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 1762 - 1815 (53 years)
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| Name |
James Baird |
| Birth |
c 1762 |
Scotland  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
12 Apr 1815 |
Camden Co GA |
| Burial |
Camden Co GA |
| Person ID |
I238 |
Georgia Revolutionary War Graves |
| Last Modified |
3 Oct 2015 |
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| Notes |
- James Baird was born in about 1762 in Scotland. James Baird?s title of ?Captain? inscribed on his gravestone recognized his merchant shipping activities after the Revolutionary War, rather than his military service. Although probably moving to Camden County much earlier, he was listed on the Tax Roll in 1809.
- According to the inscription on his grave stone, James Baird died on April 12, 1815, in St. Johns County, Florida, when he was forty-six years old. He must have been over fifty years old to have served on the galley in 1778. His remains were brought to St. Marys where he was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery. His tablet is enclosed within a high walled plot
- His widow, Margaret Baird, who was also born in Scotland, had a fortunate draw in in the Georgia Land Lottery as head of household. Women could not record ownership of land in their name, so it was awarded to the estate of James Baird. She married Thomas Miller after James Baird?s death, but when Margaret Baird Miller died in 1852, she was also buried inside the walled plot alongside James Baird.
James and Margaret Baird had two daughters, Ann Elizabeth who married Mr. O?Neal, and Maria who married Robert James Delony, son of Revolutionary War Patriot William Deloney. Maria and Robert Deloney, a veteran of the War of 1812, were both buried in marked graves in
Oak Grove Cemetery.
- Margaret Baird was born in Scotland ca 1783. She married Thomas Miller after James Baird?s death, but when Margaret Baird Miller died July 3, 1852, age 70, she was buried alongside James Baird.
- James Baird was born in about 1762 in Scotland, was listed as doing duty onboard the Georgia Navy galley, Bulloch, in August of 1778, and later was listed as recovering in the hospital of the Third Georgia Battalion of the Continental Line. He most likely served with Colonel Samuel Elbert during the Frederica Naval Action in April 1778, and also served that summer on one of Elbert?s galleys during the Third Invasion of British East Florida. There were no injuries in either battles during this time period, but many men became ill with fever, and it is assumed that Baird was one of them.
- 1-- Oak Grove Cemetery, --Kay Westberry page 118- 119 ? paragraphs & photo of Marker, Section H-1; page 83-
2 --Georgia Citizens and Soldiers of the American Revolution, Robert Scott Davis ? page 136
- This James Baird does not appear in either DAR nor the SAR Index, so is now "new" SAR Ancestor #P-334278.
- Grave marked by Marshes of Glynn Chapter SAR 12 Sep 2015
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