Hi Listers, "Merrill Reich" <mreich@rocsoft.net> WROTE: >You might try Genealogies of Connecticut Families, Vol. I, pub. >Genealogical Publishing Co., Balt., 1983. John Bailey is treated on pp. >66-70. According to this article (from NEHGR) John Bailey m. prob. Lydia >Smith, dau. of Thomas Smith of Haddam; however, there is a brief article on >p. 70 that questions that assertion. According to this source his son John >(John, Jr.) m. Elizabeth Bate, dau of John and Elizabeth (Beckwith) Bate. >Their first son, John, was born in 1688. This birth date is consistent >with the marriage in 1687 cited in your query. As I am descended from this >John Bailey, Jr., I am interested in ensuring that I have the correct data. > Could you please cite the source of the marriage of John, Jr. to >Elizabeth Gerard in 1687 and list the children of the marriage. If the NEHGR article is wrong, I need to know it. My Reply: I also encountered the same conflict when I first discovered my BAILEY Family in Bradford Co., PA. A file from that Counties Historical Society stated, "Footnote Bailey, Genealogies of Connecticut Families from The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. I, p. 70: 1.) "In the article on John Bailey of Haddam, Conn., ante, page 60, is a statement, for which the author was not responsible, that the wife of John1 Bailey was probably a daughter of Thomas Smith of Haddam. Dr. James B. Field of Lowell, Mass., writes: "I doubt if Thomas Smith of Haddam had any daughter or any relative living in Haddam. To be sure, he left his land to John Baily's wife, but he also left his household stuff to Daniel Brainwood's wife, and the rest of his property to several of his townsmen. The most reasonable assumption is that the women had cared for him in his last illness, and the men were his personal friends. In this theory the late Charlotte Goldthwaite, an accurate and painstaking genealogist, agreed. In the partition of the land several years after Thomas Smith's decease, there is no more hint of his relation to any of the beneficiaries than there is in his will." I have gradually come to believe the information on the HADDAM Founders web site by Timothy Tucker is correct, See: "http://haddam.com/tucker/", "2. JOHN2 BAILEY (JOHN (HADDAM FOUNDER)1) was born 1656 in Hartford, Hartford, CT, and died September 28, 1734 in Haddam, Middlesex, CT. He married ELIZABETH GERARD 1687 in Haddam, Middlesex, CT, daughter of Robert Gerard and Elizabeth Beckwith. Notes: John is the only Bailey buried at Haddam with a head stone. He was burried near the southeastern border of the old ground laid out by his father. On January 20, 1732, John Bailey deeded his wife Elizabeth, half of his house, 2 acres of land, and all his personal effects if she do not again marry. Children of John Bailey and Elizabeth Gerard are: 8. i. JOHN JR.3 BAILEY, b. October 12, 1688, Haddam, Middlesex, CT; d. February 03, 1767, Haddam, Middlesex, CT. 9. ii. EPHRAIM BAILEY, b. January 01, 1690/91, Haddam, Middlesex, CT; d. March 27, 1761, Haddam, Middlesex, CT. 10. iii. ELIZABETH BAILEY, b. October 24, 1694, Haddam, Middlesex, CT; d. November 17, 1726, Milford, New Haven, CT. iv. LYDIA BAILEY, b. March 16, 1695/96, Haddam, Middlesex, CT. v. MEHETABEL BAILEY, b. June 04, 1698, Haddam, Middlesex, CT; d. January 20, 1731/32; m. BENJAMIN WEST, January 11, 1719/20. 11. vi. JONATHAN BAILEY, b. August 16, 1700; d. 1776. vii. DOROTHY BAILEY, b. July 11, 1703, Haddam, Middlesex, CT; m. JONATHAN SMITH, September 22, 1721. viii. MARY BAILEY, b. March 19, 1705/06, Haddam, Middlesex, CT; m. JOHN BEVIN, September 10, 1724. ix. DAVID BAILEY, b. August 08, 1710, Haddam, Middlesex, CT; d. July 1771; m. (1) JEMIMA; m. (2) JANE, July 20, 1730." I am still looking for a good source. I have been promised a copy of "The Ancestry of Emily Jane Angell_1844 -1910" by Dean Crawford Smith and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 1992, pp. 223-230. Elizabeth (BECKWITH) GERRARD appears on pp. 228-229 with her husbands and children, but don't have it yet. Can anyone else offer solid source material for these folks? Adios, Jerry England trails@ni.net http://www.cowboyup.com (Home) http://www.cowboyup.com/Back_Trail.html (Genealogy) Surnames: AVERY, BACKUS, BAILEY, BECKWITH, BOYD, BRAINERD, BROWN, BUNCE, CLARK, DUDLEY, ELLIS, GARDINER, GERARD, GROOMS, HALLOWELL, HAYWARD, HEAD, MC NEIL, NANNEY, PIERCE, PLIMPTON, POTTS, ROGERS, ROOD, SCOVILLE, SHAILER, SMITH, SPENCER, TILL, TYSON, WAGGONER, WILKIE