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1 Stephen WALKLEY , Jr.1,2 (1817- ) [9283]. Born 4 Jul 1817, LeRoy, Ny.2
2 Stephen WALKLEY3 (1779-1869) [9056]. Born 1 Mar 1779.3 Marr Hannah LAWRENCE 10 Sep 1806, Middletown, CT.2 Died 26 Apr 1869.2 Buried East Main Road (Buell) Cemetery, LeRoy, NY.2
From The Roseman Lawrence Family by Mrs. A. Lawrence Jinks, 1965.
4a. Stephen Walkley, husband of Hannah Lawrence. Family Tree. The first emmigrant ancestor in America -was Richard Walkley (Wakelee). The present Walkley says he was born in England. The Commemoratve Biographical Record of Middlesex Co. 1903 says he came from Scotland to Saybrook, Conn. in 1635 with Lord Say, Lord Seal and Lord Brooke.
II. His son, Richard, settled In Haddam, Conn. in 1652 and in 1677 married Agnes ——-.
III. His son. Richard, born about 1705, married Abigail Spencer.
IV. His son. Richard, born about 1738, married Deborah Bailey.
V. His son, Stephen, born 1778, married Hannah Lawrence. In the same Biographical Record, a Miss Walkley and two sisters lived at home on Walkley Hill.
As early as 1730 a James Walkley served in the militia. In 1719, the estate of Richard Walkley was taxed fifty pounds at Haddam, Conn. Stephen died on the farm after living there for over 60 years, on April 26. 1869, age 91 years. He Is buried in the East Main Road cemetery. His record and Hannah*s are on one tombstone. An 1812 marker and a U.S. flag are on his grave. Stephen made a will,February 24, 1854 and later, a codicil. He willed his property to children, Richard, Harry, Harriet and Eunice. In his lifetime, he had provided for the remainder of his children. In the settlement of this estate, one hundred acres was purchased by Eunice and one hundred acres went to Richard. Later, an agreement was made that Eunice deed her part to Richard and accept a life lease in order that the farm might remain intact. In the 1860 census. William Walkley and Eunice Walkley were living at home. John Durhtie, age 30. was a farm hand.
4 Richard WALKLEY IV2,3 (c. 1738-1811) [9053]. Born c. 1738.2 Died 19 Feb 1811.3
8 Richard WALKLEY III2 (c. 1705- ) [9058]. Born c. 1705.2
9 Abigail SPENCER2 ( - ) [9060].
5 Deborah BAILEY2,3 (1749-1785) [9028]. Born 30 Jan 1748/49.3 Died 18 Feb 1785.3
10 Jacob BAILEY4,5,6 (1720-bef1784) [3568]. Born 21 Oct 1720, Haddam, Middlesex, CT.4,6 Marr Elizabeth CROOK 6 Aug 1746, Haddam, Middlesex, CT.3,4,6 Died bef 1784.4
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.
11 Elizabeth CROOK3,4 (1721-bef1784) [3569]. Born 30 Apr 1721, Nantucket, MA.4 Died bef 1784.4
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.
3 Hannah LAWRENCE2 (1785-1863) [9059]. Born 12 Oct 1785, Middletown, CT.1,2 Died 13 Jun 1863.2 Buried East Main Road (Buell) Cemetery, LeRoy, NY.7
From The Roseman Lawrence Family by Mrs. A. Lawrence Jinks, 1965.
4. Hannah Lawrence, daughter of Rosman and Hannah Dunham Lawrence, was born. October 12, 1785 and baptized at Christ Church, Middletown, Conn., December 25. 1785. Sponsors were her parents and the wife of G. Spooner. Hannah Lawrence married at Middletown, September 10, 1806, Stephen Walkley of Haddam, Conn. These records are found in a bible owned by Frank Walkley of LeRoy, N. Y. and described by him as follows; "The Family Bible was published in 1817 at Brattleborough, Vermont for J. Holbrook (9th edition stereotype copy) but no other publisher's name is given. The first page is inscribed "The property of Stephen Walkley, October 25, 1818'." From More Century Farms of New York State, Stephen Walkley, Conn., having married Hannah Lawrence in 1806, came in the year of 1807, to western New York looking for land. Tradition says he walked or hitched rides on that long trip from Connecticut. He purchased 200 acres of land from the Phelps and Gorham Purchase for $600 from Asher Bates, the first postmaster at LeRoy. (Mr. Frank Walkley has the original deed to this farm.) That summer (1807) Walkley cleared a couple acres and sowed wheat and erected a log house. Then he returned to Connecticut. In the spring of 1808, he came again, bringing his wife and her brother, Silas Lawrence. From the family record, their first son, Asahel, was born July 12th, so he was born after their arrival at their new home in LeRoy. The farmhouse on the Walkley farm is believed to have been built in 1812. At present, It contains many beautiful possessions collected by four generations of Walkleys that have lived in it. All four generations have celebrated their golden weddings.There are many fascinating stories to be told about the early days on Yankee Road. Limitations of space permit only one story about a brave resourceful woman, Hannah Lawrence Walkley. In the spring of 1814, Stephen Walkley was serving in the American forces at Fort Niagara. The burning of Buffalo on the last days of 1813 by the British and Indians had thrown all of western New York into a panic. Most of her neighbors had fled to the east side of the Genesee River but Hannah Walkley stayed on the farm with her three young children, caring for the family and the farm. There were oxen and hogs in addition to crops. While she was alone in this eerie wilderness, there Indians came to her door. They asked for a meal. She made a quick decision. “If you will pitch hay for the stock. I'll make a dinner for you", she told them. Her guests were willing. While they worked, she went to the cellar where she had chickens stored for some special occasions, brought up a couple and made a fine chicken dinner. The Indians were perfectly friendly and left after the meal deeply grateful. One happy day, as she was working with the oxen, one raised his head, listened and mooed. He had heard and seen his master returning from Army duty.
In the house is a yarn winding swift, still in use since the settlement days. Andirons, that came from Haddam, are still in the fireplace. Heavy drapes woven 1838, hang at the wide living room door. (Virginia Teetley and Henry S. Manley.) Hannah Lawrence lived in this house until her death, June 13, 1863, age 88 years. She is burled in the Walkley plot, cemetery east of LeRoy. N. Y.
6 Rosman LAWRENCE2 ( - ) [9065].
7 Hannah DUNCAN2 ( - ) [9066].
| 1 | "From the Gazetteer & Biographical Record of Genesee County, New York 1788-1890, edited by F.W. Beers, 1890". |
| 2 | "From The Rosman Lawrence Family by Mrs. A. Lawrence Jinks, 1965". |
| 3 | "From Crook; An American Family, 1698-1955 compiled by Charles Henry Leavitt, 1956.". |
| 4 | "Ancestry.com, Snow/Lyman Ancestors". |
| 5 | "A History of the Towns of Haddam and East-Haddam by David D. Field, A.M., Pastor of the Church of Haddam, 1814". |
| 6 | "Genealogy of the Brainerd-Brainard Family in America 1549-1908 by Lucy Abigail Brainard, 1908". |
| 7 | "East Main Road (Buell) Cemetery, LeRoy, NY". |