Joshua Bailey1

b. 20 April 1657, d. 6 August 1722
Joshua Bailey|b. 20 Apr 1657\nd. 6 Aug 1722|p9315.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
     Joshua Bailey was born on 20 April 1657 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts.1,2 He was the son of John Bailey and Eleanor Emery.1 He married Elizabeth Putnam, daughter of Lieutenant Thomas Putnam and Ann Holyoke.1 He died s.p. between 15 June 1722, the date of his will, and 6 August 1722, when it was probated.1
     
Additional Data
Joshua Bailey was mentioned in his father John Bailey's will dated 30 December 1690 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts.3

Administration on the estate of Eleanor Bailey, late of Newbury, was granted to her son Joshua Bailey on 23 December 1700.4,5

In 1713 Joshua Bailey deeded to his nephew Joshua Bayley, "late of Roxbury, now of Newbury," surgeon, the old homestead, that it might continue in the name and blood.5

In his will dated 15 June 1722 and proved 6 August 1722, he gave his black servant Robert his freedom and also the surname of Freeman.5

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. [S864] Essex Institute, Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 (Salem: Newcomb & Gauss, Printers, 1911), 2 vols., 1: 34.
  3. [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).
  4. [S863] Walter Goodwin Davis, "Massachusetts and Maine Families," Massachusetts and Maine Families, Bailey, Vol. 1, 67, citing Essex Probate, 307, 69, originally published in The Ancestry of Phoebe Tilton (1947).
  5. [S1066] Unknown author, "Descendants of John Bailey of Salisbury", Essex Antiquarian vol. 5, no. 7-9 (July 1901): 123.