John Bailey1

b. circa 1613, d. March 1690/91
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7th great-grandfather of Ruth Minerva Fairfield.
9th great-grandfather of Laura Jane Munson.
Family Background:
Fairfield and Allied Families
Appears on charts:
Pedigree for Ruth Minerva Fairfield
     John Bailey was born circa 1613 in England.3 He was the son of John Bailey.2 He married Eleanor Emery, daughter of John Emery Sr. and Alice Grantham, by 1641 (eldest known child b. Salisbury 24 November 1641).3,4 He died in March 1690/91 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts.3,5
     
     John Bailey was 22 years old when he came to America with his father in 1635 and settled in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He received grants of Salisbury land in the divisions of 1640 and 1643, was one of the original Amesbury commoners in 1654 and had a grant of land there in 1658. The births of his children were recorded in Newbury from 1644 onward, possibly indicating that his wife went to her old home to have her children, but by 1661 Bailey had moved his family to Newbury permanently. He was a weaver by trade, subsequently a husbandman, and Eleanor Bailey became an active Newbury midwife.6,5

     John Bailey was executor of his father John Bailey's will dated 28 October 1651. He was left the house and land in Salisbury for life.7 Click to view image

     John Bailey took the Freeman's Oath in October 1669, and the Oath of Allegiance in 1678, when he was sixty-five years old. He served on trial juries in 1654, 1659, 1662, 1665 and 1675, and on the grand jury in 1667. He was a selectman of Newbury in 1663 and constable 1673-1674, his son Joseph being his deputy.6

     In 1654 John Bailey signed the petition in favor of the outstanding liberal, Lieut. Robert Pike, and with all of the many signers was subjected to severe pressure by the Massachusetts Bay government. He "acknowledge that he was sorry" for his action, thus taking a weak stand in a matter of basic political rights. Another great controversy raged in Newbury in 1671 between Rev. Mr. Parker and Mr. Edward Woodman and their adherents in which Bailey took the Woodman side and subscribed to the act suspending Mr. Parker. For this he was fined 13s. 4d.6

     During King Philip's War, Bailey supplied a saddle, bullets, powder, a horse, cheese, bread and a knapsack to the troops, for which he made a claim for £1: 7: 7 in 1678. In March 1677/78 John Miller sued John Emery Jr. and John Bailey for keeping his children from him.6

     The will of John Bailey of Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, was made 30 December 1690 and proved 31 March 1691. To his wife Eleanor he left all of his estate not already disposed of by deed or gift to his sons, she to leave it to his children. To son Joseph, a great brass kettle and a gun. To son James, a gun that was his grandfather's. To son Isaac, a freehold in Newbury with all privileges in commons, a rate lot of land in the upper woods, a great pot and iron dogs. To son Joshua, all land in the town of amesbury bought from Capt. Bradbury except four acres sold to Mr. Goodin. To his daughters Rebecca Brown, Sarah Cheney and Rachel Poore, 5s. each. Executrix: wife Eleanor. Witnesses: Tristram Coffin, David Kely, Ruth Rogers. The inventory, listing no land except that at Amesbury, amounted to £158.8

Children of John Bailey and Eleanor Emery

Citations

  1. [S716] William Henry Harrison Stowell, Stowell Genealogy; A Record of the Descendants of Samuel Stowell of Hingham, Mass (Rutland: The Tuttle Company, 1922), 60.
  2. [S863] Walter Goodwin Davis, "Massachusetts and Maine Families," Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis (1885-1966): A Reprinting in Alphabetical Order by Surname, of the Sixteen Multi-Ancestor Compendia, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1996), Vol. 1, 65, originally published in The Ancestry of Phoebe Tilton (1947).
  3. [S760] Walter Goodwin Davis, "Bailey," Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis (1885-1966): A Reprinting, in Alphabetical Order by Surname, of the Sixteen Multi-Ancestor Compendia (plus Thomas Haley of Winter Harbor and His Descendants) compiled by Maine's Foremost Genealogist, 1916-1963), (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1996), 1, 66.
  4. [S759] Walter Goodwin Davis, "Chater," Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis (1885-1966): A Reprinting, in Alphabetical Order by Surname, of the Sixteen Multi-Ancestor Compendia (plus Thomas Haley of Winter Harbor and His Descendants) compiled by Maine's Foremost Genealogist, 1916-1963), (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1996), 1, citing Phoebe Tilton Anc 180-81]
  5. [S1066] Unknown author, "Descendants of John Bailey of Salisbury", Essex Antiquarian vol. 5, no. 7-9 (July 1901): 123.
  6. [S863] Walter Goodwin Davis, "Massachusetts and Maine Families," Massachusetts and Maine Families, Bailey, Vol. 1, 66, originally published in The Ancestry of Phoebe Tilton (1947).
  7. [S863] Walter Goodwin Davis, "Massachusetts and Maine Families," Massachusetts and Maine Families, Bailey, Vol. 1, 65, 66, originally published in The Ancestry of Phoebe Tilton (1947).
  8. [S863] Walter Goodwin Davis, "Massachusetts and Maine Families," Massachusetts and Maine Families, Bailey, Vol. 1, 67, citing Essex Probate, 304: 318, originally published in The Ancestry of Phoebe Tilton (1947).
  9. [S863] Walter Goodwin Davis, "Massachusetts and Maine Families," Massachusetts and Maine Families, Bailey, Vol. 1, 67, originally published in The Ancestry of Phoebe Tilton (1947).
  10. [S864] Essex Institute, Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 (Salem: Newcomb & Gauss, Printers, 1911), 2 vols., 1: 51.