Remember Baker Sr. (1712 - abt. 1737)

Born 22 Feb 1712 in Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut

Ancestors

Husband of Tamar (Warner) Baker — married about 1736 in Woodbury, Connecticut

Descendants

Died about 1 May 1737 at about age 25 in Roxbury, Litchfield, Connecticut

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Biography

Remember Baker was the son John Baker, mother unknown born February 22, 1712. He married to Tamar Warner, daughter of Mary Galpin Warner and Dr. He died from an accidental shooting by a hunter on June 2, 17 "Remember Baker Sr. was accidentally shot by Cornelius Hurlbut while on a hunting trip. Cornelius Hurlbut thought he was shooting at a turkey. "...his death...a wound in his head that was made by a Ball shot out of a gun that was in the hand of Cornelius Hurlbut...cause of his death..ye sad sowerfull occasion done on said Remember Baker ye first day of June did believe it was a turkie that he shot at...a mere accident. excerpt from Early County Inquests (see below)

Notes for TAMAR WARNER:

• Tamar was the Aunt of Col. Seth Warner.

Notes for REMEMBER BAKER, SR.:

• Town Historian Elmer Worthington wrote: "Remember Baker, Sr. was descended from John Baker, who married Sarah Hurlbut, a daughter of Joseph Hurlbut, reputedly the first man to finish a house near Shippauge Fort, and who gave Remember a plot of land on Good Hill in 1704. Remember and Sarah were probably the first young couple to make their home here.
• Mary Baker, older sister of Remember Baker Sr., and the future mother of Ethan Allen, was born in 1708.
• Remember Baker, Sr., was killed (6/1/1737) in a hunting accident in Roxbury by a Hurlbut just three months after Remember Jr's birth. Later, in1760, Remember Jr. married Desire Hurlbut. Shortly after his marriage he joined his cousins Seth Warner and Ethan Allen in Vermont.
• Child of TAMAR WARNER and REMEMBER BAKER: REMEMBER BAKER, JR.b. 1737, Connecticut; d. August 21, 1775, Vermont; m. DESIRE HURLBUT, 1760,

• Notes for Tamar Warner, Remember Baker Sr. and Remember Baker Jr.

excerpt from The Historical Magazine cited below. (page 327) Remember Baker was born in the ancient town of Woodbury, Ct., in June 1737. He was the second child and the only son of Remember Baker (b. February 22, 1712), and the grandson of John Baker (b. December 24, 1681). His mother was Tamar Warner (b. February 26, 1718). , daughter of Dr. Ebenezer Warner of Woodbury. His mother’s brother Benjamin was the father of Seth Warner and his father’s sister Mary was the mother of Ethan Allen. Baker was thus cousin to both Warner and Allen though they two were not al all related to each other. While he was quite young his father was accidentally shot by a hunter and he was left in an orphanage and poverty. He was apprenticed to a millwright under whose care he formed habits of industry and self-reliance; which, with his native energy, stood him in good stead all the way through life. His education was the ordinary education of the children of the poor at that period and only qualified to read, write and cipher.

Sources

• Superior Court.Early County Inquests, NEHGS 1990', 'Remember Baker, Woodbury,
• Frederick Adams Virkus, Editor, The Compendium of American Genealogy,
• The First Families of America, 7 volumes (Chicago: A.N. Marquis and Company, 1925-1942), Vol 5, Page 052.
• Barbour Collection, citing Vital Records of Woodbury, LR5:145.
• The Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries Concerning the Antiquities, History and Biography of America. Volume IX, New York, John G. Shea, 83 Centre Street 1865 pg. 327
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remember_Baker
• Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 23 December 2020), memorial page for Remember Baker Sr. (22 Feb 1712–1 Jun 1737), Find A Grave: Memorial #177797698, ; Maintained by bpa (contributor 48923308) Body lost or destroyed.
• History of ancient Woodbury, Connecticut, from the first Indian deed in 1659, (1854) Vol. 2, pt 1, pg 503
• Two JOHN BAKER FAMILIES OF WOODBURY Conn BY THE LATE DONALD LINES JACOBUS MA FASG The American Genealogist, Volumes 46-47 pg. 102.
• Haslam, Patricia L., Deaths Untimely: Fairfield County, Connecticut Superior Court Inquests 1715-1793, Connecticut Ancestry (Connecticut Anc. Soc., Inc., Stamford, Conn., Nov 1994) Vol. 37, No. 2, WN 189, Page 60.