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Tom Brokaw

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Abner Baker

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Tom Brokaw — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 112 
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  • Birth Date:
  • 8 May 1755 
  • Birth Location:
  • Rochester, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 8 Jun 1826 
  • Death Location:
  • Pennsylvania 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Hannah Morton
  • Marriage Date:
  • 5 Feb 1778 
  • Marriage Location:
  • First Church, Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Barnabas Baker (Ahnentafel No:56 )

  • Notes: 

  • Revolutionary War veteran

    Abner Baker is said to have died in Pennsylvania while visiting in the state and was buried there.

• Sources for Abner Baker

  • ¹ Federal Census, NY, Cortland County, 1820, Virgil, Image 2 of 12.
  • ² Federal Census, MA, Plymouth County, 1790, Rochester, Image 4 of 5.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Rochester, Vol. 2, p. 21, Marriage record for Abner Baker and Hannah Morton in Plymouth.
  • ⁴ Plymouth, MA: First Church Records, 1620-1859, p. 571, Marriage record for Abner Baker and Hannah Morton.
  • ⁵ U.S., Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900, W20668, Pension application for Abner and Hannah Baker (marriage and Abner's death date).
  • ⁶ U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, National No. 45970, Membership application for Herbert Percy Baker.
  • ⁷ U.S., The Pension Roll of 1835, NY, Cortland County, Pension record for Abner Baker (death date).
  • ⁸ Schouten, M. Louise, Records of Revolutionary Soldiers of Cortland County, New York State with Unpublished Genealogical Notes, Book One, Cortland, New York: Typed manuscript (1935), 148.