Thank you, Virginia, for the Baker reference Book citation. This is the earliest Martin Baker that I have come across in VA., but he cannot be related to me because he was wealthy! ;-) There are about as many Martin Bakers in Colonial VA. as Jones, and my relatives have been trying to sort them out for more than 65 years! I continue the search now along with several others. My ancestor, Martin, we first located in Brunswick Co., a grown man, married with children, (his wife, a Clark, had an even more common surname!). He may have been born elsewhere. About 1760-70, he and his family moved to Haifax Co. on Miry Creek. Several of his children were married there in the 1780s. Then after about 17 years, he, his wife, their son, James, and his wife's brother, Francis Clark, moved to Garrard Co., KY. where he died. His dau., Henrietta Maria Baker who mar. William Hamlett, remained in Halifax, but they disappeared from the records in the 1790s. The other Martin Bakers were in Hanover, Cumberland, Kent, Charlotte and Chesterfield Counties, as well as one in Richmond. (Some of these most likely were the same man moving around.) Amazingly, at least four of them also moved on to KY.! Were they related? Some of them, but my Martin remains unclaimed. I keep hoping that more old records will turn up in Southern VA. Brunswick, in particular, seems to have a paucity of old records. Elizabeth VAThomson@aol.com wrote: > "The Baker Family of England and of Central Virginia" by William Thomson > Baker, Sr. > says: ..."footprints" of Martin Baker in York County where the records are > still > available to us......