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The Baxter family

This page brings together the people recorded with the Baxter surname in the current collection. Their biographies and family connections below are drawn from the sources attached to each profile. The history will grow as additional records are checked.

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Ruth Baxter Clark

Ruth Baxter is named as the wife of John Clark, married January 16, 1752. The family account gives Braintree, Massachusetts, as her birthplace and names Thomas Baxter and Deliverance Marshall as her parents.

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Thomas Baxter

The Clarks names Thomas Baxter and his wife Deliverance Marshall as the parents of Ruth Baxter, born in 1733. The reviewed entry does not give Thomas Baxter’s birth or death dates.

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  1. The Clarks — physical PDF page 3, printed 3 Read cited record Family account; scanned page visually reviewed Relationship and dates checked against the scanned family account.
  2. The Clarks · physical PDF page 3 · printed page 3 Read cited record Family account Printed text visually checked during transcription. This is the compiler’s account, not independent vital-record proof.
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