BAKER (Bowen - Baker Genealogy)

Descendants of John Baker
(d. 1695 Woburn, MA)

1. Baker descendants
2. Baker geography

3. Bakers in history
4. Sources & notes

Baker descendants (back to top)

1. John Baker	3. John Baker, Jr.	5. Reuben Baker	7. Floyd Baker	9. Wilder Baker
2. John Baker	4. John Baker, III	6. Reuben Baker	8. Isaac Baker	10. Constance Baker

Baker geography (back to top)

Map of the United States with links to MA, VT, NY, MI, WI, IA, LA, HI, MO, KS, CA - where Bakers have lived.

Bakers in history (back to top)

Direct descendants are listed in red, indirect descendants in green.

1600s

1620
1642
1654
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1675
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1689

Plymouth Colony is founded in what will come to be known as Massachusetts.
The town of Woburn (Middlesex County) Massachusetts is incorporated.
"John Baker (1) of Woburn, Massachusetts was sentenced to be whipped and was sentenced to marry Susanna Martin...on May 28, 1654" (Savage, p. 96). At this time, there were approximately 60 families living in Woburn.
John Baker (2) took part in the Narraganset Expedition and the Great Swamp Fight during King Philip's War (see also A Brief History of King Philip's War, 1675-1677 by George Bodge, 1891).
John Baker (2) took part in the Church Expedition during King Philip's War.

1700s

1714
1753
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1783
1786
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1788
1791
1792

John Baker (3) and Susannah Wood married in Swansea (Bristol County) Massachusetts.
John Baker (4) and Hannah Mason married in Rehoboth (Bristol County) Massachusetts.
The Revolutionary War begins with the battles of Lexington and Concord.
Reuben Baker (1) fought in the Revolutionary War. (See also What Was the Revolution? and Folk Music of the Revolution.)
Reuben Baker (1) and family moved from Massachusetts to Vermont.
Reuben Baker (1) is said to have been part of the convention that revised the constitution of Vermont.
Massachusetts and New York are admitted to the Union.
Vermont is admitted to the Union.
Reuben Baker (1) and family moved from Vermont to New York.

1800s

1810
1813
1839
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1860
1861
1865
1883

Reuben Baker (2) and Lois Baxter married in Fort Ann (Washington County) New York.
Nathan Baker died at the battle of Sackett's Harbor in the War of 1812.
Floyd Baker set up a blacksmith shop in Hillsdale, MI. It was not particularly successful.
Floyd Baker returned to New York and became an agent for a line of packet boats on the Champlain Canal. He was also agent for the winter stage line between Albany and Whitehall, then a part of the route between New York and Montreal.
Floyd Baker took a contract to build a section of two miles on the Hudson River Railroad (begun in 1842). The work used up his savings and left him deeply in debt.
Between 1853 and 1861, the nation debated vigorously, and sometimes violently, over whether Kansas would enter the Union as a free or a slave state in a time period known as "Bleeding Kansas."
Floyd Baker moved to Kansas.
Kansas entered the Union as a free state.
Clifford Baker fought in the Civil War.
Isaac Baker married Mary Dupuy in Detroit, MI.

1900s

Sources & notes (back to top)

Notes:

Sources:

Baker family genealogy (Colleen Mielke).
Family papers in possession of Constance Baker Bowen.
James Savage, Genealogical Dictionary of the 1st Settlers of New England - Those who came before 1692. Originally published Boston, 1860-1862. Volume one.
"Short Notes on the Baker Family: Clark, Comstock, Baxter, Chaffee, Brown, and Mason," compiled by George Comstock Baker, LL.M. (1896).
William G. Cutler, History of the State of Kansas (Shawnee County section). A. T. Andreas, Chicago, 1883.
Chrono-indexical history of Woburn (1621-1892).