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1 Dorothy BAILEY1 (1703- ) [3611]. Born 11 Jul 1703, Haddam, Middlesex, CT.1 Marr Jonathan SMITH Sep 1721, Milford, New Haven, CT.
2 John BAILEY1,2 (1655-1734) [3593]. Born 15 Jan 1654/55, Hartford, Hartford, CT.1 Marr Elizabeth GERRARD Oct 1689. Died 28 Sep 1734, Haddam, Middlesex, CT.1 Buried 1734, Old Burying Ground, Haddam, Middlesex, CT.1
4 John BAILEY1,2 (c. 1618-1696) [3594]. Born c. 1618, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England.1,3 Marr Lydia BACKUS c. 1655, Hartford, Hartford, CT.1 Died 26 Aug 1696, Haddam, Middlesex, CT.1
From: CROOK - An American Family, 1698-1955.
Compiled and Published by CHARLES HENRY LEAVITT
"JACOB4 BAILEY (Ephraim,3 John,2 John1) was born October 21, 1720 in Haddam, Connecticut--the second son in a family of ten sons and one daughter. The emigrant ancestor was John Bailey or Bayley, as the name was then spelled. This first member of the Bailey family in America came from England in 1648 and lived in Hartford, Connecticut, where he was made a Freeman in 1657. While in Hartford he held one or two offices including that of constable. This great-grandfather of Jacob Bailey was among the first settlers of Haddam.
"About one month after Charles II signed the Charter of Connecticut in April, 1662, a committee of the Connecticut Colonial Legislature bought a large tract of land from the Wangunt Indians for a trifling sum (about $100.00). The town of Haddam is today a part of that tract. The same summer John Bailey was one of twenty-eight young men, of Hartford and near by towns, who took up the purchase and started a plantation on the lower Connecticut River. This region was called "Thirty Mile Island Plantation." It was opposite a small island in the river, which was about thirty miles from Long Island Sound. Six years later that location became the town of Haddam, named after Great Haddam, England. John Bailey established himself on land at Higganum in the northern part of Haddam where he died in 1696. This founder of the Bailey family in America is of special interest since the Crook and Bailey families intermarried."
John came to America from England in 1638 on the ship Bevis. He was one of the 28 orignial proprietors of Haddam, CT.
In his Will he speaks of his father having left a sum of money for his grandson, John Bailey Jr., to buy a Bible.
Following from: Connecticut Genealogies #1, 1600s-1800s; Genealogies of Connecticut Families, Vol. 1, John Bailey of Haddam, CT and some of his descendants. p. 66. Genealogy.com, Nov. 2001.
John Bailey was a viewer of chimneys and ladders at Hartford in 1648, a constable in March 1656-57, was made freeman in May, 1657, and moved to Haddam, about 1662, as one of the 28 original purchasers. His will was dated June 17, 1696, and the inventory, amounting to 186 pounds, was taken Aug. 29, 1696. He gave to sons John, Benjamin, and Nathaniel his land at Higganum; mentioned daughters Lydia, Susanna, and Mary. He lived at Higganum, in the northern part of Haddam. His wife was probably Lydia, daughter of Thomas Smith of Haddam.
Following from: Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records (Hartford District), Charles W. Mainwaring, Hartford, 1902, Vol 1, p 535-536.
BAILEY, John, sen., Haddam. Invt. £186-10-06. Taken 29 August, 1696, by Daniel CONE, Timothy SPENCER, & James WELLES. Will dated 17 June, 1696.
I John BAILEY sen. of Haddam, in the County of Hartford, doe make this my last Will & Testament: I give half of my Lands, both Meadow & Upland, to my eldest son John, to be his on an equal division with his two brothers Benjamin & Nathaniel, to whome I doe give the other half to be equally divided between them two. I mean all that my Land at a place in Haddam Bounds called Higganum. I give to my son John 20 acres of that 40 acres of upland I have in the upper Meadow on the East side of the Great River. Also I give to my daughter Lydia 20 shillings. I give unto my two sons Benjamim and Nathaniel all my other Land in Haddam and all Rights, to be divided equally between them, only that Nathaniel shall have that Lott whereon the house stands, & the house I now dwell in, as part of his division, and Benjamin the other half, the house to be Nathaniel's. And It is my Will that my daughters Susannah and Mary shall continue in the house until one or both of them marryeth or when they see cause of their own Will to leave the same; and when Susannah marryeth I would have her take the Care of Mary and let her live with her until she be married away. It is my Will to give to my daughter Susannah 8. My Will is that my two Executors shall pay 40 Shillings yearly until she marry away; and if in seven years she marryeth, I give her 7. My sons Benjamin and Nathaniel I appoint to be my Executors. And my neighbors Timothy SPENCER & James BRAINARD to be Overseers.
Witness: Jeremiah HOBERT, JOHN BAILE.
James WELLES,
Upon the other side of the paper, Haddam July 3d, 1696 (was written) : Account of my several debts sch I will my Exequators to pay unto the several Creditors after my decease. Imprs. I owe to Samll STONE of Salem fiftie four Shills in pay, & 6 shll in money. It. Debts to the Widd Mrs. WAIE of Hartford, two pounds 16s & six pence in pay. It. To Ensign STANLY of Hartford, seventeen Shills & odd pence, to be payd by my Exequtors out of my small share of Hartford mill, viz, the rent for it; & the rest of the soms aforesayd to be payd & made up to him pr my Exequators, the wholl in pay. It. To my son John ten shills given him pr his grand father to buy him a Bible. It. To my Daughter Lydia ten shs given her pr ditto to buy her a Bible with (all). It. To my Daughter Elizab. CLARK fifty shills in pay for a weding gown I promised her. It. To my son Thomas CLARK pr an old debt of five pounds 5s, & for work of himself & teame thirty six shills; both added together make in all seven pounds one shs in or pay. It. Debts to Thomas Dunke deceased, ye sum of fourteen shs in pay. These are the principal of my debts as far as I know at present, which I require you to pay or cause to be payed, as witness my hand on the day of the date hereof. JOHN BAILY.
(Copied from original Paper on file.)
Court Record, Page 114 -- (Vol. V) 3 September, 1696: The last Will now exhibited and Proven. Nathaniel BAILEY, Executor, accepted of being Executor with his Brother in Court.
5 Lydia BACKUS1,4 (1637-c. 1696) [3595]. Born 31 Dec 1637, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England.1 Died c. 1696, Haddam, Middlesex, CT.3
10 William BACKUS , Sr.1 (c. 1606-1664) [3632]. Born c. 1606, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England.1 Died 7 Jun 1664, Norwich, New London, CT.1
From Legends: Mark's Complete Ancestry on the Web.
BACKUS, WILLIAM c.1612-aft.1723
There is no reference in the town records to his work, activities, station in life, or when or whom he first married, the dates or order of birth of his children, or when their mother died. Older accounts incorrectly show his first wife to have been Sarah Charles; [Sarah Gardiner?] but the probate records demonstrate clearly that Sarah Charles was the first wife of his son William, Jr., not of the senior William. By 1659 William, Sr., had taken as his second wife a widow, Mrs. Anne Bingham, variously recorded by earlier writers as Anne Stenton Bingham, or as Anne Stetson Bingham. She was the widow of Thomas Bingham, they having been married 6 July 1631 in Sheffield, England. A record in the "Parish Register of Sheffield, cy York, Part 1, Baptisms and Marriages, 1560 to1634-5", p. 247, under the year 1631, is that of the marriage of "Tho'Bingham et Anna FFenton", the F being repeated in FFenton, just as L is repeated in Lloyd up to the present time. The same book has a complete index with many Binghams, many Fentons, but not a single Stenton. The obvious conclusion is that William Backus had a second wife named Ann Fenton Bingham, not Anne Stenton Bingham. Thomas Bingham and Anne Fenton had a son Thomas, recorded in Saybrook, Connecticut, also Norwich, and later Windham, where he was known as Thomas, Sr. Two children of this stepson of William Backus, Sr., later married grandchildren of William.
11 Sarah GARDINER1 (c. 1606-aft1644) [3633]. Born c. 1606, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England.1 Died aft 1644, England.1
3 Elizabeth GERRARD1 (c. 1666-1729) [3596]. Born c. 1666.1 Died 20 Mar 1728/29, Haddam, Middlesex, CT.1
6 Robert GERRARD1 (c. 1641- ) [3597]. Born c. 1641, Prob. New London, CT.1
7 Elizabeth BECKWITH1 (c. 1646-c. 1692) [3598]. Born c. 1646, New London, CT.1 Died c. 1692, Haddam, Middlesex, CT.1
14 Matthew BECKWITH1 (1610-1680) [3636]. Born 22 Sep 1610, Pontefract, Yorkshire, England.1 Marr Elizabeth Mary LYNDE bef 1637, Hartford, Hartford, CT. Died 21 Oct 1680, New London, New London, CT.1
15 Elizabeth Mary LYNDE1 ( -aft1682) [3637]. Born New London, New London, CT.1 Died aft 1682, New London, New London, CT.1
| 1 | "Ancestry.com, Snow/Lyman Ancestors". |
| 2 | "A History of the Towns of Haddam and East-Haddam by David D. Field, A.M., Pastor of the Church of Haddam, 1814". |
| 3 | "DESCENDANTS OF JOHN BAILEY By Jane Devlin". |
| 4 | "Legends: Mark's Complete Ancestry on the Web.". |