Notes from Baker Johnson's LHP File

• Born Sept. 30, 1747 in Calvert County
• resided in Annapolis by 1771, Frederick by 1779
• father Thomas Johnson (1702-1777) of St. Leonard's Creek, Calvert County
• married Catherine Worthington (1761-1814) on December 9, 1784
• Catherine Worthington daug. of MICHOLAS WORTHINGTON (1734-1793) and wife Catherine Griffith (1732-1793)
• granddaug. of THOMAS WORTHINGTON (ca. 1691-1753)
• niece of BRICE T.B. WORTHINGTON (1727-1794)
• children:
• Baker, Jr m. Hannah Sophia Grundy of Baltimore 1810
• Nicholas b. 1789, d. 1790
• Nicholas Worthington b. 1793 d. 1798
• Matilda b. 179_, d. 1795
• Thomas b. 1790, d. 1802
• William
• Juliana m. John Johns
• Matilda m. Alexander McPherson
• Worthington
• Charles
• Caroline Worthington Goldsborough Johnson m. Thomas J. Grahame
• Catherine b. 1785, d. 1864 m. William Ross Esq of York, PA

Religious Affiliation: All Saints' Parish, Frederick County
Titles:

• Gentleman 1770
• Esquire 1788
• appointed visitor of Frederick County Academy 1796

Career:

• admitted to Charles and PG County Courts in 1771,
• apptd. Clerk of Indictments, Charles County Court in 1773
• partner with James, Roger and Thomas in ironworks business in western Maryland
• 1793- family reorganized its holdings, and Baker received one-third of the Catoctin furnace
• 1803- Baker purchased the remaining two-thirds
• Committee of Observation, middle district, Frederick County, elected 1775
• County lieutenant, in office 1781
• Commissioner, Frederick Town, appointed 1789, 1792, 1794, and 1802
• Maryland senate elector, Frederick County 1791
• justice, Orphans Court, Frederick County, elected 1793
• vestry, All Saints Parish, Frederick County, elected 1804, 1807, and 1810
• Colonel, 4th Battalion, Frederick County Militia, commissioned 1776
• Colonel, 34th Battalion, Frederick County Militia, recommissioned 1777

Died June 18, 1811 at Frederick Town
At death, in addition to land (see land summary), he owned 78 slaves, 20 shares of Frederick and Baltimore Turnpike Road, 2 Shares of Potomac Company, stock in Farmers Bank - named in will or account