A Violent Man John Baker was a volatile troublemaker who emigrated from England with his family to the Massachusetts Bay Colony during the beginning of the Great Migration in 1630. What’s notable is that he moved around constantly: Charlestown, MA (1630), Newbury, MA (1637-38), York, ME (1639), Boston, MA (1641-42), Dover, NH (1643), York, ME (1646), Dover, NH (1647-50), Wells, ME (1653), Cape...
