Individual Details

Researchers of the Rev. Andrew Baker have also attempted to find his wife's lineage and some believed her father to be a Peter Avent.

Here are early records gathered by a collaboration of researchers:


Jan 1742/43 (83)-83 Surry County Virginia Court Records 1741-1745 Book VIII
Thomas Avent & Richard Blunt Church Wardens of the Parish of Albemarle in the County of Surry Pits. Against Faith Higgs Deft: On an informnation for Bastardy. This Day came the plts. By their Attorney and the Defendt. Having been duly Summon’dand now Called and not Appearing it is Therefore Consider’d That She make her fine by the Paiment of Two Pounds Ten Shillings Current Money of Five Hundred Pounds o Tobacco and Cask to and for the Use of the said Parish and the said Deft. May be taken &c.
Thos. Avent & Richard Blunt Church Wardens of the Parish of Albemarle in the County of Surry Plts. Against Sarah Underwood Deft: On an information of Bastardy. This Day came the Plts. By their Attorney and the Defendt. Having been duly Summoned and now Called and not Appearing it is therefore Considered that she make her fine by the payment of two pounds ten shillings current money or five hundred pounds of Tobacco and Cask to and for the use of the said Parish and the sd. Defendt. May be taken &c. (from Sherry)
Col. Thomas' son Peter was a Constable in Sussex Co., VA as well as a Lt. in the VA colonial militia. He appears to have moved to NC between 1761 and 1765 (deeds show that Peter was in Brunswick Co., VA in 1761, and then he shows up on a deed in what was then Orange Co., NC in 1765. Chatham Co. was created out of Orange Co. in 1771.)

It appears that he may have been a participant in the American Revolution. The records of the Chatham Co., NC, Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions (1774 - 1788) show a Peter Avent as a member of the militia company commanded by Captain Elisha Cain in Chatham Co., NC, in 1772. This may be another Peter Avent, however, as a Peter Avent, Pvt, NC militia, shows up on a roster of Capt. Bynum's (Chatham Co.) company taken 7 April 1781, two years after this Peter's death. So did Rev Andrew meet and marry Elizabeth in NC or VA???


1753 – Elizabeth Avent b.: 12 Sep 1752 in Albemarle Parish, Sussex, Virginia. Sponsored at christening by John and Mary Avent, and Elizabeth Shelton. (Only child listed in Boddie Parish record Book.)
Christening: April 08, 1753, Albemarle Parish, Sussex, Virginia. (from Gale Wallen) -6
1755 – From the book, Orange County North Carolina Records Volume 1 Granville Proprietary Deeds and Surveys.

Birth	12 Sep 1752	Surry County, Virginia
Marriage	Ca 1769	Virginia - Rev. Andrew Baker
Death	1844	Lee County, Virginia

Spouse	Rev. Andrew Baker (1749 - 1815)
Child	James Baker (1782 - 1840)