Brief Life History of Daniel Gilbert
When Daniel Gilbert Baker was born on 1 August 1774, in Norwich, New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Asa Baker, was 48 and his mother, Elizabeth Abell, was 43. He married Lydia Calkins on 29 March 1795, in Bozrah, New London, Connecticut, United States. He died in Norwichtown, Norwich, New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, and was buried in Norwich, New London, Connecticut, United States.
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- Daniel Gilbert Baker, "Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
- Gilbert Baker, "Connecticut, Deaths, 1640-1955"
- Gilbert Baker in entry for Lydia Calkins, "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850"
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1781 · British Forces Capture Fort Griswold
The capture of Fort Griswold was the final act of treason that Benedict Arnold committed. This would be a British victory. On the American side 85 were killed, 35 wounded and paroled, 28 taken prisoner, 13 escaped, and 1 twelve year old was captured and released.
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
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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