"Recollections of Baptistown", by Jay Bee, Published: Hunterdon Independent, Frenchtown, N.J., 1893-1897". "Sergeant Lake lived where Watson Dalrymple now lives. His wife was Letitia, daughter of Thomas West and Rachel Hoagland. Their children were: Lydia, Cornelius, Rachel Mary, Thomas and George W. There were other children but these are all I can name." "William R. Lake, son of Sergeant Lake was killed in Kansas by a man from whom he was trying to collect a debt. William R. spent his boyhood days in Baptistown." From marriages of The First Methodist Church, 2nd St., Easton, Pa.: June 1, 1865: Thomas Lake - Morris Co., NJ, Sarah L. Drake, Morris Co., NJ