Individual Details

Records in North Carolina suggest that Andrew Baker's wife was Susannah - not Mary. Susannah could have been a second wife, but there are no records to prove that.
Rowan Co Deed Abstracts, Vol II, 1762-1772
4 Mar 1763 Rowan Co NC Deed. Elisha Lawrence late of Rowan Co to Andrew Baker, 450 acres on Grassy Bottom Creek granted by Granville, 25 Dec 1761
11 Mar 1768. Andrew Baker and wife Susannah sell to James Sheppard for 140#'s, 450 acres on Grassy Bottom Creek.
This record suggests that Andrew has passed, the widow living on her dower; the son John Baker surveying land next to Susanna, perhaps his inheritance.
Dec 1779 Entry for Claims, Wilkes Co. Survey for John Baker a tract containing 200 acres lying and being in the county lying on the South Fork of the New River, beginning at the mouth of Rones Creek, running down the river to Bakers Line. Running up the creek including the imprt. that Susanna Baker now lives on.


The suggestion of his wife as Mary "Molly" Bolling may well be part of the old claims that this family was part of the Baker family, famous gunsmiths of Pennsylvania which Y-DNA has proved they certainly were not.

Mary "Molly" was not the daughter of Col. Robert Bolling and Anne Stith - despite the many websites that claim she was. Even Wikipedia carries this error. There isn't proof of this lady's surname as Bolling. The daughter of Robert and Anne, sometimes seen as Mary Agnes, b. 30 Nov 1700, married Richard Kennon. It's likely this daughter wasn't even Mary, just simply Agnes - no proof of a daughter name Mary, called Molly, is known.

"On a flyleaf of Collection of Laws of Virginia by Purvis (1682) written in handwriting of Colonel Robert Bolling: Robert Bolling, son of John and Mary Bolling of All Hollows Barking Parish, Tower Street, London, was born 26 December 1646 and came to Virginia 2 October 1660: and in the year 1675 married Jane, daughter of Thomas Rolfe, gent. by whom he had one son John Bolling, 27 January 1676. She dying, he married Anne daughter of Major. John Stith in 1681, by whom he hath Robert Bolling, born 28 March 1686, Edward Bolling, born 1 October 1687, Anne Bolling, born 22 July 1690, Drury Bolling, 21 June 1695, Thomas Bolling, born 20 March 1697, Agnes Bolling, born 30 November 1700, and that Almighty God Bless these blessings shall be the continued prayer of their father. Robert Bolling."

Other parents for Molly are seen as John Bolling Jr. and Elizabeth Blair. From a message board post:
"In one of the old records, and I can't remember if it was the Battle of Kings Mountain or Draper papers? Benjamin Bolling says that his sister married Old Andrew Baker. None of the children of John Bolling and Elizabeth Blair fit the age group and all are accounted for."

Also John Bolling who married Elizabeth Lewis is suggested. Also from a message board post: "little is known about John Bolling and Elizabeth Lewis . I have an old genealogy that has no author on it that says John and Eliz Lewis had 5 girls names unknown. Mary would fit in this family just fine." [As would dozens of ladies]

The most improbable justification I found for Mary Bolling was a very elaborate proof stating Mary was expunged from the Bolling family and subsequently used the spelling "Bowling" because she was part Indian and many states would not have allowed her to marry a white man. Even had she been a descendant of Pocahontas by this time she would have been far enough removed that it would not have been an issue. And why would she be expunged from her family - since they would have been "Indian" as well? This person then claimed her to be a daughter of a still different John Bolling and Mary Kennon.

Why so many John Bollings are suggested, I have no idea. If there's no real proof of her surname, and I have yet to see any document of even her given name as Mary or Molly, how could her father's name even be guessed? I suspect there is a desire to prove that Andrew Baker's wife descended from Pocahontas. If she had Indian heritage, some of the descendants of Andrew Baker would likely show traces in the autosomal DNA and they do not.

Spouse	ANDREW BAKER (1720 - 1779)
Child	JOHN "Renta" BAKER (1744 - 1831)
Child	James Baker (1746 - 1801)
Child	Rev. Andrew Baker (1749 - 1815)
Child	Morris Baker (1750 - 1810)
Child	Robert Baker (1754 - 1819)
Child	George BAKER (1759 - 1841)
Child	Martha "Pattie" BAKER (1761 - )
Child	Bolling Baker (1763 - 1834)
Child	Eleanor "Nellie" Baker (1765 - 1842)