Sarah Baker

• Not the same as Sarah Baker
• Sarah Carr of Salisbury married Thomas Baker, blacksmith of Boston. See deep below which proves that she was not the Sarah who married Thomas Baker of Rhode Island!
• Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Salisbury, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849. (Topsfield, Massachusetts: Topsfield Historical Society, 1915). 43 Carr: Sarah, d. Georg and Elizabeth, 17: 10 m: 1654.
• Dunkle, Robert J., and Ann S. (Ann Smith) Lainhart. Inscriptions and Records of the Old Cemeteries of Boston. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, c2000), Copp's Hill Cem. Baker, Sarah B15 PS9: "Here Lyeth Buried / Ye Body of Sarah / Baker Wife To / Thomas Baker Aged / About 45 Years / Died August Ye 14th 1700." See photo on FindAGrave 13502620

Sarah Carr daughter of George Carr and sister of James Carr of Salisbury married to Thomas Baker of *Boston,* blacksmith and not Thomas Baker of Rhode Island. you and I fixed this previously long ago but it looks like bad information from Wikitree is leaking back onto GENI:

Thomas Baker, of Boston

First born child recorded in Boston Vital Record p 144 on 25 Sep 1678

How do we know that they didn't move to RI? Good question!

Suffolk Co. Deed Vol 11 p 186 dated 20 Jul 1696/7 "....that I James Carr of Salisbury...Shipwright [brother of Sarah (Carr) Baker] acknowledge to have received of my Brother in law Thomas Baker of Boston in the County of Suffolk in said providence Blacksmith...formerly granted to my father George Carr late of Salisbury...in or at the now dwelling house of sd Thomas Baker in Boston..."

An image of the deed starts on the bottom right page and flows onto the next page:

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9ZZ-BSMJ?i=419&cc...

And image is also attached to the profile for Sarah Carr.

Son of John Baker of Boston blacksmith and his first wife Joanna Swift:

Thomas Baker of Boston, b. 12 Feb 1653, md. (1) Sarah Carr, b. 17 Dec 1654, Salisbury, MA, d. 14 Aug 1700, Boston, MA [Copp's Hill Burying Ground]; md. (2) 27 May 1702, Boston, MA, Mrs. Rebecca (Ireland) Waters, d. 29 July 1708, Boston, MA; (3) 8 Jan 1708/09, Boston, MA, Mrs.Mary (Foster) Sale Ward [bp. 10 Feb 1665/6, Dorchester, MA, d. 14 Sept 1726, Boston, MA (aged 71 years), the daughter of Hopestill Foster and Mary Bates, and the sister of his step-mother. This Thomas Baker owned land in the South End of Boston, and had as neighbors the Turells and the Phillipses. He made the deed above in 1696/7 and died 4 May 1719 in Boston. Almost his entire family was wiped out between 1696 and 1703 with himself passing away a few years later. They must have had some terrible disease.

Sarah (Carr) Baker buried in Boston:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13502620

Children

Children of John Baker of Boston, Blacksmith and Sarah (Carr) Baker recorded in Boston, MA:

1. Jacob, b. 25 Sept 1678, died young.
2. Thomas, b. 3 Jan 1679, died young.
3. John, b. c1680, d. Oct 1749, md. Mary Sale, daughter of his step-mother.
4. George, b. 30 Dec 1681, died young.
5. Thomas, b. 22 Mar 1683, md. 11 July 1706, Boston, MA, Thankful Sale, sister of his brother John's wife above.
6. Sarah, b. 25 Feb 1686, d. young.
7. Elizabeth, b. 5 June 1688, d. young.
8. Samuel, b. 9 Sept 1689, d. 27 Sept 1689, Boston, MA.
9. Joseph, b. 20 Jan 1690, d. 28 Apr 1702, Boston, MA.
10. Benjamin, b. 7 May 1694, d. young.
11. Nathaniel, b. 16 Feb 1696, d. 28 May 1702, Boston, MA

Probate

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Suffolk County, MA, Probate file #417 4, the will of Thomas Baker, proved 15 May 1719.

IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN the sixteenth day of April Anno / Dommi 1719 I THOMAS BAKER of Boston in New England / Blacksmith being grown in Years, and sencible of the / mortallity of my Body, and the uncertainty of the time of my continuance in this Life, do make and Ordaine / this my Last Will and testament. That is to say Principally / and first of all I do recommend my Soul Into the handes / of God my Creator, hopeing to Obtain Mercy, and find / acceptance with him through the Merrits and Satisfaction / of the Lord Jesus Chnst my Redeemer, And my Body I do / Recommend to the Earth to be buryed in decent manner at / the discretion of my Executors hereafter Named. And as touching Such Worldly Estate wherewith it hath / pleased God to Bless me in this life: I do give devise & / dispose thereof in Manner following viz: / IMPRIMIS I give and bequeath unto my Eldist Son JOHN / BAKER and to his heires and heirs and assignes forever, All that my / peice or parcel of Land next adjoyning to the house be land / of my said son abutting on Salem Street in Boston. / Item I give and bequeath unto my beloved Wife MARY BAKER / all my Right title and interest in and claim unto, all the Housing, / Lands, goods and moveable Estate Which of Right was belonging / to my said wife during her Widowhood or before the tirne ot / my being Married to her, to be at her disposal as she shall / see meet. ITEM I give and bequeath unto my said beloved / Wife, the use benefit and improvement of so much of my / House hold goods as she shall think meet and convenient / for her use, Together with one of my Negro men, and also / two third parts of the Income of the remaining part of my / Real Estate during her continueing my Widdow

f.2 And in case my said Wife shall Inter Marry after my / deceace, That then give unto her one Third part of ye Income / of my said Houseing and Land during her Natural Life, she / allowing out of the same one third part of the Necessary repairs / thereof, and also one third part of my personal Estate / after all my just debts and Funeral Charges and satisfied & / paid, to her and her heires and Assignes for ever. / ITEM I give unto the Second Church of Christ in Boston where / of I am a Member the sume of Ten pounds to be disposed of by the / Deacons of all their discretion. Item I give and bequeathe whole / Residue of all my Estate both Real and personal unto my two I Sons JOHN BAKER and THOMAS BAKER in Equall halves to them / and their heires and assignes forever. IITEM I do nominate and appoint my beloved son JOHN BAKER / and my beloved wife MARY BAKER as Executor & Executrix / of this my Last will and Testament, And I do hereby disallow and make voyd any other Will or Executor by me at any time / heretofore made or named. And do declare this & no other to / be my Last Will and Testament. In Witness whereof I have / hereunto set my hand and seal ye 'day & year first above written. / Signed Sealed & what is herein contained I was by the sd THOMAS BAKER declared / to be his Last Will & Testamt in presence / of us the subscribers John Barnard, Edward Procter, Samuell White THOMAS BAKER

Suffolk By the Honble Samuel Sewall Esqr Judge of Probate / The foregoing Will being presented for Probate by JOHN BAKER / and MARY BAKER Executor within named John Barnard / Edward Proctor and Samuel White made Oath that they /

f.3 [did see] THOMAS BAKER the Subscriber Sign Seal and heard him publish I and declare the same to be his last Will and Testament and / that when he so did he was of Sound disposing mind and / Memory and that they set to their names as Witnesses / thereof in the said Testators presence Samuel Sewall Boston May 25th 1719.

1719 MaY 23 The lnventary of The Estate of Deachin / Thomas Baker desest Prisd by the three / Jent:men sining ... John Barnard, Edward Procter, Ephraim Hunt.

Suffolk County, MA, Probate file #5344, the admen of MARY BAKER. Know all men by these presents, That we I John Baker Merchant, Joseph Turin [sic] / & Thadeus Maccarty Marriner, all of Boston in the I County of Suffolk ... are bound tor£ 500 ... the 21st day of May / 1726. The Condition of the present Obligation is such / That if the above-bounden JOHN BAKER admitted adm of all and / singular Rights & Credits of his Mother in LaW Mary / Baker late of Boston widow deceased / do make or cause to be made a true and perfect Inventory of all and singular the Goods, Chattels / Rights and credits of the said Deceased, which have or shall come to the hands, possession or know-/ ledge of him the said NATHANIEL BAKER. ... witnesses: Joseph Wheeler, John Boydell

Signed: John Baker, Joseph Turell, Thadeus Maccarty

Suffolk Deeds

Suffolk Co., MA, Deed Book 11, p. 54, dated 16 Aug 1678, rec. 7 Sept 1678, THOMAS BAKER of Boston, shopkeeper, and wife SARAH, for £ 40, to Isaac Walker, a tract of land on the South end of Boston, adj. Deacon Eliot, westward to the sea by Jacob Elliot, 63' X 62' X 225' deep; witnesses: John Bradish, John Hayward.

Suffolk Co., MA, Deed Book 12, p. 145, Elizabeth Smith, formerly Kelley, relict of David, to Thomas Harvey of Portsmouth, land adj. her son David Kelley, Mrs. Abigail Hanniford, THOMAS BAKER, smith, son in law Thomas Harvey.

Suffolk Co., MA, Deed Book 21, p. 573, dated 20 Jan 1703/4; John Stevens of Boston, cooper, and Thomas Phipps of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, attorney for Elizabeth Harvey of Portsmouth, widow, joint heirs of the estate of David Kelly of Boston, yeoman, to THOMAS BAKER of Boston, blacksmith, £ 100 the said John Stevens, Elizabeth Harvey, THOMAS BAKER had and now have differences about or concerning bounds and estate of their lands; to be settled by John Barnard, William Roby, Thomas Barnard, and Robert Cumbey; one line on the South side of Baker's salt house upon his wharf and then to the North corner
of Scarlett's wharf.

Suffolk Co., MA, Deed Book 22, p. 362, John Barrell of Boston, cooper, for love for (i) his wife, Abiah, formerly the wife of George Beard, late of Boston mariner, deed; (ii) his daughter Anna Barrell, daughter of his wife Abiah; (iii) to George Beard, son of his said wife by George deed; land expressed to John Attwood of Boston, cordwainer, and THOMAS BAKER of Boston, blacksmith, the two deacons of the North Church of Christ; land to be held in trust by the above mentioned: land purchased of Augustin Lyndon late of Boston, mariner, heretofore the husband of Mary Ardell of Boston, aforesaid iron monger, mother of the said Abiah; land from John Scottow and Mehetable his wife; land on the South side street to town dock, to old church passed under hands of Josias Lyndon of Newport, Rhode Island, joiner (son of said Augustin Lyndon), and Samuel Lyndon, son of said Josias Lyndon and Joseph Hobbard of Windham, Conn., in right of his wife Abigail, daughter of said Josias Lyndon; rec. 20 Nov 1705.

Suffolk Co., MA, Deed Book 22, p. 453, dated 24 Apr 1686; SILENCE BAKER, spinster, daughter of JOHN BAKER, deed., £80 to loving brother THOMAS BAKER of Boston, aforesaid, blacksmith, adj. lands of Samuel Scarlett, , deed., Capt. Elisha Hutchinson, Mr. Kelley, John Jacobs, seaman; witnesses; Hezekiah Henchman, Eliezar Moody; rec. 21 Feb 1705.

Suffolk Co., MA, Deed Book 30, p. 166, dated 18 Aug 1706; John Atwood, cordwainer, and Robert Cumbey, cooper, disagreement between THOMAS BAKER of Boston, blacksmith who intermarried with REBECCA relict of Sampson Waters, late, deed., mariner of Boston; John Jarvis, Obediah Wakefield, and John Wakefield, on behalf of themselves and their wives Mary Jarvis, Rebecca, and Anne Wakefield, three daughters and only surviving children of said Sampson Waters deed; to THOMAS BAKER and REBECCA the brick building and wharf rec. 6 June 1716.

Suffolk Co., MA, Deed Book 30, p. 272, deed of gift from THOMAS BAKER of Boston, blacksmith, to JOHN BAKER, blacksmith; land on the North end town toward the Charlestown ferry, 42', West by Green lane, 99'; South end of THOMAS BAKER, 40', East by THOMAS BAKER, 100'; witnesses: Robert Cumbey, David Copp, Jr., Nathaniel Goodwin; THOMAS BAKER appears 18 May 1716 and acknowledges deed; rec. 6 Feb 1716.

Suffolk Co., MA, Deed Book 30, p. 273, dated 12 July 1706; THOMAS BAKER of Boston, blacksmith, deed of gift to his son THOMAS BAKER, of Boston, shipwright; land on the North end of Boston left by JOHN BAKER late of Boston, blacksmith, deed; North on the street to the North burying place, South by me the said THOMAS BAKER, East adj. Mansfield, West by JOHN BAKER, 42'4" X 102'; REBECCA, wife of THOMAS BAKER, releases dower; witnesses: Richard Waitt, John Stevens, Jr.

Suffolk Co., MA, Deed Book 37, p. 23, dated 26 Oct 1688; THOMAS BAKER of Boston, blacksmith, and SARAH his wife, £ 9, to John Mansfield, shipwright; land in the North end of Boston, adj. John Rainsford, land toward the Charlestown ferry, adj. Col. Charles Ledgett; witnesses: John Moore, Thomas Kemball, rec. 4 May 1723.

Suffolk Co., MA, Deed Book 37, p. 37, MARY BAKER of Boston, widow; £15 paid by John Sale of Boston, merchant; land behind dwelling house on King St., now in the possession of John Sale, measured from window in rear of house 22' to back of property; witnesses; Joseph Turell, James Marion; rec. 27 May 1723.

Cheers!

Roland

Notes

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].

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