Mary Baker ¹

   Ancestral File Number: 38.

  General Notes:

Hi Ron: I think the first paragraph is wrong.
I do not know of any proof that Mary Baker is dau of Robert Sr.
The marriage to Susan Packer 12, 24, 1709 seems to be the wrong Robert Baker.
Our Robert Baker Jr. (if he exists) is probably not related to Robert Baker Sr. the gunmaker according to the DNA tests.
I cannot identify that family that you have set up for Robert Baker Sr.
The only thing that I have proof about is that Mary Baker Callaway was the Aunt of Rev. Andrew Baker from the letter to Lyman C. Draper.
Does anyone have a transcription of that letter?
O. C. Helton had the family this way:
III. Robert Baker Sr 1660 md ??. He lived in Lancaster Co, PA, in Chester Co, PA & in Cecil Co, MD. Children:
A. Robert Baker 1686PA md Mary Thompson, d/o Rev. John Thompson
B. Douglas Baker 1688PA md Jane Thompson, sister of Mary
C. Caleb Baker Sr 1690PA-1775 Amelia Co, VA md Martha Brock 1695VA
D. Rev. Andrew Baker 1692 md Mollie Bowling
E. Samuel Baker 1694 md Elizabeth Thompson, d/o Rev. John
F. Mary Baker 1696 md Robert Elliot
G. May Baker 1700-1800 md Capt. Thomas Calloway
H. James Baker 1710-1792 Ashe Co, NC Gwen Boyer Bjorkman [email protected] .
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Thanks for all of the good Callaway info. If Mary Baker was in
Orange Co, VA in 1735, then her parents should also be there.

1736-1739 Orange Co, VA Tithables: Samuel Baker 1
1739 Samuel Baker 1
Peggy Shomo Joyner, Abstracts of Virginia's Northern Neck Warrants &
Surveys Orange & Augusta Counties 1730-1754, Volume I (Portsmouth,
Virginia: Privately Published, 1985) pp. 40, 50

1739 Samuel Backer [or Baker, or possibly Rucker] one tithe
Orange County (VA) Tithe Lists, William and Mary Quarterly (1920) 27:22.

1737 Bartholomew Baker list of delinquents 2 Levies
1738? Samuel BAKER 1 tithable, W. Bells, Constable
1739 Samuel BACKER one tithe, Elijah Daniel Constable
1752 Batt Baker list of Tythes
1767 Robert Baker 2 Tithes
1769 Ben Baker 2 Tithes
Barbara Vines Little, Orange County, Virginia Tithables 1734-1782, (Orange,
Va., Dominion Market Research Corp., 1988), 10, 14, 19, 28, 93, 100.

1747 Thomas Baker, assignee of Francis Strother, 9 Dec 1747 - 27 Jan
1747/8; 309a on Rush R., at foot of Kennerly's Mt.; adj. James Kennerley,
Thomas Kennerley, Francis Tyler, Henry Tyler. CC - Anthony Strother &
William Baker. To be made out to Thomas Baker of Orange Co. Surv. for
James Genn by John Baylis.
1747 Thomas Baker, assignee of Francis Strother, 9 Dec 1747 - 28 Jan
1747/48; 400 a. of land known as Chestnut Hollow upon Kennerly's Mt. CC -
Anthony Strother & William Baker. To be made out to Thos. Baker of Orange.
Surv. for James Genn by John Baylis.
1747 Francis Tyler, 9 Dec 1747 - 16 Jan 1747/48; 400 a. on head of Rush R.
near Peaked Mt., Kennerley's Mt. CC - George Strother & William Baker.
Pilot - John Strother. Surv. John Baylis for James Genn.
Peggy Shomo Joyner, Abstracts of Virginia's Northern Neck Warrants &
Surveys Orange & Augusta Counties 1730-1754, Volume I (Portsmouth,
Virginia: Privately Published, 1985) pp. 1, 12, 16

Orange Co, VA DB 11:180-183. Indenture 19 Oct 1748 between William
Lightfoot of Richmond County and Thomas Slaughter of Culpeper County, Gent.,
... for ninety pounds ... deeds of lease and release ... grants 300 acres on
south side South West Mountains ... bounded ... Fox Point Run ... Zachary
Taylor ... Capt. Beale's line ... Signed: William Lightfoot. Wit: John
Triplett, Francis Slaughter Junr., John Roberts Junr., Bartho. Baker.
Ruth & Sam Sparacio, Deed Abstracts of Orange County, Virginia (1743-1759),
(McLean, VA:1985) p. 109.

  Research Notes:

Her name may have been Sarah Mary or Sarah May
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Yes there is a lot known about Robert Baker. The problem seems to be in
separating all of the different Robert Bakers.

There is an article on Capt. Thomas Callaway in:

APPALACHIAN QUARTERLY

June 1997 - Captain John Cox, Ashe Co., NC
Yountz Family of NC
Martin Gambill of NC
Jacob Faw of NC
Rev. James Floyd Fletcher of NC
Capt. Thomas Calloway of NC
Major Joel Edmund Foster of NC
The Hargis Family
Maude Carico Edwards of VA
Judson Hunt of VA
General William Preston of KY

Contact: Wise County Historical Society
http://www.wisevahistoricalsoc.org

Gwen Boyer Bjorkman

Mary married Thomas Callaway, son of Joseph Callaway and Unknown, about 1735. (Thomas Callaway was born on 12 Oct 1712 in Essex County, VA ¹ and died in Feb 1800 in Ashe, NC ¹.)