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	Roger Sherman (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Sherman was instumental in developing the Connecticut Compromise which invisioned a legislature with two houses, one in which seats would be apportioned based on population and another in which seats would be apportioned equally.
		Sherman played an important role in the development of the Constitution and, although he admitted that the final document was not perfect, he nevertheless held that it was the best that could have been produced at the time, and was instrumental in its acceptance by the residents of Connecticut.
		Sherman was elected as a Representative to the First United States Congress, and then served as a Senator from 1791 until His death of typhoid in 1793 in New Haven, Connecticut at the age of seventy-two.
	roger-sherman.iqnaut.net.cob-web.org:8888 (897 words)

	Web Page - RogerBaldwin
		Baldwin’s father, Simeon, served as the first clerk of the state’s federal courts, as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, and as a judge on Connecticut’s highest court.
		Baldwin’s namesake and grandfather was Roger Sherman, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and framer of the Constitution.
		In the Supreme Court Baldwin urged the dismissal of the government’s appeal of the district court’s decision.
	www.fjc.gov /history/amistad.nsf/page/rogerbaldwin (505 words)

	BALDWIN NE Family - Sherm Thompson's Research Page
		Obadiah BALDWIN was born 19 Oct 1660 in Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, and died 8 Jan 1737/38 in Milford, New Haven, Connecticut.
		Richard BALDWIN was born 10 Jun 1666 in Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, and died 25 Dec 1742 in Milford, New Haven, Connecticut.
		Josiah BALDWIN was born 20 Mar 1641/42 in Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, and died 2 Nov 1683 in Milford, New Haven, Connecticut.
	members.aol.com /Yaxleyman/baldwin.htm (2288 words)

	Governor Roger Baldwin
		Baldwin recommended a number of other reforms pertaining to prison labor, temperance, bankruptcy, and elections to the General Assembly that were generally ignored by the legislature.
		In 1861, Baldwin served as a delegate to the National Peace Conference in Washington, D.C. The Conference was convened by the Virginia General Assembly as a final effort to avert the country from being embroiled in the Civil War.
		Baldwin died in 1863 and is buried in New Haven's Grove Street Cemetery.
	www.cslib.org /gov/baldwinrs.htm (2101 words)

	Biography of Roger S. Baldwin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Roger Baldwin was a Yale-educated forty-six-year old New Haven lawyer with a reputation for defending the unfortunate when he was asked to represent the Africans of the Amistad.
		Baldwin's principal legal goal was to win the freedom of the Africans, and the arguments he stressed were those he thought most likely to produce success.
		Baldwin, whose mother was the daughter of Roger Sherman, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and a key player in the Constitutional Convention of 1787, went on to an illustrious political career of his own.
	www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/amistad/AMI_BBAL.HTM (255 words)

	Notable Cutters
		Sherman proposed that the vote should be taken once in proportion to population and once by states, and that every measure should have a majority voting both ways.
		Sherman, then a member of the Constitutional convention, presented to that body, and it was framed into the Federal constitution, and was known as the Connecticut compromise.
		Roger Sherman was the only delegate in the Continental congress who signed all four of the great state papers which were signed by all the delegates of all the colonies, namely: the Declaration of 1774, the Articles of Confederation, the Declaration of Independence, and the Federal Constitution.
	members.tripod.com /ntgen/bw/cutt_ntbl.html (1198 words)

	Colonial Hall: Biography of Rebecca Prescott Sherman
		Rebecca Prescott Sherman, the gifted woman who became the second wife of Roger Sherman, the patriot and signer of the Declaration of Independence, was born in Salem, the first child of Benjamin Prescott and Rebecca Minot Prescott.
		Roger, why will you tell the child such nonsense?' Then turning to me, she said: 'Always remember, that handsome is as handsome does.' 'Well!' Uncle Roger retorted gallantly, 'you looked handsome and acted handsome too, Rebecca, so I am making an example of you.
		For years Roger Sherman's connection with public affairs took him from home a great deal of his time, and to her fell the care of the family, not only her own eight children but of his children by his first wife.
	www.colonialhall.com /sherman/shermanRebecca.php (948 words)

	ROGER S. BALDWIN
		Roger Sherman Baldwin was born January 4th, 1793.
		In 1860 he was chosen as one of the Electors of President for the state at large; and was afterwards, by appointment of Governor Buckingham, a member of the celebrated "Peace Congress", in which he occupies a prominent and influential position.
		Baldwin was the last man to shrink from a contest with any antagonist on such a subject.
	www.cslib.org /memorials/baldwrs.htm (1555 words)

	Roger Sherman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Roger Sherman (April 19 (O.S.), April 30 (N.S.), 1721 – July 23, 1793), was the only person to have signed all four basic documents of American sovereignty: the Continental Association of 1774, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the United States Constitution.
		Sherman had only informal schooling past grammar school and began his career as a shoemaker, but was blessed with the combination of an active thirst for learning, and access to a good library owned by his father as well as a Harvard educated parish minister, Rev. Samuel Dunbar, who took him under his wing.
		Roger Sherman, the Author of the Plan of Equal Representation of the States in the Senate, and Representation of the People in Proportion to Numbers in the House, Worcester, MA: Press of C. Hamilton, 1903.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roger_Sherman (917 words)

	Roger Sherman Baldwin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Roger Sherman Baldwin (January 4, 1793–February 19, 1863) was an American lawyer involved in the Amistad case, who later became governor of Connecticut.
		He was born in New Haven, Connecticut, received his bachelor's degree from Yale in 1811, and became a lawyer after attending the Litchfield Law School.
		He was grandson of Roger Sherman, son of Simeon Baldwin, husband of Emily Pitkin Perkins, father of Simeon Eben Baldwin, grandfather of New York Supreme Court Justice Edward Baldwin Whitney, and the great-grandfather of the much famed Princeton University mathematics professor Hassler Whitney.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roger_Sherman_Baldwin (315 words)

	Connecticut's Heritage Gateway
		Roger Sherman Baldwin (1793-1863), one of the state's most prominent lawyers and a future governor, deserves much of the credit for defending them.
		The most important issues, whether the Africans were guilty of piracy and murder, went to the United States Supreme Court where Baldwin and John Quincy Adams, the former president, succeeded in having the Africans exonerated in March 1841.
		While their status was being fought over in the courts, the Africans became heroes to the people of Connecticut and neighboring states.
	www.ctheritage.org /encyclopedia/ct1818_1865/amistad.htm (524 words)

	Guide to the Baldwin Family Papers : Finding Aid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Ebenezer Baldwin (1745-1776) graduated from Yale University in 1763, served as a tutor from 1767-1770, and held the position of minister in the First Congregational Church in Danbury, Connecticut from 1770-1776.
		Roger Sherman Baldwin (1793-1863) graduated from Yale University in 1811, and began his law practice in New Haven in 1814.
		Simeon Eben Baldwin (1840-1927) graduated from Yale University in 1861, became a member of the bar in 1863, and was founder of the American Bar Association in 1878 and it's president in 1890.
	mssa.library.yale.edu /findaids/stream.php?xmlfile=mssa.ms.0055.xml (1415 words)

	United Church News: UCC acquires historic Amistad letter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		"The 1840 letter from Roger Sherman Baldwin to Theodore Sedgwick is an important historical manuscript in that it sheds more light on the defense team of the Amistad case," says UCC archivist Bridgette Kelly.
		"The Roger Baldwin letter is an important acquisition because he was a leader of the legal defense team for the Mendi people of West Africa," says the Rev. F.
		Baldwin's letter is being kept in an acid-free folder in the UCC archives as it awaits transportation to its permanent home, still to be determined.
	www.ucc.org /ucnews/dec02/amistad.htm (325 words)

	The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Baldwin
		Son of Henry Baldwin and Theodora (Wolcott) Baldwin; half-brother of Abraham Baldwin.
		Baldwin, Lawrence A. — of Spreckelville, Island of Maui,
		Roger Sherman; son of Simeon Baldwin; father of Simeon Eben Baldwin.
	politicalgraveyard.com /bio/baldwin.html (1468 words)

	United Church on the Green (New Haven) - Amistad Event
		Roger Sherman Baldwin, a member of North Church and New Haven attorney, offered his legal services, and he and his defense team ably represented the Mendians in US district and circuit courts, Former President John Quincy Adams joined with Baldwin in arguing the case before the Supreme Court.
		Roger Sherman Baldwin, son of Simeon Baldwin and grandson of Roger Sherman, was a prominent lawyer in New Haven at the time of the Amistad trial.
		Baldwin went on to serve as Governor of the State of Connecticut and as a United States Senator.
	users.javanet.com /u/c/ucg/amistad.html (1086 words)

	The Story of Yale Abolitionists
		One of the three individuals supporting Jocelyn at the town meeting was Roger Sherman Baldwin, a Yale graduate and a New Haven lawyer.
		The decade that followed was very difficult: Jocelyn's house was wrecked by a mob, Jocelyn was forced to stop officiating at the Congregational church, and the contingent leading the campaign against the "Negro college" passed other resolutions condemning abolitionism in Connecticut.
		At the end of the decade, Simeon Jocelyn and Roger Sherman Baldwin were together again.
	www.yaleslavery.org /Abolitionists/abolit.html (950 words)

	Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar — FactMonster.com
		Ebenezer Rockwood HOAR - HOAR, Ebenezer Rockwood (1816—1895) HOAR, Ebenezer Rockwood, (grandson of Roger Sherman, son...
		Sherman HOAR - HOAR, Sherman (1860—1898) HOAR, Sherman, (son of Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, grandson of Samuel...
		Samuel HOAR - HOAR, Samuel (1778—1856) HOAR, Samuel, (son-in-law of Roger Sherman, father of Ebenezer...
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0823849.html (236 words)

	Connecticut Abolitionists-Amistad: Seeking Freedom in Connecticut - A National Register of Historic Places Travel ...
		Baldwin, a member of North Church, offered his legal services to the Amistad captives.
		As abolitionists, Baldwin and Adams seized the opportunity to refocus the case on human rights and to challenge the institution of slavery on moral and constitutional grounds.
		Baldwin and Jocelyn were also instrumental in securing first local, then national support for the captives.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/amistad/connecticutabolitionists.htm (1337 words)

	Genealogy
		Roger Sherman Baldwin January 4, 1793 - February 19, 1863, New Haven, CT Governor of Connecticut, 1844-1846
		The name occurred before the conquest in the immediate vicinity of the Baldwin of Bucks." (This describes an area north and west of London, England.) "From the year 1200 down, the name is pretty continuously found in the vicinity of Aylesbury, Bucks."
		No better proof of this can be required than the single fact that among the inquisitions post mortem, from their institutions in the year 1340 down to 1600 only two relate to the Baldwin's of Bucks: Richard Baldwin (who died Sept 21, 1485) named his brother John as heir.
	racingstation.com /genealogy/baldwin.asp (497 words)

	Picture History - Roger Sherman Baldwin (1793-1863)
		Baldwin was a politician and lawyer from Connecticut.
		Baldwin served as governor of Connecticut as well as a state and federal senator.
		One of his first cases was a writ of habeus corpus for a slave who had escaped from the service of Henry Clay.
	www.picturehistory.com /find/p/5246/mcms.html (150 words)

	The Amistad Affair
		A few years after the "Negro college" incident, Simeon Jocelyn, Arthur Tappan, and Roger Sherman Baldwin found themselves back together again, advocating for racial justice in the case of the Amistad captives.
		The captives were a group of West Africans who had been kidnapped and sold into slavery in Cuba, had mutinied, and gained control of their vessel.
		Roger Sherman Baldwin (Yale 1811) practiced law in New Haven, and had unsuccessfully supported the "Negro college." He served on the Yale Corporation ex-officio while serving as State Senator (1838-39) and State Governor (1844-1846).
	www.yaleslavery.org /Abolitionists/amistad.html (557 words)

	Office of Public Affairs at Yale - News Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Reverend Joshua Leavitt, Class of 1814, an anti-slavery activist, arranged for the prisoners to be defended in court by attorney Roger Sherman Baldwin, Class of 1811.
		Baldwin went on to become governor of Connecticut and later, a U.S. Senator.
		Baldwin know the outcome of the Washington trial.
	www.yale.edu /opa/newsr/97-12-03-04.all.html (559 words)

	Famous Trials, The Amistad Incident, Chapter 3 - The First Trial
		A group of abolitionists heard about the plight of the Africans and hired Roger Sherman Baldwin, an attorney from Connecticut.
		Baldwin was known as a man who spoke for the downtrodden.
		When Baldwin and the abolitionists heard the whole story from the people who had lived through it, they were determined to win the Africans their freedom.
	www.awesomestories.com /famous_trials/amistad/first_trial.htm (220 words)

	About manuscripts and archives: Microforms available from manuscripts and archives
		Selected manuscripts, 1839-88, principally in the Baldwin Family Papers, of Roger Sherman Baldwin, defense attorney for the Amistad captives, including letters from John Quincy Adams, who defended the case in the U.S. Supreme Court, Lewis Tappan, and other leaders in the anti-slavery movement.
		Baldwin, lawyer, founder of the American Bar Association, professor at the Yale Law School, and governor of Connecticut.
		Correspondence, 1902-1920, to and from Woodrow Wilson, from the papers of the Baldwin Family, Bingham Family, Charles Nagel, Frederick C. Walcott, and Paul Moritz Warburg; Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection; and Yale University Archives records: Arthur T. Hadley Presidential Records, and Anson Phelps Stokes, Records of the Secretary.
	www.library.yale.edu /mssa/about_microfilm_mssa.html (5024 words)

	Library
		America's Basic Problem Is A Pastor Problem by Pastor Chuck Baldwin — Our nation is collapsing from within because pastors are sitting idly on the sidelines, refusing to be trumpets for truth.
		Paper Kingdoms by Rick Saenz — The kingdom of modernity will collapse, and when the dust subsides and the rubble is cleared away, we will see that the rule of King Jesus will have been extended further than ever.
		The Sorriest Generation by Chuck Baldwin — This generation doesn't care about out-of-control federal spending, because its personal spending is out-of-control.
	www.rogershermansociety.org /library.htm (4801 words)

	USATODAY.com - Ross to give free charity concert in Conn. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Supreme diva recently phoned Kyle Silver, director of the Arch Street Teen Center, and said she viewed the concert as a gift to the town as a way to kick off the summer.
		The concert is scheduled for Thursday at the Roger Sherman Baldwin Park, which is adjacent to the nonprofit teen center.
		While the concert is free, there are more than 300 passes to a special reception with Ross after the show that are selling for $250.
	www.usatoday.com /life/people/2004-06-21-ross-concert_x.htm?POE=LIFISVA (292 words)

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