BAXTER ANNEX
MARY (BAXTER) WAFFLE PEDIGREE
(Start at generation 4, below.)
WORKING DRAFT
Last Change: 21 November 2014
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Origin of the surname “Baxter:”
This Baxter family has been
documented back to Mayflower passengers.
Generation
10
9 Thomas
Baxter
A. Biographical Notes:
Resided at Yarmouth (on Cape
Cod), Massachusetts. There was also an
unrelated Captain Thomas Baxter, a pirate, living there at the same time, and
both men had sons named Thomas Baxter, Jr.
B. Wife: Temperance (Gorham) Sturgis
1. Husband
#1: Edward Sturgis
C. Children:
a. Thomas Baxter, Jr.: See generation
8, below.
8 Thomas
Baxter, Jr.
A. Wife: Mary Lattimore
Married Thomas Baxter, Jr. in 1705.
B. Children:
1. Timothy Baxter: See generation 7, below.
2. Elizabeth Baxter: Born in
1708.
7 Timothy
Baxter
A. Biographical Notes:
Born 1706.
Resided at Wethersfield, Connecticut.
B. Wife: Sarah Kilbourne/Killbourne
C. Child:
1. John Baxter: See generation 6,
below.
6 John
Baxter
A. Wife: Ruth (?)
B. Child:
1. John Baxter, Jr.: See generation
5, below.
5 John Baxter, Jr.
A. Biographical Notes:
Born 19
August 1757 at Wethersfield, Hartford County, Connecticut. Died at Brownsville,
Jefferson County, New York on 18 April 1847. While residing at Sanderfield,
Berkshire County, Massachusetts, John enlisted and served in the following
Massachusetts militia units:
·
For 13 months starting November 1775 in the grade of
private in Colonel Asa Whitcomb's regiment.
·
For 45 days starting in April 1777 in Captain Elizah Deming's company.
·
For 2 months starting in June 1777 in Colonel Ashey's regiment.
·
For 3 1/2 months starting on 1 June 1778 at New London,
Connecticut as a gunner with General Putnam, a privateer. Participated in capturing 6 British brigades
and 70 prisoners of war.
·
For 5 1/2 months starting in June 1780 in the grade of
private in companys commanded by Captain Noah Allen
and John Kibley Smith within Colonel Shepherd's
regiment.
For his
service John was granted a federal pension on 11 September 1832. At the time he was a resident of Brownsville.
B. Wife
#1: Anne/Anna Gowdy
Born in
1764. Married
in 1784/85.
1. Children:
a. Levi
Baxter: Born in 1786.
b. Roswell Baxter: Born in
1787.
c. Anna
Baxter: Born in 1789.
d. Mary Baxter: See generation 4, below.
e. Sally
Baxter: Born in 1793.
C. Wife #2: Candace Emerson
Married in
July 1808.
4 Mary Baxter
Born 1792. Married William Waffle, Jr., generation 4 of
the Waffle
Annex on 16 June 1811.
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