Ancestral Trails 2016 » WILLIAM BALDWIN (1607-1692)

Personal data WILLIAM BALDWIN 

• He was born in the year 1607 in Milton-by-Gravesend, Kent.
• He was baptized on May 17, 1607 in St Peter &, St Paul, Milton-by-Gravesend, Kent.Source 2
• Profession: in the year 1692 in Maltster.
• (Relationship) in 8 x Great Grandparent.
• He died May 1692 in Plaxtol, Wrotham, Malling, Kent, he was 85 years old.
• He is buried on May 27, 1692 in St George, Wrotham, Malling, Kent.Sources 3, 4
• Probate on June 21, 1692 naar Shoreham Deanery.Source 5
• Will on April 11, 1692.
• A child of WILLIAM BALDWIN and ELIZABETH CHAMBERS

Household of WILLIAM BALDWIN

He is married to ELIZABETH EVERSFIELD.

They got married on May 21, 1646 at St Peter &, St Paul, Shoreham, Kent, he was 39 years old.Sources 6, 7

Child(ren):

1. Robert BALDWIN  1652-1717
2. THOMAS BALDWIN  1649-???? 
3. William BALDWIN  1647-1692 

Notes about WILLIAM BALDWIN

According to the will of Richard Stevens of Seal, yeoman (Sep 1677) a William Baldwyn late of Plaxtol, maltster, had agreed on 29th May 1675 to pay £30 to whoever was designated in Richard Stevens' will. This could be William's father (unless "late" means "recently", in which case, it could be his son, who moved to Ightham and then Newington) Buried at Wrotham in the same tomb as his wife. In his will he names three sons, William (eldest), Thomas and Robert. The inventory was of a large premises (including a 'shop') and had a total value of £222.1s.11d

LAST WILL & TESTAMENT William Baldwin 11 April 1692
In the name of God Amen the eleventh day of Aprill in the year of our Lord God one thousand six hundred ninety and two 1692 I William Baldwin of Plaxtol in the parish of Wrotham in the county of Kent Maltster being att this tyme sicke and weake in body but in sound & perfect minde & memory for which I praise God doe therefore make this my last will and testament (revoking all former wills by me heretofore made) And this only to be my last Will and noe other in manner and forme following First and principally I will and resigne my soule into the hands and gracious acceptance of Almighty god my maker hopeing and stedfastly believing to have the pardon & remission of all my sins and eternall salvation by the only meritts death and passion of his dearly beloved son Jesus Christ my alone saviour & redeemer And my body I committ to the earth in decent & christian manner to be buried in Wrotham Churchyard under the same stone which my deare wife lyeth buried under att the discretion of mine executor hereafter named And as concerning that temporall estate which God in mercie hath sent me here on earth I will and dispose of the same in manner & form following that is to say

I will & give unto the poore people of Haleborrow in the parish of Wrotham aforesaid the summe of ten shillings to be paid to them within short tyme after my decease Also I will & give unto Nicholas Swann my servant twenty shillings Also I will & give unto William Dane my servant boy the like summe of twenty shillings to be given to them within one year next after my decease by my Executor

Also I will & give unto Thomas Baldwin my son the sume of twenty pounds of current English money on this condicon that is the said Thomas Baldwin doe suffer mine executor to take up & carry away att his pleasure the furnace & kettle & the sider mill & malt mill standing in and upon the premisses wherein I now live, then to be paid to him within one year next after my decease (and not other wise) by my Executor

ITEM I will & give unto Robert Baldwin my son all that messuage or tenement att Horsnayles Crouch in Wrotham aforesaid together with the barne stable outhouses edifices & buildings orchards gardens closes & backsides thereunto belonging with the appurtenances And also all those severall peeces or parcells of land arrable meadow & pasture thereunto now used & belonging All w[hi]ch premisses are situate lying & being in the parish of Wrotham aforesaid & now in the tenure or occupacion of Richard Olliver or his assignes & lately purchased of Richard Browne & Thomas Johnson to hold to the same Robert Baldwin my son and to his heires for ever paying out of it unto William Baldwin my eldest son the summe of forty pounds of current English money to be paid to him within one yeare next after my decease

And further I will & give unto my three sons William Thomas & Robert equally between them all my brasse & pewter (except the ffurnace & ketle before mentioned) and all the lynnen lying & being in a long plain chest standing over the hall equally to be devided between them And also I doe make the said Robert Baldwin my son full & whole Executor of this my Testament & Last Will And to enable him to pay my debts & legacies I give and leave unto him all the rest and residue of my goods chattells cattell debts household stuffe & personall estate whatsoever (except the leaden sisterns in the malthouse) to see my body decently buried my debts & legacies paid and this my Will proved & performed in every respect

In witness whereof I the said William Baldwin have to this my testament and last will sett my hand & seale the day & yeare first above written [Signed] William Baldwin (Seal) Read, signed, sealled, published, & declard by the said William Baldwin to be his testament & last will in the presence of Will Eversfeild Mary Revell (her mark) Tho[mas] Knight Probate 21st June 1692 before George Oxenden by Robert Baldwin, son & executor

INVENTORY William Baldwin 1692 A true and Perfect Inventary Indented of all and singular the goods cattell chattells houshold stuffe and personall estate whatsoever of William Baldwin [of] Plaxtol in the parish of Wrotham in the county of Kent Maltster (deceased) was taken valued & apprised the ffirst day of June in the yere of our Lord God one thousand six hundred ninety & two 1692 by John Ducke Isaac Tomlyn and Thomas Knight as followeth lisd
Inprimis his pursse ready money and wearing apparell2000
In the Hall one table & frame one forme one litle table & forme one cupboard 8 joyn’d stools and three chaires1100
Item one litle old cupboard 1 paire of andirons 1 paire of small packs [?] 1 paire of pothangers 1 fire pan one slice 1 peele 1 pair of tongs 5 spitts 5 driping panns 2 pair of potthoocks 1 jacke 1 nock [?]356 Item 4 stills with copper bottoms 1 gridiron 2 toasting irons 1 pott iron 1 chafeing dish three basting ladles 2 forks 3 candlesticks 1 candleholder 1 fish plate 1 cleaver 2 chopping knives 1 lanthorn 1 warming pan & other small implements of houshold2170 In the parlor one ffolding table & frame 1 forme 1 court cupboard 2 joyn’d chaires 1 leather chaire 2 leather stooles 2 morters & pestles & one box iron190 Item one old bedsted matt & cord 1 featherbed 1 feather boulster 1 flocke boulster 2 blanketts 1 quilt curtins valence & curtinrods 1 carpett & 1 cupboard cloate[?]3160 Item one trendle bedsted matt & Coard 1 still with a Leaden bottom 4 joyn’d stooles & an old sword100
In the Brewhouse one ffurnace 1 iron ketle 1 brewing tubb, 1 bucking 1 Tuntub 4 other tubbs 2 keelles 1 washkeelle 3 pailes 1 litle iron ketle two skalders one iron forke and one Jett420 In the Butteries 1 old table 1 meale tubb 2 keellers 1 lynnen wheele 1 keeler 1 powdring 3 seives packs for a colefire 1 chopping blocke 1 Charne & other and other small implements of houshold 1160
In the Shop 1 safe cupboard 1 litle powdring tubb 2 woodden platters 1 frying pan 1 charne potts and crocks and other small things 0110
In the Seller 8 hogsheds 1 barrell 2 ters [?] 5 drink vessells 2 firkins 2 kunletts 2 skalders 2 powdring tubbs 16 milkbowles 2 woodden platters & 6 dishes 340
Item 1 long kooler 2 iron potts 1 iron kettle one tumell two pailes & one skalder 100
In the Malthouse one table & frame 1 old scey [siev?] 1 sider mill 2 pitchers & other tooles of husbandry 7 mauns & other litle basketts 3 formes & 2 chaires 2190
Item one hutch 1 hencoop ye box of the sider presse 1 botle rack 2 deale shute 3 ladder poles 1 ladder & old board 100
In the Chamber over the Parlor one joyn’d bedsted matt & cord 1 featherbed 2 boulsters 3 blanketts 1 coverlett curtins vallence & curtin rods 5100
Item one litle table & frame 2 joyn’d chests 1 boarded chest 2 desks 3 stooles 2 chaires 1 paire of andirons tongs & firepan one paire of bellows and an old truncke1160 Item 1 silver tumbler 3 spoones 1 silver toaster 2100
In the Chamber over the Hall 1 joyn’d bedsted matt & cord 2 flockbeds 2 feather boulsters 3 blancketts 3 feather pillows curtins vallences & curtinrods 2100
Item 1 sideboard 5 chests 4 boxes & 2 chaires110 Item four old carpetts50
In the Jackloft 5 chaires 1 old sidesaddle & old trunk 80
Item one litle cupbord & chest on ye staires 060
In the Clozett 5 dozen of botles 0100
Item three leather botles 30
In the Garrett 2 bedsteds matts & cords 1 feather bed 2 blankets 1 flockbed 3 blanketts 2 boulsters two pillows and one chest 300
Item 19 bushells of wheate 4150
Item about 40 quarters of malt 4000
Item one masthaire 1 maltscey & 8 scuppetts 1160
Item twenty old packs 100
Item about three quarters of a hundred of hopps 1 ffann1 bushell, 1 halfe bushell 1 peck & 1 gallon 170
In the Waggon Lodge 1 old harrow 1 old paire of wheels, 1 old waggon 1 litle harrow & old lumber 3160
In the milbarne 1 horse mill & a fenboard etc 3100
Item 3 horsharnes 1 pommell & 1 millharnes 0150 Item 2 bucketts 1 cheespress 1 old coop 1 hogtubb and old lumber 0150
Item the dung in the yard old hoppoles and other wood & faggatts 200
Item the stock of hoppoles upon 4 acres of hopground 1400
Item about 3 acres of wheate on the ground 4100
Item three acres & an halfe of oates 3100
Item 6 hundred of hedge ffaggatts & a quintern of wood 120
Item one milch cow 2100
Item two hoggs & one old horse 300
Item 47 li of ketle brass 1114
Item 66 li of pott brasse 1100
In pewter 174 li456
In leaden and loom wayts 115 li0107
In lynen 11 paire of course sheetes 10 pillow beares eight table cloaths and eight napkins 3100 [Obscured by fold in parchment]
Item one silver watch 1100
Item severall books 0100
Item old lumber and things of small value 0150
Summa totalis huius Inventar ij222111
Robert Baldwin
Shown on 21st June 1692 by Robert Baldwin Attached inventory (taken by John Ducke, Isaac Tomlyn and Thomas Knight on 1st June 1692) is of a large hall house of 7 rooms plus brewhouse, butteries, "shop", malthouse, waggon lodge and millbarn - total value, £222/1/11d

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