Elias Baldwin and Elizabeth Piatt
Elizabeth Piatt was born c1773 and was baptised in Six Mile Run Church June 18, 1773, in Somerset County, New Jersey. She was the daughter of Abraham and Annabelle Andrew Piatt and died before April 19, 1808. She married after January 23, 1797, in Somerset County, New Jersey, to Elias Baldwin.
The known child of Elias and Elizabeth:
- Abraham P Baldwin b: 11 Sep 1800 (1.)
d: 5 Oct 1848 (buried Potts Cemetery, Montgomery Co, IN)
m: 28 Aug 1838 Bulter Co, OH, Mary Elizabeth Williams
b: 11 May 1816 d: 18 Feb 1878 (buried Potts Cemetery, Montgomery Co, IN)
- Rachel A E Baldwin b: 13 Sep 1839, IN
d: 18 Apr 1853 (buried Potts Cemetery, Montgomery Co, IN)
- Rebecca Jane Baldwin b: c1842, IN m: 16 Jan 1846 Ashel Ellis d: by 1880
- Margaret Baldwin b: c1844, IN m: ? Tucker
- John A P Baldwin b: c1847, IN
Elizabeth received from her father's estate in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, an interest of 41, 2, 11-2/12 (the same as the rest of her siblings, except the eldest Jacob, he got a double portion.
Elizabeth died before April 19, 1808, in Butler County, Ohio, when
Elias Baldwin "applied for the guardianship of the estate, both real and personal, of Abraham Baldwin, a Minor of the age of seven years on the eleventh day of September last past, son of Elias Baldwin of the County of Butler aforesaid by his late wife Elizabeth Piatt one of the Daughters and heirs of Abraham Piatt late of Northumberland County in the State of Pennsylvania, deceased".
After Elizabeth's death, Elias married Mary Crooks and they had eleven or twelve children. One of these children was a daughter, Rachel Baldwin. Abraham Baldwin (son of Elias and Elizabeth) signed a marriage consent for Rachel Baldwin to marry Robert Cowan in Montgomery County, Ohio. He lists her as his sister (actual relationship would be half-sister).
Source:
- Piatt Family Newsletter, Volume 7, 1992
- Marti Baldwin Swanson Cygnetnest@aol.com
- Vital Record. Butler Co, OH, Testamentary Record, V I, p 40
- Headstone inscriptions Potts Cemetery, Montgomery Co, IN
- Butler Co, OH, marriage recods v II p 68
- Butler Co, OH, Testamentry Record, I (1804-1821), p 40
- Montgomery Co, IN, marriage records
- Abraham Piatt estate settlement Northumberland Co, PA
Updated May 2005
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