Person talk:Silas Baker (6)

parents [27 May 2015]

Eunice Randall says p. 31 that Silas Baker is a son of Nathaniel Baker and Desire Gray. Modern research suggests these two never married, so she or her source cannot be based on fact. Thus, this cannot be presumed to be in any way authoritative.

The removal of Desire Gray as candidate mother does not mean Silas is the son of Nathaniel Baker and his now presumed only wife Mary Pierce (there being no actual proof of who his wife was). Nathaniel's recorded children are born in 1670 and 1672, and he died in 1691. While he is thought to have had another son, possibly named Silas according to Amos Otis as relayed by Savage, he is a very unlikely candidate to be the father of a man who married in 1723 and had children born as late as 1740. Rather, Silas was probably born after that Nathaniel died, most likely in the late 1690s, possibly even in the early 1700s. His wife was estimated to be about 16 at the time of marriage, so hardly a aging young woman worried about never getting married, so chances are her husband wasn't a man going on 20 years older than her. The son Nathaniel, b. 1670, is far more likely to be the father than is the Nathaniel who married Mary Pierce (if we had evidence that Silas' father was even named Nathaniel, which hasn't been posted if there is any).

The article "The Baker Family of Yarmouth" in Cape Cod Library starts with Silas, offering no origins (call him "son of [blank]"). I have found no record of Silas' origins. --Jrich 14:57, 27 May 2015 (UTC)