Genealogy Data Page 548 (Notes Pages)

Note: Daniel and his wife made their home to the southward, where he built the original part of what is now the oldest building on the south side of the town, and which has long been known as the Judah Baker house.

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Baker, Judah (b. 2 OCT 1771, d. 10 JUN 1830)

Note: Judah, the third of that name in the direct line, is better distinguished by the title of Captain, which alludes to his relation to the militia during the war of 1812, as well as to his command of vessels. He was born October 2, 1771, and on March 6, 1798, married Mercy Howes, of North Dennis, born March 18, 1779, she being in direct line from Thomas Howes of 1639. Captain Judah was an important character in his time, and was educated beyond the average of his day. He taught others the art of navigation, and was himself a successful master mariner. On land he was a practical surveyor, and in a day when the average seaman was not so well educated as now, he was often useful in the community in adjusting the accounts of their voyages. He was drowned in Vineyard sound June 10, 1830. His wife died October 7, 1865. They had six sons and four daughters, of whom Philander is the only survivor. Their oldest son, Howes Baker, was born September 12, 1801, and at the age of twenty-two married Persis Allen, of Harwich, born January 21, 1803. She was a daughter of Elisha, and granddaughter of John Allen, whose father, Rev. Allen, a Scotchman, once pastor of a church in Salem, was lost at sea on a voyage to Edinburgh. This Howes Baker followed the sea from boyhood until his early death— October 30, 1849. His children were nine daughters and two sons— Captain Howes Baker, now of South Dennis, and Alpheus H. Baker, of Brooklyn, N. Y. These eleven children were born near the historic old house, on land that belonged to their ancestors since previous to 1680.

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Baker, Howes (b. 12 SEP 1801, d. ?)

Note: Howes Baker, the oldest son, a descendant through his mother from Stephen Hopkins, of the Mayflower, was born there February 8, 1828, and here his early years and first school days were passed; then until eighteen years of age he had the advantages of other schools at Brunswick, Me., and Andover, Mass.; but in March of 1846 he commenced a sea-faring life, and from 1850 was for six years in command of various vessels. He then went into business in Philadelphia, where he remained until January, 1859, when he removed to New York city, and with William Crowell, of Dennis, formed the firm of Baker & Crowell, ship chandlers, grocers and general commission merchants. In February, 1871, this firm was dissolved, and Captain Baker embarked in a shipping business and general trade in the same city, until ill health led to his retirement in 1880, since which time he has lived retired at his native village, where his widowed mother and his only surviving sister, Persis, reside.

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Baker, Ezra Howes (b. 17 AUG 1811, d. ?)

Note: Ezra Howes Baker, named for his mother's brother, born on August 17, 1811. When ten years of age, he began his seafaring life with his father, and at the age of sixteen was put in charge of a schooner, and sent to the coast of Maine to buy a cargo of lumber.

On January 31, 1832, he married Esther May Hinckley, of Barnstable, making his home in South Dennis. He followed the sea, buying and selling his own cargoes, until 1838, when he moved to Boston and entered into partnership with Alpheus Hardy, of Chatham, under the firm name of Hardy & Baker. Charles J. Morrill, of Boston, became, in 1845, a member of the firm, which was then known as Hardy, Baker & Morrill. In 1848 Mr. Hardy withdrew from the concern, which was thereafter known as Baker & Morrill; Mr. Baker's son, Ezra H. Baker, jr., becoming a partner in 1863, from which time the concern remained unchanged until Mr. Baker's death.