The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
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John Baxter was born on 17 February 1746 at St. Thomas’s Parish, Baltimore County, Maryland, a son of John Baxter and Mary. He married Elizabeth Sappington in about 1767 and their known children were:
William was born in 1769.
Benjamin was born about 1770 in Bedford County, Pennsylvania.
George.
Edmund was born on 25 February 1771.
Joshua was born about 1775.
Greenberry was born in February 1778.
Patience was born on 17 September 1782.
By 1771, they are living at Brothers Valley Township, Bedford County (present-day Somerset County), Pennsylvania, when John sold his portion of his father’s land in Baltimore County, Maryland, to Greenburg Baxter.
He was a Private in the Second Class of the Eighth Company of his brother, Captain Edmund Baxter of the Fourth Battalion, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel John Marshall, of the Pennsylvania Militia.
Before 1780, John entered 400 acres of land at West Harmen’s Creek, Ohio County, Virginia.
John died on 30 August 1783 in Ohio County, Virginia. John’s final resting place is not known. After his death, Elizabeth married William Tippings.
Sources:
Harrison, L. H., St Thomas’ Parish, Garrison Forest, Baltimore County, Maryland. 1897.
Humphreys, Allan Sparrow, Some Maryland Baxters and Their Descendants, Arkansas. Fayetteville: Self-published, 1948.
Montgomery, Thomas Lynch, Pennsylvania in the War of the Revolution, Battalions and Line, 1775-1783, Pennsylvania. Harrisburg: Harrisburg Publishing Company, 1906, page 681.
Sons of the American Revolution, National Society, Louisville, Kentucky. Primary application of Robert Joseph Baxter, National Number 130050.
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