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- DWS: she may of been a sister to Obadiah Bruen or a dau ??
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DWS: from The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1847-1994 Vol 19 pg 107-108
"BALDWIN.-BRUEN.
Is there not an error current among genealogists, respecting the Baldwins and Bruens ? The original record at Milford reads as follows:
John Baldwin, Senior, was married to Marie Brewen, daughter of John Brewen, of Pequot.
John Baldwin, son of John Baldwin, senior, and Hannah Brewen, daughter of Obadiah Brewen, of New London, married Oct. 30, 1663.
According to Caulkins's New London, page 156, 'John Baldwin, senr., and John Baldwin, junr., of Milford, father and son, married sisters, the daughters of Mr. (Ob.) Bruen: the elder Baldwin married the elder sister, Mary, in 1653; and the younger Baldwin, son by a former wife, and born in 1640, married the younger sister Hannah Bruen, 1663.'
From Ormerod's 'History of Chester', we learn that Obadiah Bruen was born in 1606, was son of John Bruen of Bruen Stapleford, in the county of Chester, Eng., who died in 1625, aged 65, and had by a third wife a daughter Mary. Is it not assuming too much, to say that Marie or Mary, the wife of the elder Baldwin, was daughter of Obadiah, because there was no adult John Bruen at New London ? Admit that Marie was the sister of Obadiah, and with him at Pequot or New London, and the statement, that the Baldwins, both father and son, married sisters, is an error.
John Baldwin, junr. went to Newark with Mr. Bruen and others, and was the John Baldwin, senior, of that town. His wife Hannah was living in 1680. In 1686, his second wife was Ruth, dau. of Henry Botsford, of Milford. He died about 1702, aged 60, leaving eight sons and four daughters. His father, the elder John Baldwin, of Milford, whose will was made in 1681, left sons and daughters, among whom was an Obadiah, born in 1660, ten years before the death of Mary his mother.
Though from the imperfection of records, the Bruens and Botefords cannot be classified perfectly, it is certain, that of the Baldwins of Connecticut and New Jersey, a great company may properly claim John Bruen of Bruen Stapleford as an ancestor, and emulate his virtues."
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DWS: A Genealogical Dictionary Of The First Settlers Of New England By James Savage,
Former President Of The Massachusetts Historical Society Baltimore Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Originally Published Boston, 1860-1862:
"and he m. 1653, Mary, d. of Obadiah Bruen,"
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John Baldwin, b. Abt 1632/1633, Aston Clinton, co. Bucks, England. 
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Abt 1560 - 1625 (65 years)
