Posted 28 Jun 2016 by Carole Alden
THE EARLY YEARS—BEFORE 1700 - Pamunkey Bakers
www.pamunkeybakers.com/paper/03.pdf
Source: This abbreviated copy of the Talbott-Downes patent is filed with Waller Family Papers, Accession #260356, Library of Virginia, Richmond.
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In the late 1720s-early 1730s, a Thomas Baker, reportedly the son of a William Baker and who had brothers named Josiah and William, married Davis Davenport's granddaughter Dorothy, daughter of Martin Davenport. Their eldest son was named William and they also had a son named Josiah. The Bakers and Davenports, as well as other related families, were intermarried and in concurrent settlement in Spotsylvania, Louisa, and Culpeper counties in Virginia, and then in Western North Carolina from the early years of the Eighteenth Century and forward. Baker Family Genealogy claims that the Thomas who married Dorothy Davenport was born in Pennsylvania of a family that first arrived in America in 1635. That identification, as has been outlined above and will be discussed at various points below, is problematic at best. Moreover, the presence of a Thomas Baker line in the neighborhood of Davis and Martin Davenport from at least 1696 forward suggests that a Virginia origin for our Baker Family is far more likely. Marriages among commoners in those days, a description fitting both the Davenports and Bakers, were preponderantly among neighboring families, work days being long, travel being done by horse or foot, and parents exercising their influence.
THE EARLY YEARS—BEFORE 1700 - Pamunkey Bakers
www.pamunkeybakers.com/paper/03.pdf
Source: This abbreviated copy of the Talbott-Downes patent is filed with Waller Family Papers, Accession #260356, Library of Virginia, Richmond.
page 5
In the late 1720s-early 1730s, a Thomas Baker, reportedly the son of a William Baker and who had brothers named Josiah and William, married Davis Davenport's granddaughter Dorothy, daughter of Martin Davenport. Their eldest son was named William and they also had a son named Josiah. The Bakers and Davenports, as well as other related families, were intermarried and in concurrent settlement in Spotsylvania, Louisa, and Culpeper counties in Virginia, and then in Western North Carolina from the early years of the Eighteenth Century and forward. Baker Family Genealogy claims that the Thomas who married Dorothy Davenport was born in Pennsylvania of a family that first arrived in America in 1635. That identification, as has been outlined above and will be discussed at various points below, is problematic at best. Moreover, the presence of a Thomas Baker line in the neighborhood of Davis and Martin Davenport from at least 1696 forward suggests that a Virginia origin for our Baker Family is far more likely. Marriages among commoners in those days, a description fitting both the Davenports and Bakers, were preponderantly among neighboring families, work days being long, travel being done by horse or foot, and parents exercising their influence.
Posted 28 Jun 2016 by Carole Alden
THE EARLY YEARS—BEFORE 1700 - Pamunkey Bakers
www.pamunkeybakers.com/paper/03.pdf
Source: This abbreviated copy of the Talbott-Downes patent is filed with Waller Family Papers, Accession #260356, Library of Virginia, Richmond.
page 5
In the late 1720s-early 1730s, a Thomas Baker, reportedly the son of a William Baker and who had brothers named Josiah and William, married Davis Davenport's granddaughter Dorothy, daughter of Martin Davenport. Their eldest son was named William and they also had a son named Josiah. The Bakers and Davenports, as well as other related families, were intermarried and in concurrent settlement in Spotsylvania, Louisa, and Culpeper counties in Virginia, and then in Western North Carolina from the early years of the Eighteenth Century and forward. Baker Family Genealogy claims that the Thomas who married Dorothy Davenport was born in Pennsylvania of a family that first arrived in America in 1635. That identification, as has been outlined above and will be discussed at various points below, is problematic at best. Moreover, the presence of a Thomas Baker line in the neighborhood of Davis and Martin Davenport from at least 1696 forward suggests that a Virginia origin for our Baker Family is far more likely. Marriages among commoners in those days, a description fitting both the Davenports and Bakers, were preponderantly among neighboring families, work days being long, travel being done by horse or foot, and parents exercising their influence.
THE EARLY YEARS—BEFORE 1700 - Pamunkey Bakers
www.pamunkeybakers.com/paper/03.pdf
Source: This abbreviated copy of the Talbott-Downes patent is filed with Waller Family Papers, Accession #260356, Library of Virginia, Richmond.
page 5
In the late 1720s-early 1730s, a Thomas Baker, reportedly the son of a William Baker and who had brothers named Josiah and William, married Davis Davenport's granddaughter Dorothy, daughter of Martin Davenport. Their eldest son was named William and they also had a son named Josiah. The Bakers and Davenports, as well as other related families, were intermarried and in concurrent settlement in Spotsylvania, Louisa, and Culpeper counties in Virginia, and then in Western North Carolina from the early years of the Eighteenth Century and forward. Baker Family Genealogy claims that the Thomas who married Dorothy Davenport was born in Pennsylvania of a family that first arrived in America in 1635. That identification, as has been outlined above and will be discussed at various points below, is problematic at best. Moreover, the presence of a Thomas Baker line in the neighborhood of Davis and Martin Davenport from at least 1696 forward suggests that a Virginia origin for our Baker Family is far more likely. Marriages among commoners in those days, a description fitting both the Davenports and Bakers, were preponderantly among neighboring families, work days being long, travel being done by horse or foot, and parents exercising their influence.
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