Joshua Baker

Brief Life History of Joshua

When Joshua Baker was born on 11 February 1709, in North Kingstown, Kings, Rhode Island, British Colonial America, his father, Thomas Baker II, was 30 and his mother, Mary Lewis, was 39. He registered for military service in 1757. He died before 20 February 1743.

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Family Time Line

Thomas Baker II
1679–1743
Mary Lewis
1670–1743
Thomas Baker III
1697–1743
John Baker
1699–1757
Jeremiah Baker
1701–1762
Abner Baker
1703–
Sarah Baker
1703–1756
Josiah Baker
1707–1799
Dinah Baker
1707–
Joshua Baker
1709–1743
Joseph Baker
1711–1750
Elizabeth Baker
1713–
Ann Baker
1715–1780
Lt. Philip Baker
1717–1743
Ruth Baker
1719–1743
Ichabod Baker
1721–1791

Sources (2)

  • Joshua Baker, "Rhode Island, Births and Christenings, 1600-1914"
  • The Baker Genealogy (Book 1911), descendants of Rev. Thomas Baker

World Events (1)

1723 · Pirates Hung in Newport

On July 17, 1723, twenty-eight pirates are hung in Newport, Rhode Island.

Name Meaning

English: occupational name, from Middle English bakere, Old English bæcere, a derivative of bacan ‘to bake’. It may have been used for someone whose special task in the kitchen of a great house or castle was the baking of bread, but since most humbler households did their own baking in the Middle Ages, it may also have referred to the owner of a communal oven used by the whole village. The right to be in charge of this and exact money or loaves in return for its use was in many parts of the country a hereditary feudal privilege. Compare Miller . Less often the surname may have been acquired by someone noted for baking particularly fine bread or by a baker of pottery or bricks.

Americanized form (translation into English) of surnames meaning ‘baker’, for example Dutch Bakker , German Becker and Beck , French Boulanger and Bélanger (see Belanger ), Czech Pekař, Slovak Pekár, and Croatian Pekar .

History: Baker was established as an early immigrant surname in Puritan New England. Among others, two men called Remember Baker (father and son) lived at Woodbury, CT, in the early 17th century, and an Alexander Baker arrived in Boston, MA, in 1635.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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