January 1622 Arrival
Arrived on the ship Tyger as a freeman. He was also an orphan. Sir Edwin Sandys, Treasurer of Virginia Colonies brought 50 young men (orphans) to the colonies to work,

22 March 1622 Hero of 1622
He fired his musket to warn others & bravely fought off the Indian attack on his house, defended his wife's seemingly dead body (she survived), warned others, fought with them,&housed many families afterwards.He was rewarded a bag of gold for his bravery.

John Baldwyn was the hero of 1622 during the Indian massacre in Virginia. He became a Quaker and can be traced back to Jamestown. He came on the ship Tyger, the same ship that brought the colony treasurer, Lord Sandys to Jamestown.

1652 Left Virginia with his family to new land in Maryland.

JOHN BALDWIN I, OF VIRGINIA

The "Muster Roll of Settlers in Virginia" (Hotten's "Emigrants") gives: John Baldwin, came from England in the Tyger, 1622, freeman. In the list of persons "Living in Virginia, February 16, 1623" (Hotten, Part I) is given: John Baldwine.

On Good Friday, March 22, 1622 -- nearly a year before the above Settlers list was made -- occurred the Indian Massacre at Jamestown, in which 347 settlers were killed out of a population of 1240 (William and Mary College Quarterly Magazine, v. 7, p. 216). One of the heroes of the massacre was John Baldwin. "John Baldwin or Baldwyn of Warrasquake, in the Indian assault in and about Jamestown, March 22, 1622, defended his household so valiantly (his wife so seriously wounded that she was thought to be dead), that he drove the foe from his house, which later became a refuge for many whose homes were destroyed by fire." (Burk's History of Virginia, v. 4, p. 242).

Out of the number of early Baldwin settlers at Jamestown, as shown above, it is this hero of 1622 who is claimed as the ancestor of the Maryland family, through his son, John the Quaker, will 1682. In its recent revision of its list of Colonial Ancestors -- a purging of the list of unfounded or unproven claims, -- the Society retains, as the Virginia progenitor of the Maryland family: "Baldwin, John. In Indian uprising, 1622. House afterwards used as a Garrison" ("Index of Ancestors," Society Colonial Wars, 1922).

Ref: Genealogy of the Welsh and Hyatt Families of Maryland and their Kin, Luther W. Welsh, 1928