Display Patriot - P-335904

William BAKER

SAR Patriot #: P-335904

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State of Service: GA Qualifying Service: Sergeant

Birth: Jul 1749 Dorchester / / SC
Death: 05 Nov 1798 Midway / Liberty / GA

Additional References:

Sweet Land of Liberty: A History of Liberty County, Georgia, Robert Long Groover, pg 210
Georgia’s Roster of the Revolution, Lamar Lucian Knight, pg 43
Georgia Citizens and Soldiers of the American Revolution, Robert Davis, pg 26, 133

Spouse: (1) Elizabeth Dunham; (2) Susannah Dick Hornsby; (3) Ann Stevens
Children:

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Burial:

Midway Cemetery_(C-0371610)

Location:

Midway / Liberty / GA / USA

Find A Grave Cemetery #:

35348

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Grave GPS Coordinates:

31.806150 / -81.430840

Find A Grave Memorial #:

41254897

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Author: William Foye Ramsaur
1-- William Baker, Jr., was born about in July 1749, in Dorchester, South Carolina, the oldest son of William Baker, Sr. (1705 SC - 1767 GA) and Sarah Osgood (d 1763 GA) 2— William Baker, Jr., served as a sergeant in the 2nd Battalion, Georgia Continental Line during the Revolutionary War. 3— After the death of Button Gwinnett, William Baker, Jr., along with many residents of Liberty County, signed a Petition on August 3, 1777, to the Continental Congress against the appointment of Lachlan McIntosh to the rank of Brigadier General in the Continental Army. 4-- William Baker Jr. married Elizabeth Dunham, and their nine children were Elizabeth (1774), Sarah (1776), Mary (1778), Sarah Osgood (1779), William III (1782), Rebecca (1785), John Osgood (1786),Gideon (1788), and Daniel Baker (1791). Following his first wife’s death, William married Susannah Dick Hornsby, and they had one son, Thomas Baker. His third marriage was to Ann Stevens, and they had one son, Joseph Stevens Baker 5- William Baker, Jr. died on November 5, 1798. His burial place is unknown, but possibly he was buried in the Midway Cemetery, since he was a long-time member of the Midway Congregation Church.

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