Three Forks of the Kentucky River Historical Association

Jason W. Bolling

Manchester, KY, April 8, 1898 (Pg 2221)

I am a great great grandson of "Teneretta" BAKER. My great grandfather was "Julius or Juder" Bob BAKER. He married the widow of John AMIS. His son, John married Lucinda AMIS, step-brother and step-sister. He was my grandfather. His daughter Susan, was my mother. "Teneretta" BAKER came to Buffalo Creek from Boyle County in the early settlement of this country. He was the uncle of Robert P. LETCHER, governor of Kentucky. Francis CLARK was a cousin of Robert P. LETCHER. Dr. Abner BAKER was a cousin of "Julius" Bob BAKER, also a cousin of Francis CLARK, Francis CLARK owned 40,000 acres of land, in Jackson and Clay Counties called the Rutherford Survey, also another 6000 called the Rutherford Survey on Rockcastle River including where Mrs. Nantz McWhorter from Big Raccoon to Mrs. NANTZ. "Juder" Bob was in the War of 1812. William NEAL was with him in the war and NEAL was carried 15 miles to be buried by "Juder" Bob BAKER. "Smoker" CLARK says Francis CLARK got 14 negros of the Letcher estate. Clark was kin to the HARLANS and ROBERTSONS.

Transcribed by Sherry Lynn Baker