Samuel Baker, of Marshfield

Origins

Not the son of Alexander Baker of Boston. Samuel Baker b 1637 in Boston, son of Alexander Baker (rope maker) & Elizabeth, died unmarried. Source: Anderson’s Great Migration Project, document attached. Samuel Baker who married Elinor Winslow was not a descendant of Alexander Baker, as per DNA testing Ref: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/124656026/samuel-baker

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Baker-49110

Samuel was born about 1635. Samuel's estimated birth year is based on the year of his first marriage being in 1656. Samuel's parentage is pending additional research given that he was one of at least three Samuel Baker/s living around the same time within a travel radius of Boston. Several family trees present Samuel's parents as Alexander and Elizabeth Baker, they having migrated to Boston from England in 1635 on the Elizabeth & Ann. A son named Samuel, 4th child of Alexander and Elizabeth, however, is presented in the work, The Great Migration, Vol. 1, by Robert Charles Anderson as unmarried and having predeceased his father. Commensurate with these vital details, this son Samuel is not named in his father's Will.

Samuel, subject of this profile, married 1st Eleanor, aka "Ellen," Winslow on December 29, 1656 in Marshfield, Massachusetts Bay Colony. She was the daughter of Kenelm and Eleanor (Newton) Winslow. Samuel and Eleanor had the following children:

• 1) Kenelm, b. March 23, 1657-8, m. Sarah Bradford
• 2) Lydia, b. February 18, 1659-60
• 3) Elizabeth, b. March 18, 1661-2
• 4) Alice, b. May 19, 1663
• 5) Eleanor (1), b. 1665
• 6) Mary, b. May 9, 1667
• 7) Child, b. 1669 (pages in vital record too tattered to read)
• 8) Child, b. 1671 (pages in vital record too tattered to read)

Eleanor passed away at age 39 on August 27, 1676. [Note: Some sources provide that this was the date of her burial and not the date of her death.]

In Marshfield on Feb. 21, 1677/8, Samuel married 2nd Mrs. Patience (Barstow) Simmons (widow of Moses Simmons of Scituate). Samuel had three (3) additional children with Patience as follows:

• 9) Eleanor (2), b. April 10, 1679
• 10) Samuel Jr., b. May 16, 1680; m. Sarah Snow Feb. 27, 1699
• 11) Josias, b. February 1, 1684-5

Samuel passed away in 1699 or very early in 1700 in Marshfield. Letters of Administration were granted to his son Kenelm on February 23, 1699/1700. He is buried at the OId Winslow Burying Ground in Marshfield.

Research Notes

1) In his Will, John Winslow, brother of Kenelm (father of Eleanor), bequeaths "unto his kinsman, Eleanor Baker," daughter of his brother Kenelm, 5 pounds in goods.
2) In Holton's Winslow Memorial (source below), quoting: "He [Samuel] married 2d, Patience Simmons, perhaps wid. of Moses, of Scituate, and had Eleanor, Samuel, and Josias."
3) In Anderson's Great Migration, Vol. 1, A-B, quoting (pp. 177-8, section "William Barstow"): "Patience, b. 3 December 1643 [DeVR 2], bp. Dedham 9 June 1644 [DeCHR 28]; m. (1) by 1644 Moses Simonson [sic], son of MOSES SIMONSON (by July 1664 William Barstow had given 'a small tract' of land 'unto my son Moses Simons [sic] [PCR 4:68-69, GMB 3:1683]; m. (2) Marshfield 21 February [1677/8] 'Samuel Baker [worn] Simmons were m[worn] 21 of February[worn]' [MarVR 9] (just after marriages for mid-1677); 'Elenor the daughter of Samuel and Patience his wife' b. Marshfield 10 April 1679 [MarVR 19]."

Parts of his line of the family left to CT/PA VA/NC by the Revolutionary War and then to eastern Kentucky. Gr-grandson, Lt. Richard Baker, was killed at Battle of Trenton in 1777.

References

• https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr02/rr02_409.html#P10242
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Baker-49110
• Holton, David-Parsons,. Winslow memorial : family records of Winslows and their descendants in America, with the English ancestry as far as known : Kenelm Winslow. New York: D.P. Holton, 1877-1888, p. xi & p. 78. [Repository: Ancestry.com. Winslow memorial, family records of Winslows and their descendants in America, with the English ancestry as far as known (database on-line, frame #19 of 1536). Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.]
• Boyd, Scott Lee (comp.). The Winslow Family (Part Two). Santa Barbara, CA, 1933. [Repository: Ancestry.com. North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000 (database on-line, frames #164-5 of 277). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016.] (Includes 1st marriage of Samuel and Eleanor, children, and other vital data)
• Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988; Marshfield; Town Records. [Repository: Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 (database on-line, frame #365 of 855). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook).] (1st marriage data)
• The New England Historic Genealogical Society. "Marriages of Marshfield, Mass." in The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, 1847-2011. Boston: NEHGS, Vol. 006, 1852 (pp. 422), p. 347. [Repository: Ancestry.com. The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, 1847-2011 (database on-line, frame #348 of 422). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data:New England Historic Genealogical Society. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston: The New England Historic Genealogical Society.] (1st marriage data)
• Torry, Clarence A. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004, p. 34. [Repository: Ancestry.com. U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (database on-line, frame #49 of 1022). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2012.] (Both marriages 1 & 2)
• Anderson, Robert Charles. "William Barstow" (section) in The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3; The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-6. Boston: New England Historical and Genealogical Society, 1996-2011; Great Migration, Vol. 1, A-B. [Repository: Ancestry.com. New England, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1635 (database on-line, frame #275-6 of 732). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013.] ((includes Patience (Barstow) Simmons, widow, and her 2d marriage to Samuel Baker))
• U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current; Memorial ID: 17831585; Accessed by Rosa Lane on February 7, 2021; Created on February 6, 2007 by B. Baker-Bennett and maintained by same, contributor 46853089: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/17831585/samuel-baker (cenotaph) (listed as son of Alexander and Elizabeth (Farrar) Baker, which has been disproved)
• https://mywoodfamily.us/p120.htm