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_Richard BALDWIN ____|
| (1576 - 1632) m 1598|
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|--Samuel BALDWIN
| (1604 - ....)
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|_Isabell HARDING ____|
(1568 - 1633) m 1598|
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[1572] From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.
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_Joseph JACK ________|
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|--William JACK
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| _Francis HERRON _____+
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|_Hannah Jane HERRON _|
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|_Jane WILLS _________
_Daniel NEVIN ________+
| (1744 - 1813) m 1770
_David NEVIN ________|
| (1782 - 1848) m 1810|
| |_Margaret WILLIAMSON _+
| (1741 - 1822) m 1770
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|--David Robert Bruce NEVIN
| (1828 - 1891)
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|_Mary PIERCE ________|
(1791 - 1861) m 1810|
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[201] Pleasant Hill Cemetery.
[202]
John Denison Nevin provides the following information about hisservice during the Civil War:
"Enlisted 21 April 1861, Co. A, 7th Penna. Reserves; transferred toCo. K, 109th Regiment., as First Lieutenant; later Major, 79th PennaInfantry. (Penna Volunteers. Vol. III, p 975); taken prisoner, 9August 1862, and confined in Libbey Prison. Honorably discharged 11August 1863; afterward Major in the "Treasury Guards", defences ofWashington."
Further he, John Denison, says:
"Major Nevin took part in the following engagements: Cedar Mountain,Va. 9 Aug 1862, injured by fall from horse; Chancellorsville, 2d and3rd of May 1863; captured, 9 Aug 1862, at Cedar Mountain, 7:30 PMtaken to Libby Prison and 'treated as one of General Pope's officers(very badly) for 45 days. Stayed several months at Parole camp,Annapolis, Md., until exchanged, when I rejoined my regiment, the109th.' (Diary of D. R. B. Nevin). Appendix C. p. 221)
Copy of W.R. MacAdam to J. Nevin Pomeroy Esq. Custom House,Philadelphia. Endorsed on back: 'This letter was written to J.N.P. byAdutant McAdam, after he was killed at Cedar Mountain. D.R.B. Nevin.'
Culpeper Court House, VA. 13 Aug 1862.
My dear friend:
With sincere sorrow I have to report to you our worst fears for thesafety of Lieut. Nevin. He went into the battle of Saturday, and wasfighting bravely, standing up to his duty most nobly, when he wasobserved to fall. The enemy pressed on us so closely and in suchoverwhelming numbers that it was impossible for us to remove our deadand wounded, and we were obliged to leave them in the hands of theenemy. Lieut. Veale also fell, but we have since ascertained that heis a prisoner. We have heard notheing of your cousin. When adetachment of Siegel's command were burying our dead, some of ourofficers inquired particularly in reference to Lieut. Nevin. They weretold that they had found an officer in the cornfield - the place whereyour cousin fell - and from the hurried description they gave, theinference was that they had buried Leiut. Nevin in that cornfield with75 others of our noble troops. I think you may with safety concludethat he has fallen for his country, and like a true soldier, he diedat his post of duty.
It was my privilege to have his acquaintance, and I have a sadpleasure in thus recording my memento of my high appreciation of himas a man, a soldier, and an officer. He possessed all the manlyqualities of our nature, and I can truly say, "When such friends part,'tis the survivor dies.'
May God comfort and console you all in this sad affliction,
Truly W.R. MacAdam"