Aaron Baker

http://bakertree.tripod.com/ Wil of Joseph mentions son Aaron ____________________

2. Mary, daughter of John Edwards, b. 1703; m. Aaron Baker. (1)

Sources 

1. History of Chester County, Pennsylvania, with Genealogical and Biographical Sketches (Google eBook) John Smith Futhey, Gilbert Cope L. H. Everts, 1881 - Chester County (Pa.) - 782 pages.  Page 527

Advertisement Joseph and Martha Woodward Baker
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Martha Woodward was second child and first daughter of Richard and Jane Woodward, Sr. of England and Chester County, Pennsylvania.

Joseph Baker's father's name is not known, but Joseph is probably nephew of John Baker and of Joseph Baker of Thornbury, Chester County, Pennsylvania. (same reference as given below for Joseph & Martha's children.) There is a fine Bakers of Edgmont Website put up by Anne Wiegle and we thank her for corrections regarding Joseph's parentage. There is also a Baker Mailing List - to subscribe contact Anne Wiegle {email on her web site}. There are also a few copies of a book "The Bakers of Sissinghurst and Other Relatives" by Norma Baker McCullough, for sale. Contact us for address if you are interested {email on the About Us Page.)

	Martha Woodward born 1677 probably England died 12/13/1775 Chester Co, Pa	Joseph Baker born 1673/74 England died Jan 17,1735/6 Chester Co, Pa

	Married: Chester County, Pennsylvania

Children: Mary Baker born Jan 26,1699, died before Aug/1731; married Francis Yarnall. Richard Baker born April 21, 1700; married Elizabeth Hunter Aaron Baker born December 2, 1701; married Mary Edwards Anne Baker born August 18, 1703; married James Sill Susanna Baker born February 18, 1705; died unmarried Jane Baker born December 7, 1706; married Thomas Thomas Jesse Baker born March 19, 1709; married Ann Regester Sarah Baker born March 18, 1711; married Philip Ottey Joseph Baker, Jr., born February 5, 1713, died unmarried. Rachel Baker born Feb 5, 1715; married Benjamin Hampton Nehemiah Baker born November 19, 1716; married Lydia Regester John Baker born January 26, 1719; married Margaret

There is a World Family Tree File which includes sisters Lydia and Ann Regester who married two of the Baker brothers. It includes the will of their father David Regester.

The above information on Mary & Joseph's children is from The Encyclopedia of Biography, Vol XVII, page 141-143, by Winfield Scott Downs, (New York, 1944). This article states that Joseph Baker wrote his will 8/27/1731 and that it was proven 3/10/1735-36. A copy of the will is transcribed below (from Barbara Long Emery). Barbara tells us that Joseph's birthdate is given as 1 January 1674 in family Bible records. You will note some differences in the months of children's birth dates above and on the Baker Web Site. It is no doubt a difference in translation of dates by different sources. This is an excellent example of differences that can be seen when doing research. (See About Dates.)

Some mention of Baker descendants is found in Bradford Monthly Meeting Records in Chester County, however there were many Baker families other than Joseph's, so it is difficult to make ties without researching the whole family in depth. Records for Joseph and Martha are not found there. Barbara Emery tells us that Martha was complained of by Women Friends of Chester Monthly Meeting 25th dy 11 mo, 1696, for an unspecified reason, possibly for marriage to one not of the Quaker faith.

We do know some things about the family from Abstracts of Chester County Land Records, Vol. 1 by Carol Bryant. On 26 March 1713 Joseph & Martha Baker of Beaksland sold 48 acres to Shadrack Scarlet of Chichester. Joseph had acquired 140 acres by paying damages and costs of a sheriff's seizure. It was formalized by a deed on 23 December 1712. On 25 May 1713 Joseph and Martha of Edgmont sold 127 acres of a 502 acre tract that they had acquired on September 26, 1712. On 10 December 1713 Joseph & Martha Baker sold an additional 35 1/2 acres of the 502 acres that they had acquired in 1712. Joseph is listed as yeoman in all these transactions. Barbara Emery tells us he appears among the taxables of Edgmont Township in Chester County in 1696. She also found an additional deed in Chester County where he purchased land on 24 September 1702 in Upper Providence but sold it by 29 February 1704.

There were a number of Baker land transactions in Chester County other than for Joseph and Martha, and it can be seen that there were numerous Baker families in the area. There are Baker families found later in North Carolina that may be connected to these families. We have not yet researched possible connections.

Barbara Long Emery has a fine collection of information on the family of Joseph and Martha Baker including many family wills. She is willing to share information. Will of Joseph Baker (Courtesy of Barbara Long Emery) The Twenty-seventh Day of august in the year of our Lord one thousand Seven Hundred thirty-one, I, Joseph Baker of Edgmont in the County of Chester in the province of Pennsylvania, Yeoman, being very sick and weak in body, but of perfect Mind and Memory, thanks be given unto God therefore, calling unto mind the moratality of my body, and knowing that it is appointed for all men to dye, so make and ordain this my last Will and Testament. That is to say principally and first of all, I give and Recomment my Soul into the hands of God that gave it; and as for my body I Recommend it to the Earth, to be buried in a Christian Like and Decent manner, at the descretion of my executors, herinafter named and as touching Such worldly Estate Wherewith it hath please God to bless me in this life, I give Devise and Dispose of the same in the following manner and form. Imprimis I give and bequeath unto my loving wife Martha Baker the sum of Eight Pounds of Lawful Current money of Pennsylvania with Liberty and Privilege of my Lodging Rooms with my best Bedd beding and furniture thereunto belonging and my sd son Joseph Shall payher the Sd Sum of Eight Pounds a year and Every year during her natural Life and if it Shall so happen that he Shall neglect or Refuse to pay as afors'd, then she to Enter on the Plantation. Item. I give Francis Yarnall five shillings, and five shillings a piece to his three children. Item. I give to my son Richard five shillings, and five shillings a piece to his three children. Item. I give to my son Aaron ten pounds; I give to my Daughter Anne and her husband James Sill ten pounds. Item. I give my Daughter Susannah ten pounds; I give to my Daughter Jane and her husband Thomas Thomas five shillings and to their four children three pounds a piece to be paid them after all the Rest of the Lagasias (sic) be paid. Item. I give to my son, Jesse ten pounds. Item. I give to my daughter Sarah and her husband five shillings. Item. I give to Joseph the plantation to him and his heirs and assigns forever. Item. I give to my Daughter Rachel ten pounds. Item. I give to my son Nehemiah ten pounds and a riding Mare. Item. I give to my Son John ten pounds and a riding mare. Said Legacies as above bequeathed my Son Joseph Baker Shall Pay in manner following that is to say: he Shall not pay any until a year and a day after the Death of his mother, and then to pay from year to year untill all the Said Legacies Shall be paid, and my will is that all my personal Estate be appraised and Sold by publick vandue (sic) and all my just Debts and funorall Charges to be paid and Discharged with the same; and if there Shall be any more the same to be Equally Divided between my wife and my son Joseph; And I do hereby Constitute make and ordain my loving wife and my two sons Richard and Aaron Baker to be my only and Sole Executors of this my last will and Testament, and I do hereby Disallow, Revoke, Disa....all and every other formore Testaments, wills Legacies and Exocutors by me in confirming this and no other to be my Last will and Testament. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year above written. Signed, Sealed, Published, Pronounced and Declared.....Joseph Baker as his last will and testament in the Presents of us the Subscriber, viz: all the "leacies" to be paid by son Joseph in lawful money of Pennsylvania. /s/Evan (van) Howell /s/Eph. Jackson /s/ the mark of Joseph Baker /s/Sarah Howell (fingerprint) 10th Feb.__1735/36 Chester 10 Mar. 1735/36. There Personally Appeared Evan Howell, Ephriam Jackson and Sarah Howel the witnesses of the within written will who on their Solemn Affirmation did Declare they were present and saw the Testator therein named Sign, Seal Publish pronounce and Declare the Said Writing to be his Last will and Testament -- and that at the doing thereof he was of Sound mind and Memory to the best of their Understandings. Coram (?) Jo Parker D. Reg.

Inventory of Joseph Baker (courtesty of Barbara Long Emery) A True inverterry of the persanall Estate of Joseph Baker Late of Edgment in Chester County Desseased taken the ninth Day of February 1735/36. to his Hors bridall and sadell purs [purse] and appearill 12 = 00 = 00 to Bands Bills and Book Debts 07 = 09 =00 to all the putter [pewter] excepting to [two] dishes 04 = 00 =00 to all the Earthen Ware 00 = 12 = 00 to one table fore [4] ould chears [chairs] 00 = 10 = 00 to three Pots and Hangins 01 = 00 = 00 to the Wooden Ware 00 = 11 = 06 to the Brass 00 = 12 = 00 to Tonga and fier Shevell gridiron and friing pann 00 = 08 = 00 to a pear of Halards [palards?] 00 = 14 = 00 to three peare of gards? 00 = 08 = 00 to tow spinning wheels 00 = 14 = 00 to a back Hone and hangin ? 00 = 10 = 00 to three beds, bedstid and fourneture 11 = 00 = 00 to one Chist [Chest] and tow bases 00 = 10 = 00 to one Chist of Drors one Chist and one Table 02 = 10 = 00 to one Warming Pan 00 = 08 = 00 to tow heckells for frax [hackels for flax] 00 = 10 = 00 [ a hackell is a board with a lot of close spaced spikes sticking up through which a bundle of flax is drawn to separate the fibers] to a botell Case and three botells and a Lantren 00 = 04 = 00 to ould iron and other ware 00 = 12 = 00 to a Cart and Cart Sadell collar and hames [harness parts] 09 = 00 = 00 to a ould Cart and back band [part of a harness] 03 = 00 = 00 to tow plows and plow irons [shares] and harrow 02 = 10 = 00 to three peare of Cart geers and bridell and holters 02 = 03 = 00 [in this instance geer means harness rather then equipment. Holters =halters] to fore [4] working horses 19 = 10 = 00 to one hors and one mare and coult [colt] 08 = 10 = 00 to all the Cow Kind 24 = 15 = 00 to twenty Sheep 08 = 00 = 00 [illegible[ 03 = 00 = 00 to the Crop of Whate [wheat] on the ground being completed by [illeg] in fixation six or seven and twenty ackers 20 = 00 = 00 to grine stone and hangin 00 = 11 = 00 to 5 axes 2 mattocks mal [maul] and wedges 2 spades and ould iron 01 = 18 = 00 to a Cubart [cupboard] 2 powdering tubs* and twenty barrells 02 =06 = 00 [* this is a tub in which meat is corned or salted] Total 150 - 9 - 0 (Note: units are pounds, shilling, and pence) Apreased by us the suberbers Hereof /s/David Regester /s/John Yarnall an omition of some goods at the Day of apeasement [appraisement] 1124 foot of boards 02 16 02 0402 foot of seantell[?] 01 04 0 10 bags 1 10 0 2 pich forks 00 02 0 ___________________

The southern tract, owned by Jonathan Britain, was sold to an Aaron Baker and his wife of Edgmont Township, now Delaware County, PA, soon after their marriage. [Aaron Baker, son to Joseph Baker and Martha Woodward Baker, was born 1 December 1701 and died at age 82 in 1783. He married Mary Edwards, daughter of John and Mary Ingram Edwards 9th mo 23rd 1727. She was born in 1703 and survived her husband.] Futhey and Cope tell us:

       John Baker of Edgmond, in Shropshire, England, came to Philadelphia and died soon after, in the year 1685, leaving four daughters ¥    ¥    ¥    ¥    Joseph Baker, a brother of John, settled in Edgmont township, and probably gave it the name in memory of his former home.  He was an influential citizen and member of Assembly; died 1716 ¥    ¥    ¥    ¥    Joseph Baker, of Edgmont, perhaps a nephew of the first mentioned Joseph, married Martha Woodward, daughter of Richard and Jane Woodwar

Futhey and Cope, History of Chester County, pp. 469-470. See also, Carter, Jane Levis, Edgmont: The Story of a Township, (Kennett Square: 1976), p. 240.
[Aaron and Mary Baker had seven children: i. Mary Baker. Married, 1762 to Thomas Carrington (his second wife); ii. Martha Baker. Married, 5th mo 16th 1753 to Joshua Clayton; iii. Ester Baker. Married, to William Chalfant; iv. Aaron Baker, Jr. Born, 1729. Married, 5th mo 30th 1759, to Sarah Hayes. Married, 2d time, _____, to Ann McNeil. Died, 1812; v. Samuel Baker. Married ca. 1761, to his first cousin Martha, daughter of Philip and Sarah Baker Ottey; vi. John Baker.
The Will of Aaron Baker [Dated 3rd month 15th 1783 and proven 27 September 1783, recorded in Will Book G, page 183, in the Office of the Register of Wills for Chester County, PA] provides his wife Mary should receive the profits of his lands in London Grove and West Marlborough Townships during her lifetime. He named his daughters Mary, Martha and Ester, his sons, Aaron and Samuel and son John, deceased.
When son John Baker married Hannah Pennock, his parents deeded their plantation in West Marlborough Township to them. [The deed is dated 16 July 1767.] John Baker died without a will and when his real estate was divided by the court. [Chester County (PA) Orphans' Court Docket 9, page 117] it already had two dwelling houses erected on it. His wife Hannah remarried John Edwards so the property was given to John Baker's oldest son Joseph [Chester County (PA) Orphans' Court Docket 9, pag
Joseph Baker was a cooper (barrel maker) and his wife was named Elizabeth. [Chester County Deed Book 2 "I", page 78.] Their farm straddled the White Clay Creek headwaters which powered a fulling mill on the property. This mill was located north of the current residence of Mrs. Colin Lofting. The mill was operated by a William Chalfant in the 1750's but it is believed it was built by a Thomas Wood in 1730, who settled in the area. Thomas Wood had two sons, William and Joseph, whose
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In 1728, Joseph Pennock, John Strode, Joel, Joel, Jr., and Isaac Baily, Richard, Joseph, and William Hayes, Joseph Taylor, Aaron Baker, Ezekiel and William Harlan, and John Passmore petitioned to have the boundaries already agreed upon entered on record, which was done Nov. 27, 1728. By this decree the township was to be bounded, —

" Eastward by the Eastern Lines of the Land late of Vincent Cald- well, the Land of Joshua Pierce and the Land late of Hugh Harry to the southeast corner of a Tract of Land which Jeremiah A Mordecai Cloud Purchased of Benjamin Chambers, and from thence by the east & north Lines of the s* Tract to the Eastern line of the Society Tract, and then down the Society line to the South East Corner of the fA Tract, and from thence by the s* Society line to the northwest Corner of the same Tract, and thence to the north East corner of the Land late of Thomas Nickson, and from thence by a line to the Eastern corner of the Land late of David Brintnall, and thence by a line west • ward. Including the Land of Ezekiel Harlan to the northwest corner of the Land late of Isaac Taylor, and then by the western lines of the same Lund and the other Land late of Thomas Niekson's to the north- west corner of Joseph Pennock's Land, and from thence by the western known boundaries of the s'^ Township of Marlborough to the Southern boundaries," etc.

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Aaron Baker (son of Joseph Baker and Martha Woodward)36, 36, 36 was born December 02, 1701 in Edgemont, Chester, PA, USA36, 36, 36, and died 1783 in West Marlborough, Chester, PA, USA36, 36, 36.He married (2) Mary Edward.He married (3) Mary Edwards on November 09, 172736.He married (4) Mary Edwards on September 23, 1727 in Edgemont, Chester, PA, USA36. More About Aaron Baker and Mary Edwards: Marriage: November 09, 172736 More About Aaron Baker and Mary Edwards: Marriage: September 23, 1727, Edgemont, Chester, PA, USA.36 Children of Aaron Baker are: Samual Baker, d. date unknown.

Children of Aaron Baker and Mary Edwards are: Esther Baker, b. 1732, Chester, PA, USA36, d. 1783, Chester, PA, USA36. +Samuel Baker, b. 1730, W Marlborough, Chester, PA, USA36, 36, d. January 12, 1789, West Marlborough, Chester, PA, USA36, 36. +Aaron Baker, b. 1729, West Marlborough, Chester, PA, USA36, 36, d. 1812, West Marlborough, Chester, PA, USA36, 36. John Baker, b. 173436, d. 1783, East Marlborough, Chester, PA, USA36. Mary Baker, d. date unknown. Joshua Baker, d. date unknown. Joseph Baker, b. 1756, Edgemont, Chester, PA, USA36, d. date unknown. M Aaron Baker, b. 173636, d. date unknown.

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Aaron and Mary Edwards Baker 1727 information at Chester Microfilm of original records (some photostats) at the Chester County Historical Society in West Chester, Pennsylvania. ___________

In 1728, Joseph Pennock, John Strode, Joel, Joel, Jr., and Isaac Baily, Richard, Joseph, and William Hayes, Joseph Taylor, Aaron Baker, Ezekiel and William Harlan, and John Passmore petitioned to have the boundaries already agreed upon entered on record, which was done Nov. 27, 1728. By this decree the township was to be bounded, —

" Eastward by the Eastern Lines of the Land late of Vincent Cald- well, the Land of Joshua Pierce and the Land late of Hugh Harry to the southeast corner of a Tract of Land which Jeremiah A Mordecai Cloud Purchased of Benjamin Chambers, and from thence by the east & north Lines of the s* Tract to the Eastern line of the Society Tract, and then down the Society line to the South East Corner of the fA Tract, and from thence by the s* Society line to the northwest Corner of the same Tract, and thence to the north East corner of the Land late of Thomas Nickson, and from thence by a line to the Eastern corner of the Land late of David Brintnall, and thence by a line west • ward. Including the Land of Ezekiel Harlan to the northwest corner of the Land late of Isaac Taylor, and then by the western lines of the same Lund and the other Land late of Thomas Niekson's to the north- west corner of Joseph Pennock's Land, and from thence by the western known boundaries of the s'^ Township of Marlborough to the Southern boundaries," etc.

LAND-OWNERS, 1774. Aaron Baker, Archibald McNeal, Andrew Mitchell, Aaron Baker, junior, Caleb Pyle, Christopher Rix, Daniel Avery, Edward Swayne, Elizabeth King, George Harlan, jr., George Harlan, Geo. Taylor, Henry Chalfant, Hector McNeil, Hannah Baker, Hannah Baldwin, Joshua Bailey, Joseph Williams, Isaac Baily, sr., Isaac Baily, jr., Joseph Pennock, Isaac Pyle, John Kell, John Baily, Joshua Edwards, Jeremiah Barnard, Joseph Pyle, Jacob Starr, John Pussmore, John Montgomery, James Harlan, Isaac Powel, Joel Baily, Jacob Wood, Josiah Baily, Lewis Pennook, Michael Harlan, Moses Edwards, Mary Pusey, Nathan Hayes, Richard Bernard, Sam'l Baker, Thos. Bernard, Tristram Moore, Thomas Trevilla, William. Davis, William Harlan, William Hays, William Baily, William Chalfant.

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he southern tract, owned by Jonathan Britain, was sold to an Aaron Baker and his wife of Edgmont Township, now Delaware County, PA, soon after their marriage. [Aaron Baker, son to Joseph Baker and Martha Woodward Baker, was born 1 December 1701 and died at age 82 in 1783. He married Mary Edwards, daughter of John and Mary Ingram Edwards 9th mo 23rd 1727. She was born in 1703 and survived her husband.] Futhey and Cope tell us:

       John Baker of Edgmond, in Shropshire, England, came to Philadelphia and died soon after, in the year 1685, leaving four daughters ¥    ¥    ¥    ¥    Joseph Baker, a brother of John, settled in Edgmont township, and probably gave it the name in memory of his former home.  He was an influential citizen and member of Assembly; died 1716 ¥    ¥    ¥    ¥    Joseph Baker, of Edgmont, perhaps a nephew of the first mentioned Joseph, married Martha Woodward, daughter of Richard and Jane Woodwar

Futhey and Cope, History of Chester County, pp. 469-470. See also, Carter, Jane Levis, Edgmont: The Story of a Township, (Kennett Square: 1976), p. 240.
[Aaron and Mary Baker had seven children: i. Mary Baker. Married, 1762 to Thomas Carrington (his second wife); ii. Martha Baker. Married, 5th mo 16th 1753 to Joshua Clayton; iii. Ester Baker. Married, to William Chalfant; iv. Aaron Baker, Jr. Born, 1729. Married, 5th mo 30th 1759, to Sarah Hayes. Married, 2d time, _____, to Ann McNeil. Died, 1812; v. Samuel Baker. Married ca. 1761, to his first cousin Martha, daughter of Philip and Sarah Baker Ottey; vi. John Baker.
The Will of Aaron Baker [Dated 3rd month 15th 1783 and proven 27 September 1783, recorded in Will Book G, page 183, in the Office of the Register of Wills for Chester County, PA] provides his wife Mary should receive the profits of his lands in London Grove and West Marlborough Townships during her lifetime. He named his daughters Mary, Martha and Ester, his sons, Aaron and Samuel and son John, deceased.
When son John Baker married Hannah Pennock, his parents deeded their plantation in West Marlborough Township to them. [The deed is dated 16 July 1767.] John Baker died without a will and when his real estate was divided by the court. [Chester County (PA) Orphans' Court Docket 9, page 117] it already had two dwelling houses erected on it. His wife Hannah remarried John Edwards so the property was given to John Baker's oldest son Joseph [Chester County (PA) Orphans' Court Docket 9, pag
Joseph Baker was a cooper (barrel maker) and his wife was named Elizabeth. [Chester County Deed Book 2 "I", page 78.] Their farm straddled the White Clay Creek headwaters which powered a fulling mill on the property. This mill was located north of the current residence of Mrs. Colin Lofting. The mill was operated by a William Chalfant in the 1750's but it is believed it was built by a Thomas Wood in 1730, who settled in the area. Thomas Wood had two sons, William and Joseph, whose
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