Chester County PA Archives Biographies.....Joseph BAKER, d. 1716
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from Futhey and Cope's History of Chester County (1881)

    JOSEPH BAKER, a brother of John, settled in Edgmont township, 
and probably gave it the name in memory of his former home, He 
was an influential citizen and a member if Assembly; died 1716. 
The name of his wife was Mary, and his children were Joseph, m. 
Susanna Packer; John, b. 1686, who inherited his father's lands 
in Edgmont; Sarah, m. Thomas Smedley, 1710.
    Joseph Baker, Jr., settled in Thornbruy, at the present site 
of the Glen Mills Station, where he died early in 1717, leaving 
two daughters and a son, Joseph, was born after his death. The 
widow married Dr. John Taylor, who became the owner of the Baker 
farm. Of the daughters, Sarah married Isaac Strode, and Hannah 
married Joseph Talbot.
    Joseph Baker (3rd) married, 2, 30, 1740, at Concord Meeting, 
Mary Chamberlin, daughter of John and Lettice, of Aston, and 
settled in Goshen, where he died a few years later, His children 
were John, who went to Price Edward Island; Lettice, m. Richard 
Barnard; Mary, unmarried; and Elizabeth, m. Thomas Brown. The 
widow married Andrew McCoy.



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