Rev. James Bailey1

b. 12 September 1650, d. 20 January 1706/7
Rev. James Bailey|b. 12 Sep 1650\nd. 20 Jan 1706/7|p9312.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-granduncle of Ruth Minerva Fairfield.
8th great-granduncle of Laura Jane Munson.
Family Background:
Fairfield and Allied Families
     Rev. James Bailey was born on 12 September 1650 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts.1,2 He was the son of John Bailey and Eleanor Emery.1 He married first Mary Carr, daughter of George Carr and Elizabeth (—?—), on 17 September 1672.1 He married second Mary.1 He died on 20 January 1706/7 in Roxbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut, at age 56.1
     
     Rev. James Bailey was graduated in 1669 at Harvard College. He became the first minister of the parish of Salem Village in 1671. From 1682 to about 1691 he preached at Killingworth, Connecticut, going to Roxbury in the latter year and practicing as a physician.1,2

Additional Data
James Bailey was mentioned in his grandfather John Bailey's will dated 28 October 1651.3 Click to view image

James Bailey was mentioned in his father John Bailey's will dated 30 December 1690 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts.4

Children of Rev. James Bailey and Mary Carr

Citations

  1. [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).
  2. [S1066] Unknown author, "Descendants of John Bailey of Salisbury", Essex Antiquarian vol. 5, no. 7-9 (July 1901): 123.
  3. [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).
  4. [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).
  5. [S1066] Unknown author, "Descendants of John Bailey of Salisbury", 124.