Lang, H. O., ed.  "The History of the Willamette Valley, Being A Description 
of the Valley and its Resources, with an account of its Discovery and 
Settlement by White Men, and its Subsequent History; Together with Personal 
Reminiscences of its Early Pioneers."  Portland, OR, Geo. H. Himes, Book and 
Job Printer, 1885.  p. 599.

WILLIAM BALDRA

     Born in England in 1810; came to America in 1836, and lived three years on
Red River in Manitoba; came then to Oregon and settled on the Tualatin Plains,
locating in 1842 three miles northwest of the site of Hillsboro.  Had married
Maria Callaby in England in 1835.  Their children are, Thomas W. and Richard C.,
and a daughter, now Mrs. R. E. Wiley, the later having been the first white
child born in Washington County.  Her birth took place August 1, 1840.  Mr.
Baldra was an employee of the Hudson's Bay Company in the earlier years of his
residence in America.  He speaks of the Indians in Washington County in the
"forties" as having been numerous, but not troublesome except by their thieving.

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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in June 2005 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.