SERVICE NUMBER
Conn. Baldwin, Nathaniel S.28982
Included on the Roll of Mohegan [...]
at the rate of 20 Dollars [...] per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issue the 4th day of March
and [...]
[...] Thomas J. Drake
Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7. 1832.
Territory of Michigan
County of Oakland SS:
On this 26th day of June in the year of our Lord One thousand Eight hundred & Thirty Three, personally appeared
in Open Court, before William A. Fletcher & Amasa Bagley, Judges of the Circuit Court in & for the County of
Oakland within the Territory of Michigan now sitting: Nathanial Baldwin a resident of the Township
of Oakland in the County aforesaid and Territory of Michigan aged Seventy Two years, within a few days
who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his Oath make the following declaration in order
to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7. 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served
as herein states.
The names of the field officers are most now recollected, Captain Gershom Hewitt of the Town
of Caanan in the County of Litchfield in the State of Connecticut Commanded the company I belonged to, Peter Buell was
my Lieutenant of the Town of Litchfield in the County aforesaid, Ens [illegible] The day and month I entered
the Service I do not recollect, but it was I think late in the fall of seventy-nine [illegible] It was the fall preceding the
hard winter So called I think in the fall of Seventeen hundred & Seventy nine, the company assembled at Litchfield
in Connecticut, then marched through Danbury, to the Town of [illegible], from thence to Middlesex, there
halted, and I was quartered at the House of Thomas Hanford, whose son or sons, it was said was in the British
service, at this place we remained some time. The [illegible] time is not remembered, from this place we marched to a
place I think called Reading, to get there we went through the Town of Norwalk, previously destroyed by the enemy
and halted at the house of Cage Starr, so called familiarly, at the house of Starr we halted for the night.
I at this place during the night I got my foot and ancle injured by the falling of a Large log, so much so
that I could not march with the company in the morning, but in the course of the day, Travelled after the company
about one mile and was obliged to put up, my foot to painful to Travell. The next day I marched rather followed after
the company to a place called Bethel, perhaps I was more than one day getting there. I near Danbury, at this place
I was compelled from the condition of my foot and ancle which was [burned?] the same time it was bruised by the falling of
the log aforesaid to remain a number of weeks, perhaps Eight weeks. I put up at the house of one Benedict,
who nursed my and drew for me my rations from the public stores, and took care of me until my father sent his
horse for me to ride home on, and said Benedict afterwards received of my father a compensation for taking care
of me, my lameness continued during the Spring and Summer following, preventing me wholly from work.
The object of the service of the company I belonged to was as I supposed to watch the coast, and prevent the
depredation of the Tories & Enemy. we were in no engagement. At another time I was called on and Marched
with a company under the command I think of one Medad Hill his rank not remembered. We had a chaplin
with us by the name of Beckwith a minister from Litchfield farms, we marched through New Milford
and towards New York, some miles, how far not remembered, before we reached our place of Destination
[illegible] countermarched and ordered home. Before the close of the War I was drafted, then residing in
the Town of Goshen in the State of Connecticut [illegible] months I think, and for this service
my father hired a substitute for me, to what [illegible] the company marched or what service they performed
I do not know, how [illegible] think that from the time I
first volunteered under Captain Hewitt aforesaid, until I was [illegible]
more, over and above the march towards New York and the draft of three months aforesaid, I was
at all times ready when able to march, to go and perform duty when called on from the time I first volunteered
until the close of the War. I have no Documentary evidence of my service or discharge.
Michael Beach who is now dead was in the company with me when I was hurt as aforesaid.
I know not of any person now living whose testimony I can procure as to my service or anything
relative to it. Levi Norton Levi Carr, Nathaniel Newell John Norton Titus Gaylord were
men who I recollect was in the company under Hewitt with me, but if living I know not
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about one mile and was obliged to put up, my foot to painful to travell, the next day I marched rather followed after
the company, to a place called Bethel, perhaps I was more than one day getting there. Near Danbury, at this place
I was compelled from the condition of my foot and ancle which was burned the same time it was bruised by the falling of
the log aforesaid to remain a number of weeks, perhaps Eight weeks. I put u at the house of one Benedict
who nursed me and drew for me my rations from the public stores and took care of me until my father sent his
horse for me to ride home on, and said Benedict afterwards received of my father a compensation for taking care
of me, my lameness continued during the spring and Summer following, preventing me wholly from work.
The object of the service of the company I belong to was as I supposed to watch the coast and prevent the
depredation of the Tories & Enemy. We were in no engagement, at another time I was called on and Marched
with a company under the command I think of one Medad Hill his rank not remembered. We had a chaplin
with us by the name of Beckwith a minister from Litchfield farms, we marched through New Milford
and towards New York, some miles, how far not remembered, before we reached our place of Destination.
[illegible] countermarched and ordered home. Before [illegible] close of the War I was drafted, then residing in
the Town of Goshen in the State of Connecticut, [illegible] months, I think, and for this service
my father hired a substitute for me, to what [illegible] the company marched or what service they perform
I do not know, how long I was in the service [illegible] I think that from the time I
first volunteered under Captain Hewitt aforesaid untill I was [illegible] again nine months or
more, over and above the march towards New York at the draft of three months aforesaid. I was
at all times ready when able to march, to go and perform duty when called on from the time I first volunteered
until the close of the War. I have no Documentary evidence of my Service or discharge.
Michael Beach who is now dead was in the company with me when I was hurt as aforesaid
I know not of any person now living whose testimony I can procure as to my Service or anything
relative to it. Levi Norton Levi Carr, Nathaniel Newell John Norton TItus Gaylord were
men who I now reccollect was in the company under Hewitt with me, but if living, I know not.
I was born in the Town of Goshen in Connecticut the 20th of July Seventeen hundred and sixty one
The family Record of my age was kept by my father in the family Bible, that Bible I suppose
is yet in the possessions of the heirs of Isaac Baldwin late of Goshen aforesaid deceased, when living my
only Brother. I was living in Goshen my native Town when I was called into the Service. I first
volunteered and was afterwards drafted. Thenames of the Regular officers or those of the
Militia further then above stated I know not. I have no knowledge of ever having had
a discharge for same. I had not as I was unable to return with the company in consequence
of my lameness. Since the Revolutionary War I lived about one year in Newhaven, then
afterwards in my native Town in Goshen in Connecticut, for many years, thence I moved in to Ontario
County, Town of Bloomfield, in New York and there resided upwards of twenty years, in September
1824 I moved to Oakland in the county of Oakland and Territory of Michigan where I now live.
Rev. Isaac W. Ruggles Daniel Bronson, Roger Sprague Benjamin Horton Doctor Cyrus Chipman, Elisha
Beach are acquainted with me and can certify as to my character for Truth & veracity and their belief of my
services as a Soldier of the revolution. I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity
except the present and declare that my name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
Subscribed and sworn to the day & year aforesaid Nathaniel Baldwin
In open Court Elias Comstock, Clerk
We Isaac W. Ruggles a clergyman residing in the Town [illegible] in the County of Oakland and Elisha Beach residing
in the same place hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Nathaniel Baldwin who has subscribed & sworn to the above
declaration: that we believe him to be of Seventy Two years or nearly so of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood
where he resides to have a Soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion. Isaac W. Ruggles
Elisha Beach
In Open Court Elias Comstock Clerk
And the Said court do hereby declare this opinion after investigating the matter and putting
the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a
revolutionary Soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them
that Isaac W. Ruggles who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in Pontiac
in the County of Oakland. And that Elisha Beach who has also signed the same is a resident in
Pontiac aforesaid and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
{illegible] A. Fletcher Presiding Judge [illegible]
Amasa Bagley Associate Judge
I Elias Comstock Clerk of the Circuit Court in & for the Count of Oakland
do hereby certify that the foregoing [illegible] the original proceedings of the said Court
in the matter of the application of Nathaniel Baldwin for a pension
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto my hand and seal of the Said Court this 26th
day of June A. D. 1833. Elias Comstock Clerk
Michigan Territory Oakland County Circuit Court
County of Oakland November Term 1833
I Nathaniel Baldwin the declarant who made & signed the
within written declaration being duly sworn dispose and say that
from old age and the consequent loss of memory it is impossible
for me to state the precise time and length of my Service but
according to the best of my reccollection I served not less than six months
as a private Soldier. I was according to the best reccollection in the said Service with an Embodied Corps
called into Service by competent authority and I was not during the time of my Service Engaged
in any Civil persuit. And for that Said Service I claim a pension. Nathaniel Baldwin
Subscribed and sworn to in Open Court this thirtieth day of November
A.D. 1833. Elias Comstock Clerk
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Nathaniel Baldwin
Michigan Ter.
Returned [struck through]
Adm. 6 Months
Thomas J. Drake
Pontiac
M. T.
WAR DEPARTMENT
Pension Office [written by hand 1st Nov. 1833"]
Sir:
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will shew what is necessary to be done. These points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: }). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by compling with this request, greatly facilitating the investigation of your claim.
A Statement, shewing the Service of
[column headings: Period when the service was rendered. Duration of the claimants service: Years, Months, Days. Rank of the Claimant. Names and rank of the Field officers under whom he served. Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the service. Proof by which the declaration is supported.]
I am, respectfully, Your obedient servant,
J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions.
[written by hand "Must shew how long he was in Actual Military service Cannot be allowing for service performed by another person."]
[written by hand "28982 Reg"]
"INVALID"
File No. [written by hand "28,962
Nathaniel Baldwin
Prv Rev War"]
Act: [written by hand "June 3d 32"]
Index: -Vol. [written by hand "2"], Page [written by hand "24"]
[Arrangement of 1870.]
[added by hand sideways on the right side of paper "1925 Oct. 7. Copies mailed to E B Baldwin see receipt for payment in Reuben Baldwin W23523."]
Request for Photostating 3-2005
(To be prepared in duplicate.)
Ex. [written by hand "A W" in black ink]
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF CLERK
Job No. [stamped in black ink "2491"
Date [written by hand Oct. 2-25"]
Subject [written by hand "Nathaniel Baldwin Rev. S28982. ] (No.) [written by hand "1"] copies of (No.) [written by hand "4"] pieces consisting of (No.) [written by hand "6"] pages to be forwarded when completed to the [written by hand "Rev. 1782 Sect"] Division.
Remarks: [written by hand "please take copies of each sheet separate this was requested by person paying for item although they wee fragments of same page.
[added initials "OK" in a box to the right of the last paragraph.]
Approved [written by hand "A E Wilson"]
Chief Division [crossed out] [written by hand "Sect."] Chief Clerk
[written by hand "see receital for payment in Reuben Baldwin W23523"]
Patriot Summary
Nathaniel Baldwin (1761-1840) served in the Connecticut militia as an infantry soldier in the Sixth Regiment under Colonel Parsons. The Sixth Regiment was organized at the first call for Revolutionary troops. Nathaniel Baldwin was born in Goshen, Litchfield County, Connecticut on July 20, 1761. After the war, Nathaniel married Susanna Sherman. They came to Michigan in 1824 and settled on a tract of land two miles south of Rochester. They had least six children, four sons and two daughters. Nathaniel Baldwin died August 30, 1840, in Oakland County, Michigan and is buried in the Mount Avon Cemetery, Rochester, Oakland County, Michigan. SAR Patriot Number P-107696 DAR Patriot Number Not Available Find-A-Grave Number 9949633From the History of Oakland County, Michigan by Thaddeus D. Seeley (1912)
Nathaniel Baldwin came only a year after the Grahams, and settled near by. He taught school in a log schoolhouse which stood where the stone blacksmith shop now stands. He was born in Goshen, Connecticut, July 20, 1761. While still a lad he enlisted in the sixth regiment from Connecticut under Colonel Parsons. This regiment was organized at the first call for troops and recruited from New London, Hartford and Middlesex counties. He remained on duty at New London until July 17, 1775, when they were ordered to the Boston camps, where they remained until discharged, December 10, 1775.
After the war Mr. Baldwin was married to Susanna Sherman, niece of Roger Sherman, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Their children were: (I.) John, b. July 16, 1784;—(II.) Martha Minot, b. April 20, 1795; d. June 28, 1839; m. Thomas J. Drake;—(III.) Nathaniel Augustus, b. June 27, 1801; d. Aug. 22, 1845; m. (1st) Margaret, m. (2) Jane Maxwell, April 2, 1842, died March 23, 1884;—(IV.) Susanna Eliza, b. July 12, 1805; d. Jan. 18, 1858, unmarried;—(V.) Walter Baldwin, b. Feb. 5, 1809.
The Baldwin Genealogy gives two other children, Sherman and Zimri, and the ancestry of Nathaniel as Nathaniel (4), Nathaniel (3), Samuel (2), Nathaniel (1), of Milford, Connecticut.
Mr. Baldwin moved with his family from Connecticut to East Bloomfield, New York, where they lived many years before coming to Michigan. The track of land they occupied lies about two miles south of Rochester, where the Crout farm now is located. His daughter, Susan, taught school in the Postal district in a small log house built for the purpose in 1821, one of the earliest schools in the county.
Mrs. Baldwin seems to have been a woman of excellent Christian character and patience, and died January 2, 1839, aged seventy-four. Nathaniel Baldwin lived until August 30, 1840, when he was laid to rest in the cemetery at Rochester. Mrs. Milo Newberry, a granddaughter, is the only member of the family now living in Oakland county.