When Margaret Baxter was born on 29 October 1732, her father, Simon Baxter, was 35 and her mother, Abigail Mann, was 33. She married Henry Gass in 1755, in Pennsylvania, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut, United States in 1732. She died in 1785, in Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 53.
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English: occupational name from Middle English baxter ‘baker’ (from Old English bæcestre ‘baker’, earlier ‘female baker’, the feminine equivalent of bæcere). Compare Baker .
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