Shane's Interview with Benjamin Allen And the next season afterwards [1791] my brother....worked two months for a cow with John Baker (that was, clearing at Winchester [Clark Co., KY] for Baker). (This was in 1791. We leased ground [spring, 1791], cleared it for the use of it for seven years, and planted corn and laid it by before my brother went to work for Baker. Next season [1792] I moved there [to John Baker's, now Winchester]....) [Baker] Had loaned us one [cow] before we bought it. In the first settling of Winchester this John Baker had a little half-faced camp of red-oak logs down where Lingingfelter's house is now.... his family in one end and a barrel of whiskey in the other.... Baker put his camp there in the winter 1792-93. Colonel [Joshua] Baker knew me. His aunt Bile [Boyle] was in our settlement-Stephen Bile's wife. I stayed with him three days. He was living in Mason then. John Baker, Lord Mayor of Winchester that was, bought a tract of land ....on the head of Somerset [Creek] of Simon Kenton. [Baker] Had been living down in Jessamine [County]. Married an Aga Williams of Jessamine, (my father and mother were at his first wedding in Virginia, Berkeley County: a second wife. Welch [was his] first wife; Combs his third), and took a notion to move up. (Clark Co.) Isaac Baker was a younger brother of John. Isaac was wounded in 1790. In the spring 1790 they settled Baker's Station. They also had a brother Joshua of Mason Co. After June 1790 Baker and his family went to Stephen Bile's whose wife was his aunt. Stephen Bile's wife's maiden name was Martha Campbell. Notes by Mr. Beckner: Col. Joshua Baker and his brothers, John and Isaac, were sons of Joshua Baker of Baker's Bottom on the Monongahela. Col. Baker was one of the most daring, skillful and useful of the partisan leaders on the Kentucky frontier. The Baker brothers were born near Winchester, Frederick Co., VA. John named the town of Winchester, [Clark Co.] KY for his native place. John Baker came to Kentucky in 1776 and located his preemption in Nelson Co. He must have sold this, for he came back from the Revolution and located in Jessamine Co., from whence he moved to Clark, where he d in 1803, leaving two sets of children: Joshua, John, Miriam and Elizabeth by his first wife, and Isaac Shelby, Cuthbert Bullit, Cythe and Nancy by his third. Clark Co. WB 1:302. Isaac Baker d unmarried in Feb/Mar 1793, Clark Co. WB 1:1. (Lucien Beckner, "John D. Shane's Interview with Benjamin Allen, Clark County," The Filson Club History Quarterly, V:5 (1931) pp. 63-98.)