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I'm Cécile Nadeau. I'm the sixth generation of Bakers, Americans that settled in the region of Madawaska. Nathan was married to Sophie Rice and when he came, he came with his brother and a few other entrepreneurs, American entrepreneurs. They settled on the northern side of the St. John River, at a little river called Mériumticook, which is now Baker Brook. John went in the region of the Gaspé and Restigouche and then, when his brother Nathan passed away, he came and married Nathan's widow. Yes, she was a woman of substance. I believe she was a strong woman and when John was, joined the bloodless Aroostook war, he was arrested because she had put up a flag that resembled or stated the affiliation of the small to the big republic and it was an eagle with a semi circle of stars. When the English came from Fredericton and took down the flag, she went to Saint-Basile and got some more cloth material and she made another one and hoisted it up for the celebration of the 4th of July in Baker Brook. Nathan had a son from which I descend. His name was Enoch, and Enoch married Madeleine Ouellette among others, four prominent ancestors to me. One was named Enoch, son from which I descend directly, and Enoch married Sophie Cyr, which was a descendant of the Acadians that moved from Sainte-Anne des Pays-Bas and settled in Saint-Basile in 1785. Also there were two, two girls, one was named Eugénie. Eugénie Baker, she met Wilfred Grignon, who was a doctor originally from the Laurentians, north of Montreal. They married and went, and settled in Sainte-Adèle and they had a son named Claude-Henri Grignon, and Claude Henri Grignon is very famous in French-Canadian literature because he wrote "Les histoires des pays d'en haut, Séraphin, un homme et son péché".