This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Baker Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/JCC.2ACEB/8940 Message Board Post: This John Baker is thought to be a descendant of Robert Baker, gunsmith, of Lancaster Co., Pa and later of Prince Edward Co.,VA. I am of the opinion John Baker was born in Prince Edward Co., VA about 1750 -1760. He showed up in what is now Washington Co., AL just after the American Revoultion, where he and his wife Elizabethacquired land and raised 4 children including Isaac Baker(my gggrandfather),who emigrated to Grimes County, TX well before the Civil War. jack baker jbkr469@yahoo.com Navasota, Grimes County, TX