Reverend Thomas Baker

Male28 September 1771–4 October 1850

Brief Life History of Thomas

When Reverend Thomas Baker was born on 28 September 1771, in Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Thomas Baker, was 38 and his mother, Beulah Dakin, was 36. He married Jerusha Waldo on 25 March 1799, in Alstead, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 4 October 1850, in Highland Township, Oakland, Michigan, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Highland, Oakland, Michigan, United States.

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Family Time Line

Reverend Thomas Baker
1771–1850
Jerusha Waldo
1777–1851
Marriage: 25 March 1799
Larkin Baker
1799–
Royal Baker
1801–1853
Thomas Baker
1804–
Almira Baker
1806–1890
Jerusha Baker
1809–1855
Florinda Baker
1812–1843
Mary Ann Baker
1815–1867

Sources (24)

  • Thomas Baker, "United States Census, 1840"
  • Thos Baker, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Thomas Baker in entry for Thomas Baker, "Vermont, Births and Christenings, 1765-1908"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    25 March 1799Alstead, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States
  • Children (7)

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    Siblings (3)

    World Events (8)

    1776

    Age 5

    Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.

    1776 · The Declaration to the King

    Age 5

    """At the end of the Second Continental Congress the 13 colonies came together to petition independence from King George III. With no opposing votes, the Declaration of Independence was drafted and ready for all delegates to sign on the Fourth of July 1776. While many think the Declaration was to tell the King that they were becoming independent, its true purpose was to be a formal explanation of why the Congress voted together to declare their independence from Britain. The Declaration also is home to one of the best-known sentences in the English language, stating, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."""""""

    1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment

    Age 23

    The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.

    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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