Elisha Baker, 1750–1826 (aged 76 years)
- Name
- Elisha /Baker/
- Given names
- Elisha
- Surname
- Baker
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Birth
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Note: Birth: abt. 1750–1758 (calculated); likely Virginia or Piedmont North Carolina. |
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Property
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Address: "Forks of the River," at the eastern edge of Knoxville Note: Elisha Baker held at least three North Carolina land grants in Greene County — territory that was legally North Carolina until its 1789-90 cession to the federal government, then part of the Southwest Territory until Tennessee statehood in 1796. |
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Birth of a daughter
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Birth of a daughter
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Property
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Little Rock Creek Land Claim
between 1802 and May 1, 1812
District of St. Louis, Spanish Upper Louisiana
Address: Township 42 North, Ranges 5 & 6 East, 5th P.M. Note: Separate from his larger Bellevue settlement claim, Elisha Baker also held an earlier, smaller Missouri land interest on Little Rock Creek, in what was then the District of St. Louis and later became Jefferson County. |
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Property
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Bellevue Settlement Land Claim
between 1803 and March 26, 1829
Bellevue settlement, district of Ste. Genevieve, Spanish Upper Louisiana
Address: Township 35 & 36 North, Range 2 East of the 5th Principal Meridian Note: Elisha Baker began settling this tract while it still lay within Spanish Upper Louisiana (Alta Luisiana), administered from St. Louis by a Spanish lieutenant governor and local civil officials called syndics. |
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Petition
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Note: INHABITANTS OF STE. GENEVIEVE DISTRICT TO GOVERNOR WILKINSON INHABITANTS OF STE. GENEVIEVE DISTRICT TO GOVERNOR WILKINSON To His Excellency General James Wilkinson, Governor of the Territory of Louisiana |
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Petition
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Note: MEMORIAL TO THE PRESIDENT BY CITIZENS OF THE TERRITORY MEMORIAL TO THE PRESIDENT BY CITIZENS OF THE TERRITORY To the President of the United States: The subscribers, citizens of the Territory of Louisiana, respectfully represent: that they have learned, with regret, that a petition is now in circulation in this territory for the appointment of a person to succeed General Wilkinson in the office of Governor, whom we believe will not give satisfaction to the people in general. Without intending to dictate to the President, we beg leave to observe that we have the fullest confidence in the talents and integrity of both Colonel Return J. Meigs, Junior, and Colonel Samuel Hammond, either of whom, should they meet your approbation, will, we believe, by their mildness and republicanism, restore harmony to the territory, and administer its government with ability and satisfaction. [Section 26 of Subscribers to Memorial] Elisha Baker [39 total] |
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Marriage of a daughter
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Property
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Note: Elisha & Polly sold 640 acres to John Hutchings of Casey County, Kentucky for $1,200.
Note: The 1816 deed to John Hutchings conveys 640 acres — Baker's entire confirmed holding, following Recorder Frederick Bates's 2 February 1816 report, which reduced the original 1,426-arpent survey to the standard 640-acre cap for settlement-right claims, formalized weeks later by the Act of 29 April 1816. The deed explicitly notes the sale includes "the place whereon the said Elisha Baker and Polly his wife now live" — so he sold his entire Missouri home place outright, keeping nothing back. |
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Marriage of a daughter
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Note: John Irons & Polly Baker — Marriage, Notation on Missing Record John Irons & Polly Baker — Marriage, Notation on Missing Record No marriage record has been located for John Irons and Polly Baker. An estimated marriage date of c. 1819 is inferred from the birth of their known first child, Elvira Eliza (m. James Rankin), calculated at c. 1820 per the 1823 Texas "census" and her own later census records. The absence of a record is consistent with the general poor survival of Arkansas Territory documents from this specific period, rather than evidence the marriage did not occur. Hempstead County was newly organized in December 1818; county-level marriage record-keeping across Arkansas generally begins around 1820, just after the inferred date of this marriage. The 1820 federal territorial census was lost entirely, and Hempstead County's own 1823 sheriff's census survives only as a total population count, with no household-level detail. No marriage record for this couple should therefore be expected to exist, independent of whether the marriage took place. |
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Legal Transaction
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Note: Item: a certain Negro girl slave about 13 years of age named Phillis. |
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Death
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Note: The federal patent for Baker's original Bellevue survey (No. 2150) is issued in Missouri to 'Elisha Baker's representatives' — language already in use as early as 1826, when Recorder Theodore Hunt's office processed the claim referencing Certificate No. 1037 and a letter from the General Land Office. Taken together with the April 1821 deed, this places Baker's death in a window of roughly 1821–1826, most plausibly in Hempstead, Arkansas. |
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Last change
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Author of last change: daveh |
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1750–1826
Birth: between 1750 and 1758
— Virginia or North Carolina Death: between 1821 and 1826 — Arkansas, USA |
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| Marriage | Marriage — about 1775 — |
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