Baldwin Landing at Ticonderoga - Lake George NY

Hello, Blog-friends. Though I began this post in good old Torrington where I live, I will likely see it polished and posted tonight from the cottage where I am making my latest stay here in Lake George, New York, on a family vacation. If all has gone to plan, my grandmother is here with us and we expect to see my brother and his family tomorrow for a second day of vacation fun.

The 17th Century - Historical Facts and Baldwins, #1

I've been wondering lately. Who in our family tree was alive during such-and-such? During events in human history? That is, we know Mozart was a big deal during this or that period, and Shogun (the movie) was set around this or that time, and it seems like a LONG time ago so it just becomes abstract data. But since we can fortunately trace our family back so far, surely one or more generations of Baldwins was alive to see or maybe have heard about all of these events, and these things would have been current news stories for them.

Of course, when you think about it, at least one member of your family has always been alive, for the entirety of human history. Whee!

I thought it might be fun to once in a while make posts about which Baldwin was alive during this or that famous occurrence, and to see what exactly happened during their lifetimes. Genealogy, for me, becomes far more interesting when you can place a person in context of world events. So I'll start writing up these posts in order to show these things. I'll jump around in time with this series of posts. But I will start by talking about-