to John Hull) first came to
this town, they took up a small farm near the one previously taken up by John
Hull, but in a few years, they bought the farm now owned by Hezekiah,
his son, and built the present house, where he died May 29, 1843. Phebe,
his first wife, died Jan 20, 1809. Betsey, his last wife,
died May 1, 1867, aged 67.
James Baldwin was born in
Durham, Conn., Nov 3, 1769; was married Jan 8, 1794, to Mabel Jones,
daughter of Setty Jones, a Revolutionary soldier, of
Saybrook, who gave his life for his country. Her mother, whose maiden name
was Mabel Lord, daughter of Christopher Lord, afterward
married Reuben Baldwin, James Baldwin's
uncle. Soon after their marriage they settled upon the farm now owned
by Ralph Campbell. He first built a log house, but in
time he and his brother Noah, who lived only about 30 rods
East of him, built each of them a substantial hip-roofed house, both of
which are still standing and are in good repair. The internal arrangements
of these houses were exactly alike, every door and window occupying the same
relative place, and both were not only built the same year, but the frames
were raised the same day. The only difference in them was that one stood on
the North side of the road and the other on the South side. He was a
very quiet, peaceable, pleasant man, and was much respected. He eventually
sold his farm to his nephew, Lemuel Baldwin, and he and his
wife spent the evening of their days with their eldest son, Dennis, in
the village. He died Dec 2, 1843. Mabel, his wife, died Jan
29, 1857, aged 81. Their children were, Dennis, James Jones,
Ezra, Aaron and Rhoda. Dennis was born Nov
1, 1794, and married Temperance Chapman, daughter of Deacon
Benjamin Chapman, of whom we hope to speak hereafter. They
had four children: Mabel J., Benjamin C., Mary C.,
and Ezra J. Benjamin C., to whom I am indebted for
many of these facts, lives in St. Paul, Minn., and Mary C., lives
in Honesdale, PA. In 1857, Dennis sold his farm, and
removed first to Honesdale and then to St. Paul where he died in 1875, aged
80. Temperance, his wife, still survives at 87 years
of age. James Jones, was born June 26, 1797, and
married Candace Beach, daughter of Deacon
and Betsey Beach of Lexington. He was by profession
an engineer and surveyor and lived in Buffalo, NY, and latterly in
Cleveland, Ohio. Ezra was born Dec 2, 1799, and died
April 9, 1822. Aaron died in infancy. Rhoda, born
June 10, 1803, married Curtis Hayes, now of Catskill. She
died in New York City leaving no children.
Hezekiah Baldwin was the third
son and seventh child of Noah Baldwin, Sr., and was born in
Durham, Conn., Aug 18, 1771. He married Rachel Stow or Rachel
Parmalee (authorities differ) and in 1816, he came to this town and
bought a farm then owned by Deacon Jonathan Baldwin, where
he lived the remainder of his days. He died Dec 20, 1831. They had no
children. Rachel, his widow, afterward became the second
wife of Capt. Johiel Cooley. She died Feb 8, 1849.
Adah Baldwin April 13, 1773,
came to Durham NY, married Christopher Post, lived where Orville
Moss now does, and died in 1854, without children.
Hannah Baldwin was born in
Durham, Conn., in Nov 1774, married Stephen Tibbals, of the
same town, and removed to this town and settled on the West part of the VanWagoner
farm. Their first house was on the ridge, about 40 rods West of John
Hull's house (now the VanWagoner house). At
that time there was a road running from these houses direct to Bidwell's
Falls, where there was a grist mill and a saw mill. These two women, Sally
Hull and Hannah Tibbals were sisters, and, it is
said, spent many a day in each other's homes making music on their flax
wheels---the only musical instrument they had. In time the log
house was replaced by a frame house, in which Mr. Loren Hay
now resides. Their children were Sally, married Leverett
Bryant and removed to Volney, NY. Almon died in childhood.
Samuel married Eunice Parks, of Windham; had two
children, Mary and Caroline, who was the
first wife of Nelson VanWagoner. Samuel Tibbals, was
a beautiful singer, but he died in the prime of his life. Rhoda and
Betsey married and removed from this town and have since
died. Stephen Tibbals, Jr., who was the oldest of the
family; married Fanny Wright, and lived with his uncle, Hezekiah
Baldwin; built the fine brick house in which Curtis Osborn
now lives, and lives near Poughkeepsie, NY. They have five children: Hezekiah,
Harriet, Jonathan, Amelia and Edwin.