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Birth:          1730 Dorchester, Suffolk Co., Mass.
Death:          8 Nov 1819 
Cause of Death: cancer
Burial:         8 Nov 1819 Milford, Otsego Co., N.Y.

Notes
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private in Capt Joseph Briggs' Company of Vermont Militia
1766 to 1798 lived in Pownal, Vt.
it is claimed he and three of his sons participated in the Battle of Bennington, and that 
Thomas, his child, helped clear the dead from the field
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George Baker's Family 

George Baker of Bennington, was the next settler at Milford Center. He came in 1785, 
purchased a farm just north of Mr. Mumford's large purchase, which is owned & 
occupied by Dudley Segar at present. Mr. Baker had seven sons & two daughters. His 
sons names were Abel, Daniel, Charles, Thomas, Edward, Joseph, & Stephen. His 
daughters names were Asie & Susan. 

Mr. Baker sold his farm in Vermont, when he removed to Milford, there was $500 
remaining unpaid on it. He sent his oldest son, Col. Abel to Vermont for the money. He 
collected the money & that was the last ever heard of him. It was believed by some 
that he skipped with the money; & by others that he was robbed & murdered. At all 
events he was never heard from after he received the money. 

Mr. Baker's 4th son Thomas married Sarah Morton & located at Edson Corners. Edward 
married Hannah Mumford. Charles, Stephen & Joseph all married & raised large 
families. Daniel married Susannah (Anna) Cumins. Charles, Stephen, and Joseph all 
married and raised large families and located in different towns. Edward Baker's oldest 
son, George left home and went to New York in 1830 and never returned to Milford. 
He remained in the city and when the T______ cholery broke out in 1832, it was 
supposed he was one of the subjects for he was never heard from after. His daughter 
Linda and his youngest son, Mumford Baker, removed to Pennsylvania. Both married 
and never returned to Milford. George, Daniel's son, married and settled in Laurens. 
Stephen remained on his father's farm in Milford Center until his death. He had one 
son Daniel who married Nancy Keyes, sold the old farm that was first settled by his 
grandfather and returned to Laurens. 

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George Baker, the senior of the Baker family, was born in England before 1600, and 
was persecuted for his religious proclivities; consequently, he took refuge in Holland. 
He joined the Puritans and embarked in the Mayflower, with the Pilgrims and came to 
America, and landed at Plymouth in 1620. Mr. Baker, afterwards, settled near Boston, 
Massachusetts. I think that George Baker., the first Baker that settled in Milford was a 
grandson of the Baker that came from England. George Baker, of the first Milford, one 
of the settlers, was at Concord, Lexington, and Bunker Hill. At the battle of Bunker 
Hill, his three oldest sons, participated with their father in the fight. His sons' names 
were Abel, Daniel, and Charles. 

Abel was promoted to the office of Colonel and after was under Washington in the 
main Army. It is stated in an antecedent chapter, that Abel was sent to Bennington by 
his father to collect a sum of money and that was the last that was heard of him. That 
was a mistake. It was learned after that he procured the money and with what he had 
of his own, he went to Philadelphia, and went to speculating and became immensely 
rich. But he never returned his father's money. 

The old gentleman, when he 1earned the facts in the case, felt very much grieved 
over his misconduct towards his father. He was a man that stood high in the 
community, and little did he think, his son would resort to so comtemptible and 
outrageous an act as to rob his father of his money, when he had placed confidence 
in his integrity. The old man felt very much grieved and said he deserved severe 
punishment. The poor old man had the misfortune to die a horrible death from the 
effects of a cancer. 

Mr. Baker was in the hard fought battle of Bennington, under General Stark, who said, 
we will win this battle or Mollie Stark will sleep a widow tonight. Mr. Baker sent for his 
son Thomas to fetch his horses to carry in the wounded, and disabled soldiers, and 
tell the people we have killed all the Indians and Tories this side of hell. 



Marriage To BROWNE Margaret ("Polly") (21 Feb 1730 - 1797)
    m. 1756 Pownal, Bennington Co., Vt.

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Parents
BROWNE William (25 Oct 1702 - BEF 16 Jul 1752)
HART Lydia (22 Sep 1706 - )

Children by BROWNE Margaret ("Polly") 21 Feb 1730 - 1797
BAKER Abel Aylesworth (ABT 1757 - )
BAKER Daniel (1760 - 8 Mar 1813)
BAKER William (ABT 1762 - 8 Jan 1857)
BAKER Charles (ABT 1764 - )
BAKER Edward (1766 - )
BAKER Thomas (1768 - 1836)
BAKER Asa (ABT 1770 - )
BAKER Joseph (ABT 1772 - )
BAKER Stephen (1776 - 13 Feb 1831)
BAKER Susan (ABT 1778 - )

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