As was the case with many men of that frontier era, Baldwin moved about, for whatever reason we don't know. But his name is found in one variation or another in a number of east Tennessee counties including Greene, 1787 and 1793; Granger 1799 and 1803; Carter 1804; and finally Sullivan 1805 to 1815. Beginning in 1813, he began to acquire land in northeastern Alabama, 260 miles farther southwest in the vicinity of Huntsville, which was just being opened up for settlement. And by 1815 he had moved his expanding family there and disposed of his Tennessee holdings.
Baldwin and his sons acquired a substantial acreage east of New Market in Madison county, Alabama, where they raised children as well as crops. Although the count varies, Baldwin and Elizabeth may have had as many as 16 children and __ grandchildren. The following list of children includes them all, from the legally proven to the only possible. Each name is followed by a possible year of birth, and in the case of females, a married surname.
Margaret (1798, Oliver)
John (1800)*
Catherine (1801, Coffman)*
Hannah (1803, Landreth)
Adam (1804)
Emily (1805, Rodgers)
Mary (1807, Jones)
Lavina (1808, Patillo)
Elijah (1810)
Michael (1811)*
Esther (1813, Cannon)
Hulda (1813)
William (1815)
Malinda (1818, Hendricks)*
Temperance 1819, Taylor)*
Rachel (1823)
Genealogical note. In recent years, as they have searched for Baldwin's ancestry, certain genealogists have conflated life events about one Archibald or Archer Howard with those about Baldwin. This would relate Baldwin to the Revolutionary Patriot Nehemiah Howard. This is provably wrong. While there may be a relationship, it is not through equating Baldwin and Archibald/Archer Howard. Baldwin lived many years in northeastern Tennessee and later in northeastern Alabama, while Archibald lived in South Carolina, and possibly though doubtfully Georgia. A similar situation exists with regard to Baldwin's wife Elizabeth, the mystery of whose life events has been "solved" by equating her with Archibald's wife Elizabeth Birdsong. Doesn't her very name sound indian? But again, Elizabeth Birdsong was a definite, unique and separate individual from Baldwin's wife Elizabeth, and this is demonstrated elsewhere.
As was the case with many men of that frontier era, Baldwin moved about, for whatever reason we don't know. But his name is found in one variation or another in a number of east Tennessee counties including Greene, 1787 and 1793; Granger 1799 and 1803; Carter 1804; and finally Sullivan 1805 to 1815. Beginning in 1813, he began to acquire land in northeastern Alabama, 260 miles farther southwest in the vicinity of Huntsville, which was just being opened up for settlement. And by 1815 he had moved his expanding family there and disposed of his Tennessee holdings.
Baldwin and his sons acquired a substantial acreage east of New Market in Madison county, Alabama, where they raised children as well as crops. Although the count varies, Baldwin and Elizabeth may have had as many as 16 children and __ grandchildren. The following list of children includes them all, from the legally proven to the only possible. Each name is followed by a possible year of birth, and in the case of females, a married surname.
Margaret (1798, Oliver)
John (1800)*
Catherine (1801, Coffman)*
Hannah (1803, Landreth)
Adam (1804)
Emily (1805, Rodgers)
Mary (1807, Jones)
Lavina (1808, Patillo)
Elijah (1810)
Michael (1811)*
Esther (1813, Cannon)
Hulda (1813)
William (1815)
Malinda (1818, Hendricks)*
Temperance 1819, Taylor)*
Rachel (1823)
Genealogical note. In recent years, as they have searched for Baldwin's ancestry, certain genealogists have conflated life events about one Archibald or Archer Howard with those about Baldwin. This would relate Baldwin to the Revolutionary Patriot Nehemiah Howard. This is provably wrong. While there may be a relationship, it is not through equating Baldwin and Archibald/Archer Howard. Baldwin lived many years in northeastern Tennessee and later in northeastern Alabama, while Archibald lived in South Carolina, and possibly though doubtfully Georgia. A similar situation exists with regard to Baldwin's wife Elizabeth, the mystery of whose life events has been "solved" by equating her with Archibald's wife Elizabeth Birdsong. Doesn't her very name sound indian? But again, Elizabeth Birdsong was a definite, unique and separate individual from Baldwin's wife Elizabeth, and this is demonstrated elsewhere.
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