William Baker, Sr

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Biography

He was born about 1616 and his parents were Mary Frances (Ingram) and Nicholas Thomas Baker.

William BAKER married about 1633 in Colchester, Essex, England to Mary EVERSHAM and their children included ...

• Thomas BAKER, b: 1638 in Dedham, Essex, England; d: 1710; m: Sarah CARR
• Mary BAKER, b: c1640, m: Mark ROBERTS
• Sarah BAKER, b: c1642, m: Peter ROBERTSON

In 1635 Roger Williams went to Aquidneck Island which is the old name for Rhode Island on which Newport, RI is now situated.

In 1638 "he and others were admitted to be inhabitants of Aquidnect Island, having submitted themselves to the government that is or shall be established".

On 23 August 1638 "he had a lot granted him and was to build on it the following spring at farthest, or else his lot was to be disposed of".

On 13 July 1654 he "was one of the witnesses to the deed from Cheif Toccamanen to the Warwick purchases of a tract called "Potawomut".

On 01 April 1669 he and his wife Mary gave a receipt to Abiah Carpenter for a yearling heffer. Research Note

Anderson in "Great Migration Begins" says there were 5 men who migrated to New England by the name of William Baker. [1]

1. William Baker in Plymouth by 1632, hiding with Pequots in 1637,38. 1 child among the Indians.
2. William Baker of Charlestown in 1633, then Billerica. Wife name Joan.
3. William Baker of Watertown 1636 - 1638 then Plymouth. no names for wife & children.
4. William Baker of Portsmouth 1738. Wife Mary.
5. William Baker of Boston after 1651. Wife Mary Eddington, wife Pilgrim Eddy.

This profile most closely matches the William Baker of Portsmouth who Anderson says was listed as a freeman in 1638. Anderson, however, does not give surname of wife or parents; and does not list children. Sources

Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010), (Originally Published as: New England Historic Genealogical Society. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols., 1995). link for subscribers

Ancestral File #QDD2-18 by Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as of 1998

International Genealogical Index at Family History Library for William BAKER b: c1616, m: 1633 Colchester, Essex, England to Mary EVERSHAM