Henry Baker's Children- Burke and Caldwell County records

[Carol White]

BURKE COUNTY N.C. MARRIAGE RECORDS 1781-1868 by Frances T. Ingmire has this record : Baker, Nancy married Robert Wakefield Jan 4 , 1819. (There are others of our Baker marriages recorded there too.)

WILLS IN N.C. ARCHIVES BASHEBA BAKER CALDWELL COUNTY 1854 WB-A P.75 ARCHIVED COPY
ELIZABETH BAKER CALDWELL COUNTY 1856 ORIGINAL ONLY ARCHIVED
JOHN BAKER CALDWELL COUNTY 1844 WB-A P.41 ARCHIVED COPY
WILLIAM PUETT CALDWELL COUNTY 1842 066 WB-1 P.46 066 ARCHIVED COPY
1843 ORIGINAL ARCHIVED

I, William Puett....bequeath to my beloved wife Cinthia Puett...(life estate-portion of land and slaves etc.) ...my children Melita , Caroline, Joseph Puett, and the unborn child or children she is now pregnant with equal portions of that estate after her death. (also beqeathes them some other chattel.) The residue of my land not already disposed be equally divided between my children Nancy White, wife of William, John Puett, Basheba Medaris, Frances Estes, Polly Chambers and Mary Chambers and their heirs. To my son William Puett I give one dollar only, his having received in land a full share or more of my estate. .....I appoint my friend and relative William Puett, son of John and William White executors of this my last will...31 Oct, 1842. Witnessed by William Dickson and Elijah Pendley. Probated Jan, 1843 *( Cynthia Puett was born in 1815-after his first 5 children were born!)

I , John Baker,...bequeath that my beloved wife Lucy Baker shall have (life estate and slaves). I give and devise to my sons Joseph Baker, John Baker, Elisha Baker, William Baker and my daughters Mary Baird, Nancy M. Wilson, Patsy A. Holloway, Frances P. Shell, Bashaba McCall, Lucinda Baker, Eliza G. Baker, Claricy A. Baker and my granddaughter Charity Elizabeth Redmond all and singular my personal estate to be divided equally amongst them......lands to my four sons Joseph, John, Elisha, and William to be equally divided after wife's death. Lastly...I appoint my son Joseph Baker and son in law samuel McCall as my lawful executors... 25 August 1844. Witnessed by E.P. Miller and Saml Baird Probated Jan. 1848

I, Basheba Baker....brother Richard Baker...brother Josias Baker and neice Legrand Kincaid....to the children of my deceased brother John Baker. My neice Nancy White. Children of my neice Mary Chambers. Nephew Julius Wakefield and Joseph webb, son of my neice Polly Webb. Executor : Richard Baker and witnessed by Josias Wakefield 26 May 1854

I, Elizabeth Baker...my brother Richard Baker and wife Alley and daughter Legrand. Neice Polly Webb and her children. Children of John Baker. Nephews William H. Wakefield, Josias A. Wakefield. Robert R. Wakefield, Richard Alfonzo Wakefield, William Puett. Neice Mary W. Sudderth. Neice Mary Chambers. Julius Wakefield, Jordan wilson and wife Nancy, Lucinda Baker, Joseph C. Baker, R.M. Shell and Parthenia, William R. Baker, Mary Baird, Wm. and Nancy White, Amanda and George Holloway, Mary and Elijah Chambers. Samuel and Basheba McCall. wriiten may 26 1854. Probated 1856

That's it. The proof in a nutshell. Please, if you wouldn't mind passing it on. Just in case I never get back to the Pamunkey Baker website. There was someone named Ginny Lenoir who was looking too...I couldn't log on to answer her query.