Francis BALDWIN

with about 80 SmartMatches is this the person with the most SmartMatches i have ever seen. But he is far away from the Schmiers-Tree! I do not want to add his parents, because the tree could be grow,but far outside my interests. R. Schmiers

Parents: William Baldwin and Mary Daves. on other family his mother is named only Mary.

The different birth dates seams to point to different Francis Baldwin! The second Mary is the Mother of the 1648 born Francis;

Francis Baldwin was a settler in the neighborhood of West Chester County, Pennsylvania as early as 1686. He was the brother of John and Thomas, as appears by the will of John, of Chester, who in 1731left legacies to Thomas and John, sons of his brother Francis. Francis was a miller, and died in New Castle county in 1702, although he was a juror at Chester Court not long before (July 19, 1700). In1691, his father-in-law, Thomas Coebourne, conveyed to him one hundred acres of land in Chester Creek and in Chester. The will of his brother John leaves five shillings each to "all my brother Francis Baldwin's children." I know the names only of those named in the same will as legatees of 10 pounds each.Francis' name appears in Chester County as witness to deeds in 1691, 1697, 1699 and 1700. Hereceived from Thomas Coebourne in 1691 a deed of one hundred acres in Chester. The consideration was an annuity. In 1692, John Maddock conveyed fifty acres in Nether Providence, "Nether Cutt," which he had purchased of Francis Baldwin. In 1695, he received a record deed from Thomas Coebourne of one hundred acres in Chester, which next year he conveyed to Joseph Coebourne for 50 pounds. Letters ofadministration were granted, Aug 17, 1702, to his widow Cicely, by the Register General, at Philadelphia. Source: The Baldwin Genealogy from 1500 to 1881 by Charles Candee Baldwin, M.A. published in Cleveland, OH 1881.

Founded in 1642, Chester is the oldest City in Pennsylvania. In the late 1670's William Penn was given a grant of land from Charles II of England to pay off a crown debt owed to Penn's father. WilliamPenn landed on his newly acquired colony in 1682 and immediately changed the name of the settlement to Chester, after a place in Europe where one of his closest friends was born. For the first two hundred years, Chester was prosperous manufacturing community with industries concentrating on machinery, metal manufacturing, locomotive and shipbuilding, textiles and oil refineries. These strong industries fueled steady population and employment growth.

Francis Baldwin was a settler in the neighborhood of West Chester County, PA as early as 1686. He was the brother of John and Thomas, as appears by the will of John, of Chester, who in 1731 left legacies to Thomas and John, sons of his brother Francis. Francis was a miller, and died in New Castle County in 1702, although he was a juror at Chester Court not long before (July 19, 1700) In 1691, hisfather-in-law, Thomas Coebourne conveyed to him one hundred acres of land in Chester Creek and in Chester. The will of his brother John leaves five shillings each to "all my brther Francis Baldwin's children." I know the names only of those named in the same will as legatees of 10 pounds each. Francis' name appears in Chester County as witness to deeds in 1691, 1697, 1699 and 1700. He received from Thomas Coebourne in 1691 a deed of one hundred acres in Chester. The consideration was an annuty. In 1692, John Madock conveyed fifty acres in Nether Providence, "Nether Cutt," which he had purchased of Francis Baldwin. In 1695, he received a record deed from Thomas Coebourne

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