Susannah Baker

The children of John Baker (I) and Susanna Martin are listed as follows:

• (1) John Baker (II), see below;
• (2) Mary, born 22 Feb 1656;
• (3) Joseph, born 15 Jun 1657 and died soon thereafter;
• (4) another Joseph, born 1 Feb 1660;
• (5) Susanna, born 15 Mar 1662[2], died soon thereafter;
• (6) another Susanna, born 12 Apr 1663;
• a son, born 8 Mar 1664 died soon thereafter;
• (7) Samuel, born 21 Apr 1665;
• (8) Benjamin, born 24 May 1667;
• (9) James, born 10 Jun 1670;
• (10) Jonathan, born 2 Apr 1674 and
• (11) William, born 18 Aug 1679.

notes

From Hylborn Family Ancestry Project

Virtually nothing is known of the English origins or early years of my ancestor, John Baker (I) of Woburn, Massachusetts or his wife, Susannah Martin.  They were both probably born in England in the early 1630s, and the date and circumstances of their arrival in New England (prior to 1654) are unknown.  The few facts that I have were reported in the work of Savage (Volume I, p. 96) [1].  The following unusual entry is made without comment or explanation, leaving the interpretation to the reader:

JOHN of Woburn was… sentence[ed] to be whip[ped] and to m[arry] Susanna Martin (the inflict[ion] of the latter p[ar]t of the punish[ment] being on 28 May 1654). 

One supposes this to mean that John (I) had impregnated Susanna and was sentenced by the court to marry her as his “punishment”.

• http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&d...
• http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~coleen/pafg02.htm#348

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