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Jacob Becker was born in 1709 in Struttsburg, Germany. When he immigrated to America in 1727, he changed his name to Baker. He had fourteen children by two wives, Magdeline and Mary Brick. Descendants and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, Maine, Missouri, Iowa, Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina and elsewhere.
John Baker (ca. 1598-168_) was born at Norwich, England, probably the grandson of Richard Baker. He and his wife, Elizabeth, were the parents of seven children, born 1633-1645. The family immigrated to America in 1637 and lived at Watertwon, Newbury, Reading, and Ipwich, Massachusetts, before moving to Topsfield, Massachusetts, between 1670 and 1678. He died at Topsfield. Descendants lived in Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, New York, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, and elsewhere.
Genealogy and History. Baker family history from Capt. John Baker, immigrant, who operated Baker's Station on the Ohio River. Discussion of his original location in Germany with suggestions of areas for further research. Book includes Reager, Leonard, and Cooley families. Photos, historical family text, and lineage is included. The book is 385 pages in length and is available in black and white or color format. Definition of the black and white photos is greater in the color format but all photos are printed as black and white.
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When John F. Baker Jr. was in the seventh grade, he saw a photograph of four former slaves in his social studies textbook—two of them were his grandmother's grandparents. He began the lifelong research project that would become The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation, the fruit of more than thirty years of archival and field research and DNA testing spanning 250 years. A descendant of Wessyngton slaves, Baker has written the most accessible and exciting work of African American history since Roots. He has not only written his own family's story but included the history of hundreds of slaves and their descendants now numbering in the thousands throughout the United States. More than one hundred rare photographs and portraits of African Americans who were slaves on the plantation bring this compelling American history to life. Founded in 1796 by Joseph Washington, a distant cousin of America's first president, Wessyngton Plantation covered 15,000 acres and held 274 slaves, whose labor made it the largest tobacco plantation in America. Atypically, the Washingtons sold only two slaves, so the slave families remained intact for generations. Many of their descendants still reside in the area surrounding the plantation. The Washington family owned the plantation until 1983; their family papers, housed at the Tennessee State Library and Archives, include birth registers from 1795 to 1860, letters, diaries, and more. Baker also conducted dozens of interviews—three of his subjects were more than one hundred years old—and discovered caches of historic photographs and paintings. A groundbreaking work of history and a deeply personal journey of discovery, The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation is an uplifting story of survival and family that gives fresh insight into the institution of slavery and its ongoing legacy today.