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Male 1682 - 1753  (70 years)


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  • Name Thomas Baker  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] 
    Born 14 May 1682  Northampton, Massachusetts, New England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Military 29 Feb 1704 
    Soldier at Deerfield under Captain Thomas Wells (account given in his petition at Brookfield dated 6 June 1718) 
    Military 29 Feb 1704 
    Soldier at Deerfield where he was captured during the raid by Jean-Baptiste Hertel de Rouville and Penacook (Pequaket) sachem Wattanummon 
    Occupation 14 May 1705 
    Escaped from Montréal with Martin Kellogg, Joseph Petty and John Nims 
    Occupation 8 Jun 1705 
    They reached the Chambly River by canoe, journeyed to Lake Champlain and eventually arrived at Deerfield (Franklin Co., Massachusetts) 
    Military Aug 1710 
    Ensign with the Company of Maj. William Dudley in the Regiment of Maj. William Tailer 
    Military 29 Sep 1710 
    Departure from Boston on the expedition against Port Royal in Acadia (arrival on 5 October) 
    Military 13 Oct 1710 
    Port Royal surrenders 
    Occupation 25 Jun 1711 
    Father Henri-Antoine de Mériel sends his regards to Lieutenant Baker in a letter to Captain Johnson Harmon (returning to New England on parole) 
    Military 1712 
    Lieutenant Thomas Baker led a scouting party of 34 men and killed sachem Wattanummon at the Pemigewasset River (Plymouth, NH) 
    Occupation 8 May 1712 
    Made an application at Boston for the bounty 
    Occupation 10 Jun 1712 
    Granted 40 pounds (bounty) and company wages by the General Court (for the period covering 24 March to 16 May 1712) 
    Military 1713 
    Captain in the New England militia 
    Occupation 5 Nov 1713 
    Member of the delegation sent to negotiate the redemption of English captives in Canada 
    Occupation 24 Jul 1714 
    Set sail for Boston having affected the deliverance of all but 26 prisoners 
    Occupation 21 Sep 1714 
    Arrived in Boston with Margaret Otis 
    Occupation 5 Jun 1716 
    Birth of his son (Christian Baker) in Northampton, Massachusetts, New England 
    Occupation 1719 
    Representative to the General Court from Brookfield 
    Residence 1731  Brookfield, Massachusetts, New England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Residence 1732  Mendon, Massachusetts, New England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Residence 1733  Newport, Rhode Island Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Residence 1735  Dover, Cochecho, Strafford, New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Died 1753  Roxbury, Massachusetts, New England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Cause: During a family visit 
    Person ID I5147  Godbout
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 

    Father Timothy Baker,   d. 30 Aug 1729, Northampton, Massachusetts, New England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother Sarah Hollister 
    Married 1679  Northampton, Massachusetts, New England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F5469  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Margaret Otis,   b. 15 Mar 1689, Dover, Cochecho, Strafford, New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 23 Feb 1773, Dover, Cochecho, Strafford, New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 83 years) 
    Married 1715  Northampton, Massachusetts, New England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 
    Family ID F2633  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S31] True Stories of New England Captives Carried to Canada during the Old French and Indian Wars, Charlotte Alice Baker, (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1897), 25-34, 152 & 365-367.

    2. [S32] New England Captives Carried to Canada between 1677 and 1760 during the French and Indian Wars, Emma Lewis Coleman, (The Southworth Press, Portland, Maine, 1925), Volume 1, pp. 94-97, 150-154 & Vol. 2, pp. 33-34, 65-66, 112-113.

    3. [S202] Piscataqua Pioneers, 1623-1775: Register of Members & Ancestors, John Scales, (Higginson Book Company, Press of Charles F. Whitehouse, Dover, N.H., May 1919), 144.

    4. [S196] NEHGR: New England Historical and Genealogical Register, (New England Historical and Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts), Volume 2 (1848), p. 284; Vol. 5 (1851), pp. 184-194 & Vol. 6 (1852), p. 87.
      Also (service record/expedition against Port Royal in 1710): Colonial Soldiers and Officers in New England, 1620-1775, Massachusetts Officers and Soldiers, 1702-1722, p. 9 (AmericanAncestors.org database). Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850, Vol. Northampton - V1, pp. 18 & 196.

    5. [S205] The Wentworth Genealogy: England and America, John Wentworth, LL. D., (Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, 1878), Volume 1, pp. 396-397.

    6. [S101] The History of New Hampshire, edited by John Farmer, Jeremy Belknap, (S. C. Stevens and Ela & Wadleigh, Dover, N.H., 8 February 1831; George Wadleigh, 1862), 130.

    7. [S208] Journal of the Rev. John Pike. A memorandum of personal occurrences, Otis Grant Hammond, Collections of the New Hampshire Historical Society, (Jacob B. Moore, Concord, New Hampshire, 1832), Volume III, p. 53.
      About midnight the French and Indians set upon Deerfield; burned 17 houses, killing above 50 persons, captivated upwards of 90, amongst which, Mr. Williams, their minister. In this attack the enemy lost 30 or 40 men.

    8. [S658] The original lists of persons of quality; who went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600-1700, John Camden Hotten, (Chatto and Windus, London, England, 1874, reprinted: Empire State Book Co., New York), 168.
      13 February 1702: Joseph Dudley, Esq., appointed Captain General and Governor in Chief of Massachusetts Bay, (14 Will. III. p. 1); also Governor and Commander in Chief of New Hampshire, during pleasure (14 Will. III. p. 1, in dorso).

    9. [S744] The History of Concord with a History of the Ancient Penacooks, Nathaniel Bouton, (Benning W. Sanborn, McFarland & Jenks, Printers, Concord, NH, 1856), 40-42.
      Thomas Baker set off from Northampton (Massachusetts) in 1712 'with a scouting party of thirty-four men; passed up Connecticut river, and crossed the height of land to Pemigewasset river. He there discovered a party of Indians (between Plymouth and Campton in New Hampshire), whose sachem was called Waternummus, whom he attacked and destroyed. Baker and the sachem (Wattanummon) leveled and discharged their guns at each other at the same instant. The ball from the Indian's gun grazed Baker's left eye-brow, but did him no injury. The ball from Baker's gun went through the heart of the sachem. Immediately upon being wounded, he leaped four or five feet high and then fell instantly dead. The Indians fled, but Baker and his party pursued and destroyed every one of them.' (Massachusetts rewarded the expedition with a scalp bounty of £40 and Baker was made a captain).


  

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