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Baker family

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Works: 1,046 works in 1,218 publications in 5 languages and 5,220 library holdings
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Most widely held works by Baker family
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Memoirs; chapters of an autobiography; diaries; writings on photography, Hawaiian history, and biographical sketches of Hawaiian photographers; school and lecture notes; travel notes and reports; and genealogy; together with Baker family letters, diaries, photos, and other papers, and history, directory, and reports of Hawaiian Trail and Mountain Club.
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Correspondence, deeds, receipts, estate papers, inventories, bills, receipts, and other papers of the Winsors and members of the Baker, Hawkins, and Marsh families, also of Rhode Island, who were probably related to the Winsors. Subjects include the opening of the Johnston public schools, marriages performed by Samuel Winsor (1722-1803), Baptist clergyman, of Johnston; transactions of lands in Smithfield, Johnston, and Glocester; James Ballou's peddling with P.T. Barnum's traveling museum; and Olney Winsor's (1753-1837) advice to his daughter, Susan (1789-1879), at a boarding school in Hartford, Conn.
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Ships' papers of fishing vessels commanded by Baker, including schooners Elizabeth, Naiad Queen, Roxana, and William H. Dewitt, containing captain's and crew accounts, records of sales, and other papers, reflecting his involvement in the mackerel fisheries; correspondence, labor records, and financial papers pertaining to his cranberry business in Westport, including information on sales to New York, N.Y.; and personal and financial papers of Baker, his wife, Abby Hopkins Baker, and their children, relating to daily activities and family affairs. Includes materials pertaining to Westport, Mass., School District No. 5.
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Ledgers of Archelaus and Isaac D. Baker, of Dennis, Mass., reflecting entries for store bills and port charges of schooner Cohasset (freighter); accounts of cranberry bog operations on Cape Cod; personal expenditures; records of wages paid to family members working as crew members on a number of vessels; schedule of properties distributed to Tamar P. Baker, widow of Joseph K. Baker, of Dennisport, Mass., and their children, and record of expenditures presented for submission to Barnstable County Probate Court (ca. 1871-1879); deeds (1854) of Erastus, Peter, Jr. (traders), and Obed Baker, 2nd to George W. Richardson (cordwainer), all of Dennis; abstracts of title of Richardson to land conveyed to the U.S., for a lighthouse site at Bass River, Mass.; and land records of other family members.
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Chiefly correspondence of Martin Baker, Sr. (d. 1821) and Martin Baker, Jr. (d. 1836) discussing family and local news, including discussions of slaves and freedmen, and especially illnesses and deaths of family slaves, and later family letters discussing the Civil War, black office-seekers during Reconstruction, and the physical abuse of a relative by her husband; together with business and legal papers of Martin Baker, Jr., including account book (1818-1833) with Farmers Bank of Virginia, papers concerning the estates of both Martin Baker, Sr. and Jr., land surveys, and genealogical material on the Baker and related Mills, Omohundro, Quarles, and Swift families.
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1 edition published in in English and held by 2 libraries worldwide
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John Baker's commissions in the New York State Militia, other papers pertaining to him, James Baker, and Sally Baker, and a book of prayers by Benjamin Jenks, bearing an Albany imprint of 1801.
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Papers consist of correspondence, business and legal papers, genealogical material, receipts, photographs, and other items.
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Collection contains correspondence, business, legal, and estate papers, financial records, genealogical material, photographs, and other items pertaining to the Baker family and the related Bohun, Drayton, Elliott, and Hyrne families. Included are the papers of Richard Bohun Baker (1736-1785); letters of Alexander Garden (1730-1791); writings of Emma Drayton-Grimke, John Drayton-Grimke, and Augustus Sachtleben; and records (ca. 1889-1901) of the South Carolina Episcopal Diocese conventions.
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A collection of letters written by Captain Abishai Alden Baker to his wife. Captain Baker was in Lexington, Kentucky, and his wife was back home in Colchester, Connecticut. The final letter, in 1839, informs Mrs. Baker of her husband's death. Also included are Baker family deeds for land in Colchester.
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Deed of land from Charles Baker and the Baker family to Christopher Wright, of Portland, Me.
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Typewritten biographies, letters, diaries and genealogy sheets relating to the Baker family, converts to Mormonism and settlers of Southern Utah.
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in English and held by 1 library worldwide
Correspondence, financial records, deeds, leases, mortgages, wills, maps, genealogical materials, and other papers of members of the Wallace family and related families of Baker, Banks, Brick, Chew, Cook, Curry, Finley, Garrison, Green, Harbison, Kille, Lambson, Linch, Lockart, Reeve, Scull, Sharp, Sterling, Tuft, Willits, and Wright.
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The Baker family had the principal share in the works.
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"Receipts [Recipes] Copied from My Mother's Own Book, Summer 1900," (9 p.), possibly transcribed by Richard W. Baker of Wadesboro, Anson County, N.C.; and a set of transcriptions of wills of members of the Baker family of Isle of Wight and Surry counties, Va., and information about them copied from various sources.
 
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