>["Jacque Baker" <JacqueBaker@adelph] wrote: >Subject: RE: [BAKER-L] DAVID BAKER BURKE CO NORTH CAROLINA >The Baker lines go back to Alexander Baker, the ropemaker, who immigrated >to Massachusetts aboard the "Elizabeth Ann" in 1635. As far as I have been able to determine, there is not one single shred of documentary evidence as to the ancestors of David Baker beyond his own father, Thomas Baker. All of the information about even Thomas's parents is anecdotal and unsupported by records. (The same is true about Thomas's own birth and death -- anecdotes, not records.) While it appears to be _possible_ that these Bakers (from whom I am descended through David's son Martin Alexander Baker) descended from the 17th century ropemaker Alexander, it must be regarded as unproved. If anybody can point to any documentary evidence, I'd be delighted to see it. But I've looked for years and can come up with nothing.