Defoe's name is indissolubly linked with Stoke Newington. There he lived when he wrote Robinson Crusoe and other important works. There on a Saturday morning in 1713 the agents of Lord Chief Justice Parker ostentatiously seized him and carried him off to a London prison.1 The Stoke Newington Library now displays his statue, and a plaque at No. 95 Church Street, by Defoe Road, marks where his house stood. One may even see the wall along the east side of Oldfield Road which tradition says was his. But all accounts are inaccurate and fragmentary. Among them only two are aware that Defoe lived in two Stoke Newington houses, and none at all that he did not own the “Defoe” house or that, a decade after his death, his poet-naturalist son-in-law, Henry Baker, F.R.S., purchased and held it for twenty-three years. The Official Guide to Stoke Newington (seventh edition, p. 23) tells us that descendants of Defoe lie in Abney Park Cemetery, which (p. 27) dates from 1840.2 The Cemetery officials say they know nothing of such descendants.