Individual Details
Andrew "Andy" Baker
(1604 - 1650)
The first permanent English colony in America was established at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607. The Virginia House of Burgesses met for the first time in 1619, in Jamestown. At this time, tobacco farming was the major industry in the "NEW WORLD". Tobacco was finding a significant market in England. In 1620, the Virginia Company chartered the MAYFLOWER to take more settlers from Plymouth, England, to Virginia. After a very difficult three- month voyage, the crew and passengers decided to land at Cape Cod instead of completing the voyage to Jamestown. This is how Plymouth Colony happened to be settled in 1620. On December 20, 1620, the MAYFLOWER arrived at Plymouth Rock. There were no Bakers among the 102 original settlers on the MAYFLOWER, but it did not take long before the Baker name made its first appearance in the Plymouth Colony.
Andrew was born in Buckingham, a County, (shire) located in the south of England. Andrew emigrated to the New World and settled in Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony, which was a small maritime village at that time. This was about 1630. It was in this year that the Puritans began the "Great Migration" to Massachusetts and Connecticut.
Although there is no information to necessarily support the conclusion that Andrew Baker was a Puritan.
Other Bakers had already settled at Plymouth Colony, on Cape Cod.
He came to America on the SHIP "RINTY DEN". It arrived in Massachusetts about 1624. He settled in Boston.
Kentucky Historical Society, Old Capitol Annex, Broadway Street, Frankfort, Kentucky 40601, holds documents & publications on Andrew "Andy" Baker, born 1604 Buckingham shire, England to America 1624.
The family name of Baker was probably originally Beaker, but pronounced Baker. Beaker refers to a vessel for drinking wine . The earlier ancestors may have been cup-bearers at some court of high or low degree.
Much of this information came from Ruth Estridge who obtained it from the written family line of the Bakers by Mae Baker Spencer, daughter of Joyce and William Baker, written by her in 1971, for the lineage of Alson H. Baker.
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The first 4 generations settled in Massachusetts and migrated to Pennsylvania. Then Andrew, the 4th generation, as a young man traveled down the Shenandoah Valley from Pennsylvania to Virginia to the Yaokin River Valley of North Carolina.
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Andrew was born in Buckingham, a County, (shire) located in the south of England. Andrew emigrated to the New World and settled in Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony, which was a small maritime village at that time. This was about 1630. It was in this year that the Puritans began the "Great Migration" to Massachusetts and Connecticut.
Although there is no information to necessarily support the conclusion that Andrew Baker was a Puritan.
Other Bakers had already settled at Plymouth Colony, on Cape Cod.
He came to America on the SHIP "RINTY DEN". It arrived in Massachusetts about 1624. He settled in Boston.
Kentucky Historical Society, Old Capitol Annex, Broadway Street, Frankfort, Kentucky 40601, holds documents & publications on Andrew "Andy" Baker, born 1604 Buckingham shire, England to America 1624.
The family name of Baker was probably originally Beaker, but pronounced Baker. Beaker refers to a vessel for drinking wine . The earlier ancestors may have been cup-bearers at some court of high or low degree.
Much of this information came from Ruth Estridge who obtained it from the written family line of the Bakers by Mae Baker Spencer, daughter of Joyce and William Baker, written by her in 1971, for the lineage of Alson H. Baker.
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The first 4 generations settled in Massachusetts and migrated to Pennsylvania. Then Andrew, the 4th generation, as a young man traveled down the Shenandoah Valley from Pennsylvania to Virginia to the Yaokin River Valley of North Carolina.
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Events
| Birth | 1604 | Buckinghamshire, England | |||
| Death | 1650 | Boston, Massachusetts Bay, British America | |||
| Marriage | unknown unknown |
Families
| Spouse | unknown unknown ( - ) |
| Child | John Baker Col (1624 - 1693) |