Richard Baker

1729 - 1807  (78 years)

• Name	Richard Baker  [1]
  Birth	8 Apr 1729	Concord, Massachusetts, -USA   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Note	History of Troy, NH, A. M. Caverley: In 1757 pressed into British service for 1 year. History of Marlborough, NH: When 29, he purchased a tract of wild land in Westminster, MA, intending to take up his abode there, but was pressed into the British service in the French & Indian War for 1 year. At the expiration of his term of service, the English officers refused to give him & his company their discharge, & retained them against their consent. They prepared themselves with snow-shoes; & the whole company, consisting of about 60 men, left the camp at Albany about midnight, intending to cross the Green Mountains to Massachusetts. They got lost, wandered several days among the mountains, but finally found the Deerfield River, which they followed to Coleraine, where they found inhabitants, after having been out 9 days without provisions, except a small dog which they killed the 5th day, & having the snow, which was some 4 feet deep, for their bed. Mr Baker reached home in safety, & soon m. Mary Sawyer of Lancaster BIRTHS, MARRIAGES & DEATHS, LANCASTER, MA, 1643-1850: p. 99, marriage consumated by Rev.. Timothy Harrington: Richard of Narraganset #2, Mary of Lancaster.
  Death	Dec 1807	Westminster, Massachusetts, -USA   [1]
  Burial	Monadnock No. 2   [1]
  Person ID	I2727	HHTT
  Last Modified	1 Jul 2022

  
  

  Father	John Baker,   b. 6 May 1692, Concord, Massachusetts, -USA d. (WFT Est. 1742 1784)
  Mother	Elizabeth Elizabeth,   b. (WFT Est. 1655 1682)   d. (WFT Est. 1733 1775)
  Marriage	(WFT Est. 1704 1741)  [1]
  Family ID	F809	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Sawyer,   b. Abt 1729, Lancaster, Massachusetts, -USA d. 1 Aug 1813, Westminster, Massachusetts, -USA (Age 84 years)
  Marriage	16 Nov 1758	Lancaster, Massachusetts, -USA   [1]
  Children	> 1. Jonadab Baker,   b. 30 Aug 1759, Westminster, Massachusetts, -USA d. 25 Sep 1820 (Age 61 years)   2. Thomas Baker,   b. 21 May 1761   d. (WFT Est. 1762 1851)   3. Joanna Baker,   b. 4 Aug 1763, Westminster, Massachusetts, -USA d. (WFT Est. 1764 1857) > 4. Bezaleel Baker,   b. 4 Jan 1768, Westminster, Massachusetts, -USA d. 1 Oct 1849, Marlborough, New Hampshire, -USA (Age 81 years) > 5. John Baker,   b. 7 May 1770, Westminster, Massachusetts, -USA d. 10 Oct 1839, Stanbridge, Quebec, Canada (Age 69 years)   6. Luke Baker,   b. 14 Aug 1772, Westminster, Massachusetts, -USA d. (WFT Est. 1773 1862) > 7. Judith Baker,   b. 4 Jan 1774, Westminster, Massachusetts, -USA d. (WFT Est. 1803 1868)   8. Joel Baker,   b. 7 Mar 1777   d. (WFT Est. 1778 1867)
  Family ID	F806	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Jul 2022

  
  

• Event Map

  Burial - - Monadnock No. 2  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S41] World Family Tree, .