I'm interested in the Quaker Baileys from Chester County, and also a Robert Bailey from Sadsbury, Lancaster County. I've looked fairly hard to connect Robert to the Quaker Bailey family and had no luck. Alternate name variations include Bayley, Baily, Baillie. The Quaker line is fairly well documented here along with at least two generations of Isaac Bailey families: http://www.quakersurnames.net/bailey.html I don't see a Kirk marriage there. I'll poke around some more. It would seem likely that there's some connection to this line and an Isaac missing from this tree that fits your query. I've found some other early Bayleys also around Lancaster though at the time they settled it was still Chester County. There are also some VA lines that date back to 1600s. I think some of the later VA lines may be connected to my Lancaster family because there are also marriages to Steeles in those lines. There's an excellent article on early Scoth-Irish settlements here that details western Chester and the evolution into Lancaster and migrations to Cumberland. This details a lot related to Scots at Pequea, Donegal and so on. I can't recommend it enough for anyone with Scotch-Irish* ancestors in PA in that early 1700's era: http://www.horseshoe.cc/pennadutch/people/scotirish/scotrish.htm I also highly recommend a book called by Hubertis M. Cummings, 'Scots Breed and Susquehanna', "A vivid and moving tale of the indomitable Scots-Irish, from their ancient battling against tyranny in the mountains and glens of Scotland, through their early 18th-century struggle to create home and school and church along the American Susquehanna in Pennsylvania. This is a detailed history, filled with the exploits and sufferings of these sturdy folk, both in Britain and in America. A classic." You can find used copies or a CD-ROM version for under $15 online. (*I know the use of Scotch-Irish is seen as politically incorrect by some, but having looked at this in detail I find that the term was used in England long before it's more common use in the USA and it is a term with much historical use to the point of being broadly accepted. It also sounds better than Scots-Irish and it's the title used in this chapter from 1926. I drink Scoth, I've worn a kilt to Scottish dances and am a member of the St. Andrews Society of PA, and I've heard the various arguments about this.) Here's a list of early settlers cited in that link above that mostly settled in what was then Chester County at the time they arrived: "The first permanent settlers in what may be termed the Donegal region located along the Chiques creek, beginning in 1716, and spreading eventually over most of the five town- ships now represented in the original Donegal. The list is not complete, but it at least establishes the time of settlement of some of the principal Scotch-Irish families of the "Upper. End" of the county. Robert Middleton is shown as settling in 1716; John and George Stewart in 1717; Peter Allen, Robert and William Buchanan, William Bryan, Thomas Bayley, Henry Bealey, Andrew, James and John Galbraith, John Gardner, James Mitchell, Samuel Smith, John Sterret, Robert, Thomas, William and John Wilkins in 1718; Patrick Campbell, James Cunningham, Joseph Cloud, James Couch, Daniel Clark, Widow Dunning, John and Thomas Mitchell, Ephraim Moore, James Smith, and Joseph Work in 1720; John Taylor in 1721; Robert, James and John Allison, Gordon Howard, Thomas Howard, Alexander Hutchison, William Maybee, Richard McFarland, Robert Monday, John Maris, James Kyle, and Hugh White, in 1722; John Miller in 1723; Thomas Black, William Beach, John Black, Robert Brown, John Davison, John Doaks, Christian Gardner, John Walker and Michael Wood, in 1724; Jeremiah Bringham, Matthias Blazer, James Brownlow, Abraham Inless, Hugh Scott, in 1725; Rev. James Anderson, Joseph Baston, James Harris, Alexander McKee, George Mayfort, in 1726; Lazarus, James, John, Daniel and Alexander Lowrey, in 1729; James Buey, James Cook, Peter Hairston, James Hutchison, John Kelley, William and Alexander Mitchell, Thomas and John Scott, in 1730." That only covers a few of the many names referenced in this deailed history of the early growth of areas such as Colerain, Drumore, East Drumore, Fulton, Little Britain, East Donegal, West Donegal, Conoy, Mount Joy and Rapho. In that article, with regard to Bayleys, it cites: "John Galbraith located along what was then called Spring creek, which had its source at the spring at Donegal church. He selected the land at a point where a new road had been laid out, branching from Peter's road, a short distance northeast from the present town of Mount joy, and which led through the new settlement. This road again branched at Galbraith's, one road going to the river and the other inclining northwest, and connecting with the Peters road near Conoy creek. John Galbraith in the same year (1720) erected the first grist and saw mill above the Conestoga. The travel over these roads became so great that Mr. Galbraith applied to the Chester county court to grant him a license to keep an ordinary and brew beer." John Galbraith was a member of the first grand jury of Lancaster county, and was sheriff in 1731- In 1748 he was a captain in his brother's (Col. James Galbraith's) battalion, which ranged along, the mountains to protect the frontier settlers from Indian raids. He died in 1753. After the death of John Galbraith, his lands Were divided and sold. That part on the east side of the creek was purchased by Mr. Hiestand, and the grist and saw mill, with the ordinary and several hundred acres of land, were purchased by John Bayly, who was the son of Thomas Bayly, and was born upon a farm near where Florin now is. John Bayly was a member of the Supreme Executive Council from this county during the Revolutionary War. The mills and ordinary were conducted by him until his death in 1794. He was one of the owners and founders of the town of Falmouth. A few years after his death, Henry Shearer purchased the farm and mills. In 1804 he tore the old mills down, and erected a large stone mill on the south side of the road, and a large stone dwelling on the hill on the north side. Either then or few years later a still house was erected near the mill. This was known as merchant mill. Large quantities of flour from this mill were shipped down the river to the Baltimore market." I left the Galbraith part in for context on the location.A later reference notes: "The Bayly family, the head of which was Thomas Bayly, settled about a mile west from Mount Joy borough, on the turnpike. He died in 1734. His son John has been already mentioned herein. His son James bought the farm later owned by the Cassel family, in 1761-62." I have looked at this family a bit in the Lancaster LCHS archives and have some wills and data I have not had a chance to process, but I still can't match it up to my Robert Bailey of Lancaster yet. Also curious is the close connection between a Robert Baillie, who was an inspiration to the Jacobites, and Patrick Hume when Hume was persecuted in Scotland in the late 1600's. That Robert Baillie had planned to migrate to the continent but was executed in the 1860s. His son married Lady Grizel Hume, daughter of Patrick, and I can't account for their children fully. I do find it curious that my Humes line in PA had multiple marriages to my Bailey line a few generations later. Some details on Baillie and Hume can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baillie_of_Jerviswood http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grizel_Baillie I've also tried to establish connections between my Thomas Jordan line and the Quaker Baileys. Jordan married Ann Steele and as such was brother in law of Jacob Bailey below. There are close relationships between Quaker Jordan lines of Isle of Wight VA and a Bailey family there that I believe is related to the Quaker Bailys of Chester, but as yet I can't place a connection between my Jordans and Braileys to the Quaker families by those names. My Robert Bailey line is outlined as follows: Descendants of Robert Bailey of Sadsbury, Lancaster County PA 1 Robert Bailey 1706 - 1798 .... +Margaret McDill 1714 - 1800 ........ 2 Lydia Bailey .............. +James Thompson ........ 2 Jennet Bailey 1750 - .............. +James Sterrett ........ 2 Abigail Ann Bailey - 1828 .............. +John Steele 1758 - 1827 ................... 3 Harriet Steele - 1839 ......................... +Robert Jr. Maxwell ............................. 4 Robert Steele Maxwell 1815 - 1890 ................................... +Elizabeth Sheldon Bull 1815 - 1888 ........................................ 5 Edward Sheldon Maxwell ................... *2nd Husband of Harriet Steele: ......................... +John Long 1788 - 1855 ............................. 4 H. Harvey Long ............................. 4 Elizabeth S, Long ............................. 4 William Steele Long 1817 - 1869 ................................... +Harriet R. Jordan 1829 - 1922 ................... 3 John Steele 1788 - 1853 ......................... +Jane Porter 1791 - 1867 ............................. 4 Mary Steele ................................... +Henry Edward Slaymaker - 1905 ........................................ 5 Mary Slaymaker ........................................ 5 Francis Slaymaker ........................................ 5 Susan Reigart Slaymaker ................... *2nd Wife of John Steele: ......................... +McClung ........ 2 Jacob Bailey 1741 - .............. +Rachel Steele 1746 - 1803 ................... 3 Margaret Bailey 1766 - ......................... +John Humes ................... 3 Rachel Bailey 1768 - 1857 ......................... +Edward Crouch 1764 - 1827 (my mother's line via 1st wife) ................... 3 Susannah Bailey 1772 - ................... 3 Harriette Bailey 1774 - ......................... +Joseph Burd ................... 3 Ann Elmira Bailey 1784 - 1862 ......................... +Hamilton Humes 1784 - 1859 (my father's line) ............................. 4 Elizabeth Humes ............................. 4 Rachel Bailey Humes 1816 - 1883 ................................... +Samuel Humes 1801 - 1859 ........................................ 5 Hamilton Bailey Humes 1844 - 1913 .............................................. +Floretta (Flora) S. Sebring .................................................. 6 Mary Humes 1861 - 1884 .................................................. 6 Samuel Humes 1870 - 1904 ........................................................ + Jessica Cole Prindle 1870 - 1948 ............................. 4 Catherine Humes 1828 - ........ 2 Francis Bailey 1744 - (printer for the Rev. Congress) .............. +Eleanor Miller 1756 - 1832 ................... 3 Abby Bailey 1800 - 1863 ......................... +John Hough James 1800 - 1881 ............................. 4 John Henry James 1834 - 1898 ................................... +Harriet Hall Lynch 1837 - 1911 ........................................ 5 Gertrude V. James ........................................ 5 Abbe Bailey James I'm missing some details there, such as Francis Bailey's son Robert and his wife Lydia. Francis was a close friend of Benjamin Franklin, probably dating back to his acquaintence through his father being appointed to a security position by Franklin in the 1750's. Francis became a printer and was running a newspaper in Lancaster and printing announcements related to the Revolutionary Congress as early as July 5, 1776 and later while Congress was in exile in York. He later printed currency, patented a type setting process and was an official printer for Congress after the war. A search of the LOC archives shows some of the scope of his work and his print shop has a historical marker in Lancaster today. Francis Bailey published some of the first Swedenborg tracts and was an early convert to that sect. His friendship with Franklin is supported by his being a witeness to Franklin's will. Robert Bailey, son of Francis, took over his father's printing business, which at some point moved to Philadelphia. Robert Bailey's wife Lydia continued the business after his death as one of the first women printers in the states, operating her own very successful press in the early 1800's. Amongst other things she published was poetry by Rev. War soldiers in the early 1800s.