Joan Baker

Joan Swift, purportedly bapt. Nov. 20, 1631 at Holy Trinity Church at Dorchester, England, d. July 21, 1663 at Boston, Mass. She was the daughter of Thomas Swift and Elizabeth Capen.

Family

From Savage:

BAKER, JOHN, Boston, blacksmith, ar. co. 1644, had m. John (Joan or Jane), eldest d. of Thomas Swift, of Dorchester, sev. yrs. (prob. ten) bef. 5 Nov. 1657, wh. date from the MS. vol. in the Boston office of reg. usual. vol. 1, p. 97 accept. as a rec. while it is only a copy, is truly print. from the false certif. of Gov. John Winthrop wh. d. 26 Mar. 1649 as the error may be read in Geneal. Reg. XI. 202.
By her he had John, wh. d. young, 20 June 1654; Thomas, b. 12 Feb. 1654; Samuel, 16 Apr. 1650, d. in 3 mos.; Nathaniel, 4 Apr. 1656, d. soon; of wh. four ch. the false certif. on rec. would make all b. bef. the m. Also he had John, again, 17 July 1658, d. in few mos. and Elizabeth 26 June 1660

Origins

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/20741067/thomas-swift

The children of Thomas Swift and Elizabeth Capen, with children ii. through ix. of either birth record and/or only baptism record at Dorchester, Mass., are:

• i. Joan Swift, purportedly bapt. Nov. 20, 1631 at Holy Trinity Church at Dorchester, England, d. July 21, 1663 at Boston, Mass.; m. Nov. 5, 1657 at Boston (by Gov. John Winthrop), John Baker. Three children of the family, but two died in infancy. [SIC]

Estate

Suffolk County (Massachusetts). Register of Deeds. Records of deeds, 1639-1885; indexes to deeds, 1639-1920. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1969), Vol. 33, p. 359.

24 Apr 1686: Division of Land late belonging to John Baker of Boston in New England BlackSmith Deceased as it is now Scituate being at the Northerly End of the Town of Boston ... unto thirds between the Children of said John Baked Deceased Namely Thomas Baker [and Sarah his Wife] Elizabeth Baker now wife of Hopestill Humphry and Silence Baker ... [Thomas having purchased Elizabeth's share, agreement sets off part to Silence and she quitclaims to Thomas any right to the remainder].

References

• https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Joan_Swift_%281%29
• Thomas Swift, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (NEHGS, 1999-2011), VI:623.
• Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. Births, Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths, 1630-1699 (A Report of the Record Commissioners): Document 130. (Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States: Rockwell and Churchill, City Printers, 1883), p. 90. 1663. Town.. "Joanna wife of John Baker died the 21st of July"
• A Genealogical Dictionary of The First Settlers of New England, Before 1692 Volume #1, Pgs 92 - 101 Badcock - Baker By James Savage.