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1 Timothy BAILEY1 (1753- ) [9030]. Born 1753.
From Crook; An American Family, 1698-1955 compiled by Charles Henry Leavitt, 1956.
16. iv. TIMOTHY* BAILEY (Elizabeth Crook.1 Thomas1) was born in 1733 in Haddam, Connecticut. All his life be was a. farmer. He was a soldier from Haddam in 1775 and was exempt from the payment of certain taxes because of service in the Continental Army. While in the Army he had no family to be supported from 1775 to 1781 and was listed among soldiers serving in the Continental Line who received town bounties.
In June, 1776, he and his brothers, Jacob and Thomas, enlisted at the same time as privates in Captain Cornelius Higgin's Eighth Haddam Company, Fifth Connecticut Battalion, Colonel James Wadsworth's Brigade. They were also discharged die same day, December 25, 1776.
Timothy Bailey re-enlisted February 24, 1777 for three years as a private in a company designated at various times as Captain Charles Pond's, Captain Eleazer Claghorn's and Captain Samuel A. Barker's Company, Sixth Connecticut Regiment, commanded by Colonel Return Jonathan Meigs. Timothy's brother Jacob was a corporal, and his younger brother Gordon a private in this company. The three brothers with several of their Bailey cousins spent the winter of 1778 and 1779 at Camp Redding in the town of Danbury, Connecticut.
Timothy was the only one of die three Bailey brothers who endured the hardships of the winter at Camp Redding, and lived to see the site become a State Memorial Park. In the park the State of Connecticut erected an impressive granite monument of imposing dimensions to perpetuate the memory of die men who were stationed there and endured the bitter winter of 1778 and 1779. The scantily clothed and poorly fed soldiers were camped here in order to be in a strategic position to march to the defense of West Point or the towns and outposts of Long bland Sound. Blockhouses and log cabins have been reproduced, while of special interest is a long double line of stones extending from the monument. These stones were the fireplaces in the crude huts of the soldiers.
The army records do not state positively, but it appears that he and Gordon were in the battle at the taking of Fort Stony Point where their brother. Corporal Jacob Bailey, was killed July 16, 1779.
Private Timothy Bailey was in the battle of Elizabethtown on June 6, 1780, when Lord Sterling with 5000 troops crossed from Staten Island to Elizabethtown Point, and advanced before daylight towards Elizabethtown but found the American militia on watch. A sentry fired into the advancing column, only dimly distinguishable, and the Commanding General, Lord Sterling, received the ball. which proved fatal. The battle raged furiously until the next morning, when the British retreated slowly, in order that it should not be represented as a flight from the Americans. In a letter Timothy wrote to the War Deportment, he told of being in the battle of Elizabetbtown and that his army service was principally in New Jersey.
He received his discharge from this enlistment December 24,1780.
He married about the dose of the war. Anna ——————, who was born in 1765. By 1810 they evidently had a family of six children and soon after that date. when Timothy was nearing sixty, they moved from Haddam to Leyden in northern New York. He applied for a Government pension at Leyden. April 22, 1818. in which he stated be was in ill health and his family consisted only of his wife and himself. The claim was granted at $8.00 from April 22, 1818.".
2 Jacob BAILEY2,3,4 (1720-bef1784) [3568]. Born 21 Oct 1720, Haddam, Middlesex, CT.2,4 Marr Elizabeth CROOK 6 Aug 1746, Haddam, Middlesex, CT.1,2,4 Died bef 1784.2
From Crook; An American Family, 1698-1955 compiled by Charles Henry Leavitt, 1956.
JACOB BAILEY (Ephraim, 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 Ae 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 foe 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 tools 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.
Jacob Bailey, like his father Ephraim, was a farmer in Haddam. He and one of his sons (name not given) were employed in the Continental Service in 1775 and on account of this service they were exempt from certain taxes in Haddam. At least five of Jacob's sons and one son-in-law served as soldiers in the Revolutionary War. His name does not appear in the United States Census of 1790, but an Elizabeth Bailey, residing in Haddam, is listed as head of a family. However this was probably another Elizabeth Bailey. According to the distribution of the estate of their son, Gurdon, both of his parents had passed on before December 28, 1784.
4 Ephraim BAILEY2,3 (1691-1761) [3553]. Born 1 Jan 1690/91, Haddam, Middlesex, CT.2 Marr Deborah BRAINERD 3 Oct 1716, Haddam, Middlesex, CT.4 Died 7 Mar 1761, Haddam, Middlesex, CT.2
8 John BAILEY2,3 (1655-1734) [3593]. Born 15 Jan 1654/55, Hartford, Hartford, CT.2 Marr Elizabeth GERRARD Oct 1689. Died 28 Sep 1734, Haddam, Middlesex, CT.2 Buried 1734, Old Burying Ground, Haddam, Middlesex, CT.2
9 Elizabeth GERRARD2 (c. 1666-1729) [3596]. Born c. 1666.2 Died 20 Mar 1728/29, Haddam, Middlesex, CT.2
5 Deborah BRAINERD2,4,5,6 (1698-1745) [3554]. Born 3 Apr 1698, Haddam, Middlesex, CT.5,6 Died 1745, Haddam, Middlesex, CT.4,6
10 James BRAINERD2,6 (1669-1743) [3565]. Born 2 Jun 1669, Haddam, Middlesex, CT.2,6 Marr Deborah DUDLEY 1 Apr 1696.5,7 Marr Sarah ? 23 May 1711.5 Died 10 Feb 1742/43, Haddam, Middlesex, CT.2,6
From: Ancestors of Daniel Brainerd by Jane Devlin.
James Brainerd was born on 2 Jun 1669 in Haddam, Middlesex Co., CT and died on 10 Feb 1741/42 in Haddam, Middlesex Co., CT.
Documented events in his life were:
1. VR - Marriage; 1 Apr 1696; Haddam, Middlesex Co., CT. Married Deborah Dudley
2. Executor or Overseer of Will; 17 Jun 1696; Haddam, Middlesex Co., CT. John Bailey, Sen., in his will dated 17 Jun 1696, appointed "my neighbors Timothy Spencer & James Brainard to be Overseers."
3. Guardian; Bet 7 Sep 1704 And 5 Apr 1708; Haddam, Middlesex Co., CT. Ruth Spencer, daughter of Timothy Spencer, chose James Braynard of Haddam to be her guardian; allowed. Page 110--5 April, 1708: James Braynard, guardian to Ruth Spencer, exhibits in Court an acquittance or discharge, under the hand of sd. Ruth, now of age. Bond now cancelled.
4. Military Service; May 1714; Haddam, Middlesex Co., CT. Colonial records of Conn (1706-1717) Vol V p. 427 May 1714..This assembly do establish and confirm Mr. James Brainerd to be Lieutenant of the company or the trailband on the west side of said town of Haddam and that he be commissioned accordingly"
5. Mention in Will, Inv. or Prob.; 2 May 1715; Haddam, Middlesex Co., CT. Reached an agreement with his siblings to a distribution of his father's estate.
6. Military Service; Oct 1722; Haddam, Middlesex Co., CT. "This assembly do establish and confirm Mr. James Brainerd of Haddam Conn to be Captain of the company or trailband on the west side of said Connecticut River, in the town of Haddam, and that he be commissioned accordingly".
11 Deborah DUDLEY2,6 (1670-1709) [3566]. Born 11 Nov 1670, Saybrook, CT.2,6 Died 22 Jul 1709, Haddam, Middlesex, CT.5,6
3 Elizabeth CROOK1,2 (1721-bef1784) [3569]. Born 30 Apr 1721, Nantucket, MA.2 Died bef 1784.2
From Crook; An American Family, 1698-1955 compiled by Charles Henry Leavitt, 1956.
ELIZABETH2 CROOK (Thomas1) was born April 30, 1721 in Nantucket, Massachusetts, where she lived until she went with her parents to Haddam, Connecticut She was the oldest of their children. In that early day a daughter's history consisted largely in birth and marriage, so one reads of Elizabeth's marriage to Jacob Bailey August 6, 1746. It was the second marriage in the Crook family. Jacob was the son of Ephraim and Deborah (Brainerd) Bailey. The Crook and Bailey families were near neighbors in Higganum and later two of Elizabeth's younger sisters also married Bailey men.
6 Thomas CROOK1,2 ( - ) [3570].
7 Hope CARTWRIGHT1 (1699- ) [9106]. Born 27 Aug 1699, Nantucket Island.1
14 Nicholas CARTWRIGHT1 (c. 1670-1706) [9107]. Born c. 1670, Isle of Shoals.1 Marr Orange ROGERS c. 1694, Nantucket Island.1 Died 10 Sep 1706.1
15 Orange ROGERS1 (1671- ) [9109]. Born 1671, Martha's Vineyard.1 Marr Maurice HARRIS 18 Mar 1707/08.1
| 1 | "From Crook; An American Family, 1698-1955 compiled by Charles Henry Leavitt, 1956.". |
| 2 | "Ancestry.com, Snow/Lyman Ancestors". |
| 3 | "A History of the Towns of Haddam and East-Haddam by David D. Field, A.M., Pastor of the Church of Haddam, 1814". |
| 4 | "Genealogy of the Brainerd-Brainard Family in America 1549-1908 by Lucy Abigail Brainard, 1908". |
| 5 | "The Genealogy of the Brainerd Family in the United States by Rev. David D. Field, D.D., 1857". |
| 6 | "Genealogies of Connecticut Families from the New England Historical and Genealogical Register". |
| 7 | "Ancestors of Daniel Brainerd by Jane Devlin". |