Person:Thomas Baker (119)

SUFFOLK DEEDS, LIB. XIV, 145, 146:

John Baker (wife Mary), Jonathan Jackson (wife Elizabeth Baker), Seabus Jackson (wife Sarah Baker), Roger Adams (wife Mary Baker) all heirs of Thomas Baker of Roxbury convey the land, orchards, mill, mansion, uplands and mashes of Thomas Baker of Roxbury deceased to Samuel Ruggles Sr and his son Samuel Ruggles Jr of Roxbury. Know all men by These Presents that Jn°. Baker of Roxby. Jonathan Jackson of Boston in the County of Suffolk in New England Seabis Jackson of Cambridge village in the County of Middlesex and Roger Adams of the said town of Boston for and in Consideration of One hundred and Twenty Pounds Lawful money of New England to them in hand paid before the Ensealing and Delivery of these presents by Samuell Ruggles Sr and Samuel Ruggles jr of the aforesaid Town of Roxbury the Receipt of which said Sum and of every part and parcel thereof they the said Baker, Jackson, Jackson and Adams do hereby acknowledge and of the Same do acquit Exonerate and discharge them the said Ruggles Sr and Ruggles Jr Their heirs and Assign forever and therefore have given granted bargained sold aliened enfeoffed Set over and confirmed and do by these presents fully freely and absolutely give grant bargain Sell alienated enfeoffed Set over and Confirmed unto them the said Ruggles Sr. and jr. the mansion house and Orchard wherein Old father Baker Lately inhabited Lying in Roxbury aforesaid. Containing three Quarters of an acre more or Less being butted and bounded Easterly by the highway Leading to Gravel point on all Other Sides by the Land of the widow Hawley as also the moiety or one full half part of a mill Place and mill foundation and Stream with the [146] moiety of the Lands belonging to the said Mill on both Sides of the River whereon the mill Last Stood and was in the Occupation of father Baker Late of Roxbury the whole Land being about three Quarters of an acre with the moiety of the Stones Irons and Other utensils thereto belonging With all Rights Privileges and Appur°“5. to the said mill belonging as also One Other Tract of Land Containing ten acres more or Less being part upland part Marsh butted and bounded by the Land of Joseph Weld and Others Easterly by the Land of John White Northerly by the Land of the heirs and Assign of Robert Pepper Westerly by the Creek Leading to the mill Southerly Together with the appurtenances in any wise to the Same appertaining to have and to hold the above mentioned tracts and Parcells and the said Moiety of the mill together with all their Appur°°S to them the said Samuel Ruggles Sr and Jr their heirs and Assign to their own Proper use behoof and Benefit forever and they the said Baker, Jackson, Jackson and Adams for themselves heirs executors Administrators do hereby further Covenant and grant to and with them the said Ruggles Sr and Jr their heirs and Assigne that they will the above said Lands and the above said Mill warrant and Defend from all Persons whatsoever Claiming right to the Same In Witness whereof they have hereunto Set their hands and Seals this twenty third day of February Anno Domini One Thousand Six hundred and Eighty five Annoq: RR’s Jacobi Anglea. 2do.

John Baker Sigill

Jonathan Jackson Sigill Seabis Jackson Sigill Roger Adams + Signum. Sigill. The Wives of the Enfeoffors in token of their free Consent hereunto have set to their hands and Seals the Day above said.

Signed Sealed and Delivered more or Less inserted between 10th & 11th Line before Signing & Sealing in Presence of us John Gore, Thomas Dudley

Mary Baker Sigill John Baker Personally appearing acknowledged this Instrument to be his act and deed April 14, 1686 before J Dudley Assistant. Jonathan and Seaborn Jackson personally appearing acknowledged this instrument to be their act and Deed April 1mo. 1687 before J. Dudley. Recorded 7 May 1687 p T. D. C.

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SUFFOLK DEEDS, LIB. XII, 60-62

Thomas Baker sells the house of his late son Joseph Baker to Jeremiah Jackson. In this deed Thomas Baker names all his surviving children and their spouses.

To all People unto whom this present Deed of Sale shall come Thomas Baker of Roxbury in the County of Suffolk in New England Miller and Elizabeth his wife send greeting etc. Know Yee that whereas Joseph Baker late of Boston in the said County Taylor Son of the Thomas Baker dyed intestate Administration of whose Estate was granted unto his said father and at the last County Court held in Boston the said Estate was ordered and settled according to the declared mind of the said Joseph viz. that when his debts funeral and Sickness charges were paid, his father and mother should enjoy his whole Estate, and if they left anything after their decease to be equally divided to his Brother and Sisters alike Now Further Know Ye that the said Thomas Baker (as Administrator. of the Estate left by his said Son Joseph Baker) and Elizabeth his wife, by and with the free and full consent and approbation of John Baker, Jonathan Jackson and Elizabeth his wife, Seabis Jackson & Sarah his wife Roger Adams and Mary his Wife, the Surviving Children of the said Thomas &Elizabeth Baker for and in consideration of the Sum of One hundred thirty five pounds currant money of New England to him the said Thomas in hand paid and secured in the law to be paid at the Ensealing of these presents by Jeremiah Jackson of Boston above said mariner wherewith the said Thomas Baker doth acknowledge himself to be fully Satisfied, and is for the enabling of him to pay the debts and [61] charges due from the said Estate left by his said Son Joseph, and to pay for the completing & finishing of the house hereafter granted and Sold being erected by the said Joseph in his lifetime Have granted bargained Sold aliened enfeoffed and confirmed and by these presents Do fully and absolutely grant bargain Sell alien enfeoffeand confirm unto the said Jeremiah Jackson his heirs and assigns all that messuage or tenement With the land belonging to the same situate lying and being in Boston above said which did lately belong unto and is part of the Estate left by the said Joseph, which land was purchased by him of Theodore Atkinson of Boston and the said tenement erected by him in his life time but finished by the said Thomas Baker since the death of his Son Joseph, With said land containeth florty and two foot in breadth at the front next the Way or lane that leadeth from the house formerly Richard Gridly’s toward the widow Pell’s house and from the said Way or lane (which is to bee Seventeen foot wide at the front of the said lane) to run back upon a straight line Sixty foot in length and there it is to contain forty and two foot in breadth, and is butting and bounded by the said lane or Way at the Westward end, by the land of said Atkinson at the Eastward end, by the land of James Webster on the South side, and by other the said land of said Atkinson on the North side with all liberties privileges and appurtenances ways waters watercourses fences etc. there unto belonging as granted by the said Atkinson or otherwise howsoever and all Deeds writings and evidences touching and concerning the said premises or any part thereof To Have and to hold the above granted Messuage or tenement and all the land belonging thereunto as above butted and bounded or however otherwise bounded with the rights privileges and appurtenances thereof unto the said Jeremiah Jackson his heirs & Assigns to his & their only proper use benefit and behoof forever And the said Thomas Baker & Elizabeth his wife for themselves their heirs Executors and Administrators do hereby covenant promise and grant to and with the said Jeremiah Jackson his heirs and assigns by these presents that he the said Thomas Baker as Administrator afore said and by order of the County Court abovementioned is lawfully Seized of the above bargained premises to his own use and that by & with the consent and approbation of his Children abovenamed he hath full power & lawful Authority to grant Sell convey and assure the said Messuage tenement and land thereunto belonging as is above expressed And that the said Jeremiah Jackson his heirs & Assigns shall and may forever hereafter by force and virtue of these presents lawfully peaceably & quietly have hold possess and enjoy the above granted premises to his and their own proper use freely acquitted and discharged of and from all former and other grants bargains Sales mortgages titles troubles charges and encumbrances whatsoever & without the least reclaim denial molestation Suit trouble eviction or expulsion of the said Thomas Baker and Elizabeth his Wife, John Baker, Jonathan Jackson & Elizabeth his wife, Seabis Jackson and Sarah his wife, Roger Adams and Mary his Wife or of either of them their or either of their Executor Administrator or Assigns and that they and every of them shall at any time hereafter upon the request and demand of the said Jeremiah Jackson or his, do any further lawfull and reasonable act and thing for the more full confirmation and sure making of the said bargained premises unto the said Jeremiah Jackson his heirs and Assigns according to the true intent hereof and laws of the Massachusetts Colony. In Witness whereof the said Thomas Baker and Elizabeth his wife, John Baker, Jonathan Jackson & Elizabeth his Wife, Seabis Jackson and Sarah his wife, Roger Adams and Mary his wife have hereunto put their hands and Scales this thirtieth day of July Anno Domini One thousand Six hundred Seventy nine And in the thirty first year of his Majesties Reign 1679.

Signed Sealed & Deliud. by Thomas Baker, Elizabeth Baker and John Baker presence of us. John Williams. Isa: Addington.

Thomas Baker & a Seale Elizabeth O Baker Signum & 21Scale John Baker & a Seale

Their Son acknowledged this Instrument. to be their act and deed Boston 27 May 1681. Before me Samuel Nowell Assist Entered 28 May 1681. p. Isa: Addington Ctm.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Roxbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1925-1926)
   2:460.

   BAKER, Thomas, sr., Jan. 28, 1683. [1683-4, a. 76 y. G. R. 1.]

2. ↑ Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. Suffolk deeds. (Boston, Massachusetts: Rockwell and Churchill, city printers, 1880-1906)
   14:146.

   In Suffolk County Deeds (Vol XII, Page 60 dated 30 July, 1679) it is recorded that on the death of his son Joseph, Thomas Baker became administer of his estate and names sons John Baker of Roxbury, son-in-law, Jonathan Jackson and his wife Elizabeth Baker, Seabis Jackson and his wife Sarah Baker and Roger Adams and his wife Mary Baker. This document proves that the author of the History of Newton was incorrect about spouses of the Jackson men. They were indeed the daughters of Thomas Baker of Roxbury. Also recorded in Suffolk County (Vol XIV Page 145, 23 Feb 1685) John Baker of Roxbury and his wife Mary, Jonathan Jackson of Boston, Seabis Jackson of Cambridge and Roger Adams of Boston sold land to Samuel Ruggles and his son including “the mansion house and orchard wherein Old father Baker Lately inhabited in Roxbury.”

3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 Clemens, William M. (William Montgomery). The ancestry of Mary Baker Eddy. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1986)
   15.
4.   Frank F. Starrr and John V. L. Pruyn, Jr "The Turner Family in American - Edward Turner and his descendants", in The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. (New York, New York: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society)
   13 p 129-130, Jul 1882.

   Guy Ellis Baker, Esq of Albany, New York was the premier genealogist of the Bakers of the Roxbury Colony. He contended that Thomas Baker of Roxbury was as the son of Thomas Baker (c 1557 – 1625) and Alice Lemon, grandson of Sir Richard Baker (c 1527 - 1594) and Catherine Terrell and great-grandson of Sir John Baker (1488 – 1558) and Elizabeth Dingley. This is no contemporary evidence that suggest that he was in any way related to John Baker of Ipswich as some earlier genealogists have claimed. Indeed extensive Y Chromosome sequencing has shown that this Baker family originated in Kent and West Sussex, England with the oldest matches in the area of the town of Battle, West Sussex, England. This is consistent with the research published by Guy Ellis Baker.

5.   Paine, Sarah Cushing. Paine ancestry : the family of Robert Treat Paine, signer of the Declaration of Independence, including maternal lines. (Boston, Mass.: Printed for the family, 1912)
   133-4, 160.

   link This is one of the more accurate accounts of the family. It includes important abstracts of deeds and probate records.

6.   Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
   1:99.

   [This is full of errors]: THOMAS BAKER, Roxbury, s. of John the first of Ipswich [No evidence he was son of John of Ipswitch at all!], freem. 1649, by w. Elizabeth had Elizabeth b. 2 Oct. 1641; John; Joseph, 24, bapt. 27 Feb. 1648; Sarah, 24, bapt. 28 Apr. 1650; Mary, bapt. 6 June 1652, d. in 5 weeks; Mary, again, 11 Sept. 1653; and for sec. w. took 27 Mar. or May 1663, Mary, d. of Robert Gamlin, [He never married Mary Gamlin his first wife was very much alive when his estate was probated!] had Thomas, b. 7 Jan. 1664; [No that was Thomas Bacon not Baker check vital records; He did have an older son Thomas b 1641 in England!] and Mary, 27 July 1667; and he d. 28 Jan. 1684, "old, blind, godly," in the express. rec. of ch. His s. Thomas was k. by the Ind. at Sudbury fight Apr. 1676, surely a very young soldier [sic he was born 1641 so he wasn't really young was he?], under Wadsworth, but he had serv. in the Narraganset campaign as one of Johnson's comp. in Dec. bef. i. e. less than twelve yrs. old [Oh Good Grief Savage! Agony reading this...]. No incid. of those days more striking. gives proof of the extens. reach of the perils. Sarah m. 19 Apr. 1671, Sebas Jackson; and Mary m. Roger Adams. [The spouses of the children are all correct and backed up by deeds and probate records]

7.   Disambiguation.

   While no genealogies has ever confused these men some Internet Trees certainly do so take care. This is the Baker family of Roxbury, MA that starts with Thomas Baker (1608 - 1683) of Roxbury and his only wife Elizabeth. Don't confuse him with Thomas Baker of Boston, Blacksmith who married Sarah Carr -or- Thomas Baker of Rhode Island who married Sarah (LNU)..

8.   Will of Thomas Baker of Roxbury 1683, in Massachusetts, Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991
   1717.

   The will of Thomas Baker of Roxbury 1683, in Massachusetts, Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991, p717 dated 27 Oct 1683 probated 27 Feb 1683-4 which can be found here gives estate to wife Elizabeth, son John Baker and daughters Elizabeth (deceased), Sarah (now wife unto Sebes Jackson). Marya (now wife unto Roger Adams). He Names his brother Richard Baker who is witness to the will.
   
   "The last will and Testament of Thomas Baker Senio^r of Roxbury being old and blinde not knowing how short the time of mine abode in this world may be. I commit my Soule into the armes of everlasting mercy in Christ Jesus my onely Saviour and blessed Redeemer. And my body to be decently buryed at the descretion of mine Executor in hope of a joyfull resurrection. For my worldly Estate which it have pleased God to betrust me with all I do dispose of as followeth. After the decease of me and my beloved wife Elizabeth all my Estate then left shalbee divided into five parts, two of the five parts I do hereby give and bequeath unto my Son John Baker to him and to his heies forever and on fifth part unto the Children that were my daughter Elizabeth deceased to be equally divided betwix them all; And one fifth unto the Children of my daughter Sarah now wife unto Sebes Jackson. And one fifth part unto the Children my daughter Marya now wife unto Roger Adams all to be equally divided amongst them, after it bee divided into five parts as aforesaid after all debts and funerall expenses discharged by mine Executors the remainder being equally divided and by mine Executo^r delivered unto the parents of said Children as afores^t my s^d Executo^rs taking receipt of said parent shallbee discharged of paid Legacy or Legacies And for the Estate then left to be divided into five parts, what part of it shalbe in Lands my will is that it shalbe apprized by three men equally chosen by my said Children and what prise shalbe agreed upon by said men so chosen to be prise said Land if any be left it shalbe in the liberty of my s^d Son John Baker to have all said Land he paying out of it three fifth parts to said Legatees unto whome it is give as that said Land shalbe prized at by said men to be chosen as aforesaid. And as Executors unto this will I do nominate and appoint my beloved wife Elizabeth and my son John Baker. And for Over Seers I do nominate and desire my beloved Brother Richard Baker and William Parks desiring them to be helpful to mine Executor in all things needfull when desired and thus have I finished my will in the best manner I can. Witness mine hand & Seale this 27 Oct 1682. Thomas Baker a marke & Seal. Signed Sealed and Delivereth in the presence of us William Parke, James Humphrey, Richard Baker 28 Dec 1683. Hannah Byshop a marke."