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Anna Dix

Female 1748 - 1803  (55 years)


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  • Name Anna Dix 
    Birth 25 Mar 1748  Littleton, Middlesex, MA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Death 30 Jul 1803  Boston, Suffolk, MA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Burial Central Burying Ground, Boston, MA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I2467  Family Tree | 12 Generation Ancestor Chart
    Last Modified 23 Jan 2020 

    Father Jonathan Dix 
    Mother Sarah Shattuck 
    Family ID F1767  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Joseph Baker,   b. 11 Sep 1748, Littleton, Middlesex, MA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1792, Littleton, Middlesex, MA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 43 years) 
    Marriage 7 Nov 1779  Littleton, Middlesex, MA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • from "Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988" (ancestry.com)
      On Oct. 23d 1779, "Then the Intentions of marriage was Entered between Lieut Joseph Baker and Mrs. Anna Dix both of Littleton (from Littleton town records)
    Children 
    +1. Anna Baker,   b. 27 Sep 1780, Littleton, Middlesex, MA Find all individuals with events at this location
    +2. Sarah Baker,   b. 10 Sep 1782, Littleton, Middlesex, MA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 2 Dec 1806, Boston, Suffolk, MA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 24 years)
     3. Infant Baker,   b. 1790
    Family ID F1766  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 23 Jan 2020 

  • Headstones
    Anna (Dix) Baker Gravestone
    Anna (Dix) Baker Gravestone
    Sacred / To the memory of / Mrs. Anna Baker / who died Jul 30th 1803 / AEt. 56
    Plot: A-48

  • Notes 
    • from "Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988"
      Anna Dix, daughter of Jonathan & Sarah Dix, was born Mar 25, 1748.
    • from "The New-England Repertory", 3 Aug 1803 (genealogybank.com)
      DIED. At Boston, Mrs. Ann Baker, the Governess of the Boston Female Asylum, aged 56. The death of this amiable and useful woman, will not only be severely felt by her own immediate connexions; but, especially by the by the Children of the Asylum; whom she always treated with the care and affection of a Mother; she descended from a respectable Family, was a friend to real Religion, and possessed a most accommodation disposition; hence, in her place, gave universal satisfaction.
    • The following description of Anna Baker was published in Lemuel Shattuck's Memorials of the descendants of William Shattuck In 1795 she went to Boston, and d. there in July, 1803. She was the first female employed as an instructor at the Orphan Asylum. The day before Anna died her daughter Sarah (Baker) Goodwin's son died age nine days. Both Anna and this grandson are buried at Central Burying Ground in Boston, Mass.