This Ann Baker was evidently the widow of a FLORIDAY before she was the widow of a BAKER..... 1665 3 June 1665. p.554. To the Honoured Vestry of Westov'r parrish. The peticon of Ann Baker widd Most humbly Sheweth That whereas yo'r petn'rs son Wm Floriday is visited by the hand of God w'th Dangerous convulsion fitts wch taketh him comonly every day whereby he is made incapable to labour for his Liveing, and out of motherly affeccon and naturall Love yo'r petn'er doth according to her ability keep and mainteyne him, and hath kept and mainteyned him ever since September 1664 Wherefore yo'r petn'r doth most humbly beseech yo'r honoured Vestry to take it in their consideracon that your patn'r is a lone woman, and hath no servant and a charge of two children to mainteine, therefore yo'r petn'r Doth sollicit that her son Wm Floriday may be exempt from the Levies and the taxes in regard of the premisses, and yo'r petn'r shall pray etc. We of the Vestry present, on serious consideracon do hereby acquitt Wm Floriday of paying parish Levies, and do hereby recomend this pe! ticon to the consideracon of the worpll Co'rt for the acquitting, if they think fitt, the sd Floriday from pyblick Levies, As witness our hands this 15th of May 1665 John Holmwood, James Blamore, Edw: Hill, JAMES IW WARD, Otho Southcott, James Wallaace, Willm Hunt,. William Floriday is hereby exempted and released from all future pyblick services and taxes (except parish dues) upon certificat of the Vestry of Westov'r parish of his inability and povourty. pg.322 VA Colonial Abstracts, Vol III, Fleet