Diary, 1815.

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Diary, 1815.

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This manuscript diary, interleaved in _The Massachusetts Register and United States Calendar; for the Year...1815..._ (Boston: Published by John West and Company and Manning and Lorring [1814]), traces Baldwin's movements in and around Boston for the year and mentions the celebration in Boston upon receipt of the news that the Treaty of Ghent had been signed. Baldwin also mentions planting, pruning, and grafting of apple, pear, and peach trees.

1 v. (21 p., interleaved in 264 p. vol.) ; octavo.

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Baldwin, James Fowle, 1782-1862

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James Fowle Baldwin (1782-1862), the son of Loammi (for whom the Baldwin apple was named) and Mary Fowle Baldwin, was a civil engineer. He helped his brother, Loammi, construct the dry dock at Charlestown Navy Yard. In 1828, he was appointed by the state of Massachusetts as a commissioner to make surveys for a railroad from Boston to Albany, and from 1830 to 1835, he built the Boston and Lowell road. He was a state senator from Suffolk. He was born on 29 April 1782 in Woburn, Mass., married Sara...