4 SPENCER FULLERTON BAIRD 
is not recorded in the documents accessible to me, but in 
November, 1775, his wife, Mary, was a widow with ten 
children, of whom seven were sons. The eldest, James, 
was born in 1748. Samuel Baird, the sixth in order of 
the children, was a quartermaster in the Revolutionary 
army, later settled in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, 
and about 1782 married Rebecca Potts, born in 1753. 
After the death of Thomas Baird his widow removed 
first to Kentucky with her children, where some of their 
descendants are supposed to live at the present time, and 
afterward to Vincennes, Indiana. Bardstown, Kentucky, 
is supposed to have been named after some of the early 
members of this branch, the name Baird, as heretofore 
noted, having many variants. 
Samuel Baird (1) appears to have been the only male 
member of the family who remained in Pennsylvania, 
which may perhaps be accounted for by his army service. 
He had eleven children, most of whom died unmarried. 
His wife’s uncle, John Potts, was a Tory, and with others 
of his way of thinking removed to Nova Scotia after the 
success of the Revolution, leaving a fine house and grounds 
called Stowe, near Pottsgrove (now Pottstown). This 
was confiscated and later sold to Jonathan Potts for 
£20,000. It was afterward purchased by Samuel Baird, 
who long resided there, but after his death it passed into 
other hands. The sixth child of Samuel and Rebecca 
Potts Baird was named for his father, and was born at 
Norristown, in 1786. The father died June 26, 1820; his 
widow survived him, reaching the ripe age of seventy- 
seven. Samuel Baird, senior, was a land surveyor, and in 
the settlement and division of new lands must have 
prospered, for he lived generously. His son Samuel (2) 
was educated well, brought up to the law, and by the 
