A Guide to the Henry W. Baker Estate Ledger, 1838
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the Library of Virginia
Accession Number 38760
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Preferred Citation
Henry W. Baker. Estate Ledger, 1838. Accession 38760, Personal papers collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.
Acquisition Information
Purchased 13 December 2000.
Biographical/Historical Information
Henry William Baker was born on 8 December 1760, the son of Heinrich and Maria Elizabeth Fink Baker of Winchester, Virginia. He married Catherine Miller of Fredericktown, Maryland, on 5 September 1786. The couple reared several children including George W. Baker, whose vital statistics have yet to be determined. Henry Baker died on 21 December 1837. Catherine Baker died half a year later on 14 July 1838. Her will was proven 8 August 1838 and is found in Frederick County Will Book 20, pp. 155-156. The married couple was interred side by side in Mount Hebron Cemetery in Winchester.
Scope and Content Information
Ledger, 1838, containing records and accounts relevant to the estate settlements of Henry W. Baker (1760-1838) and his wife Catherine Baker (1768-1838), both of Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia. Includes copies of court orders, itemized accounts of estate appraisements and sales, receipts, and a Bible record of four slaves owned by the Baker family (names and ages included). Also contains a list, 16 January 1862, of George W. Baker's property taxed for the War Tax (Virginia county or township undetermined). Of the 170 pages in the ledger, 122 are blank. Some of the information in this ledger is also found in Frederick County Will Book 20, pp. 151-162.