Rubin Baker (1718 - 1795)

Born 3 Apr 1718 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts.

Ancestors

Husband of Lydia (Mayo) Baker — married 6 Mar 1760 in Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 5 Mar 1795 at age 76 in Dennis, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

Rubin Baker is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A005058.

Reuben Baker was born in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America on 3 Apr 1718 to Ebeneser Baker and Hanah. He married his first wife, Desire Gallap in Harwich, Massachusetts on March 1st 1749. Rueben and Desire had two children:

• Nathan Baker, 1752-1810
• Rueben Baker, 1756-1829

Desire died in 1759, and there was an intention of marriage between Rueben Baker of Yarmouth and Lydia Mayo of Harwich dated Feb 16, 1760.^[1] Rueben and Lydia had two children:

• Joseph Baker, 1761-1810
• Elisha Baker, 1763-1843

Rueben Baker died in Dennis, Barnstable, Massachusetts on 5 Mar 1795.

Two men named Rueben Baker served under Captain Jonathan Crowell's company and marched in the alarm on April 19, 1775.

Sources

1. ↑ The Mayflower Descendant,: Volume 34 1937, Volume 34 By Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants Staff

• Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Volume Nineteen: Thomas Rogers, Ann T. Reeves, Volume: 19, Alice W.A. Westgate (General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2000) p. 77.
• "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FCH5-FBQ : accessed 15 Nov 2014), Rubin Baker, 03 Apr 1718; citing YARMOUTH,BARNSTABLE,MASSACHUSETTS, ; FHL microfilm 1589030 IT 1-2.
• "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZ3G-3QY : 14 January 2020), Reuben Baker in entry for Nathan Baker, 1752.
• "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZ3L-YYG : 14 January 2020), Reuben Baker in entry for Reuben Baker, 1756.
• "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZ3L-BVN : 14 January 2020), Reuben Baker in entry for Joseph Baker, 1761.
• "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZ3L-L97 : 14 January 2020), Reuben Baker in entry for Elisha Baker, 1763.
• "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZ3G-3QY : 14 January 2020), Reuben Baker in entry for Nathan Baker, 1752.
• Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 7 Jan 2023), "Record of Rueben Baker", Ancestor # A005058.
• Massachusetts. Office of the Secretary of State, "Massachusetts soldiers and sailors of the Revolutionary War: a compilation from the archives" on Massachusetts State Library Website (https://archives.lib.state.ma.us/handle/2452/122025 : accessed 7 Jan 2023), Vol. 1, p. 494.
• FamilySearch Person: LZZ4-PGH