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I enjoyed your posts about Amos Baker. I am a descendant of his brother in law, Daniel Homsmer, Jr., as well as Baker's father, Jacob Baker. We are descended from Daniel Hosmer's daughter, Grace Hosmer Wilder, who with her husband Abel Wilder, moved from the Concord / Lincoln area to Abbott's Plantation (now Temple), Maine, in the late 1790's. It appears that Daniel Hosmer Jr. moved to Temple or the adjacent village of Farmington sometime around 1810, according to his veteran's deposition. It would appear that he either lived with his son (confusingly called Daniel Hosmer Jr. also) or perhaps with his daughter Grace Hosmer Wilder, or perhaps farmed his own land although he would have been in his sixties at this time. It's interesting to imagine the stories that he, as an old man, might have shared in their little farm near Drury Pond in the woods. Hosmer was alive in Farmington as late as 1832, but I don't know of a death date for him. Of interest also is that the Baker farm associated with Amos Baker's family in Lincoln, MA later became a haunt of Henry David Thoreau (Chapter 10 of Walden--"The Baker Farm"), and was in the 1990's protected by preservation efforts led by Don Henley, one of the rock band Eagles to preserve its tie to the history of American environmentalism. Finally, Rick Wiggins, mentioned above in another post, was very helpful to our family's research on Daniel Hosmer and the Baker brothers a few years back.
Jun 12, 2016, 10:48:47 PM
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