In the History of Bristol County, Massachusetts Page 236, the following is written about the Baylies

Immigrated with his son Thomas 1737

"I have devoted considerable space to the Baylies family, but they were a prolific race, and not a few of them were prominent in public affairs, acting their parts creditably. Their blood must have been of a good strain to produce so many worthy and capable men and women, notwithstanding the saying that has been handed down in the family from Old Nick, in allusion to the ancestral Nicholas of Alvechurch.

Added by Walter G. Ashworth, 7th Great Grandson

Nicholas Baylies wife is NOT ABIGAIL WOODS. HIS WIFE IS CURRENTLY UNKNOWN.

ABIGAIL WOODS b.1742 d.1788 WAS MARRIED TO DEACON NICHOLAS BAYLIES.=

WGA

possible brother or cousin of Anne Baylies