{"id":448,"date":"2010-01-05T07:53:12","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T07:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=448"},"modified":"2026-02-19T09:39:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T09:39:05","slug":"john-denison-baldwin-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/john-denison-baldwin-new\/","title":{"rendered":"Baldwin, John Denison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>John Denison<\/strong> <strong>B<\/strong><strong>aldwin<\/strong> <strong>(1809-1883) <\/strong>was born in North Stonington, Connecticut. He was an American politician, Congregationalist minister, journalist and anthropologist. In 1871, he had <em>Ancient America<\/em><sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/b\/\"><sup>647<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup> published, in which he discussed the origins of the earliest peoples in <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/John-D-Baldwin1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-26927\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/John-D-Baldwin1.jpg\" alt=\"John D Baldwin\" width=\"152\" height=\"153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/John-D-Baldwin1.jpg 152w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/John-D-Baldwin1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/a>America.<b> <\/b>After reviewing the arguments favouring the idea of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/phoenicians\/\">Phoenician <\/a>colonies in America, Baldwin concluded that there was no case to answer<sup>(<\/sup><sup>b<\/sup><sup>)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>He included in his discussion a review of the theory of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/brasseur-de-bourbourg-charles-etienne\/\">Brasseur de Bourbourg, <\/a>who believed Atlantis to have been a large landmass in the Atlantic and whose survivors fled to the Americas and became known to us under many names, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/maya\/\">Maya<\/a>. Baldwin clearly considered de Bourbourg\u2019s theory unproven.<\/p>\n<p>Coincidentally, Baldwin served three terms as a congressman for exactly the same period that <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/donnelly-ignatius-loyola\/\">Ignatius Donnelly<\/a> served (1863-1868). I am not aware of any contact between the two regarding their non-political studies.<\/p>\n<p>Baldwin\u2019s book can now be read or downloaded online<sup>(<\/sup><sup>a<\/sup><sup>)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(<\/sup><sup>a<\/sup><sup>) <\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/26382\/26382-0.txt\">https:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/26382\/26382-0.txt<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&gt;<\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><sup>(<\/sup><sup>b<\/sup><sup>)<\/sup> <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.djmcadam.com\/phoenician-theory.html\">https:\/\/www.djmcadam.com\/phoenician-theory.html<\/a><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&lt;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Denison Baldwin (1809-1883) was born in North Stonington, Connecticut. He was an American politician, Congregationalist minister, journalist and anthropologist. In 1871, he had Ancient America[647] published, in which he discussed the origins of the earliest peoples in America. After reviewing the arguments favouring the idea of Phoenician colonies in America, Baldwin concluded that there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2259,76,108,3966,34,90],"class_list":["post-448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-atlantis","tag-brasseur-de-bourbourg","tag-ignatius-donnelly","tag-john-denison-baldwin","tag-maya","tag-phoenicians"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65637,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions\/65637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}