"1. Matthew (Baldwin), of Middlebury, Milford and Woodbridge, Conn., appears as a grantee, of Middlebury, Conn., Nov. 2, 1761; then called Balden, and afterward Baldwin. He is afterward described in deeds as of Woodbridge, which must have been the north part, now Naugatuck. Some of his descendants say he came from Milford to Woodbridge. His name appears upon the Milford Records, and so often as to indicate considerable property. I cannot place him with certainty, but think he is not unlikely of some of the Connecticut stock already described. Joseph2 William1 had children born about the time Matthew must have been. Samuel3 Nathaniel2 John1 (ante page 309), b. in 1689; d. in 1764, and in his will provides for children born from about 1740 to 1752, and says he has before given his other older children what he was capable of giving them. In 1768, Samuel Sanford conveys to Matthew, of New Haven; in 1774, Matthew, of Milford, conveys to Joseph Smith; and next year the order of conveyance is reversed, Joseph Smith, of New Haven, to Matthew, of Milford. He seems to have been called, rather indiscrimately (sic), of New Haven and Milford; as June 12,1766, he is of Milford, and the 19th of the same month, of New Haven. This happened to other Baldwins in the limits of what is now Woodbridge; and I confess I feel considerable confidence that Matthew will prove to be the son of Samuel above. Possibly the lands which took him to the north part of Woodbridge first were 'right in the Indian Purchase,' bought by Samuel of Josiah3 Josiah2 John,1 in 1722. The information that follows, I get partly from Probate Records, deeds aud family. Some of the family think he came from 'Amity,' which is the old name for Woodbridge, and this was where the above Samuel lived. Matthew m., in Woodbridge, Abigail Thomas, dau. of a sea captain of New, Haven; she d. July 11, 1812, aged 80; he, some ten or twelve years before, it is said."
