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30 March 1736 Pointer son of Richard and Ann Baker baptized at Saint Michael Bassinshaw.

17 January 1758 Pointer son of Richard Baker admitted into the freedom of the City of London in the company of clockmakers by patrimony .

13 December 1758 Pointer Baker of the parish of Saint Andrew Holborn batchelor married Mary Coombes of the parish of Saint Dunstan in the West London spinster at Saint Dunstan in the West.

2 June 1761 William son of Sam Langford of Ludlow Shropshire apothecary apprenticed to Pointer Baker clockmaker of London.

20 June 1765 Pointer Baker clockmaker of London paid apprentice indenture duty for John Aistrop.

26 April 1770 Pointer Baker clockmaker of London paid apprentice indenture duty for Thomas Lea.

22 May 1778 Pointer Baker of the parish of Saint James Clerkenwell in the County of Middlesex widower and watchmaker married Ann Jones of the parish of Saint Dunstan in the West London spinster at Saint Dunstan in the West. James Freshfield (Grimwade p.515) was a witness.

31 December 1787 Poynter Baker of Badger Yard burial recorded at Saint John The Baptist Clerkenwell Islington.

9 March 1767 Pointer Baker London Clockmaker paid apprentice indenture duty for William Belt.

The following sourced from The London Gazette - date and number as indicated entries for Baker seeking release from Prison as an Insolvent Debtor: To be entitled to petition for release his debts will have had to be less than £500, though in 1769 this was raised to £1,000.

As Watchmaker: Compton Street, Soho; formerly Cursitor Street – in Fleet Prison as a fugitive debtor (prior to 1 January 1765) who had voluntarily surrendered - see LG 10531, 15 vi 1765; 10532, 18 vi 1765; 10533, 22 vi 1765.

Watchmaker: Naked Boy Court, Ludgate Hill; f. Compton Street, Soho, St Anne’s P, - in Fleet Prison see LG 10935, 29 iv 1769; 10938, 9 v 1769; 10940, 16 v 1769.

Watchmaker: Red Lion Street, Clerkenwell; f. Old Bailey - in Fleet Prison see LG 11672, 4 vi 1776; 11674, 11 vi 1776; 11675, 15 vi 1776

Prosecutor of his apprentice, Richard Dunn, for theft in 1772
– see http://www.oldbaileyonline.org - t17720715-1616