Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1912-03-07
One Branch ef Old Family.
lsheville Gazette. News.

dent E. Baird, Jan. %, 1858,
from Sugar Grove postoiiice, Wa
tauga county, to a "Nameless
Friend ut Lapland, now Mar
shal, N. C., and supposed to have
been ex-senator q. B. Vance, the
following interesting facts are
gathered:
John Baird and brother came
over from Scotland in the Gale.
donia and settled in the Jerseys.
The brothers. career is not fur
ther mentioned, hut John Baird
married Mary Bedent She gave
birth to seven children. the first
Ofwhom wasnamed Bedent Baird
the second William, the third
Samuel, the fourth Abadiah, the
fifth Borzill, the sixth Jonathan,
a
and the seventh Ezekial Baird.
Ezekial married Susannah Blod
get and came with his wife to
North Carolina about the close
Of the Revolutionary war. The
writer OF the letter; q son OF that
marriage. was 80 years of agein
1858, which would place his birth
in ITO, but he does not state
whether he was born in North
Carolina, or before his parents
removed here. 1t would seem
that his father had married be.
fore his coming to this state,
since it is stated that his wife's
fat her had been killed in the DE-
file near Fort Duquense, under
Braddock, as there were not ma.
ny soldiers from North Carolina
in that ilI-tated expedition.
Samuel Baird married Susan.
nah Rogers, Borzilla's vile was a
Bullman, but the writer did not
remember the names Of the wives
of the Others.
1t appears that the Hfirst Be-
dent Baird, uncle of the writer,
after the death of his first wife.
moved after a second marriage,
to the German Flats in Canada,
where he is lost sight of. But he
left a son, Be,ient. who took part
under Sir Arthur Wellesley in the
reduction of the Moeul Empire,
commanded q battalion in the
last battle aud saved the lives
Of the royal Mognl family after
the death OF Tippo Selle, the EN-.
peror, and found among his If
Iects the great diamond, t b e
'Kooh-i-noor, now among the
crown jewels Of Great Britain.
He refers to Robert Tears His
tory of India and China as proof
of this statement regarding Gen
eral Bedent Baird, who, itSeeme,
was married three time and rear.
ed three numerous families, which
must have made q right smart
sprinkling Of Bairds somewhere
in British America, not to men-
tion the writer's grundfather's
brother, who had come over in
the Caledonia with him fr o m
Scotland, and bis issue or the is.
sue OF my five uncles 80" who
helped 10 settle f1ve or six OF the
southwestern states
Just what the relationship is
bet ween these Watauga Bairds.
a large nnd influential family,
and the i'uncolnbe Bairds may
be established from the fOreeo.
ing facts. 1t is q curious IA C t,
but in keeping with the writer's
statement, that Bedend Baird
lived in the Jerseys. that Dr.. Gil
bert Tennent has seen the dia-
gram OF an old church in Nam.
mouth county, New Jersey, show
ing the pews, one Of which was
held by Zebulon and another by
Dayid Baird IN 1850. The church
was then called the FREEHOLD
but Is now known as the Tennent
church. But the John Baird who
emigrated from Scotland, came
in 1883, aged 18 years, aud died
in April, 1856, aged about 80
wears. He married Mary Hall IN