BAYLEY GENEALOGY

From John Bayley (d. 1651)
to Marie Angenette (Bayley) (Tirrell) Fearing (1820-1910)
Bayley Family in Weymouth

FIFTH GENERATION

JAMES5 BAYLEY (James4-3, John2-1) was born at Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, on 22 March 1697/8, a son of James Bayley and his wife Elizabeth Ruggles. He died at Weymouth, Suffolk county, on 22 August 1766. He married at Roxbury on 13 April 1720 SARAH GODDARD. She was born at Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts, on 14 November 1700, a daughter of John Goddard and his wife Sarah Farrington.[1]

James Bayley, grew up in Roxbury, the oldest of eight childeren, four of whom lived to adulthood. He was seventeen years old when his father died. Sarah Goddard, the second of five children, grew up in Lynn and Roxbury.

James Bayley graduated from Harvard College, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, in 1719. Upon graduation he became a schoolmaster in Andover, Essex County. However he soon was preaching, and was ordained the first pastor of First Church of Christ, Sount Precinct, Weymouth, on 26 September 1723. He remained in that position for forty-two years and eleven months, until his death.[2]

The residents of the southern portion of the Town of Weymouth wished to have their own church in their part of town. In May, 1722, they petitioned the General Court [Colonial legislature] to be organized as a separate precinct. Once so estblished, they could levy a tax to support a minister. They had already erected a meeting house and were holding preaching services. The General Court approved, and First Church of Christ, South Precinct, Weymouth, (known today as Old South Union Congregational Church, United Church of Christ) was organized on 18 September 1723. James Bayley, one of the eleven charter members, was ordained a week later.[3]

During James Bayley's ministry, two hundred and four persons professed that faith in Christ and were received into membership in the church. During his ministry, the "Great Awakening," a quickening of religious interest, swept through the English colonies of North America. I find no record in South Weymouth of itinerant evangelists or emotional outburst in worship, which charcterized the Awakening, but in April, 1740, forty-five adults were received into communion in the church, and in 1742 sexty-seven persons professed their faith and joined the church.[4]

As a pastor and a church historian, I like to imagine what this must have been like. In my imagination, I see Mr. Bayley preaching from his desk for three services a week, year after year, with only a polite response from most residents. Then all of a sudden, people are listening intently, responding emotionally, and changing their behavior. The preacher and his preaching hadn't changed. Through some kind of group contagion, the people were allowing the preacher's words to penetrate their hearts and bring about change!

Sarah (Goddard) Bayley gave birth to fourteen children in twenty-four years. This number included two sets of twins; five of the children died in infancy or childhood.

James Bayley and his wife Sarah Goddard had the following children:[5]

  1. JAMES6 BAYLEY b. at Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts, on 15 January 1721/2; d. after 1766.
  2. SARAH6 BAYLEY b. at Weymouth on 27 April 1724; d. there on 7 April 1733.
  3. ELIZABETH6 BAYLEY b. at Weymouth on 22 July 1725; d. there on July 1725.
  4. MARY6 BAYLEY b. at Weymouth on 22 July 1725; d. there on July 1725.
  5. JOSHUA6 BAYLEY b. at Weymouth on 24 November 1726; m(1). at Weymouth on 3 September 1747 MARY BLANCHARD, b. at Weymouth on 19 August 1729, d. about 1761, child of Samuel Blanchard and Jane Derby; Joshua m(2). at Weymouth on 10 August 1762 ELIZABETH (SHAW) HOLBROOK b. at Weymouth on 18 December 1735, child of John Shaw and Elizabeth Goddard; Elizabeth had m(1). at Weymouth on 11 April 1754 SAMUEL HOLBROOK b. at Weymouth on 2 December 1735, d. before 1762.
  6. THOMAS6 BAYLEY b. at Weymouth on 10 October 1728; d. after 1774.
  7. SAMUEL6 BAYLEY b. at Weymouth on 27 March 1730; d. before 1766; m. on 20 December 1753 CATHERINE PHIPPS.
  8. NATHANIEL6 BAYLEY b. at Weymouth on 27 December 1731.
  9. DANIEL6 BAYLEY b. at Weymouth on 1 April 1734; d. between 2 April and 31 December 1734.
  10. SARAH6 BAYLEY b. at Weymouth on 16 June 1735; d. between 1766 and 1768; m. at Weymouth on 17 October 1756 JOHN PRATT Jr., b. at Weymouth on 4 October 1730, d. there on 28 June 1786, child of John Pratt and Jael Beal; John had m(1). at Weymouth on 27 August 1752 MARTHA WHITE b. at Weymouth on 24 December 1730, d. there on 5 April 1755; John m(3). on 6 September 1768 DEBORAH DERBY b. at Weymouth on 6 June 1745, d. there on 3 January 1829, child of Jonathan Derby and Ruth Shaw.
  11. JOHN6 BAYLEY b. at Weymouth on 2 Fewbruary 1737; d. after 1774.
  12. MARY6 BAYLEY b. at Weymouth on 17 October 1742; d. there on 11 January 1816; m. at Weymouth on 20 August 1759 JOSIAH PRATT, b. at Weymouth on 19 April 1738, d. there on 10 July 1800, child of John Pratt and Jael Beal.
  13. DANIEL6 BAYLEY b. at Weymouth on 17 October 1742; d. before 1766.
  14. BENJAMIN6 BAYLEY b. at Weymouth on 1 December 1745; d. there on 22 December 1765.

SIXTH GENERATION

NATHANIEL6 BAYLEY (James5-4-3, John2-1) was born at Weymouth on 27 December 1731 a son of James Bayley and his wife Sarah Goddard. He died at Weymouth on 17 December 1812. He married first at Weymouth on 3 October 1754 TAMAR WHITE. She was born at Weymouth on 19 January 1731, a daughter of Nathaniel White and Sarah Lovell. She died there on 20 June 1789; Nathaniel married second at Weymouth on 1 November 1789 DEBORAH (BICKNELL) PRATT. She was born at Weymouth on 7 September 1762 and died there on 31 August 1830; Deborah had previously married at Weymouth on 9 January 1786 MICAH PRATT, who died on 1786.[6]

The preacher's son married the doctor's daughter and they lived in Weymouth all their lives. Nathaniel was the eighth of fourteen children. Tamar, the fourth of four children by her father's first wife, was two years old when her mother died. When she was eleven she received a step-mother, and soon half-siblings followed. Nathaniel Bayley built the "Bayley House" about 1750;[7] it remained the family homestead into the twentieth century.

Nathaniel and Tamar had eight children, all of whom lived to adulthood. When Tamar died at the age of fifty-eight, only one child remained at home, Elizabeth, age sixteen. Four months after Tamar's death, Nathaniel remarried. Nathaniel, a fifty-eight year old widower, married Deborah (Bicknell) Pratt, a twenty-seven year old widow. They did not have children. The 1790 Census reported Nathaniel Bayley at Weymouth, head of a household consisting of one male over 16 and two females,[8] probably Nathaniel, wife Deborah, and daughter Elizabeth.

Always an active member of South Parish Congregational Church, Nathaniel Bayley was elected to the office of Deacon when quite young, and served until his death.[9]

Soon after his first marriage, Nathaniel Bayley fought in the French and Indian War. From 9 September to 27 December, 1755, he was stationed at Crown Point, New York.[10] The site of a French fort on Lake Champlain, Crown Point was the target of British military operations.

A strong supporter of the Revolutionary cause, Nathaniel Bayley was elected to meetings of the General Court in 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1776. He was elected to the first provincial congress of deputies in Massachusetts (the Revolutionary body), which convened on October 1774 and again in January 1775 (at which it was voted to raise troops) and again in May, 1775. He was appointed to a committee to raise troops from Suffolk County. After the British left New England, he was elected to the General Court in 1780, 1782, 1784, 1788, each year from 1790 through 1794, and 1796. Nathaniel Bayley was also elected to the first recorded elected school committee in Weymouth in 1797.[11]

Nathaniel Bayley and his first wife Tamar White had the following children:[12]

  1. LYDIA7 BAYLEY b. at Weymouth on 1 August 1755; d. there on 23 March 1838; m. at Weymouth on 4 Decmeber 1774 JOHN THOMAS Jr. bp at Weymouth on 24 June 1751, d. there on 10 July 1834.
  2. TAMAR7 BAYLEY b. at Weymouth on 13 December 1756; d. after 1801; m. at Weymouth on 11 May 1786 JOSIAH THAYER, d. at Sterling, Worcester County, Massachusetts, on 10 November 1827.
  3. SAMUEL7 BAYLEY b. at Weymouth on 24 June 1758.
  4. SARAH7 BAYLEY b. at Weymouth on 12 July 1763; d. there on 24 July 1787.
  5. MARY7 BAYLEY b. at Weymouth on 26 January 1765; d. between 1801 and 1807; m. at Weymouth on 14 August 1783 NATHANIEL RICHARDS Jr. b. at Weymouth on 9 January 1763, d. there on 24 March 1857; Nathaniel m(2). at Weymouth on 12 January 1807 OLIVE ROGERS b. at weymouth on 29 August 1769, d. there on 13 February 1832.
  6. CHARLOTTE7 BAYLEY b. at Weymouth on 23 September 1767; d. there on 19 February 1797; m. at Weymouth on 2 October 1788 JAMES RICHARDS, 2d, bp. at Weymouth on 22 April 1764, d. there on 13 January 1810.
  7. NATHANIEL7 BAYLEY b. at Weymouth on 4 October 1769.
  8. ELIZABETH7 BAYLEY b. at Weymouth on 19 July 1772; d. between 16 September 1851 and 6 October 1855; m. at Weymouth on 27 June 1793 JOSIAH BLANCHARD, b. at Weymouth on 9 August 1756, d. there on 7 July 1839, child of Daniel Blanchard and Mary Pratt.

SEVENTH GENERATION

SAMUEL7 BAYLEY (Samuel6, James5-4-3, John2-1 ) was born at Weymouth on 24 June 1758 a son of Nathaniel Bayley and his first wife Tamar White . He died at Weymouth on 16 March 1839. He married at Weymouth on 17 November 1785 ELIZABETH BLANCHARD. She was born at Weymouth on 1 September 1758, a daughter of Daniel Blanchard and Mary Pratt . She died at Weymouth on 8 November 1843.[13]

Samuel Bayley and his wife Elizabeth Bayley were both born, lived all their lives, and died, in the town of Weymouth. When they married, an addition was built on the north side of Bayley House, and the couple and their children lived there all their lives.[14]

Samuel Bayley fought in the Revolutionary War. the record states:[15]

Bayley, Samuel, Weymouth, Private, Capt. Thomas Nash's co., Col. Solomon Lovell's regt.; marched to take possession of Dorchester Heights, Mar. 4, 1776; service 4 days.
also: pay roll for 8 days service subsequent to Mar 10, 1776.
Bailey, Samuel, Weymouth, Corporal, Capt. Thomas Nash's co., Col. David Cushing's regt.; enlisted Dec 20, 1777, roll made up to March 1, 1778; service 2 months, 10 days at Fort Hill, Boston, with Maj. Edward Proctor's detachment of guards.

Revolutionary forces took possession of Dorchester Heights, just south of Boston, in order to "bottle up" the British in Boston - preventing their advance by land. After the British evacuated Boston in March of 1776, Patriots statoned a force at Castle Island, in Boston Harbor, to protect the region from further Britich incursions.

Samuel Bayley was admitted to membership in South Parish [Congregational] Church in August 1790, and remained active throughout his life.[16]

Samuel Bayley and his wife Elizabeth Blanchard had the following children:[17]

  1. SAMUEL PUBLIUS8 BAYLEY b. at Weymouth on 3 August 1788.
  2. NATHANIEL8 BAYLEY b. at Weymouth on 30 November 1789; d. at South America on June 1820.
  3. SARAH8 BAYLEY b. at Weymouth on 22 October 1793; d. there on 28 February 1817.
  4. DEBORAH8 BAYLEY b. at Weymouth on 29 October 1797; d. before 1836; m. at Weymouth on 12 July 1826 JOHN F. PAYSON.
  5. MARY T.8 BAYLEY b. at Weymouth on 7 August 1806; m. at Weymouth on 28 June 1840 JOSIAH TORREY.

EIGHTH GENERATION

SAMUEL PUBLIUS8 BAYLEY (Samuel7, Nathaniel6, James5-4-3, John2-1) was born at Weymouth on 3 August 1788, a son of Samuel Bayley and his first wife Elizabeth Blanchard. He died at Weymouth on 20 February 1847. He married on September 1812 THAIS LOUD. She was born at Weymouth on 21 November 1788, a daughter of Eliphalet Loud and his wife Anna Blanchard. She died at Weymouth on 7 December 1858.[18]

Samuel P. Bayley and his wife Thais Loud were both born, lived all their l;ives, and died in the town of Weymouth.

Samuel participated in the War of 1812, as noted in the Bailey Genealogy:

At the time there was an English ship of war cruising along the shore, committing petty depredations. On a Sunday he and his young bride were attending church and during the service a messenger came to warn the inhabitants of Weymouth that the British were about to land at Cohasset. The militia was ordered out. Captain Bailey had to go with the rest. He was elected captain of the Franklin Guards, a military company of Weymouth.[19]

Samuel P. Bayley and his wife Thais Loud had the following children:[20]

  1. (child)9 BAYLEY b. at on 4 JUly 1813 d. there on 15 July 1813.
  2. ELIZA ANN9 BAYLEY b. at Weymouth on 16 August 1814; d. there on 8 April 1883; m. at Weymouth on 25 July 1836 OLIVER BEALS SHAW, b. at Weymouth on 26 November 1813, d. there on 5 February 1878, child of Oliver Shaw and Lydia Tirrell.
  3. NATHANIEL WHITE9 BAYLEY b. at Weymouth on 26 April 1816; d. there on 27 September 1903; m. at Weymouth on 12 November 1840 LUCY H. TIRRELL, b. at Weymouth on 16 December 1819, d. there on 14 April 1895, child of Leonard Tirrell and Abigail Thayer.
  4. GEORGE9 BAYLEY b. at Weymouth on 13 April 1918; d. there on 6 September 1869; m. at Weymouth on 20 November 1845 BEULAH PRATT BATES, b. at Weymouth on 16 July 1820, d. there on 10 July 1870, child of Warren Bates and Lois Blanchard.
  5. MARIA ANGENETTE9 BAYLEY b. at Weymouth on 29 May 1820.
  6. JAMES9 BAYLEY b. at Weymouth on 7 March 1822; d. at Abington, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, on 16 October 1878; m. at Abington on 25 June 1848 MARY A. SANBORN, b. at Abington on 19 November 1828, d. there on 18 September 1862, child of Samuel and Lucy Sanborn.
  7. SALLY9 BAYLEY b. at Weymouth on 18 November 1824; d. there on 29 December 1911; m. at Weymouth on 26 March 1850 DAVID GIBSON WEBSTER, b. at Rumney, Grafton County, New Hampshire, on 24 February 1809, d. there on 11 January 1888, child of Amos and Mary Webster.
  8. AUGUSTA MULVINA9 BAYLEY b. at Weymouth on 14 June 1831; d. there on 24 February 1834.

NOTES

1Vital Records of Roxbury, Massachusetts: to the end of the year 1849 (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1926), v. 1, p. 18; v. 2, p. 26. Vital Records of Weymouth, Massachusetts: to the Year 1850 (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1910), v. 2, p. 240. Vital Records of Lynn, Massachusetts: to the end of the year 1849 (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1905), v. 1, p. 160.
2Abbie F. Ellsworth, "Account of John Bailey of Salisbury: and some of his descendants," Bailey Genealogy: James, John, and Thomas and Their Descendants, Hollis R. Bailey, editor (Somerville, Massachusetts: The Citizen Company, 1899), 173. George Walter Chamberlain, History of Weymouth, Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts: Weymouth Historical Society, 1923), v. 1, p. 235; v. 3, p. 61. Chester B. Kevitt, Old South Union Church: (United Church of Christ), South Weymouth, Massachusetts, 1723-1983 (N.p.: n.p., 1983), pp. 3,18. "South Parish," Boston (Massachusetts) Newsletter, 12 December 1723–19 December 1723.
3Chamberlain, History of Weymouth, Massachusetts, v. 1, p. 233.
4Chamberlain, History of Weymouth, Massachusetts, v. 1, p. 235.
5Vital Records of Andover, Massachusetts: to the End of the Year 1849 (Topsfield, MA: Topsfield Historical Society, 1912), 1:63. Vital Records of Weymouth, Massachusetts, v. 1, pp. 34-36,55,92,232,268,342; v. 2, pp. 25, p. 60 (private record, from the diaries of Rev. William Smith),170, 214,231, 239-40,317-18,320-21. Chamberlain, History of Weymouth, Massachusetts, v. 1, p. 134; v. 3, p. 62. Ellsworth, "Account of John Bailey of Salisbury", 175.
6Vital Records of Weymouth, Massachusetts, v. 1, pp. 35,42,346; v. 2, pp. 25,152, 231,240. Chamberlain, History of Weymouth, Massachusetts, v. 3, p. 62.
7Letter from Judy Noveck Robinson, to Charles A. Maxfield, 3 January 1989; held in by Charles A. Maxfield, Lansdale, Pewnnsylvania 19446.
8First Census of the United States: 1790, population, Weymouth, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, roll 4, p. 671, Nat Bailey; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 14 December 2015); NARA microfilm publication M637; Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
9Ellsworth, "Account of John Bailey of Salisbury", 190.
10"Colonial Soldiers and Officers in New England, 1620-1775," online database, New England Historic Genealogical Society, American Ancestors (americanancestors.org : accessed 15 October 2020), p. 15
11Chamberlain, History of Weymouth, Massachusetts, v. 3, p. 62; Ellsworth, "Account of John Bailey of Salisbury", 190.
12Vital Records of Weymouth, Massachusetts, v. 1, pp. 34-36, 50,263,257 (church record, First Church of Christ, South Parish),295 (church record, First Church of Christ, South Parish),332; v. 2, pp. 24-25,33,164,240,246,331,346-47. Frances Pratt Topley ed., Vital Records of Sterling, Massachusetts (Worcester, Massachusetts: Commonwealth Press, 1976), 132 D. Chamberlain, History of Weymouth, Massachusetts, v. 3, p. 106; v. 4, p. 594.
13Vital Records of Weymouth, Massachusetts, v. 1, pp. 35,49; v. 2, pp. 25,231.
14Letter, Judy Noveck Robinson to Charles A. Maxfield, 3 January 1989.
15Commonwealth of Massachusetts Office of the Secretary, Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolutionary War (Boston: Wright L. Potter, 1902), vol 1, pp. 459,833.
16Ellsworth, "Account of John Bailey of Salisbury", 224.
17Vital Records of Weymouth, Massachusetts, v. 1, pp. 34-36; v. 2, pp. 15,24,231. Ellsworth, "Account of John Bailey of Salisbury", 224. Massachusetts Archives, "Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," digital images, American Ancestors (americanancestors.org : accessed 22 October 2020), v. 212, p. 288, e. 108; Deaths Weymouth 1868.
18Vital Records of Weymouth, Massachusetts, v. 1, pp. 35,177; v. 2, p. 240. Ellsworth, "Account of John Bailey of Salisbury", 260. "Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," vol. 121, p. 222, e. 92, Weymouth Deaths, 1858, Thais Bayley.
19Ellsworth, "Account of John Bailey of Salisbury", 260.
20Vital Records of Weymouth, Massachusetts, v. 1, pp. 16,24,34-36,272,304,p. 334 (gravestone record, Fairmount Cemetery, East Weymouth); v. 2, pp. 15,25,231. "Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," v. 347, p. 295, e. 49; Deaths Weymouth 1883; Eliza A. Shaw; v. 302, p. 255; Deaths Weymouth 1878; Oliver Beals Shaw; 1903 Deaths v. 56, certificate 435; Nathaniel Bayley; v. 455, p. 560, e. 68; Deaths Weymouth 1895; Lucy Bayley; v. 221, p. 292, e. 116; Deaths Weymouth 1869; George Bayley; v. 230, p. 294, e. 66; Deaths Weymouth 1870; Beulah Bayley; v. 302, p. 260, e. 35; Deaths Abington 1878; James Bayley; v. 157, p. 325, e. 71; Deaths Abington 1862; Mary A. Bayley; v. 46, p. 195, e. 8; Marriages Weymouth 1850; v. 392, p. 327, e. 7; Deaths Weymouth 1888; David Webster. Vital Records of Abington, Massachusetts: to the Year 1850 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1912), v. 1, p. 199; v. 2, p. 18. Massachusetts Archives, Massachusetts Vital Records, 1911-1915, 1911 Deaths vol. 105, certificate 51, Sally Webster, ; digital images, American Ancestors (americanancestors.org : accessed 16 October 2020).

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