Baldwin, Jedidiah (1768-1849)

Name:

Baldwin, Jedidiah (1768-1849)

Title:

Postmaster, Hanover, NH, 1793, 1797

Other Names:

Baldwin, Jedediah

Born:

03/29/1768

Birthplace:

Norwich, CT

Died:

06/06/1849

Death Location:

Rochester, NY

Residence:

Norwich, CT 1768-1791
Northampton, MA 1791-1793
Hanover, NH 1793-1811
Fairfield, NY
Morrisville, NY 1812-1820
Rochester, NY 1827, 1829, 1830, 1834, 1840, 1849

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Clockmaker, silversmith - 1793-1811 in NH
Watchmaker -- 1818-1820 in NY
Dry goods, jewelry, wallpaper and pill distributor

Father:

Baldwin, Jabez (1743--1817)

Mother:

Barker, Lydia

Relations:

Sibling:
Baldwin, Jabez (1778-1819; silversmith)
Baldwin, Thomas (Methodist preacher, Clifton Park, NY)
Cousin:
Baldwin, Thomas (Baptist minister, Canaan, NH, & Boston, MA)
Master to Jabez Baldwin
Master to Zalmon Aspinwall
Partnership, Stiles & Baldwin, Northmapton, 1791-1792
(Samuel Stiles and Jedidiah Baldwin)
Partnership, Baldwin & Storrs, Northampton, 1792-1794
(Jedidiah Baldwin and Nathan Storrs)

Spouse:

Abigail Jones (1772-1839), April 10, 1791, Norwich, CT

Children:

Lydia
Ann

Notes:

Charles C. Baldwin, The Baldwin Genealogy, from 1500 to 1881. (Cleveland, Ohio: Published by the author, 1881), 276.

Henry N. Flynt and Martha G. Fales, The Heritage Foundation Collection of Silver, With Biographical Sketches of New England Silversmiths, 1625-1825. (Deerfield, Massachusetts: The Heritage Foundation, 1968), 44, 152, 331, 332.

Charles S. Parsons, "The Jedidiah Account Books," Research Activities and News, NAWCC Bulletin, October, 1985.

Charles S. Parsons, New Hampshire Silver. (Cranbury, NJ: Adams Brown Company, 1983), 84-85.

Philip Zea, "Clockmaking and Society at the River and the Bay: Jedidiah and Jabez Baldwin, 1790-1820," The Bay and the River: 1600-1900, Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife: Annual Proceedings, June 13 and 14, 1981, 43-58.

Philip Zea and Robert C. Cheney, Clock Making in New England, 1725-1825, An Interpretation of the Old Sturbridge Village Collection. (Sturbridge, Massachusetts: Old Sturbridge Village, 1992), 108-110.

Donn Haven Lathrop, Notes on the Baldwins, Bailey, Hale, Hasham, and Osgood Families, 1995. (On-line resource, hard copy put in Baldwin file)

Death Notice, Rochester Daily Advertiser, Rochester, NY, June 29, 1849, 2.

Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, NY

Jedidiah Baldwin Papers, Special Collections, Baker Library, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH