CAPT. REMEMBER BAKER, JR.

 

A copy of a Supplemental paper of Alice May Van Deuser Corlett

(Mrs. Edward)  Natl. No. 74082.

 

“In the commencement of the Revolutionary War, he entered the army.

 

He arose to be an officer before the war closed and gained much distinction by his bravery and discretion.  Baker was with Allen as a captain at Ticonderoga, and also with the Regiment of Green Mountain boys, when the invasion of Canada was begun in the Fall following.  In Montgomery’s operations against St. Johns, Canada, he went forward to reconnoiter the position of the enemy.  When within a few miles of S. John’s, he secreted his boat with the intention of marching through the woods.  He had scarcely left the boat, when a party of Indians too possession of it.  He called upon them to return it.  Hard words passed, when one of the Indians fired, and shot him through the head.  The Indians, who appeared to have an old grudge against him, then cut off his head and put it on a pole.  The Americans gave them a guinea to take it down that they might bury it.  Thus died Capt. Remember Baker, Jr., at the early age of thirty-five.”

 

References –

            Vermont Historical Gazette

            (Miss Hemenway)  New York State Library (by Miss Elizabeth P.

                                    Robinson

            History of Bennington Co. Vt.

            From the Vermont Rolls of the Soldiers in the Revolutionary War.

            Hurlburt Genealogy by H. H. Hurlburt, Albany 1888, page 420.

            See National Numbers 107782-146064

 

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-                     Capt. Remember Baker, Jr. born (17370 OR 1740 AT Woodbury, Conn.,

              died St. John’s Can. 1775.

 

Desire Hurlburt          born 1743 or (1748) died

 

   Married at Woodbury, Conn, April 3, 1760.

 

Children

 

Damaris            b.                     1761 - m.   Joab Streeter

Ozi                   -                       -            m. Lucy Heard

 

Record of other children lost.

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Damaris                        born 1761

            Married – Joab Streeter – Mar 21, 1790

                                    Born – Feb. 7, 1767

                                    Died -            1790

 

Children

 

 

Melinda – b. Feb. 20, 1799 – d. Aug. 13, 1893

 Married Levi Savage – Jan. 27, 1822

                     b. Jan. 26, 1799 – d. Feb. 14, 1885.

 

Melinda Streeter Savage and Levi Savage

 

Children

 

Edward

Amos   (John’s Ancestor)

Helen   (My ancestor)

Emily (Nettie Hyatt’s ancestor)

 

Note by site owner:  Do not contact me about this family.  This is a copy of a page I found among my deceased aunt belongings, I don’t know anything about Remember Baker and will not presume to translate any of the authors’ meanings or punctuation.  I am not related to Remember Baker.