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- Link to Jeff Renner's excellent biographical narrative on Andrew Baker:
http://www.jeffrenner.net/genealogy/biographies_andrewbaker.htm
Records of Andrew Baker:
Earliest tax/census records in northwestern North Carolina is the "1774 List of Tithables for Surry County, North Carolina." A line in this record shows "Moses Baker & Neathen Bake(r)" with 2 tithables. Wilkes County, NC was formed out of Surry County in 1777.
Note - the following tax lists are incomplete, with some districts/records missing.
1787 Wilkes County, NC Tax List
Captain Vannoy's District
Andrew Baker, no land, 1 poll
George Baker, no land, 1 poll
(note: there are 11 male "Baker's" listed in this tax list - Andrew, George, James, Morris, George, John, Peter, Bazel, Bazel, John, Obediah)
1788 Wilkes County, NC Tax List
Captain Bunyard District
Andrew Baker, Junr - 100 acres, 1 poll
George Baker - no land, 1 poll
Andrew Baker, Senr - 200 acres, 1 poll
(Baker's - Morris, Thomas, Peter, Philip, Obediah)
1789 Wilkes County, NC Tax List
Captain Cleveland District
Andrew Baker, no land, 1 poll
Captain Bunyard District
Andrew Baker - 100 acres, 1 poll
(other Baker's - James, Morris, Boswell, Boswell Senr)
1790 Wilkes County, NC Tax List
Captain Cleveland District
Andrew Baker, 70 acres, 1 poll
Captain Bunyard District
Andrew Baker - 100 acres, 1 poll
(other Baker's - John, Peter, Bassel, Bassel Junr, Morris, James )
1790 Federal Census - Wilkes County, NC
Third Company
Andw Baker
2 White Males 16 and older
2 White Males under 16
2 White Females
0 Slaves
(note: there are 10 "Baker" families in this census record - Andw, Philip, Baswell, Mary, Ab, Thom., Anne, Jas., Morry. Moses & Obediah Baker are listed in adjacent Surry County for this census)
"A True List of Tax Payers in Wilkes County, (NC) 1797"
No Baker's listed
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