Abraham Baldwin is best known as the founder of the Franklin College & the University of Georgia, but was also a delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1787. Born on Nov. 22, 1754, to Lucy Dudley and Michael Baldwin in North Guilford, Connecticut, the second son of twelve children. Michael, his father, a blacksmith, borrowed the money to send him to Yale College.
Bulloch History with Roger Allen - Baldwin was one of state's first patriots


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