Not the husband of Elizabeth Montgomery?

[Judy G. Russell]

I see a lot of sources on the Internet that identify James, son of Thomas and Dorothy Davenport Baker, as the James Baker who married Elizabeth Montgomery in Burke County NC in 1781.

I don't think that's right.

In 1790, there were two James Bakers on the Burke County NC census. One was married and had a family (one son and three daughters); the other was single. The married James Baker was, clearly, the James Baker who married Elizabeth Montgomery. Her application for a pension based on her husband's Revolutionary War service placed their marriage in 1781 and identified a number of children born before the 1790 census: Rebecca, Charles, Margaret and Sarah. So was this James Baker our James?

Probably not. There's no reason to think that our James was anywhere other than with his brothers on that census, and that would place him in the Third Company with brothers David, John, Charles and Henry, brother-in-law James Baxter and several Browning and White relatives. If so, that's the unmarried James Baker. The married James Baker was in the Second Company.

Anybody have any light to shed on this one?

[Jerry Baker]

I have that James m. Mary ? and he may have moved to TN. Not proved.