Susannah (Unknown) Baker (abt. 1720 - aft. 1779)

Descendants

Died after 1779 after about age 59 in North Carolina, United States

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Biography

The survey and deed records for Andrew Baker show his wife was Susannah (not Mary Bolling - see Research Notes, below).

Susannah is shown as living on her dower in North Carolina, United States in 1779.

Rowan Co Deed Abstracts, Vol II, 1762-1772 4 Mar 1763 Rowan Co NC Deed. Elisha Lawrence late of Rowan Co to Andrew Baker, 450 acres on Grassy Bottom Creek granted by Granville, 25 Dec 1761 11 Mar 1768. Andrew Baker and wife Susannah sell to James Sheppard for 140#'s, 450 acres on Grassy Bottom Creek.

The son John Baker surveyed land next to Susanna. Dec 1779 Entry for Claims, Wilkes Co. Survey for John Baker a tract containing 200 acres lying and being in the county lying on the South Fork of the New River, beginning at the mouth of Rones Creek, running down the river to Bakers Line. Running up the creek including the imprt. that Susanna Baker now lives on.

Andrew Baker and Susannah (Unknown) Baker had the following nine children:

1. John "Renta" Baker
2. James Baker
3. Rev. Andrew Baker
4. Morris Baker
5. Robert Baker
6. George Baker
7. Martha "Patsy" Baker
8. Bolling Baker
9. Eleanor "Nellie" Baker

DNA

• BAKER Family Y-STR DNA study & Lineages viewable at http://www.bakerdna.net/
• My FamilyTree BAKER DNA Project Website - Y-DNA Colorized Chart viewable at https://www.familytreedna.com/public/baker/default.aspx?section=ycolorized

The Baker Family DNA projects have ruled out any possibility that Susanna's husband Andrew Baker Sr. is the son of Robert Baker. The descendants of her children, (Rev.) Andrew Baker Jr., John Renta Baker, Bolling Baker, and Morris Baker all have matching Y-DNA. None of the descendants show any proof of Native American ancestry in their autosomal DNA.

Research Notes

Mary or Molly Bolling
Susannah was certainly the wife of Andrew Baker, as supported by land records. However, many unsourced family trees give his wife as Mary "Molly" Bolling, the daughter of Col. Robert Bolling and Anne Stith. This is problematic because:

1. No records have been found (to date) showing Andrew had more than one wife
2. No records have been found (to date) which connect Andrew Baker to May Bolling - or to any other Ms Bolling
3. Col. Robert Bolling and Anne Stith never had a daughter called Mary. Their six children (as well as the Col.'s son by his first wife) are all named on a flyleaf of Collection of Laws of Virginia by Purvis (1682) written in handwriting of Colonel Robert Bolling:

":Robert Bolling, son of John and Mary Bolling of All Hollows Barking Parish, Tower Street, London, was born 26 December 1646 and came to Virginia 2 October 1660:

and in the year 1675 married Jane, daughter of Thomas Rolfe, gent. by whom he had one son John Bolling, 27 January 1676.

She dying, he married Anne daughter of Major. John Stith in 1681, by whom he hath Robert Bolling, born 28 March 1686, Edward Bolling, born 1 October 1687, Anne Bolling, born 22 July 1690, Drury Bolling, 21 June 1695, Thomas Bolling, born 20 March 1697, Agnes Bolling, born 30 November 1700, and that Almighty God Bless these blessings shall be the continued prayer of their father. Robert Bolling."

Some have suggested that Col. Bolling's daughter Agnes's full name was actually Mary Agnes Bolling, b. 30 Nov 1700. The issue then remains that (a) she married Richard Kennon; (b) no record of Mary so her name is most likely to have been simply Agnes; and (c) there is still nothing to connect her to Andrew.

So Susanna was certainly Andrew's wife. And there is only the theoretical possibility that there was another Bolling wife whose records did not survive - but if so, she was NOT the daughter of Col. Robert Bolling. And there is - to date - no proof of a Mary "Molly" Bolling.

Sources

• Some Descendants of Andrew Baker http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~katy/baker/b14077.html#P1407
• Burton, Jackie T., and Barney Baker. Robert Baker Military Journal 1812 History & Copy Recorded Birth Dates Clay & Owsley Co. Kentucky Baker Family First Settlers Transcribed & Copy. Self Published, n.d. (a copy of this is in the possession of Kathy Wills.)