Family:Eli Baker and Rebecca Downes (1)

Parents: Lemuel Baker and Abigail Griggs Eli Forbes Baker b. 26 Jan 1790 Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA d. 28 Sep 1855 Steuben, Washington, Maine, USA	Parents: Benjamin Downs and Mary Drisko Rebecca Downes b. 4 Mar 1795 Winterport, Waldo, Maine, USA d. 1884 Steuben, Washington, Maine, United States

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Marriage^[1]

10 Oct 1813

Children

		Birth	Death
1.	John H Baker	23 May 1822 Steuben, Washington, Maine, USA	1 May 1873 Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA

References

↑ pension claim for the war of 1812, in United States. Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files. (Washington D.C.).

link Marriage date give on page 9 of her pension claim for the war of 1812 states she was married under the name Rebecca Downs by Jones, Esq in Frankfort, Me (aged 83 in Nov 1879) (Eli F Baker died 28 Sep 1855).
Lamson, Darryl B. (Darryl Byron), and Leonard F Tibbetts. Early Narraguagus River families of Washington County, Maine. (Rockport, Maine: Picton Press, c2002)
1:260-2.

Children of Ebenezer⁴ Downs and Jane Walton:...vii BENJAMIN, b 1767; d 1840 Rev. BENJAMIN5 DOWNS (Ebenezer⁴), b 1767; d at Frankfort 10 Nov 1840 ae. 73 [g.s. Coffin Cem. at Frankfort]; yeoman, husbandman; & minister at Gouldsboro [1810], Addison {1823}, & Frankfort [1820-40]; on 18 Dec 1792 he bought 1/4 of a sawmill from Eli Forbes of Gouldsborough for 50 pounds [Wash Co Deed 1 :286], on 2 June 1794 he received 100-acre lot #16 as an original settler from the Proprietors of#4 for 30 shillings [Wash Co Deed
1 :541]; mat Addison 16 July 1791 MARY5 DRISKO, bat Addison 1769; d 15 Oct 1848 ae. 79 [g.s. Coffin Cem.]; dau of Joseph4 and Rebecca6 (Ingersoll) Drisko of Addison; at least 8 children [only 4 in Columbia TRs & Steuben TRs]:... 111 REBECCA, bat Winterport 4 March 1795; d 1884; m 181? ELI FORBES7 BAKER (Baker #7).