Sarah (Carr) Baker (1722 - 1807)

Born 1 Jun 1722 in Newbury, Essex, MA

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Died 21 Oct 1807 at age 85 in Somersworth, Strafford, NH

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Biography

The Cranston surname never applied to this Sarah Carr. She was married to Charles Baker of Somersworth, NH Sarah Carr, daughter of John and Elisabeth Carr, Newbury Town Records, p. 81

The Otis Genealogy which was the foundation for the Edward Baker Genealogy, written shortly after Sarah's death and while her children were alive, has two entries for the second wife of Charles Baker; she is Sarah Carr in one and Mary Carr in another, although the birth and death date for both correspond to dates for Sarah who was Mary's younger sister. Unfortunately Nelson Baker chose Mary Carr for his genealogy and it is incorrect. It was Sarah, and not Mary, Carr who married Francis Roberts and Charles Baker. She had 5 children with her first husband, Francis Roberts, including first a Sarah and then a Mary. Since Sarah or Sally Carr Baker is passed on as a Baker family name among Charles' children and grandchildren, it adds to the conclusion that Sarah is the correct name. Charles died before the 1798 census in Strafford Co., but his widow survived him in Somersworth. The only female Baker head of household listed in Somersworth is Sarah Baker; not Mary. Douglass Baker, first child of Charles and Sarah lists his mother as Sarah.

There is an interesting 3 generation incidence of twinning, beginning with Sarah's greatgrandparents: Moses and Ann Follansbee Chase. They had twins Daniel and Moses Chase, born September 20, 1685. In the next generation, Sarah's parents, John and Elizabeth Chase Carr had twins Anne and Daniel Carr July 13, 1734 and then Charles and Sarah Carr Baker had twins, Daniel and Moses Baker, born March 26, 1766.

Sarah, Mrs. Charles Baker, was a sister of Dr. Moses Carr (born at Newbury, Nov. 25, 1715 who practised medicine in Somersworth, New Hampshire 60 years, was Judge of Common Pleas, 1776 to 1784, and died 30 March 1800). Moses Carr appears on the 1798 Somersworth census. Sarah's first husband was Francis Roberts, of Somersworth, by whom she had Frances, John, Betsy, (married John Ham, of Rochester), Mary, (married Col Jonathan Palmer, of Wakefield), and Sally, (married Captain John Stillson, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire). There are numerous Roberts on the Somersworth 1798 census, two of them Francis and John probably Sarah's sons by her first marriage. Varney, Wentworth, Horne, Stagpole, Rollins and Clement are also exceedingly common names on this census. Ebenezer Plummer and Wm. Stillison also appear. Bean, Tebbetts, Heard, Ham, Fogg, Watson, Gerrish, Wallingford are common surnames in the surrounding towns of Strafford Co., Joseph Plummer in Rochester, Oliver Chase in Durham, Many Beans, Merrills in Gilmantontown, Many Wiley/Willeys and Beans in Durham and Conway, Merrill, Chase, Coffin in Conway, Otis Baker and Ebenezer Baker in Dover. Other common names In Dover: Tebbetts, Horn(e), Ham, Waldron, and Roberts

Sarah's children with Francis Carr are given in Master Tate's Journal: NEHGR 1920: p43

1790 Census, Somersworth, Strafford, NH Sarah Baker 3 males 16 +, 1 male under 16, 2 females

In 1800 Sarah may be in household of her son Moses, who has 0 1 0 1//0 0 2 0 1 Male 10-15, 26-45, Female 2 16-26, 1 45+

Sources

• Otis Genealogy

Genealogy of the Descendants of Edward Baker, Lynn, MA 1630 by Nelson Baker

• Carr, Edson Irving. The Carr Family Records (Herald Printing House, Rockton, Illinois, 1894) Page 49.