Genealogical and Family History
of the
STATE OF MAINE

Compiled under the editorial supervision of George Thomas Little, A. M., Litt. D.

LEWIS HISTORICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY
New York
1909.

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[Transcribed by Coralynn Brown]

[Many families included in these genealogical records had their beginnings in Massachusetts.]

BAKER Second to no other trade in importance to the human family is that of the baker; and from the trade which from the dawn of civilization has given employment to a multitude of laborers, continuously, comes the surname which has been the appelation of some of the msot prominent and useful men among the English speaking people. The Baker family of this sketch came early and the qualities of the early Bakers are still prominent among their descendants. (I) Edward Baker was of Lynn, Mass., in 1630, and was a farmer. March 14, 1638, he was made a freeman. He removed to Northampton about 1650, and subsequently to Lynn and there died, March, 1687. His will was dated Oct. 6, 1685. He had a wife Jane, who died April 9, 1693, and certainly five sons and a daughter: Joseph, Timothy, John, Edward and Thomas and Mary. (II) Edward (2), son of Edward (1) and Jane Baker, was made a freeman in 1691, and was an ensign in the mlitia. He married April 7, 1685, Mary Marshall, born May 25, 1665, daughter of Thomas and Rebecca Marshall, of Reading and Lynn; came probably in the "James" from London, 1635, at the age of twenty-two. He was a leading citizen and was representative in 1659-60-63-63-67-68; lieutentant, and perhaps captain. He died Dec. 23, 1689. His wife was Rebecca, who died Aug., 1693. Children: Hannah, Samuel, Abigail, Sarah (died young), Thomas and Rebecca (twins), Elizabeth, Sarah, and perhaps Joanna, John, Ruth and Mary. (III) Edward (3), eldest son of Edward (2) and Mary (Marshall) Baker, was of Westborough, Mass., where he was settled about the time the town was incorporated. Daniel Warren and Edward Baker were chosen the first school committee of Westboro, Oct. 3, 1726, and instructed to procure a school master, which they did. He married Persis Brigham, who was born July 10, 1703. Her grandfather, Thomas Brigham, of Watertown and Cambridge, embarked in the "Susan and Ellen" April 18, 1625, was a freeman 1629, and selectman. His will dated 17, 10, 1654, was probated 25, 11, 1654. He married, about 1637, Mercy Hurd, who survived him. She married (second) Edmund Rice, and (third) William Hunt, and died at Marlboro, Dec. 23, 1693. Samuel Brigham, father of Persis, removed from Sudbury to Marlborough, where he was town treasurer 1699-1703, and selectman 1723. He was b. Jan. 12, 1653, d. July 24, 1713. He married Elizabeth Howe, of Marlborough. She was born April 5, 1665, died July 26, 1739, daughter of Abraham and Hannah (Ward) Howe. Abraham Howe, of Marlboroug, 1660, was probably first of Roxbury. He died June 30, 1695. He married March 26, 1658, Hannah Ward, bor about 1639, died Nov. 3, 1717 or 1718. They had eleven children. The children of Edward and Persis were: Samuel, Solomon, Persis, Abigial, Hepsibah, Elizabeth, Joseph, Lavinia, Ezra and Mary. (IV) Joseph, third son of Edward (3) and Persis (Brigham) Baker, born Westborough, Mass., May 19, 1736 (?), died Limerick, Maine, Nov. 19, 1811, aged sevwnry-five. He married, Nov. 15, 1758, Martha Death, b. May 27, 1738, died Limerick, Maine, May 13, 1809, aged seventy-one. Children: John, Sally, Martha, Hannah, Lydia (died young), Persis, Edward, Lydia, Betsey, Joseph and Samuel. Martha Death was the granddaughter of Oliver and Martha (Fairbank) Death. Martha Fairbank was the great-granddaughter of Jonathan Fairbank, who came over in 1641; granddaughter of George Fairbank, of Dedham, who came with his father from Yorkshire, England; and daughter of Eliezer and Martha (Bullard) Fairbank, of Medford. Eliezer, born June 8, 1655, died Sept. 19, 1741. Oliver Death, of Framingham, Mass., married April 7, 1697, Martha Fairbank. She survived Oliver, who died March 3, 1705, and married (second) 1708, Ebenezer Leland, of Sherborn. John Death, son of Oliver and Martha (Fairbank) Death, born May 30, 1702, married 1729, Hannah Morse. Martha, above mentioned, was their daughter. (V) Joseph (2), third son of Joseph (1) and Martha (Death) Baker, born 1779, died July 20, 1817, aged thirty-eight. He was married Feb. 12, 1804, by Rev. Elijah Kellogg, to Mrs. Elizabeth Hale, formerly Elizabeth Bickford, of Salem, Mass. She was born about 1767 and died April 14, 1819, aged fifty-two. Bradstreet Hale, of Gloucester, and "Betsy" Bickford, of Salem, were married Nov. 30, 1792. Children of Joseph & Elizabeth: Elizabeth Mary and Joseph Danforth. Elizabeth BICKFORD was descended as follows: (1) John Bickford, of Salem, married about May, 1699, Rebecca Pinson, and they had George, John, Rebecca, William, Bethiah, Benjamin, Ebenezer, Priscilla, Mary and Sarah. (2) John (2), son of John (1) and Rebecca (Pinson) Bickford, b. Sept. 15, 1702, m. Oct. 6, 1724, Elizabeth Hayward. (3) John (3) Bickford, of Salem, m. July 20, 1760, at Salem, Rebecca Ruck, bap. Mar. 2, 1740, at the First Church, Salem; died Oct. 29, 1817, aged seventy-nine; was buried in the Eastern cemetery, Portland, Maine. Her grandfather, Samuel RUCK, of Salem, had five children: Elizabeth, Ruth, Samuel, Abigail and John. Samuel (2), third son of Samuel (1), was bap. Oct. 14, 1705, m. Nov. 13, 1729, Bethiah Bickford, of Salem, b. Feb. 2, 1708, dau. of John and Rebecca (Pinson) Bickford, who were m. about May, 1699, at Salem, Mass. The children of Samuel & Bethiah were Elizabeth (died young), Ruth, Bethiah, John, Rebecca, Abigail, Sarah, William and Elizabeth. Rebecca, dau. of Samuel & Bethiah (Bickford) Ruck, was the wife of the above named John Bickford, and they were the parents of Elizabeth (Bickford) (Hale) Baker, wife of Joseph Baker, and they were the parents of Elizabeth Mary, next mentioned. (VI) Elizabeth Mary, only daughter ofo Joseph (2) and Elizabeth (Bickford) (Hale) Baker, was born in Portland, Nov. 11, 1804, and died there Dec. 27, 1875. She married March 6, 1826, Charles Edwards Barrett.