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- Proposed Change: Johannes Becker Baker (I89690) Tree: Südpfalz / Southern Palatinate Link: http://www.birkenhoerdt.net/getperson.php?personID=I89690&tree=Suedpfalz Description: The following is a public story from ancestry.com that came up while researching the Yoho Family. Moved from Bingen, Mainz-Bingen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. Captain John Hontas Baker - Life History John Hontas Baker's birth year ranges from 1737 to 1740. John reportedly came to America with his brother Jacob about 1760. It is also reported he had six brothers and sisters including: Jacob, Betty or Beulah, Peter, Hannah, Henry and George. His brother Henry was supposedly born in 1731 and died in 1807 and had married Maria Elizabeth Fink. Beulah married a man named Philpot, and George was born in 1749. Father was George Perilous Baker b: June 1714 in Bingen Am Rhine, Prussia, Germany. John Hontas Baker marriage to Elizabeth Ann Adams Sullivan Baker b: 2/14/1743 in Germany Married: 1760 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. John Baker was a noted pioneer and soldier in the early history of the upper Ohio River Valley. Author Scott Powell in his History of Marshall County West Virginia, records that Baker was born in Purssia and came to America about 1760. He arrived at Philadelphia and five years later married Elizabeth Sullivan of that city. From there the young couple moved to the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia where they lived two years. They then moved to the waters of Dunkard Creek, now in Greene Co. PA in the year 1767 and remained there seven years. At the time they lived on that creek there were a number of Indians residing on it and they and the whites were very friendly. John Baker was the father of twin sisters Margaret and Catherine Baker who married Peter and Henry Yoho. While it is not clear how and when Peter and Henry met Captain Baker's daughters, Peter married Margaret Baker in 1774. The date of Henry's marriage to Catherine is not known. At the outbreak of Dunmore's War, Captain Baker moved his family to Redstone Old Fort, now Brownsville, Pennsylvania. The American Revolution began soon after the close of Dunmore's War and Indian hostilities soon followed. Baker remained at the fort a number of years, and was in the service of that Colony of Virginia much of the time during that war, but there is little record of him. From Redstone he moved to Catfish Camp Virginia (now West Virginia) in 1781, where he remained a short time. He then moved to Round Bottom and in 1784, Captain Baker built a blockhouse near the upper end of Cresap's Bottom. This place was generally known by the name of Baker's Station and is near what is now Moundsville, West Virginia.While two Wetzel men were at Baker's Station in 1787, they and Captain Baker noticed some Indians on the opposite shore of the Ohio River walking about. Baker, having an opportunity, shot and killed one Indian. The others ran away as if badly frightened, leaving the dead Indian where he fell. They evidently did this to deceive the whites as it was proved later by their actions. Baker and the two Wetzels crossed over the river and were viewing the dead Indian when several shots were fired and Baker fell mortally wounded. The Wetzels commenced to fight and some other men crossed the river and reinforced them driving off the Indians allowing the recovery of Baker's body. He had crawled a short distance from where he fell and was alive when recovered but died soon after arriving back at Baker's station. Baker was buried on a flat near a stream called Grave Yard Run at the upper end of Cresap's Bottom. Captain Baker's son John Jr. was killed by Indians at the same location in 1794. ------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------- An interview with Samuel Baker of Marshall County, West Virginia by Editors of the Intelligencer newspaper: John Baker, my grandfather, was a Prussian, and he came to the United States in the year 1755. He landed at Philadelphia, where he married a German lady by the name of Elizabeth Sullivan, in the year 1760, immediately after his marriage he moved to the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, where in the year 1763 Henry Baker, my father, was born. In the year 1767 he emigrated from there to Drunkard Creek, Green county, Pa., and settled among the Indians, four tribes of whom were then living there in peace with the whites, viz. the Delaware, the Wyandots, the Swanees and the Mingoes. He remained there until the breaking out of Dunmore's war, when he took refuge with his family in what was then called Redstone Old Fort, now Brownsville, Pennsylvania. Kerry keirjung@yahoo.com
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