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     Autobiographic Reminiscences



   1      This venerable grandmother had thirteen children,
     the youngest of whom was my father, Mark Baker,
   3  who inherited the homestead, and with his brother, James
     Baker, he inherited my grandfather's farm of about five
     hundred acres, lying in the adjoining towns of Concord
   6  and Bow, in the State of New Hampshire.
         One hundred acres of the old farm are still cultivated
     and owned by Uncle James Baker's grandson, brother of
   9  the Hon. Henry Moore Baker of Washington, D. C.
         The farm-house, situated on the summit of a hill, com-
     manded a broad picturesque view of the Merrimac River
  12  and the undulating lands of three townships. But change
     has been busy. Where once stretched broad fields of
     bending grain waving gracefully in the sunlight, and
  15  orchards of apples, peaches, pears, and cherries shone
     richly in the mellow hues of autumn,--now the lone night-
     bird cries, the crow caws cautiously, and wandering winds
  18  sigh low requiems through dark pine groves. Where
     green pastures bright with berries, singing brooklets,
     beautiful wild flowers, and flecked with large flocks and
  21  herds, covered areas of rich acres,--now the scrub-oak,
     poplar, and fern flourish.
         The wife of Mark Baker was Abigail Barnard Ambrose,
  24  daughter of Deacon Nathaniel Ambrose of Pembroke, a

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