_Richard Baxter's Descendants_ (Vol. ii, p. 89.).--Your correspondent
W.H.B., who wishes for information respecting the descendants of the
celebrated Richard Baxter, describes him to have been a Northamptonshire
man; now this (supposing the Nonconformist divine of that name is meant)
is a mistake, for he was, according to his own account, a Shropshire
man. In a narrative of the most memorable passages of his life and
times, by himself, and published soon after his death under the title of
_Reliquiæ Baxterianæ_, 1696, he says,

"My father's name was Richard (the son of Richard) Baxter; his
habitation and estate at a village called Eaton Constantine, a
mile from the Wrekin Hill, and above half a mile from Severn
River, and five miles from Shrewsbury in Shropshire. A village
most pleasantly and healthfully situate. My mother's name was
Beatrice, the daughter of Richard Adeney of Rowton, a village
near High Encall, the Lord Newport's seat, in the same county.
There I was born, A.D. 1615, on the 12th of November, being the
Lord's Day, in the morning, at the time of divine worship, and
baptized at High Encall the 19th day following: and there I
lived from my parents with my grandfather till I was near ten
years of age, and then was taken home."

He was married on Sept. 10, 1662, to a Miss Charlton. They had no
children. The only descendant of Richard Baxter known to his
biographers, was his nephew, William Baxter, a person of considerable
attainments as a scholar and an antiquary. He was born in Shropshire in
1650. He published several works, and kept an academy for some years at
Tottenham Cross, Middlesex, which he gave up on being chosen master of