Anna (Baker) Plumer (1709 - abt. 1770)

Born 11 Sep 1709 in Beverly, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, New England

Ancestors

Wife of Daniel Barber Sr. — married 29 Sep 1727 in Gloucester, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died about 1770 at about age 60 in Province of Massachusetts Bay, New England [uncertain]

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Biography

Anna Baker was born on 11 Sep 1709, in Beverly in Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay. Her parents were Jabez Baker, Sr. and Rachel Allen.^[1]

Anna married Daniel Barber on 29 Sep 1727 in Gloucester, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay.^[2]

Anna and Daniel registered the birth or baptism of three, possibly four, children in Gloucester

1. Anna Barber (b. 13 Dec 1727)^[3]
2. Mary Barber (bp. 26 Oct 1729) [mother not listed but her children echo family names of both Daniel and Anna]^[4]
3. Rachel Barber (15 Jun 1731) Note: possible; neither mother nor father listed.^[5]
4. Daniel Barber, Jr. (b. 11 Jul 1734)^[6]

Daniel Barber died on 8 Nov 1735, at the age of 29, when the schooner he was master of for Joseph Allen, Esq. and Company of Gloucester sank at Antego [Antigua?].^[7]

Note: This Joseph Allen is most probably Anna (Baker) Barber's uncle, her mother's brother, Joseph. He was apparently a substantial member of the Gloucester business community, able to put "Esq." after his name and to organize investors in a ship-owning company. Her brother, Jabez, Jr., was also a captain. Was he master of another of his uncle's ships?

Anna's second husband was David Plumer, whom she married on 25 Aug 1737, in Gloucester.^[8]

Only one child of Anna and David Plumer was registered at Gloucester:

• David Plumer (24 May 1738;^[9] d. 13 Jul 1801, age 63)^[10]

There are no records at Gloucester of the deaths of either Anna or David Plumer. The date originally provided by the imported gedcom for this profile, 2 Mar 1768, actually belongs to a "Baker, Anne, Mrs. W. E." Since there seems to be no record that Anna (Baker) Barber Plumer again became a widow, or that she remarried, this time to another Baker, this date has been discarded. The estimate of 1770, and that she died in Massachusetts, are simply place-holders and should be replaced as soon as possible with actual information. It is possible that the family relocated.

Sources

1. ↑ Massachusetts Vital Records Project, Beverly - Births, p. 30: http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Essex/Beverly/Images/Beverly_B030.shtml (accessed 30 Mar 2017)
2. ↑ Massachusetts Vital Records Project, Gloucester - Marriages, p. 76: http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Essex/Gloucester/Images/Gloucester_M076.shtml (accessed 30 Mar 2017)
3. ↑ Massachusetts Vital Records Project, Gloucester - Births, p. 83: http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Essex/Gloucester/Images/Gloucester_B083.shtml (accessed 30 Mar 2017).
4. ↑ Massachusetts Vital Records Project, Gloucester - Births, p. 84: http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Essex/Gloucester/Images/Gloucester_B084.shtml (accessed 30 Mar 2017).
5. ↑ Massachusetts Vital Records Project, Gloucester - Births, p. 84: http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Essex/Gloucester/Images/Gloucester_B084.shtml (accessed 30 Mar 2017).
6. ↑ Massachusetts Vital Records Project, Gloucester - Births, p. 83: http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Essex/Gloucester/Images/Gloucester_B083.shtml (accessed 30 Mar 2017).
7. ↑ Massachusetts Vital Records Project, Gloucester - Deaths, p. 67: http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Essex/Gloucester/Images/Gloucester_D067.shtml (accessed 30 Mar 2017)
8. ↑ Massachusetts Vital Records Project, Gloucester - Marriages, p. 77: http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Essex/Gloucester/Images/Gloucester_M077.shtml (accessed 30 Mar 2017)
9. ↑ Massachusetts Vital Records Project, Gloucester - Births, p. 543: http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Essex/Gloucester/Images/Gloucester_B543.shtml (accessed 30 Mar 2017)
10. ↑ Massachusetts Vital Records Project, Gloucester - Deaths, p. 243: http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Essex/Gloucester/Images/Gloucester_D243.shtml (accessed 30 Mar 2017)

• Vital Records of Beverly, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849, Volume I, Births, Published by The Topsfield Historical Society, Salem, Massachusetts: Newcomb & Gauss, Printers, 1906.
• Vital Records of Beverly, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849, Volume II, Marriages and Deaths, Published by the Topsfield Historical Society, Salem, Massachusetts: Newcomb & Gauss, Printers, 1907.
• Vital Records of Gloucester, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849, Volume I, Births, published by the Topsfield Historical Society, Salem, Massachusetts: Newcomb & Gaus, Printers, 1917.
• Vital Records of Gloucester, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849, Volume II, Marriages, published by the Essex Institute, Salem, Massachusetts: Newcomb & Gaus, Printers, 1923.
• Vital Records of Gloucester, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849, Volume III, Deaths, published by the Essex Institute, Salem, Massachusetts: Newcomb & Gaus, Printers, 1924.

Acknowledgments

Thank you to David Smith for creating WikiTree profile Baker-9082 through the import of Smith Family Tree-2LAW_2013-04-28_01.ged on Apr 28, 2013.