Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

BAKER.
The Baker families in Barnstable and West Barnstable,
are descendants of Rev. Nicholas Baker of Scituate ; the
Hyannis families from Francis, who settled in Yarmouth.
Rev. Nicholas Baker was a graduate of St. John's Col-
lege, Cambridge, England, had his Batchelor's degree in
1(331-2, and Master of Arts, 1635. His brother Nathaniel
came over with him and both settled at Hingham in 1635.
He received a share in the first division of house lots in that
town. He afterwards became a large landholder in Hull.
He was ordained in Scituate in 1660, where he was instrumental
in effecting a reconciliation of the two churches
which had held no conmiunication with each other for twenty-five
years. Cotton Mather says : "Honest Nicholas Baker
of Scituate, was so good a logician that he could oifer
up to God a reasonable service, so good an arithmetician
that he could wisely number his days, and so good an orator
that he persuaded himself to be a Christian." He died
Aug. 22, 1678, aged 67, of "that horror of mankind, and
rein'oach of medicine, the stone," a memorable example of
patience under suffering.
He was twice married. His first wife died at Scituate
in 1661, and he married the following year his second wife
Grace, who died in Barnstable, January 22, 1696-7. In his
will dated 1678, he names his wife Grace, whom he appointed
executrix, his brother Nathaniel Baker, his sons Samuel
and Nicholas, and four daughters, namely, Mary, who married
Stephen Vinal, 26th Feb., 1662; Elizabeth, married
1664, John Vinal ; Sarah, married Josiah Litchfield, and
Deborah married 1678, Israel Chittenden.
Samuel, to whom his father gave an estate in Hull, Mas
a freeman of that town in 1677. He married Fear, daughter
of Isaac Robinson, and had a family. May 12, 1687, he
was admitted an inhabitant of Barnstable, and the same year
he and his wife were admitted to the Barnstable Church by
dismission from the Church at Hull. The veneral)le Isaac
Robinson resided a year or two at the close of his life with