Elizabeth Baker (abt. 1633)

Born about 1633 in Norwich, Norfolk, England [uncertain]

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Biography

Elizabeth Baker immigrated to New England as a child during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640).

ELIZABETH, bapt. 1633 Aug. 18, St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich, Norfolk, England, daughter of John^[1][2]

Her father, John Baker, grocer, emigrated on either the John and Dorothy of Ipswich or the Rose of Yarmouth in about April 1637, departing England for Charlestowne, Massachusetts Bay Colony. He was traveling with his wife Elizabeth (___), three children, and four servants.^[3]

08 Apr 1637. "The examinaction of John Baker: borne in Norwch in Norffolck Grocar ageed 39 yeres and Elizabeth: his wife ageed 31 yeares with 3 Children Elizabeth. John. and Thomas. and 4 Servants Marey Alxarson: aged 24 yeares Anne Alxarson: aged 20 years Bridgett Boulle: aged 32 yeares and Samuel Arres: aged 14 yeares are all desirous to goe for Charles Towne. in New England ther to inhabitt and Remaine".

They arrived in Charles Town, Massachusetts Bay Colony, on 8 June 1637.^[4][5][6]

Of Elizabeth nothing more is known.^[7]

Death

10 DEC 1708

Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA ^{[citation needed]}

Sources

1. ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JW2R-Z3J : 11 February 2018, Elizabeth Baker, 18 Aug 1633); citing , index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 993,676, 993,675.
2. ↑ *Gould, Benjamin Apthorp. The Family of Zaccheus Gould of Topsfield. (Lynn, Mass: Thomas P. Nichols, 1895) footnote pp 36, 37
3. ↑ Hotten, John Camden, The Original Lists Of Persons Of Quality (John Camden Hotten, 1874) Page 289
4. ↑ The Planters of the Commonwealth in Massachusetts, 1620-1640 - page 184 by subscription at: https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/48127/PlantersCommonwealth-006801-184/211920
5. ↑ Meredith B. Colket, Jr. Founders of Early American Families: Emigrants from Europe, 1607-1657. Cleveland: General Court of the Order of Founders and Patriots of America, 1975. 366p.
6. ↑ "New England Ship and Passenger Lists" in Boulder Genealogical Society Quarterly (Boulder, CO). Vol. 5:4 (Nov. 1973), pp. 30-34 (1635-1637).
7. ↑ Appleton, William S. Ancestry of Priscilla Baker : who lived 1674-1731, and was wife of Isaac Appleton, of Ipswich (Cambridge, Mass. : John Wilson & Son, 1870) https://archive.org/stream/ancestryofprisci00inappl#page/2

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