Baldwin, Thomas (2)
Baldwin, Thomas
D.D., a Baptist minister, was born at Bozrah, Conn., Dec. 23, 1753, and died at Waterville, Me., Aug. 29, 1826. Though educated among Pedobaptists, he adopted Baptist views, and was baptized by immersion in 1781. In the following year he began to preach, and was ordained in 1783 pastor of the Baptist church in Canaan, N. H., where he was residing. In 1790 he removed to Boston, taking charge of the Second Baptist Church in that place. In 1794 he received the degree of A.M. from Brown University, and in 1803 that of D.D. from Union College. From the latter year till his death he was the chief editor of the Mass. Bapt. Miss. Magazine, published in Boston. Dr. Baldwin published several pamphlets on baptism and communion, besides A Series of Letters in Answer to the Rev. Samuel Worcester, published in 1810, and various tracts and sermons. Sprague, Annals, 6:208; Mass. Bapt. Miss. Mag. v.
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Baldwin, Thomas (2)
a Congregational minister, was born in Cavendish, Vt., Sept. 30, 1797. He was for twelve years a farmer in Plymouth, Vt. He studied theology with Rev. W. C. Burnap .of Chester, and Rev. Justin Parsons of Weston. He:was ordained June 15, 1836, at Peru, Vt., and resigned in 1845, but continued to fill the pulpit until July 10, 1849, when, after a pas. torate of thirteen years, he removed to Plymouth, where he was acting pastor until September, 1851. In 1852 he went to San Antonio, Tex., but in May, 1853, again returned to Plymouth, where he remained as acting pastor until January, 1858. He then successively was acting pastor at Lowell, Vt., from 1858 to 1861; then again at Plymouth from 1862 to 1873, and South Wardsborough in 1874. He was without charge at Plymouth until 1875, when he went to live with his son. He died in Clarksburg, West Va.,May 26, 1878. See Cong. Yearbook, 1879, p. 37. (W. P. S.)