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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:
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.
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:
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.
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