George Manchester

George Manchester

• birth: about 1679, Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island
• Father: Thomas MANCHESTER b. 1650, Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island; d. 1722 of Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island
• Mother: Mary BROWNELL b. about 1650, of Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island; d. 1718

Marriage:

1. 1699, Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island to Elizabeth Bailey b. 1683, of Tiverton, daughter of Edward and Frances Bailey.

Children:

• George Manchester, born December 10/1701. He married on December 29/1724, Abigail Richmond, born at Tiverton, November 25/1704, daughter of Edward and Sarah Richmond.
• Thomas Manchester b. 1703
• Margaret Manchester b. 1705, She married a Brownell.
• Mary Manchester b. 1707
• Sarah Manchester b. 1709 She married a Hicks,
• Ann Manchester b. 1711
• Content Manchester b. 1713, She married a Crandell.

Notes 

In his [Edward Bailey's] will, dated Aug. 18, 1711, he bequeathed to his son Edward and daughter Sarah Bailey, all his estate, real and personal, excepting his interest in Pocasset, which he gave his son John; Edward and Sarah, to allow their mother Frances a comfortable maintenance for life; his daughter Elizabeth, wife of George Manchester, had as her part a three-year-old heifer.

Sources 

1. Records of the Bailey Family: Decendants of William Bailey of Newport, R.I., Chiefly in the Line of His Son, Hugh Bailey of East Greenwich, R.I. (Google eBook) Standard Printing Company, 1895 - 206 pages.  Page 11
2. "Ancestral File", database, FamilySearch - http://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/M7VX-PQ4