"The manuscripts of the late Mrs. Elisha E. Rogers, a most capable genealogist of Norwich, may be consulted at the Connecticut Historical Society. Her Baker file states that she had found proof in Norwich Deeds that Joseph Baker, a carpenter of Norwich, was father of:
"I John Elderkin of Norwich, in the county of New London, have received of my honored mother Susanna Avery of Groton in said county, as she is administrator on the estate of my honored father John Elderkin late of said Norwich, deceased, the sum of Fifty Two Pounds in personal estate which is in full my part in the movable estate of my sd Father, Groton, the 13 of March, 1753.