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Nathaniel Baker Sr (1642 - 1691)

Nathaniel Baker Sr
Born in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colonymap
Ancestors ancestors
Husband of — married 1670 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Plymouth Colonymap
Husband of — married about 1670 [location unknown]
Descendants descendants
Died at age 49 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colonymap
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Contents

Biography

Spousal Discrepancies

Who was his wife? Was there more than one?

Please see this discussion for analysis of the evidence for his wife/wives. Current status:

  • no real evidence that he was ever married to a Desire Gray
  • strongest, although still circumstantial, evidence that he was married only once-- to Mary Pierce, dau of Abraham Pierce. Still needs more attention.

Nathaniel Baker [1]

His birth is recorded in the BOSTON (not Yarmouth) vital records:

He was born "27 of first month" [27 March] in 1642.[2]

He died in December 1691 in Yarmouth.

"An inventory of the estate of Nathaniel Baker of Yarmouth, deceased, was taken 10 February, 1691/2, by Jeremiah Jones and Jeremiah Kelly. The only real estate was: "ye house and Land and 2 Acres of marsh" L18. The inventory was sworn to in court, by Samuel Baker of Yarmouth, 21 April 1692, and entered 26 April, 1692.
"The Settlement of ye Estate of Nathaniel Baker... at the County Court held at Barnestable April ye 19th 1692... after debts paid the Eldest Son to have ye house and Land and eight pounds apeece to the other two Sons... and ye youngest Son being weakly four pound more out of sd estate over and above ye eight pounds before mentioned Attest Joseph Lothrop Clerk & Recorder"[3]

That his will names no spouse indicates his wife-- whoever she was-- was deceased by this time.

Children[4]

  1. Samuel, b 29 Oct 1670;[5] m. Elizabeth Berry 30 July 1702
  2. Nathaniel, b 27 Jan 1672;[6] m. Elizabeth Baker (cousin) 8 Nov 1705
  3. Silas, b abt 1674; m . Deliverance O'Kelley 14 May 1723 (if accurate, he didn't marry until he was almost 50.)

Birth

Born: 27 Mar 1642, Boston Colony [7][8][9]

Marriages

Nathaniel Baker married:

(1): Desire Gray. Desire Gray was born on 6 Nov 1651 in Plymouth Colony, MA and died on 4 Dec 1690 in Plymouth, Plymouth County, MA [10].

(2): Mary Peirce, daughter of Abraham Pierce and Rebecca Lothrop, before 1670 in Yarmouth, Massachusetts. Mary Peirce died in 1691 in Yarmouth, MA.

Death

Nathaniel Baker died Dec 1691, Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts at age 49 [11]

SDATE 15 DEC 1691

Nathanial was buried at Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Sources

  1. Rev Smith Baker, A Genealogy of the family of Deacon Smith Baker of Litchfield, Maine (Compliled by [Rev] Smith Baker of Lowell, Mass, 1874), pg 3.
  2. A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston Containing Boston Births, Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths, 1630-1699, Rockwell and Churchill, City Printers, Boston, 1883, City Document #130, p 12.
  3. "Barnstable County, Mass., Probate Records," published in Mayflower Descendant, 14:117-118, citing page 56
  4. Library of Cape Cod, No. 106, Vol. 2, The Register Press, 1931
  5. "Yarmouth, Mass., Vital Records," in Mayflower Descendant, 2:207, citing loose leaf pages found in Volume III, but which may have belonged to the first or second volume, now lost: "Samuel Baker the Son of Nathanell Baker was 4 yr old the 29 of ocktob 1674"
  6. Yarmouth VR, MD 2:207: "Nathanell Baker his [Nathanell Baker's] son was to yr old the 29 of January 1674."
  7. New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol 2 pg 76.<ref>LDS, www.familysearch.org, AFN: 4QL2-KP.</li> <li id="_note-7">[[#_ref-7|↑]] Genealogical Dictionary of New England Settlers, Volume 1, Page 101.</li> <li id="_note-8">[[#_ref-8|↑]] A Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New England, Pg 23. ... FRANCIS, Boston, had a son Nathaniel b. in 1642. ...</li> <li id="_note-9">[[#_ref-9|↑]] Cape Cod Library of Local History and Genealogy, vol II pg 1124</li> <li id="_note-10">[[#_ref-10|↑]] LDS, www.familysearch.org, AFN: 4QL2-KP.</li></ol></ref>
  • Ancestral File Number: 4QL2-KP
  • Swift, Charles Francis. History of Old Yarmouth, Comprising the Present Towns of Yarmouth and Dennis (Yarmouth Port, 1884) Page 63.
    • Francis Baker was born in England in 1611. In 1635, he embarked in ship Planter, for New England, bringing a certificate signed by the minister in Great St. Albans, Hertfordshire County, his last place of residence, that he had taken the oath of allegiance and supremacy. He was described as a "tailor," but he afterwards exercised the calling of cooper and blacksmith. In 1641, he married Isabel Twining, of this town, with whom he lived fifty-five years. The same year he was admitted to dwell in Yarmouth, but "not to have any of the lands assigned to others without their consent." For that reason, probably, he had to take up his residence on the eastern side of Bass River, near Follen's Pond, which was not then occupied, where he died in 1696 aged 85 years — the last of the first comers. He was not in full accord with the Puritan notions of the time. He had, for sons, Nathaniel, John, Samuel, Daniel, William and Thomas, from whom are derived a numerous posterity, of valuable citizens.




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Cape Cod Library of Local History has a Desire Gray Daughter of Edward Married to Nathaniel Baker. I don't belive this is the same Desire that was married to Nathaniel Southworth.

it also says they had 4 childres Samuel, Nathaniel, Silas, and Jacob

posted by T (Lavann) Patterson
Done.
posted by Jillaine Smith
No, it sounds good to me.
posted by Steve Small
I suggest as next steps:

1) detaching Desire Gray as spouse from this profile (I've already moved children assigned to her to Mary Pierce). 2) merging the resulting orphaned Desire Gray into the "real" Desire Gray, dau of Edward, who married Nathaniel Southworth 3) leaving Mary Pierce as only spouse of Nathaniel Baker (and mother of his children) for now. Any problems with that before I continue?

posted by Jillaine Smith

Rejected matches › Nathaniel BakerNathaniel Baker Rowland

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