On Dec. 14, 1775 at the Scotland Cong. Church then in Windham, Elizabeth m. Capt. John Baker, 3rd, s. of John Baker, Jr. and Mercy Cary, b. Sept. 27, 1747 at Windham. He d. Feb. 13, 1828 at that part of Windham now the Town of Scotland, Conn., Æ 81 (g.s.) They had ten children who are/will be outlined in their father's memorial.
On Dec. 14, 1775 at the Scotland Cong. Church then in Windham, Elizabeth m. Capt. John Baker, 3rd, s. of John Baker, Jr. and Mercy Cary, b. Sept. 27, 1747 at Windham. He d. Feb. 13, 1828 at that part of Windham now the Town of Scotland, Conn., Æ 81 (g.s.) They had ten children who are/will be outlined in their father's memorial.
Inscription
Mrs. Elizabeth Baker
Wife Of
[Cap'n John Baker]
died
Dec. 5, 1828
Æ. 73.
As represented by this inscription, by the early 1800s the meaning of the symbol Æ for the Latin phrase Ætatis suæ became confused with meaning one's chronological "age" at death.
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