Jeduthan Baldwin

Jeduthan Baldwin
Born(1732-01-13)January 13, 1732
Woburn, Province of Massachusetts Bay
DiedJune 4, 1788(1788-06-04) (aged 56)
Brookfield, Massachusetts, U.S.
AllegianceUnited States
BranchContinental Army
Service years1755–1782
RankColonel
UnitCorps of Engineers
Baldwin’s Regiment of Artificers
ConflictsFrench and Indian War
Siege of Boston
Battle of Bunker Hill
New York and New Jersey campaign
Battle of Valcour Island
Saratoga campaign
Fortifications at West Point
Other workSurveyor, diarist

Jeduthan Baldwin (January 13, 1732 – June 4, 1788) was an American military engineer and officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. A veteran of the French and Indian War, he is best remembered for his engineering work on fortifications at the Siege of Boston, Fort Ticonderoga, Mount Independence, and West Point, as well as for his detailed wartime journal, published in 1906. In 1906 the U.S. War Department honored his service by naming Fort Baldwin in Maine after him.