John Baker was a minor when his father died around early 1765.297 I have found no traces of him in land or tax records in Virginia. My impression is that he and his brother Isaac stuck close to the footsteps of thier older brother, Joshua.

In 1782, John Baker obtained a warrant for 400 acres of land to be laid out in Kentucky.298 (It was not until 1800, however, that the land was actually identified and surveyed and conveyed to him. This delay was typical of the process.) He was clearly in the area by 1789, when he and his brother Isaac appeared in the tax lists of Fayette County, Kentucky.299 At around this time, the brothers were active in settlement of the area and built a fort known as still commemorated as Baker’s Station.300,301

He married Polly Combs in 1797. The couple had four children in the six years before his death.

He accumulated extensive holdings of land, along with considerable cash and personal property.291