Re: Elizabeth Baker

["John S. Quarterman" <jsq@quarterman.org>]

>I have a question regarding the book's discussion of the two Elizabeth Bakers 
>who married John Quarterman Senior.  I'm a bit confused by the dates of the bi
>rths of John's children, including Thomas Sr.

Good point.

>According to the book John Quarterman Sr. married Elizabeth Baker, dau of Thom
>as Baker, at an unknown date in South Carolina.  This Elizabeth then died in 1
>753 in South Carolina.  
>
>Then John Sr. married another Elizabeth Baker, dau of Richard Baker Sr., who d
>ied in 1755 in Liberty County, Georgia.

My brother David established that there were two Elizabeth Bakers.
I'd best let him explain how he did that.

>The children were born on the following dates:
>John Junior, (perhaps born 1733, if 21 when he married in 1754).
>Thomas Sr. was born 1738.
>Robert born 1742.
>Captain William born 1746.  
>
>Some of these birth dates are verified by epitaphs, DAR applications, etc.  I 
>see others are taken from Stacy's work.
>
>Although it would make sense to assume these children would be born to Elizabe
>th dau of Thomas, the previous wife,

That would make sense.

> the book just says that Stacy seems to be
>lieve the children were from Elizabeth dau of Richard, who had to have married
> John Sr. in 1753 or thereafter.

I think we hit press time before we finished working on that.

>Did Stacy, in his book, use any sources to back up his belief that these were 
>the children of Eliz. dau Richard?  The dates just don't seem to add up, unles
>s they were all born out of wedlock (tongue in cheek, of course--John Sr. main
>tained a high standing in a Puritan-descended society).  

My guess would be that they were children of the earlier Elizabeth
and the second Elizabeth raised them.  It's quite possible that
most relatives believed they were the second Elizabeth's children
because they never had any reason to believe otherwise.

>So I guess my question is two-fold.
>1/ Why did Stacy believe these to be the children of Eliz. dau Richard?

We don't know.  If I had to guess, I'd say because that was what he
could find in church and society records and family tradition.
She was his great-great-grandmother.  See:

 http://www.quarterman.org/chart/leonora/

>2/ Why do we continue to follow that line if the dates don't add up?

Because we haven't finished straightening it out.  Looks like your
reading of the book is helping to do that.

>I'm still enjoying the book, by the way.  I keep going over and over it and ca
>tching new things.

Please keep doing that.

>  I love the stories!!

Thanks.

>-Connie

John S. Quarterman <jsq@quarterman.org>

PS: The previous generation, involving Robert Quarterman d. 1710 S.C.,
is even more confusing.  My Aunt Jane managed to establish that he was
probably the father of John Quarterman Sr., and we've found some further
evidence of that.  Exactly who his children were is still very confusing.
And before that, only silence; we don't know where he came from.
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