See also
1 Elizabeth BAILEY1 (1815- ) [9584]. Born 23 Jul 1815, Leyden, NY.1
2 Elias Crook BAILEY1,2,3,4 (1786-1867) [9573]. Born 16 Aug 1786, Haddam CT.1,2,3 Died Aug 1867.1 Buried Near Rome NY.1
4 Abijah BAILEY2 (c. 1755- ) [9031]. Born c. 1755, Haddam, CT.2 Marr Hannah CROOK 1785.2
From Crook; An American Family, 1698-1955 compiled by Charles Henry Leavitt, 1956..
"17. v. ABIJAH (MIJAH) BAILEY (Elizabeth Crook, Thomas) was born about 1755 in Haddam, Connecticut. He served in the War for Independence, enlisting as a private May 11, 1775. His was the First Company, Second Regiment, Connecticut Line, commanded by General Joseph Spencer of East Haddam, Connecticut. The regiment was raised during April and May, 1775, when the State Legislature first called for troops. The men came mainly from MIddlesex County and the eastern part of the Colony.
The men of this early regiment of Connecticut troops marched by companies to camps around Boston and served during the siege of Boston. Several detachments of officers and men were engaged at the Battle of Bunker Hill and in General Benedict Arnold's Quebec Expedition.
General Richard Montgomery was authorized to make the attempt to reach Quebec by the way of Lake Champlain - at the same time General Washington organized an expedition to proceed up the Kennebec River through the Maine Woods to Quebec. General Benedict Arnold was placed in command of the thirteen companies of volunteers for this effort. The Connecticut quota was one full company of one hundred strong, commanded by Captain Oliver Hanchett if Shuffield, Connecticut. It is presumed Private Abijah Bailey was in this company.
The army of 1300 officers and men under the command of General Arnold started from Cambridge, Massachusetts, September 11, 1775. Sloops and Schooners took them from Newburyport to the mouth of the Kennebec River. More than 200 badly constructed boats were awaiting them in which they ascended the river, poling, rowing and dragging the boats around waterfalls and over rocks and rapids. The enterprise proved to be a difficult and dangerous undertaking.
Towards the end of October, when it was cold and snowing, three companies of musketmen, appalled at the hazards they were undergoing, abandoned the expedition and returned to Cambridge. At that time officers and men each had to carry packs. Some were not able to do so, and some were sick so that guards had to accompany them on the return. Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Spencer, in command of Arnold's rear division, returned with his party at the same time. Abijah Bailey was probably among the returning Connecticut troops in that he was discharged , December 3, 1775. Had he gone to Canada he hardly could have been discharged at that early date. There seem to be no further records of his army service. The hardships suffered in the Quebec campaign may have rendered him unfit for further military service.
Abijah Bailey married his cousin Hannah, daughter of Shubel and Hannah (_____) Crook, in November, 1785. She was the young widow of ______ Cone. They were married in Haddam by the Reverend Eleazer May of the First Congregational Church, who baptized Hannah in March, 1760.
Like most Americans of the period, Abijah was a farmer and his "Mark for creatures" (domestic animals) was recorded by the Haddam Town Clerk, March 1, 1800. He was living in Haddam in May, 1806 but probably moved son after that date, or about the same time as his brother Timothy and cousin Joseph Crook, to Leydon, New York. Abijah or Mijah Bailey's eight children are listed with their mother, Hannah (Crook) Cone Bailey, No. 25.".
8 Jacob BAILEY5,6,7 (1720-bef1784) [3568]. Born 21 Oct 1720, Haddam, Middlesex, CT.5,7 Marr Elizabeth CROOK 6 Aug 1746, Haddam, Middlesex, CT.2,5,7 Died bef 1784.5
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.
9 Elizabeth CROOK2,5 (1721-bef1784) [3569]. Born 30 Apr 1721, Nantucket, MA.5 Died bef 1784.5
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.
5 Hannah CROOK2 (c. 1760- ) [9099]. Born c. 1760, Haddam, CT.2 Marr ? CONE bef 1784.8
10 Shubael CROOK2 (1724-1804) [9088]. Born 19 Jul 1724.2 Died 24 Aug 1804.2
3 Hannah SAGE1,3,4 (1791-1863) [9583]. Born 1791, Coldbrook, NY.1 Died 15 Mar 1863.1,9 Buried Talcottville Cemetery, Lewis County, NY.10
| 1 | "World Family Tree - Bill Gawne's Extended Family, relations by birth and marriage". |
| 2 | "From Crook; An American Family, 1698-1955 compiled by Charles Henry Leavitt, 1956.". |
| 3 | "1850 NY, Lewis, Leyden census". |
| 4 | "1860 NY, Lewis, Leyden census". |
| 5 | "Ancestry.com, Snow/Lyman Ancestors". |
| 6 | "A History of the Towns of Haddam and East-Haddam by David D. Field, A.M., Pastor of the Church of Haddam, 1814". |
| 7 | "Genealogy of the Brainerd-Brainard Family in America 1549-1908 by Lucy Abigail Brainard, 1908". |
| 8 | "Estimated based on related dates and information". |
| 9 | "Talcottville Cemetery records, Lewis County, NY". |
| 10 | "Talcottville Cemetery records, Lewis County, NY.". |