Dayse F. Baker spent the first half to the 20th century educating the African-American community at the Douglas School in Farmington.

In 1743, at the early age of 27, he became Prefect of Li-shui, about 50 miles south-east of Nanking.

Casting my fortunes at Mrs. Thompson's, I soon became initiated into the etiquette and usage of that polite caravansary; and I now write of that era of two-pronged forks, and when “saveall” was the choicest dish, and the observances at the table not altogether Chesterfieldian.

The nearest way seem'd best, o'er hoult and heath / We went, through deserts waste, and forests wide.