William Baker

1770 - 1823  (52 years)

• Name	William Baker
  Birth	27 Nov 1770	Templeton, Worcester, MA
  Gender	Male
  Death	23 Mar 1823	Charlotte, Chittenden, VT
  Person ID	I14527	Family Tree
  Last Modified	8 Feb 2018

  
  

  Father	William Baker,   b. 26 Mar 1746, Littleton, Middlesex, MA d. 26 Mar 1815, Rutland, Rutland, VT (Age 69 years)
  Mother	Sarah Fletcher,   b. 4 Mar 1748, Acton, Middlesex, MA d. 29 Dec 1792, Concord, Middlesex, MA (Age 44 years)
  Marriage	8 Dec 1768	Stow, Middlesex, MA
  Notes	from "Vital records of Acton, Massachusetts, to the year 1850" BAKER, William (Ba[ ]er [Baker in later handwriting, int. Baker] of Stowe and Sarah Fletcher of Action, Dec. 8, 1769, in Stowe
  Family ID	F5425	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Marcia Andrus,   b. 1 Oct 1781   d. 30 May 1866, Panton, Addison, VT (Age 84 years)  [1]
  Marriage	17 Nov 1801
  Children	1. Harriet Byron Baker,   b. 17 Jun 1802, Middlebury, Addison, VT d. 2 Apr 1869, Essex Co, NY (Age 66 years) + 2. Eldad Andrus Baker,   b. 12 Jun 1804, Middlebury, Addison, VT d. 18 Mar 1845, Grand Caillau, Terre Bonne, LA (Age 40 years) + 3. William Henry Baker,   b. 4 Aug 1806, Middlebury, Addison, VT d. 23 May 1898, Decorah, Winneshiek, IA (Age 91 years) + 4. George Washington Baker,   b. 7 May 1809, Middlebury, Addison, VT d. 10 Sep 1872, Fayette Co, IA (Age 63 years)   5. Susanna Fletcher Baker,   b. 5 Apr 1813, Middlebury, Addison, VT d. 15 Jun 1888, Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI (Age 75 years)
  Family ID	F6041	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	18 Apr 2017

  
  

• Photos

  1798 William Baker Painting "WILLIAM BAKER - From a painting done in Washington when he was 28 years of age. He was the contractor for the dome of the old capitol there." (from Genealogy and history of the Baker, Andrus, Clark, and Adams families, Albert Clark Baker, 1920)

  
  

  Headstones

  William Baker Gravestone WILLIAM BAKER / died March 23 / 1823 / aged 52 years [located at Barber Cemetery, Charlotte, Chittenden, VT]

  
  

• Notes

  from "Vital records of Templeton, Massachusetts; to the end of the year 1849" (archive.org) William Baker, s. William and Sarah, born Nov. 27, 1770 from "Genealogy and history of the Baker, Andrus, Clark, and Adams families" by Albert Clark Baker, 1920 My grandfather [William Baker] learned the mason's trade. He became a large contractor. He had the contract of the dome to the old capitol in Washington, D. C. The picture of him, shown in this work, was from a painting while on that contract. He built Middlebury College. At one time he was considered a wealthy man, but his generous nature ruined him. He built the large glass works at Salsbury, and never received any pay for it. He signed notes for supposed friends and had so much to pay that he was obliged to sell his property and move to Charlotte, where he operated the old hotel shown in this book.... He died from taking a large dose of saltpeter in the place of salts as prescribed by his doctor....That of the old hotel at Charlotte, Vermont, was taken by the writer the present year. It was here that grandfather Baker died in 1823. Here grandmother kept the place until she married Mr. Raxford. It was on the main stageroad from Boston to Montreal. All stages stopped here. It is now occupied as a tenement house, three families living in it at the time I took the picture

  
  

• Sources

  [S25] Albert Clark Baker, Genealogy and history of the Baker, Andrus, Clark, and Adams families, (1920).