This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Baker, Weisenfels, Cragin Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/JCC.2ACEB/9011 Message Board Post: John Martin Baker, b. abt. 1770, married Harriet Weisenfels, b. abt. 1779, the daughter of Frederick Henry von Weissenfels, the commander of Weissenfels' Regiment during the American revolution. The marriage took place in Christ Church in Philadelphia on April 5, 1798. John Martin Baker served in the diplomatic service of the USA in the 1820s. He worked at the US Consul in San Juan, Puerto Rico as the Agent for Commerce and Seaman (1818-20) and in the same job in Matazas, Cuba (1820-21). He was given the job by Secretary of State James Madison after his father-in-law, Frederick Weissenfels, wrote to Madison asking for the appointment (letter library of congress). Harriet spent many years trying to get Congress to reimburse her family for the monitary losses her father suffered during the Revolution. Her children: Louis, Mary A. and Lucy C. Baker continued the efforts at least until 1860. The House Bill to pay the Bakers was introduced by Congressman Aaron Cragin of Vermont. I would like to find descendants of this family.