Individual Details

Robert Baker

(1754 - Aft 1819)



Robert's spouse is unknown.
He had the following children [there were likely others]:

William Baker, b. 31 Jan 1789
Elender "Nellie" Baker, b. ca 1800
John Simpson Baker, b. 23 Jan 1804

State of North Carolina.
To the Sheriff of Wilkes County, Greeting.
You are hereby commanded to take the Body of Robert Baker (if to be found in your Bailiwick) and him safely keep, so that you have him before the Justices of the County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, to be held for the County of Wilkes at the Court-House in Wilkes on the first mon Day of December next; then and there to answer John Hall Junr in a Plea why he with force and Arms in and upon the said John Hall Junr an Assault did make and him beat wound and ill Treat and other Injuries to him Did &c. to his Damage the Sum of five hundred Pounds Current money.
Herein fail not; and have you there this Writ. Witness William Lenoir Clerk of our said Court, at office the seventeenth Day of October in the Year of our Lord 1778 and in the Third Year of the Independence of the said State.
/s/ Wm Lenoir C.C.
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John Hall Junr}
vs } A.B.
Robert Baker }
To December Term 1778
Executed William MClain D.S.
Andrew Baker & Gorg moris

This is apparently a very different Robert Baker.... See FindAGrave #1733527460
1782 Oct 21. Montgomery Co, VA land entries p. 158. John Hash,
assignee of William Hash, assignee of Wm. Hash, assignee of Enoch
Osburne, assignee of James Newell, assignee of Frederick Edwards, 100
acres on New River to begin at Robert Baker's line and up the river to
include his plantation and improvements. Robert Baker, assignee of
William Hash, assignee of Enoch Osburn, assignee of James Newell,
assignee of Frederick Edwards, 100 acres on New River to begin at
Stephen Osburn's line (withdrawn) Nov. 5. p. 167. Enoch Ozburn,
assignee of Walter Crockett, assignee of James Clark, 200 acres on New
River, beginning at Robert Baker's line including Jonathan Ozburn's
improvement for use of Jonathan Ozburn. Kegley, Early Adventurers on
the Western Waters, II:72-73, 76.
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=gwenbj&id=I2018565

Events

Birth1754
DeathAft 1819Hawkins County, Tennessee

Families

FatherANDREW BAKER (1720 - 1779)
MotherSusannah [Baker] ( - )
SiblingJOHN "Renta" BAKER (1744 - 1831)
SiblingJames Baker (1746 - 1801)
SiblingRev. Andrew Baker (1749 - 1815)
SiblingMorris Baker (1750 - 1810)
SiblingGeorge BAKER (1759 - 1841)
SiblingMartha "Pattie" BAKER (1761 - )
SiblingBolling Baker (1763 - 1834)
SiblingEleanor "Nellie" Baker (1765 - 1842)