Person:Simeon Baldwin (1)
Simeon Baldwin
b.14 Dec 1761 Norwich, New London, Connecticut
d.26 May 1851 New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Parents and Siblings
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m. 10 Oct 1738
  1. Rhoda Baldwin1739 -
  2. Bethiah Baldwin1741 - 1741/42
  3. Bethiah Baldwin1742/43 -
  4. Ebenezer Baldwin1745 -
  5. Oliver Baldwin1747 -
  6. Elijah Baldwin1749/50 - 1750/51
  7. Mary Baldwin1753 -
  8. Simeon Baldwin1761 - 1851
Spouse and Children
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m. 27 Jul 1787
  1. Roger Sherman Baldwin1793 - 1863
  2. Simeon Baldwin1794 - 1795
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Facts and Events
Name Simeon Baldwin
Gender Male
Birth[1][4] 14 Dec 1761 Norwich, New London, Connecticut
Marriage 27 Jul 1787 New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United Statesto Rebecca Sherman
Death[1] 26 May 1851 New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Burial[2][3] Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Reference Number? Q1290741?


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Simeon Baldwin (December 14, 1761 – May 26, 1851) was son-in-law of Roger Sherman, father of Connecticut Governor & US Senator Roger Sherman Baldwin, grandfather of Connecticut Governor & Chief Justice Simeon Eben Baldwin and great-grandfather of New York Supreme Court Justice Edward Baldwin Whitney. He was born in Norwich in the Connecticut Colony. He completed preparatory studies (studying with Rev. Joseph Huntington and later at the Master Tisdale's School in Lebanon, Connecticut, and graduated from Yale College in 1781. He delivered the Latin oration in June 1782, it is still preserved in the Yale University Library. He was preceptor of the academy at Albany, and a Tutor at his alma mater.

He then studied law, was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice in New Haven. He was elected New Haven city clerk in 1790 was appointed clerk of the District and Circuit Courts of the United States for the District of Connecticut and served until November 1803, when he resigned, having been elected to Congress. Baldwin was elected as a Federalist to the Eighth Congress (March 4, 1803 – March 3, 1805).

He declined to be a candidate for reelection, and was again appointed to his former clerkship, but was removed by Judge Edwards in 1806. He served as associate judge of the Superior Court (1806–08) and the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors (1808–18). He was president of the board of commissioners that located the Farmington Canal, and was Mayor of New Haven. He died at 89 years old and was interred at Grove Street Cemetery.

He married Rebecca, daughter of Hon. Roger Sherman, who died on September 4, 1795, and then married her sister Elizabeth Sherman Burr.

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References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Sherman, Thomas Townsend. Sherman genealogy, including families of Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk, England: some descendants of the immigrants Captain John Sherman, Reverend John Sherman, Edmund Sherman and Samuel Sherman, and the descendents of Honorable Roger Sherman and Honorable Charles R. Sherman. (New York, New York: Tobias A. Wright, 1920).
  2. ↑ Simeon Baldwin, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
  3. ↑ Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

    Simeon Baldwin

  4. ↑ Norwich, New London, Connecticut, United States. Vital Records of Norwich, 1659-1848. (Hartford, Conn.: Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut, 1913)
    395.

    Simeon ye Son of Ebenr Baldwin and of his Wife Bethiah was born December 14th: 1761:

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