. . , Esteemed Citizen. On account of the large number ofearly immigrants named Baker and thesimilarity of their childrens baptismalnames, no family is more difficult to little has been discovered about therelationship of the immigrants. Before1650 Alexander Baker settled at Glouces-ter, Massachusetts; Edward Baker, atLynn; Francis Baker, at Boston; JohnBaker, of Charleston; Launcelot Baker,of Boston ; Nathaniel Baker, of Water-town ; Rev. Nicholas Baker, of Hing-ham; Richard Baker, of Dorchester;Robert Baker, of Salem; Tho
. . , Esteemed Citizen. On account of the large number ofearly immigrants named Baker and thesimilarity of their childrens baptismalnames, no family is more difficult to little has been discovered about therelationship of the immigrants. Before1650 Alexander Baker settled at Glouces-ter, Massachusetts; Edward Baker, atLynn; Francis Baker, at Boston; JohnBaker, of Charleston; Launcelot Baker,of Boston ; Nathaniel Baker, of Water-town ; Rev. Nicholas Baker, of Hing-ham; Richard Baker, of Dorchester;Robert Baker, of Salem; Thomas Baker,of Roxbury; Walter Baker, of Salem;William Baker, of Plymouth; and Wil-liam Baker, of Charlestown. Doubtlessthere were others, and John Baker ap-pears in the list of children in many ofthe families. The coat-of-arms of thisfamily is given as follows: Azure on afesse between three swans heads erasedor, and ducally gorged gules, as manycinquefoils of the last. Crest: An armembowed habited with green leaves, inthe hand proper a swans head erased or. 312. &furfj $*Jjs> ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOGRAPHY (I) John Baker, the progenitor of thisfamily, lived at Swansea and Rehoboth,Massachusetts, part of which was after-wards Barrington, Rhode Island. Swan-sea was set off from Rehoboth in 1667and Barrington from Swansea in or his son of the same name, JohnBaker, was one of the proprietors of Bar-rington in 1719-20, when he appears ina list of proprietors. He was a soldier inKing Philips War as shown by a deedfrom his son, John, to his eldest son, Wil-liam, October 13, 1745. As a veteran ofthe Narrangansett War he became anowner of a right in the township calledNarragansett No. 4. He probably diedbefore the grant was made, grant became Greenwich, formerlyOuabaug, Massachusetts, and the nameof his son John as his heir to the right ap-pears in the list of the early (2) Baker, son of the soldier, deededto his eldest son William, his right inTownshi
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