Our Ancestral Baker, Williams,

Pira and Bit-Abram Families

Genealogical Research and History

Richard Walter Baker

“For there was a time when every man was a part of his mother, and (earlier still) part of his father as well: and when they were part of his grandparents. If you could see the humanity spread out in time, as God sees it, it would not look like a lot of separate things dotted about. It would look like one single growing thing - rather like a very complete tree. Every individual would appear connected with every other. And not only that. Individuals are not really separate from God any more than from one another. Every man, woman, and child all over the world is feeling and breathing at this moment only because God, so to speak, is ‘keeping him going.’”

Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis

Welcome to my genealogy research website.

I have posted this genealogy/ancestry site for my fellow genealogy researchers. Information from this site may be used to aid your own genealogy research. These files represent part of my ongoing family history research findings and could include people and families about which you have knowledge. If this is the case, please contact me so that we can compare our information. Additions and corrections are welcome. I appreciate your respect for my years of serious genealogy research and I thank those who have shared their talents and their research results with me.

Richard W. Baker

Baker Family DNA Testing

Old Style/New Style dating explanation

Research Links:

James R. Baker Jr. - Genealogy Web Page

USGenWeb Archives Search Page

Illinois State Archives

Campbell County, Kentucky Genealogy

Some of the other ongoing Baker family research projects:

Nicholas Baker of Baltimore/Harford Co., MD

An updated genealogy of Nicholas Baker

Nicholas Baker married Martha Wood, 4 Jan 1741 in St. George’s Parish, Baltimore Co., Maryland.

Nicholas came to America in September 1737 aboard the ship Pretty Patsy (Pretty Patsie). The passengers on that ship had been held at the Newgate Goal in London, England and had been sentenced to transportation (deportation) to America. The tobacco merchant Jonathan Forward traded these men for cash or tobacco in Maryland. Nicholas Baker was charged with the theft of a pair of shoes and some lace. Others on this ship are known to have prospered in Maryland as did Nicholas Baker.

I have found no evidence, and have no reason to believe, that Maurice Baker is the father of this Nicholas Baker. One should beware of genealogies declaring that Maurice Baker is the father of Nicholas Baker (husband of Martha Wood) who resided in Baltimore/Harford Co., MD in the mid 1700s.

Also in error are genealogies that state Nicholas Baker’s son, Nicholas Jr., married Mary Stevens. He married Agnes (surname unknown).

Evidence Relating to the Above Warning

The Family of Nicholas Baker of Baltimore/Harford Co., MD

By Jon Harlan Livezey

“No proof of relationship of the Nicholas Baker family with the other Bakers outside of the Carsins Run- Aberdeen area has yet been unearthed.”

“Nicholas in 1737 was apparently living in the part of Spesutia Upper Hundred which became Susquehanna Hundred.

In 1768, he was described as a planter when he leased the 125 acre tract of ‘Halls Plaines,’ where he was living, from

William Horton for ten years. He died sometime before May 1774, when his estate was opened.”

“The register of St. George’s Parish gives the senior Nicholas’s marriage to Martha Wood [b. 14 Feb 1724, dau. Of

Joshua & Martha] as 4 January 1741. The children were Providence, b. 17 Sep 1743, Nicholas, b. 1 Sep. 1748, Benjamin, b. 16 Mar 1750, Martha, b. 12 Mar 1754, John Wood, b. 2 Jul 1756, George, b. 23 Jan 1759, and Joshua, b. 1 Jun 1761.

Nicholas m. (2) Mary, apparently identical with Mary Gilbert, b. 9 Oct 1747, the daughter of Charles and Elizabeth

(Hawkins) Gilbert, who m. (2) James Horner, by whom she had children. Nicholas and Mary had daughters,

Mary, b. 12 Mar 1765, and Susannah, b. 5 Aug 1768.”

John Wood Baker

John Wood Baker, son of Nicholas and Martha Wood Baker, was born 2 July 1756 as recorded in St. George’s Parish, Baltimore Co., MD. He died in Holmes Co., OH 2 September 1841.

Descendants of John Wood Baker

Will of John Wood Baker

This page includes a transcribed Last Will and Testament and short biography from the History of Washington Co., PA.

Lowden Carll

Lowden Carll was born 29 June 1760, probably in Cumberland Co., NJ where he is recorded as having served in Capt. Charles Allen’s Co. of New Jersey State Troops in 1782. He was in KY by 1790 and settled in Campbell Co. in 1800. I am unable to identify his parents.

George Graden

George Graden was 8 years old and described as a poor orphan boy in 1803 when he was apprenticed to Frank Spilman in Campbell Co., Kentucky. He became a minister and was ordained in the Regular Baptist Church on November 8, 1823. Later on, he performed the marriage ceremony for several Spilman children. He died 12 July 1866, age 71 years. I am unable to identify his parents.

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Last revised: 21 July 2008

Our Ancestral Baker, Williams,

Pira and Bit-Abram Families

Genealogical Research and History

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