Abraham Baldwin

Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would find a connection to one of the signers of the US Constitution.  Abraham Baldwin, a signer from Georgia, is a very distant cousin of my husband. 

I was looking for information on a Great Grandmother Cross on his (my husband's) side of the family and I found a document with a tiny piece of information that led me to her sisters and parents.  Eventually that led to a great-grandmother by the maiden name of Baldwin.  As my husband has Baldwins on his father's side, I was doubly intrigued. 

I took the new Baldwin line back as far as I could ending up in the same area of the US as the old Baldwin line.  I still haven't found a connection between the two other than my in-laws share cousins.  I think at some point the families are related (meaning my in-laws are distant cousins to each other) but that connection is probably back in the 'old country' before any of them immigrated to the US.   It will be fun to continue to research and hopefully find the connection. 

This has been a fun line to research.