Extracted from 'Popular Biography of Northamptonshire' by John Cole 1839, p12

What may be recorded as very remarkable in the life of John Baker, and old shepherd, was, that he lived eighty-nine years, and during thier revolution, he never slept a single night out of his native village; and the greatest distance he ever went from home was fifteen miles. He died in December 1836.

Note: There is a Baptism in Rushden Parish Church Register for John Baker in 1747, but no evidence of his burial here.