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572 SOUTHEASTEEN" MASSACHUSETTS
Dec. 31, 1900, Frank Wood, a well known cotton
broker of New Bedford; and Harry Wil-
lard, born April 28, 1863, died March 28,
1868.
(VIII) Charles P. Seabury, Jr., was born
in New Bedford June 11, 1857, and was educated
in the schools there. He was a traveling
salesman for the Meriden Britannia Company,
of Meriden, Conn., and died at Dubuque, Iowa,
while on a trip, Feb. 22, 1896. He married
Nov. 18, 1880, Avis J. Dwelley, daughter of
Dr. Jerome Dwelley, of Fall Eiver. They had
one child, Eichard, born Oct. 9, 1888, who
died Dec. 5, 1890.
CAPT. JOSHUA GAGE BAKEE, a retired
whaling master, who died Nov. 1, 1910, at
Padanaram, in the town of Dartmouth, Bristol
Co., Mass., was a member of the Baker family
which has been identified with that section for
the past hundred years. He was born there,
in the village of Bakersville, South Dartmouth,
Oct. 31, 1845, and after tliirty-two years on
the water retired to the neighborhood where he
had spent his early life to enjoy the years of
his retirement. However, retirement did not
mean inactivity, for he devoted much of
hie time to the public service, making himself
useful to the town in many capacities and giving
the benefit of his time and efforts to his fellow
citizens. His work was highly appreciated, and
no man in the community had a better record
for intelligent citizenship and disinterested
labors in behalf of the town.
The Bakers of South Dartmouth trace their
lineage back to Francis Baker, the first of the
line in New England, from whom we give the
genealogical record in chronological ordor.
(I) Francis Baker was born in England in
1611. His last residence in his native land was
at Great St. Albans, Hertfordshire, and in
1635 he came over in the ship "Planter," locating
at Yarmouth, Mass. He married Isabel
Tarning, of Yarmouth, and died in 1696, the
last of the first comers. His children were :
Nathaniel, John, Samuel, Daniel, William,
Thomas, Elizabeth (married John Chase) and
Hannah.
(II) Daniel Baker, son of Francis, married
May 27, 1674, Elizabeth Chase, daughter of
born the following children : Daniel, born in
1675; Samuel, .1676; Elizabeth, 1678 (married
in 1705 Nathan Baker) Hannah ;
(married in
1714 Joseph Nixon) Thankful and Tabitha.
; ;
(III) Samuel Baker, son of Daniel, born in
1676, married Patience, and their children
were: Shubal, born March 24, 1710; Susannah,
June 22, 1711; Hezekiah, Aug. 4, 1715;
Tabitha, March 8, 1718; Desire, Feb. 5, 1720;
Elizabeth, Sept. 9, 1725; and Samuel, June 4,
1732.
(IV) Shubal Baker, son of Samuel, born
March 24, 1710, married in 1733,Lydia Stuart.
Their children were: Sylvanus, born March
10, 1734; Azubah, May 17, 1737; Temperance,
June 24, 1739; Shubal, Nov. 11, 1741; Eliza-
beth, Jan. 2, 1744; Lydia, Oct. 13, 1746; Euth,
June 25, 1749 ; and Patience, July 19, 1752.
(V) Shubal Baker (2), son of Shubal, born
Nov. 11, 1741, married Nov. 15, 1764, Eebecca
Chase, bom Aug. 24, 1747, daughter of Eichard
and Thankful Chase. To this union were born :
Hepsabcth (or Hepsibah), born Oct. 15, 1765,
married March 23, 1786, Zenos Chase;
Archelus, born Nov. 26, 1767, married in 1789
Mehitable Chase; Eebecca, born Dec. 19, 1770,
married Dec. 11, 1788, David Howes; Shubal,
born July 10, 1772, married Jan. 10, 1793,
Mercy Smalley; Ezra, born Sept. 5, 1775, is
mentioned below; Michael, born Nov. 6, 1776,
died April 7, 1796; Ensign, born July 3, 1779,
married Dec. 27, 1800, Sally Nickerson;
Temperance, born Oct. 15, 1781, married Dec.
4, 1800, Henry Kelly; Abigail, born Nov. 22,
1783, married April 20, 1807, Edward Sears;
Sylvanus, born Aug. 24, 1786, married March
1, 1800, Bethiah Crowell; and Halsey, bom
Feb. 27, 1789, married Nov. 28, 1811, Mercy
Allen.
(VI) Ezra Baker, son of Shubal (2), born
Sept. 5, 1775, in tlie town of Harwich, Barnstable
Co., Mass., was one of the six Baker
brothers who in 1806 came to Bristol county
and settled on a tract of land which he cultivated
during the remainder of his life. He
died there March 25, 1842, in his sixty-seventh
year. He is buried in South Dartmouth. Mr.
Baker was a member of the M. E. Church and
respected as a good Christian man. On March
13, 1795, he married Susan Gage, who was
born July 8, 1779, at Harwich, Mass., and
died July 7, 1866, at her home in Bakersville,
South Dartmouth. She was laid to rest beside
her husband in the cemetery in South Dartmouth.
Their children were as follows: David
Gage, born Nov. 12, 1795, died Sept. 25, 1820,
of yellow fever, while on a voyage from Ha-
William Chase (2), the latter born in Yarmouth,
Mass., in 1622. To this union were vana, Cuba; Michael was born Jan. 1, 1797;
Susanna, born June 28, 1800, married (first)
Eussell Crapo and (second) Wanton Westgate,
and died July 3, 1873 ; Ezra, born Jan. 7, 1802,
died Sept. 22, 1820, of yellow fever, while on
the passage from Havana, Cuba; Joshua Gage,
born Jan. 1, 1804, died Sept. 16, 1804; Lovey,