John Baldridge^{[1, 2]}

1715 - 1766  (51 years)

• Name	John Baldridge
  Born	1715	Coleraine, Ulster, Ireland
  Gender	Male
  AFN	NWN0-V3
  Died	16 Jul 1766	Martic Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
  Buried	Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
  Person ID	I69108	Smoky Mountain Ancestral Quest
  Last Modified	13 May 2000

  
  

  Father	William Baldridge,   b. 11 Nov 1689, County Tyrone, Ulster Province, Ireland ,   d. 25 Nov 1772, Little Britain Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania  (Age 83 years)
  Mother	Janette Holmes,   b. 24 Jun 1694, County Down, Ireland ,   d. 28 Jul 1768, Little Britain Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania  (Age 74 years)
  Married	16 Jun 1714	County Tyrone, Ulster, Ireland
  Family ID	F25798	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Rebecca Clark,   b. Abt 1720, Coleraine, Ulster, Ireland ,   d. 1 Jul 1823, Belwood, Cleveland County, North Carolina  (Age ~ 103 years)
  Married	1733	Coleraine, Ulster, Ireland
  Children	+ 1. William Baldridge,   b. 1734, Coleraine, Ulster, Ireland ,   d. 1828, Rutherford County, North Carolina  (Age 94 years)   2. Malcolm Baldridge,   b. Abt 1736, Coleraine, Ulster, Ireland ,   d. Bef 1781, Orange County, North Carolina  (Age ~ 44 years) + 3. Robert Baldridge,   b. 1737, Coleraine, Ulster, Ireland ,   d. 5 Sep 1822, St. Charles County, Missouri  (Age 85 years)   4. Francis Baldridge,   b. Abt 1742, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania ,   d. 1776/1782, Orange County, North Carolina  (Age ~ 40 years)   5. James Baldridge,   b. Abt 1751, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania ,   d. 11 Dec 1843, Lincoln County, North Carolina  (Age ~ 92 years)   6. Daniel Baldridge,   b. 1756, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania ,   d. 1822/1830, Weakley County, Tennessee  (Age 74 years)   7. John Baldridge,   b. 1756, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania ,   d. 1834, Rutherford County, North Carolina  (Age 78 years) + 8. Margaret Baldridge,   b. 1756   9. Joseph Baldridge,   b. 14 Sep 1762, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania ,   d. 1839, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania  (Age 76 years) + 10. Alexander Baldridge,   b. 1763, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania ,   d. 1837, Rutherford County, North Carolina  (Age 74 years)   11. Thomas Baldridge,   b. 1764, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania + 12. Rebecca Baldridge,   b. Dec 1764, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania   13. Ann Baldridge,   b. 1765, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
  Family ID	F25797	Group Sheet

  
  

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• Notes

  John had remained in Ulster Province in the far north of Ireland when his parents emigrated to America. In about 1733, in Coleraine, County Londonderry, John married Rebekah Clark who had been born in that area in about 1720. With their then three young children, John and Rebekah also emigrated to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, purportedly aboard the "VillageBelle", arriving about 1737. They colonized land in Martic Township in southern Lancaster County just a few miles northwest of John's parents. In about 1765, John and some of his older sons, along with other Scotish-Irish neighbors, traveled south to North Carolina and bought acreage in old Mecklenburg County (northwest of the present-day city of Charlotte). An abstract, dated 13 May 1765, attesting to the purchase by John Baldrige of the land along Indian Creek and the Catawba River can be found in Tyron-Lincoln County Deeds, Volume 1, Pages 670-671. Three other deeds involving similar purchases or rentals of land in that area by John Baldrige appear on pages 155-159 of Volume 4, Mecklenburg County,North Carolina, Deed Abstracts. John returned to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, only to die there in late July 1766 before he could relocate his family to North Carolina. John Baldrige's Last Will and Testament, dated July 15, 1766 and filed for probate on July 31, 1766, was recorded in Will Book "B", Volume 1,Page 448, Official Records of Lancaster County. It is generally considered that John Baldrige was buried in the cemetery of the Chestnut Level Presbyterian Church, although there is no known tombstone there bearing his name.

  
  

• Sources

  [S90] Ancestral File (R), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, (Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998). [S105] Our Baldridge Forbears and Some of Their Collateral Lines, Dr. Chester C. Kennedy, (July 1993), ISBN 1-56869-026-6., 156, 224.