Heman Baker

1748 - 1777  (28 years)

• Name	Heman Baker  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Birth	11 Oct 1748	Tolland, Tolland, Connecticut   [5, 6, 7]
  Gender	Male
  Death	21 Jan 1777	Hartford, Connecticut   [5, 6, 7]
  	was taken captive at New York and upon his return home died at Hartford with the smallpox [5, 6] "died of small pox, at East Hartford, on his way from captivity" [8]
  Notes	"... was a soldier during the Revolutionary War, was taken prisoner, and died three months after his discharge...." [9] "Heman Baker, Jr., was a sergeant in Capt. Solomon Wills' company of volunteers at Roxbury, in 1775. The next year he was taken prisoner, together with his brother-in-law, Joel Smith, near New York, and after being kept in the usual severe confinement, they were exchanged or released, and having been unnecessarily and maliciously exposed to the small pox, they were permitted to return to their homes. On their way they became ill, and were unable to proceed farther than East Hartford, where it was discovered that they both had the small pox in the most malignant form, and where they both died. Heman Baker, Jr., died January 21, 1777. He was a single man. Joel Smith left a widow and two small children. Their grave-stones yet remain where they were buried,--not in the public burying ground, but in a field near the house in which they died. No one of their friends in Tolland could be present during their sickness or burial." [7]
  Person ID	I2113	The John and Tuly Huntington Family
  Last Modified	10 Jun 2014

  
  

  Father	Heman Baker,   b. 27 Apr 1719, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut d. 27 Jun 1805, Tolland, Tolland, Connecticut (Age 86 years)
  Mother	Lois Gilbert,   b. 8 Oct 1727, Coventry, Tolland, Connecticut d. 24 Feb 1790, Tolland, Tolland, Connecticut (Age 62 years)
  Marriage	24 Nov 1747	Tolland, Tolland, Connecticut   [5, 6, 10, 11, 12]
  	Married "5 Mar 1755" [10]
  Family ID	F46	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Documents		Town of Tolland Births, Marriages and Deaths, Vol. 1, from the Town Clerk's Office, Tolland, Tolland County, Connecticut; FHL microfilm 1376026, Item 1, Page 66 Microfilmed by the Genealogical Society, Salt Lake City, Utah, at: Town Clerk, Tolland, CT; date filmed: 15 Jun 1983. Image scanned from microfilm March 2013.
  		Town of Tolland Births, Marriages and Deaths from the Town Clerk's Office, Tolland, Tolland County, Connecticut; FHL microfilm 1376026, Item 5, Page 30 Microfilmed by the Genealogical Society, Salt Lake City, Utah, at: Town Clerk, Tolland, CT; date filmed: 15 Jun 1983. Image scanned from microfilm March 2013.

  
  

• Sources

  [S165] Town of Tolland Births, Marriages and Deaths, Vol. 1, from the Town Clerk's Office, Tolland, Tolland County, Connecticut; FHL microfilm 1376026, Item 1, Page 66. Name recorded as "Heman" [S166] Town of Tolland Births, Marriages and Deaths from the Town Clerk's Office, Tolland, Tolland County, Connecticut; FHL microfilm 1376026, Item 5, Page 30. Name recorded as "Herman" [S239] Loren P. Waldo, The Early History of Tolland. An Address, Delivered Before the Tolland County Historical Society in 1861, (Hartford: Press of Case, Lockwood & Company; 1861.), 58, 79. Name recorded as "Heman Baker, Jr." [S240] Biographical Review, Volume XXII, Containing Life Sketches of Leading Citizens of Sullivan and Merrimack Counties, New Hampshire, (Biographical Review Publishing Company, Boston, 1897), 32, 497-498. Name recorded as "Heman" [S165] Town of Tolland Births, Marriages and Deaths, Vol. 1, from the Town Clerk's Office, Tolland, Tolland County, Connecticut; FHL microfilm 1376026, Item 1, Page 66. [S166] Town of Tolland Births, Marriages and Deaths from the Town Clerk's Office, Tolland, Tolland County, Connecticut; FHL microfilm 1376026, Item 5, Page 30. [S239] Loren P. Waldo, The Early History of Tolland. An Address, Delivered Before the Tolland County Historical Society in 1861, (Hartford: Press of Case, Lockwood & Company; 1861.), 79. [S239] Loren P. Waldo, The Early History of Tolland. An Address, Delivered Before the Tolland County Historical Society in 1861, (Hartford: Press of Case, Lockwood & Company; 1861.), 58. [S240] Biographical Review, Volume XXII, Containing Life Sketches of Leading Citizens of Sullivan and Merrimack Counties, New Hampshire, (Biographical Review Publishing Company, Boston, 1897), 497-498. [S1] Elizabeth Ross Huntington, Personal family history of Elizabeth Ross Huntington. [S2] Grace Letitia Rondot Huntington, Personal family history of Grace Letitia Rondot Huntington. [S240] Biographical Review, Volume XXII, Containing Life Sketches of Leading Citizens of Sullivan and Merrimack Counties, New Hampshire, (Biographical Review Publishing Company, Boston, 1897), 32, 497.