Rep. William Baker

William Baker

• BIRTH 1667 - Saint Philip, Barbados
• DEATH 1718 (aged 50–51) - Archdale, Dorchester County, South Carolina, USA
• BURIAL Archdale Hall Plantation Cemetery, Archdale, Dorchester County, South Carolina, USA
• MEMORIAL ID 152081007 · View Source

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William BAKER, 1667-1718, was the son of Richard BAKER, d. 1698, and of his wife, Elizabeth WILSON, 1630-1734.

William BAKER, 1667-1718, married Susannah ROWSHAM, 1680 -, d/o William I ROWSHAM, 1651- ;

William BAKER, 1667-1718, received a land grant of 318 Acres in Berkeley County, South Carolina, on July 23, 1711;

BAKER, WILLIAM (d. 1718). Son of RICHARD BAKER (d. 1698); father of RICHARD BAKER (d. 1752); grandfather of RICHARD BOHUN BAKER; father-in-law of EDMUND BELLINGER (d. 1739); brother-in-law of WILLIAM CANTEY. Biographical Dictionary of the South Carolina House of Representatives Volume II The Commons House of Assembly 1692-1775 Walter b. EDGAR and Louise BAILEY. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1977), P:48.

William BAKER, 1667-1718, represented Berkeley and Craven Counties in the Fifth Assembly (1700-1702), served Berkeley County as a tax inquirer (1703), and was a member of the Ninth Assembly (1707).

In 1709, William BAKER, 1667-1718, received a grant for 500 acres on Combahee Island and in 1711 he received another for 318 acres on the Ashley River.

William BAKER, 1667-1718 died intestate and his property and land were inherited by his son, Richard BAKER, d. 1752;

Children of this marriage include:

son, Richard BAKER, 1703-1752;
-married first, January 23, 1723, St. George's Parish, Berkeley County, South Carolina, Mary BOHUN, 1702-1736, daughter of Nicholas BOHUN, and of his wife, Margaret BELLINGER--to this marriage, they had six children: son, William II BAKER; daughter, Elizabeth BAKER, - , md. Josiah PENDARVIS; daughter, Mary BAKER, - ; md. William LOGAN; daughter, Susannah BAKER, - md. Thomas CATER; daughter, Margaret BAKER, - , md. Thomas BULLINE; and son, Richard Bohun BAKER, - ;
Mary BOHUN BAKER died in 1736 a few weeks after the birth of her sixth child;
-married second, July 25, 1738, St. George's Parish, Berkeley County, South Carolina, Mary Cater QUARTERMAN--by this marriage three daughters are known: daughter, Ann BAKER, - md. John BULLINE; daughter, Rebecca BAKER, - , md. James BRISBANE; and daughter, Hester BAKER, - md. 1st Thomas BAKER, 2nd William BELLAMY;
--married third Sarah FOWLER, by who he had no issue; she is named in his will;

daughter, Elizabeth BAKER, - ; md. Edmund BELLINGER;

daughter, Mary BAKER, - ; md. May 1717, Charleston, South Carolina Colony, Robert DEWS;

son, Josiah BAKER, - ; deceased before 1752;