Joseph Bailey

Joseph, John and William Bailey were among Kentucky's early settlers. Tradition indicated that Joseph Bailey came into the meadows of Licking and traded a pair of buckskins and a rifle gun to all of Gun Creek and part of Puncheon and that the Gun Creek name was derived from this transaction. We have found that Joseph Bailey did own other lands for he deeded one of his sons, Rev. Wallace Bailey, land on the Short Fork of Rockhouse Fork of Burning Fork in Magoffin County, Kentucky.

It would seem that the Bailey's followed the same migration route of so many of our people, settling in the New River section of Virginia, after landing on the coasts of the Carolinas. Lee Cuonty, Virginia was their home for a time, before some hardy members of the family spilled over into the wilderness that was to become Eastern Kentucky.

The 1810 Floyd County Kentucky census lists Joseph Bailey as being age 45 and up with seven children ranging in age from under ten to 16 to 26. During the January term of court in 1811 of Floyd County Joseph Bailey was ordered to help mark a road from the Salt Lick of Middle Creek to Mason Williams.

There is evidence that a Mason Williams owned lands in the vicinity of present Salyersville, KY so the road that Joseph Bailey helped mark was what became Rt. 114 or the present Mountain Parkway extension between Salyersville and Prestonsburg.

The November term of Floyd County court in 1811 lists a Joseph Bailey as receiving bounty due on "wolf scalps". This would indicate that Joseph was a hunter as well as a road surveyor. For the July term of court in 1815, Joseph was appointed "Surveyor of the road from the Burning Springs to where the road leaves the last fork." It doesn't indicate whether it was east or west of the Burning Springs, a natural oil and/or gas seepage that was encountered by the early pioneers which was set aflame and used to dry apples and other uses were found for this natural phenomenon.

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• Residence: Gallatin, Kentucky, United States - 1810
• Residence: Floyd, Kentucky, United States - 1820
• Residence: Floyd, Kentucky, United States - 1830
• Residence: Floyd, Kentucky, United States - 1840
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