From an English cousin:

[Judy G. Russell]

A Baker "cousin" (not our line, that we know of, but wouldn't it be nice...) from England writes:

Hi Pamunkey Bakers all,
Seasonal greetings to you all from a Baker here in England. There is much info to be found about very early Bakers in the little museum at Midway in Liberty Counrty, Northern Ga. There are some gravestones still readable. This hamlet was once connected to a much larger port town nearby called Sunbury on the River Medway, where several early Baker families lived. They were often Congregationalists, and had moved from their origins in Mass, three times, once to another town in Mass (Northampton) then to S.C. where they founded a settlement, of which some remains can still be seen, and finally to Midway, in Ga. Each time, the settlement was originally calledDorchester, after our Dorchester in Dorset.

Also not to forget that about a third of the then population left the 15 colonies (East and West Florida!), staying loyal and becoming refugees. Someto vast refugee camps in the northern Bahamas. (see the "Dolly Mae" CD for BMD records) And presumably that included about a third of all the then Bakers ..., or at any rate quite a few members of various families. Midwaymuseum has, most unusually, intact pre Rev records.

warmest regards from the other side, of the water that is ...

Julius Stafford Baker
PS Grandpa used to say, "two parts of one nation, not always marching in step, but mostly in the same direction".