See also
1 Abigail WALKLEY1 (1774- ) [9054]. Born 4 Jul 1774.1
2 Richard WALKLEY IV1,2 (c. 1738-1811) [9053]. Born c. 1738.2 Died 19 Feb 1811.1
4 Richard WALKLEY III2 (c. 1705- ) [9058]. Born c. 1705.2
8 Richard WALKLEY II2 ( - ) [9061]. Born England or Scotland.2 Marr Agnes ? 1677.2
From The Rosman Lawrence Family by Mrs. A. Lawrence Jinks, 1965.
The first emmigrant ancestor in America was Richard Walkley (Wakelee). The present Walkley says he was born in England. The Commemorative Biographical Record of Middlesex Co. 1903 says he came from Scotland to Saybrook, Conn. in 1635 with Lord Say, Lord Seal and Lord Brooke.
5 Abigail SPENCER2 ( - ) [9060].
3 Deborah BAILEY1,2 (1749-1785) [9028]. Born 30 Jan 1748/49.1 Died 18 Feb 1785.1
6 Jacob BAILEY3,4,5 (1720-bef1784) [3568]. Born 21 Oct 1720, Haddam, Middlesex, CT.3,5 Marr Elizabeth CROOK 6 Aug 1746, Haddam, Middlesex, CT.1,3,5 Died bef 1784.3
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.
12 Ephraim BAILEY3,4 (1691-1761) [3553]. Born 1 Jan 1690/91, Haddam, Middlesex, CT.3 Marr Deborah BRAINERD 3 Oct 1716, Haddam, Middlesex, CT.5 Died 7 Mar 1761, Haddam, Middlesex, CT.3
13 Deborah BRAINERD3,5,6,7 (1698-1745) [3554]. Born 3 Apr 1698, Haddam, Middlesex, CT.6,7 Died 1745, Haddam, Middlesex, CT.5,7
7 Elizabeth CROOK1,3 (1721-bef1784) [3569]. Born 30 Apr 1721, Nantucket, MA.3 Died bef 1784.3
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.
14 Thomas CROOK1,3 ( - ) [3570].
15 Hope CARTWRIGHT1 (1699- ) [9106]. Born 27 Aug 1699, Nantucket Island.1
| 1 | "From Crook; An American Family, 1698-1955 compiled by Charles Henry Leavitt, 1956.". |
| 2 | "From The Rosman Lawrence Family by Mrs. A. Lawrence Jinks, 1965". |
| 3 | "Ancestry.com, Snow/Lyman Ancestors". |
| 4 | "A History of the Towns of Haddam and East-Haddam by David D. Field, A.M., Pastor of the Church of Haddam, 1814". |
| 5 | "Genealogy of the Brainerd-Brainard Family in America 1549-1908 by Lucy Abigail Brainard, 1908". |
| 6 | "The Genealogy of the Brainerd Family in the United States by Rev. David D. Field, D.D., 1857". |
| 7 | "Genealogies of Connecticut Families from the New England Historical and Genealogical Register". |