History of Oakland County Michigan a narrative account of its historic progress, its people, its principal interests / compiled from the official records of the county, the newspapers and data of personal interviews, under the editorial supervision of Thaddeus D. Seeley.

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1837, aged eighty-nine, and they lie buried in the little cemetery the
Grahams have consecrated for this purpose.
Mr. Alexander Graham was well versed in the Indian tongue, and
acted as interpreter. Benjamin also understood the language and was
a trader. He was called by the Indians "Mauchung," which meant
chunk bottle, as all commodities sold to them (sugar, flour, powder and
whiskey, alike), he measured in a chunky glass bottle. Many interesting stories are current of the Graham boys and their representatives are
still living in our midst.
NATHANIEL BALDWIN
Nathaniel Baldwin came only a year after the Grahams, and settled
near by. He taught school in a log schoolhouse which stood where
the stone blacksmith shop now stands. He was born in Goshen, Connecticut, July 20, I76I. While still a lad he enlisted in the sixth regiment from Connecticut under Colonel Parsons. This regiment was
organized at the first call for troops and recruited from New London,
Hartford and Middlesex counties. He remained on duty at New London until July 17, 1775, when they were ordered to the Boston camps,
where they remained until discharged, December IO, I775.
After the war Mr. Baldwin was married to Susanna Sherman, niece
of Roger Sherman, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Their children were: (I.) John, b. July I6, I784;- (II.) Martha
Minot, b. April 20, I795; d. June 28, 1839; m. Thomas J. Drake;-(III.)
Nathaniel Augustus, b. June 27, i8oi; d. Aug. 22, 1845; m. (Ist) Margaret, m. (2) Jane Maxwell, April 2, 1842, died March 23, 1884;(IV.) Susanna Eliza, b. July 12, I805; d. Jan. I8, I858, unmarried;(V.) Walter Baldwin, b. Feb. 5, I809.
The Baldwin Genealogy gives two other children, Sherman and
Zimri, and the ancestry of Nathaniel as Nathaniel (4), Nathaniel (3),
Samuel (2), Nathaniel (I), of Milford, Connecticut.
Mr. Baldwin moved with his family from Connecticut to East Bloomfield, New York, where they lived many years before coming to Michigan. The track of land they occupied lies about two miles south of
Rochester, where the Crout farm now is located. His daughter, Susan,
taught school in the Postal district in a small log house built for the
purpose in I82I, one of the earliest schools in the county.
Mrs. Baldwin seems to have been a woman of excellent Christian
character and patience, and died January 2, I839, aged seventy-four. Nathaniel Baldwin lived until August 30, I840, when he was laid to rest
in the cemetery at Rochester. Mrs. Milo Newberry, a granddaughter,
is the only member of the family now living in Oakland county.
GEORGE HORTON
Another Revolutionary soldier to settle as neighbor to Nathaniel
Baldwin and James Graham, was George Horton. He gave his military
service in Pennsylvania, enlisting in May, 1780, when nineteen years of