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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. William Baker: Birth: ABT 1805 in Tennessee, USA.

  2. Aaron Baker: Birth: ABT 1808 in probably Christian County, Kentucky, USA. Death: ABT 1894 in Berryville, Carroll County, Arkansas, USA

  3. Sheppard Baker: Birth: ABT 1810 in probably Christian County, Kentucky, USA.

  4. James Baker: Birth: ABT 1813 in Cape Girardeau District, Territory of Missouri, USA.

  5. Frances Baker: Birth: ABT 1815 in Cape Girardeau District, Territory of Missouri, USA. Death: ABT 1845 in Carroll County, Arkansas, USA

  6. Jonathan Baker: Birth: 01 AUG 1817 in Cape Girardeau District, Territory of Missouri, USA. Death: in Texas, USA


Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Willie Baker: Birth: ABT 1828 in Bollinger County, Missouri, USA.

  2. Jackson Baker: Birth: ABT 1829 in Bollinger County, Missouri, USA.

  3. Benjamin Baker: Birth: ABT 1830 in Bollinger County, Missouri, USA.

  4. Sarah Baker: Birth: ABT 1835 in Carroll County, Arkansas, USA.

  5. Solomon Baker: Birth: ABT 1835 in Carroll County, Arkansas, USA.


Notes
a. Note:   H17
Note:   John Baker obtained a land survey and a grant authorized by the County Court of 400 Acres in Christian County, Kentucky on April 4, 1804. The land was located on the waters of the Muddy fork of Little River and was granted by virtue of Certificate No. 1083. It should be remembered that Hugh Johnson, the older brother of David Johnson, was also granted two tracts of land located on the waters of the Muddy fork of Little River.
  Comment has been found that a Joseph Baker who died in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, in 1848, is the possible brother of John Baker Sr. and that the grandfather of John Baker Jr. is Isaac Baker from the area of Baltimore, Maryland. Isaac Baker’s sons may include William Baker, Isaac Baker Jr, Thomas Baker, John Baker, Evan Baker, and Joshua Baker. The terms Senior and Junior are only used here to distinguish the relationships and are not to be construed to be part of a given name. Some researchers have also stated that John and William Baker were explorers with Daniel Boone and were among the Long Hunters who followed the traces in Kentucky and Tennessee. This information was found after discovering a deed that was proven in August of 1770 regarding land in St. Georges parish in South Carolina, and some of the names in the deed match the names of the sons attributed to Isaac Baker. This information is from documentation concerning tracts of land in the vicinity of the cited birthplace of the John Baker who married Willie Elmey Johnson.
  The Long Hunters primarily gathered along the frontier of western Virginia in what in the future would be Washington County. This was in the area of the middle fork of the Holston River and by 1755 there was a Baker settlement along Stalnakers Creek. Further settlement was delayed by the outbreak of the French and Indian War which caused the early settlers in this area to retreat from the Virginia frontier. Prior to the Revolutionary War there was a Thomas Baker who settled on the south fork of the Holston River and was in the engagement at Point Pleasant in 1774, and thereafter he is found in Washington County, North Carolina which later became Greene County, Tennessee. A John Baker, who appears to be a brother of Thomas Baker, was located at the Baker Settlement in the early 1770s and engaged in the long hunts between 1765 and 1770, along with a William Baker and a William Pittman although it is questionable as to whether they were ever in the same hunting party. There is also a Robert Baker who was at the Baker Settlement by 1772 and it has not been determined whether he participated in the long hunts.
  The evidence supports the conclusion that Robert, John, and Thomas were brothers and that the earliest Baker settler on the Holston was a Humphrey Baker. The evidence is that the members of this Baker family moved west into Kentucky following the Revolutionary War and that Washington County, North Carolina (later Greene County, Tennessee) was as close as they ever came to the Carolinas. A Robert Baker was a resident of Montgomery County, Missouri, when he presented an application for a pension for his service during the Revolutionary War and he appears to be the same Robert Baker of the Baker Settlement.


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