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• Author: Silas Kenneth Baker, Jr.
• Price: $42.00 (includes postage)(US Funds)
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Assembled here are the author's years of research dealing with Baker and associated lines. By thoroughly documenting sources herein the author hopes to encourage future investigators to extend the envelope.

The goals of the work :

To assemble in one place Baker family data from multiple sources.

To convey the author's own (Silas Baker line back in time as far as possible.)

To write about ascendants, their world in detail.

To reach out to living descendents, and interest others.

To enrich every reader, and encourage each to learn more.

First immigrant: William Baker (d. Concord 1679) arrived in Concord, MA 1660 with his wife Mary and son William, Jr. William Baker, Jr. married Elizabeth Dutton.

Table of Contents

• INTRODUCTION
• CHAPTER 1 A History of the Baker Surname
• CHAPTER 2 Britain Before the Restoration
• CHAPTER 3 Seventeenth Century New England
  • Descendants of William Baker (four generations)
  • Bibliography (four generations)
• CHAPTER 4: Eigthteenth Century New England
  • Descendant of William Baker (four generations)
  • Bibliography (four generations)
  • Ancestors of Silas Baker, Jr.
• ILLUSTRATIONS (figures 1-23)
• CHAPTER 5 Nineteenth Century New England
  • Descendants of Silas Francis Baker (five generations)
  • Bibliography (two generations)
• CHAPTER 6 Twentieth Century
• CHAPTER 7 Twenty First Century
• EPILOGUE
• APPENDIX A Who was Amos Baker?
• APPENDIX B Legacy of America Research projects
• APPENDIX C Inventory of William Baker (d. 1679)
• APPENDIX D Estate Papers of William Baker (d. 1702)
• APPENDIX E Will of Joseph Baker
• APPENDIX F Silas Baker Eight Day Grandfather's Clock
• APPENDIX G Centennial Anniversary of Phillpston Cong. Church
• APPENDIX H History of Phillipston
• APPENDIX I History of Phillipston & Surrounding Country
• APPENDIX J Silas W. and Harriet Baker's 50th Anniversary (1900)
• APPENDIX K Baker Family Histories (ca 1920's)
• APPENDIX L Mr. Atlas Remembers Space Achievements
• APPENDIX M Battle Hymm of the Bakers
• APPENDIX N Baker Relationship to President Calvin Coolidge
• APPENDIX O Baker relationship to Mary Queen of Scots
• APPENDIX P Descendants of William Baker, Jr. to Silas Baker, Sr.
• INDEX
• SOURCES
• INDEX

Some of the family names in this book: Adams, Baker, Ball, Barrett, Child, Cochran, Conant, Coolidge, Cummings, Dunn, Dutton, Felton, Fiske, Hadley, Hager, Hall, Hoar, Howe, Jefts, Johnson, Knowlton, LaDuke, LeDuc, Lewis, McQuiston, Mixer, Porter, Soho, Spaulding, Stuart, Tuttle, Whitney, Woodcock among others.