Joseph Bailey1,2

b. 4 April 1648, d. October 1723
Joseph Bailey|b. 4 Apr 1648\nd. Oct 1723|p9309.htm|John Bailey|b. c 1613\nd. Mar 1690/91|p8406.htm|Eleanor Emery|b. 7 Nov 1624\nd. 1700|p7303.htm|John Bailey|b. c 1585\nd. 2 Nov 1651|p9325.htm||||John Emery Sr.|b. 29 Mar 1599\nd. 3 Nov 1683|p8398.htm|Alice Grantham||p8399.htm|

6th great-grandfather of Ruth Minerva Fairfield.
8th great-grandfather of Laura Jane Munson.
Family Background:
Fairfield and Allied Families
Appears on charts:
Pedigree for Ruth Minerva Fairfield
     Joseph Bailey was born on 4 April 1648 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts.1,2,3 He was the son of John Bailey and Eleanor Emery.1 He married Priscilla Putnam, daughter of Captain John Putnam and Rebecca Prince. He probably married second widow Sarah Sawyer (intentions published 27 November 1707).3 He was killed by Indians in October 1723 in Arundel, York County, Maine, at age 75.4,2
     
     Joseph Bailey bought land in Maine, and was of Arundel (Kennebunkport) in 1700, of Casco Fort (Falmouth Foreside) in 1702/3 and of Arundel "late of Newbury" in 1703.2 He was killed during the 1721-1725 conflict in New England between the English colonists and the Wabanaki Indians known variously as Lovewell's War, Dummer's War and Father Rasle's War. In Arundel there was a fort, as well as several garrisons, that colonists could flee to in times of danger. However, many left the area in fear, ignoring an edict that all should remain with their plantations and hold the country. In August 1723, hostilities commenced in Arundel, with a man being killed or carried off by Indians. Charles Bradbury tells in his History of Kennebunk Port of the depredations in October of that year:
     In October, two men belonging to Huff's garrison, Fitz Henry and Bartow, being on Vaughan's Island for wood, were surprised and wounded by three Indians. In order to compel them to tell how many there were in the garrison, the Indians bit off their finger nails, one by one. Although there were but seven men in it, they persisted in declaring it was full. The little creek in Vaughan's Island, into which their bodies were thrown, still bears the name of Fitz Henry's ditch. After murdering these two men, the Indians went towards Mr. Major's garrison, and assaulted Joseph Baily [Mr. Major's father-in-law], an aged man, who was hunting for his cow. The people in the garrison, who saw his danger, shouted for him to return, but being deaf he did not hear their warnings. He lingered for some time after the Indians had taken off his scalp and left him. The rock on which he was murdered is of a reddish color, and is said, by the inhabitants living in its neighborhood, to be stained with his blood. There being but a few men in the garrisons, the women put on men's clothes to make the Indians believe they were well guarded.

     These three Indians belonged to a company of twenty under the command of Wahwa, one of the two chiefs, who commanded at Lovewell's celebrated fight. Wahwa was brought up in an English family, but was induced to join the French and Indians, by the offer of the command of a company. He was well known in this town, having visited it frequently, both in times of war and peace. While these Indians, without his orders, went to Cape Porpoise, he was planning to surprise Harding's garrison in which were thirty women and children. Mr. Harding himself was absent on a hunting expedition, and Thomas Wormwood, an inhabitant of the town, had charge of it. Not expecting an attack from the Indians, who had not extended their ravages to this quarter, he took a boat to go on board some coasting vessels, that were lying in the river, loading with lumber.

     Startled by the report of the alarm guns [three guns discharged in quick succession] from Major's garrison, he returned and closed the gates, when Wahwa and his company were within twenty yards of him. Wahwa was extremely irritated with his men for alarming the garrison, merely for the scalp of the white headed old man, Mr. Baily. He afterwards placed the scalp on a pole in view of the people of the garrison. Although disappointed in their plans, they committed many depredations, killing the cattle, destroying the remaining crops, and annoying the whites whenever they left their houses.
Additional Data
Joseph Bailey was mentioned in his grandfather John Bailey's will dated 28 October 1651.5 Click to view image

When King Philip's War broke out John Miller, sr. sent his family to his wife's relations in Newbury and had some difficulty when he wished to regain the custody of two of his boys. In March 1677/78 before Ipswich Quarterly Court,
John Miller, sr. complained against John Emry and John Bayly for keeping his children from him. It was agreed after debate that John Miller, the younger, should be bound apprentice to Joseph Bayley until twenty-one years of age, and Andrew Miller, the younger, should be bound to John Emry, jr., until twenty-one years of age, and said Emry agreed to teach him to read and write.6
Joseph Bayle was mentioned in his uncle John Emry, Sr.'s will dated 1 May 1680 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. Should one of the named overseers die, he was to take his place.7

Joseph Bailey was mentioned in his father John Bailey's will dated 30 December 1690 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts.8

Children of Joseph Bailey and Priscilla Putnam

Citations

  1. [S864] Essex Institute, Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 (Salem: Newcomb & Gauss, Printers, 1911), 2 vols., 1: 51.
  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, 67, originally published in The Ancestry of Phoebe Tilton (1947).
  3. [S1066] Unknown author, "Descendants of John Bailey of Salisbury", Essex Antiquarian vol. 5, no. 7-9 (July 1901): 123.
  4. [S865] Charles Bradbury, History of Kennebunk Port, from its First Discovery by Bartholomew Gosnold, May 14, 1602, to A.D. 1837 (Kennebunk, Maine: James K. Remich, 1837; reprint Salem, Massachusetts: Higginson Book Company), 114.
  5. [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).
  6. [S855] George Francis Dow, ed., Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, 9 vols. (Salem: Essex Institute, 1911-1973). Transcribed and Abstracted from the Original Manuscript by Harriet S. Tapley, VI: 426.
  7. [S757] "John Emery", citing The Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts, 1635-1681, 3 volumes (Salem 1916-1920; rpt. Newburyport, Massachusetts, 1988). Citations to the unpublished probate records are to case numbers, or to register volumes (which begin with volume 301) 302:100-1, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, online <http://www.newenglandancestors.org/>, printout dated 2002. Previously published in hard copy (Boston: NEHGS, 1995).
  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. [S864] Newbury VR (published), 1: 34.
  10. [S864] Newbury VR (published), 1: 47.
  11. [S901] Eben Putnam, A History of the Putnam Family in England and America, Volume I, Recording the Ancestry and Descendants of John Putnam of Danvers, Mass., Jan Poutman of Albany, N.Y., Thomas Putnam of Hartford, Conn. (Salem: The Salem Press, 1891), 29.
  12. [S864] Newbury VR (published), 1: 49.
  13. [S864] Newbury VR (published), 1: 50.