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session to fill vacancy). LOCAL OFFICE: justice, St.
Mary's County, sitting 1699/1700. MILITARY SER-
VICE, captain, 1717; colonel, by 1726. WEALTH AT
DEATH. DIED: by March 5, 1730/31. PERSONAL
PROPERTY: TEV, £256.11.0 (including 3 servants);
FB, estate overpaid £14.12.0.
BAKER, NATHAN (?-?). BORN: of age by 1743.
NATIVE: at least second generation. RESIDED, in
Charlestown, Cecil County, 1775. FAMILY BACK-
GROUND. FATHER. Nathan Baker (?-1729), of
Cecil County, merchant; son of Henry Baker (?-
ca. 1700), a Quaker, who immigrated in 1684 to
Bucks County, Pennsylvania, from Lancashire,
England, became a large landowner and was a
burgess for Bucks County, Pennsylvania, in 1685,
1687, 1688, 1690, and 1698. MOTHER: Sarah,
daughter of Jeremiah Collet, of Chester, Pennsyl-
vania. BROTHERS: Henry Baker (ca. 1710-1768);
Jeremiah. SISTER: Mary, who married Job Ruston.
NEPHEWS: Jeremiah Baker (ca. 1748-1813); Fran-
cis Baker (?-?). MARRIED on January 12, 1736/37,
Joyce Yardley. CHILDREN. DAUGHTER. Elizabeth.
PRIVATE CAREER. EDUCATION: literate. RELIGIOUS
AFFILIATION: Anglican, St. Mary Anne's Parish,
Cecil County. SOCIAL STATUS AND ACTIVITIES:
Gent., 1759. OCCUPATIONAL PROFILE: a miller, in
partnership with Jethro Browne, 1748-1765. PUB-
LIC CAREER. LEGISLATIVE SERVICE: Lower House,
Cecil County, 1763 (elected to the 2nd session to
fill vacancy). LOCAL OFFICES: justice, Cecil
County, 1741-at least 1758 (quorum, 1754-at
least 1758); churchwarden, St. Mary Anne's Par-
ish, Cecil County, in office 1743; St. Mary Anne's
Parish Vestry, Cecil County, in office 1748-1751,
1755-1758, 1761-1764, and 1765; justice, Court of
Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery, Cecil
County, commissioned 1750 and 1759. MILITARY
SERVICE: captain, by 1755. WEALTH DURING LIFE-
TIME. PERSONAL PROPERTY: inherited a gristmill
on the Northeast River, Cecil County, in 1754
from his deceased business partner, Jethro
Browne, as well as half of Browne's estate. LAND
AT FIRST ELECTION, probably 193 acres in Cecil
County, plus one-half of the real estate of his busi-
ness partner. WEALTH AT DEATH. DIED: after
1778; size of estate unknown.
BAKER, WILLIAM (ca. 1749-1812). BORN: ca.
1749. NATIVE, at least second generation. RESIDED:
in Frederick County, 1774-1776; Montgomery
County, 1778; Prince George's County, 1779; Al-
exandria, Virginia, 1787; "The Lodge," Prince
George's County, 1790-1807; Georgetown, D.C.,
1812. MARRIED first, by 1778 Mildred Hanson (ca.
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1746-by 1796), daughter of Samuel Hanson
(1716-1794). Her brothers were Samuel Hanson,
of Samuel (ca. 1752-1830); Thomas Hawkins
Hanson (1750-1810). Her sisters were Chloe, who
married George Lee (ca. 1736-?); Sarah; Nancy;
Eleanor, who married Henry Henley Chapman (?-
1821); Anne; and Elizabeth. MARRIED second, by
1796 (name unknown). CHILDREN. SONS: Samuel
Hanson (1773-?); Philip Thomas (1775-?); and
William, Jr. (1782-?). DAUGHTERS: Nancy (1777-
?); Chloe (1784-?); and Eleanor (1785-1796). PRI-
VATE CAREER. EDUCATION: trained as a doctor.
RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION: Protestant. OCCUPA-
TIONAL PROFILE, physician; land speculator. PUB-
LIC CAREER. LEGISLATIVE SERVICE. Convention,
Frederick County, 1st, 1774 (appointed, but did
not attend); Lower House, Prince George's
County, 1796. LOCAL OFFICES: Committee of Ob-
servation, Frederick County, elected 1775; justice,
Montgomery County, commissioned 1778, Prince
George's County, 1788-at least 1792, 1799-at
least 1800. STANDS ON PUBLIC/PRIVATE ISSUES:
manumitted one female slave in 1796, because she
had borne him "a numerous family." WEALTH
DURING LIFETIME. PERSONAL PROPERTY assessed
value £752.0.10, including 33 slaves and 34 oz.
plate, 1793; assessed value £285.2.1, including 9
slaves and 24 oz. plate, 1807. SIGNIFICANT
CHANGES IN LAND BETWEEN FIRST ELECTION
AND DEATH, purchased 6,417 acres in Prince
George's County and Franklin County, Georgia,
including 707 acres of confiscated British prop-
erty, 1775-1801; sold 5,730 acres by 1801, 4,600
acres of this was in Franklin County, Georgia, and
comprised 4 large tracts. WEALTH AT DEATH.
DIED: in 1812 in Georgetown, D.C.; size of estate
unknown.
BALDRIDGE, THOMAS (?-ca. 1655). BORN
probably in England. IMMIGRATED: probably in
1635, definitely by 1637, possibly as an indentured
servant. RESIDED: in St. Mary's County; moved to
Virginia by 1650. FAMILY BACKGROUND.
BROTHER: James (?-1654), who married Dorothy
(?-1662). MARRIED Grace, who subsequently mar-
ried Maj. John Tew. CHILDREN. SONS: James (?-
1664), who married Elizabeth; William. PRIVATE
CAREER. RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION: Protestant. SO-
CIAL STATUS AND ACTIVITIES: possibly arrived as
a servant, certainly of low social status; his role in
Ingle's Rebellion probably accounts for his re-
moval to Virginia. OCCUPATIONAL PROFILE: possi-
bly a servant; planter. PUBLIC CAREER. LEGISLA-
TIVE SERVICE: Assembly, present 1637/38, St.
Michael's Hundred, St. Mary's County, 1640-
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