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1 Thomas BAILEY , Jr.1 (c. 1780-1802) [9569]. Born c. 1780.1 Died 9 Apr 1802.1 Buried Old Higganum Cemetery, Haddam, CT.1
2 Thomas BAILEY1 (1750-1785) [9029]. Born 15 Feb 1749/50.1 Marr Amy KELLEY 19 May 1779.1 Died Dec 1785.1 Buried Old Higganum Cemetery, Haddam, CT.1
From Crook; An American Family, 1698-1955 compiled by Charles Henry Leavitt, 1956.
15. iii. THOMAS BAILEY (Elizabeth Crook, Thomas) was born February 15, 1750 in Haddam, Connecticut. He married, May 19, 1779, Ama (Amy) Kelley, who was born in 1748. She was undoubtedly the daughter of John and Margery (_____) Kelley, who lived in Haddam. The ceremony was performed by the reverend Eleazer May, pastor of the First Congregational Church of Haddam, recorded in the following unique words: "Then I married Thomas Bailey and Ama Kelley together." This form invariably appears in the original entries of the marriages by the Reverend Mr. May.
Thomas Bailey was a soldier in the Revolutionary War in the same military organization with his brothers Jacob and Timothy. He enlisted in June, 1776 in Captain Cornelius Higgins' Haddam Company, Fifth Connecticut Battalion, Colonel James Wadsworth Brigade. This battalion served in New York City, Brooklyn Front, in the Battle of Long Island and White Plains. His enlistment expired Christmas Day, 1776, No record has been found of more enlistments, and it is presumed he was in poor health and that he died soon after the close of the war.
Thomas and Amy lived in the Higganum District of Haddam, where he died in December, 1785 and was buried in the Old Higganum Cemetery. According to the United States census of 1790, Amy Bailey was living in Haddam with one son under 16 years of age. This son, Thomas Bailey, Jr., died, April 9, 1802 age 22, and was buried beside his father in the village cemetery. On May 28, 1802 Amy Bailey stated she was unable to administer the estate of her son Thomas, and requested that Robert Smith be appointed administrator. The estate was approved May 31, 1802, and was administrated by Robert Smith December 27, 1802. Less than ten months after the death of her only child, Amy (Kelley) Bailey died February 3, 1803 and was buried in the family plot in the Old Higganum Cemetery, Haddam, Connecticut.".
4 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.
8 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
9 Deborah BRAINERD2,4,5,6 (1698-1745) [3554]. Born 3 Apr 1698, Haddam, Middlesex, CT.5,6 Died 1745, Haddam, Middlesex, CT.4,6
5 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.
10 Thomas CROOK1,2 ( - ) [3570].
11 Hope CARTWRIGHT1 (1699- ) [9106]. Born 27 Aug 1699, Nantucket Island.1
3 Amy KELLEY1 (1748-1803) [9566]. Born 1748.1 Died 3 Feb 1803. Buried Old Higganum Cemetery, Haddam, CT.1
6 John KELLEY1 ( - ) [9567].
| 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". |