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William Bailey

Also Known As: "Bayley of Little Compton"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Little Compton, Newport Co., Rhode Island
Death: February 17, 1729 (40-49)
Little Compton, Newport County, Rhode Island
Place of Burial: Old Commons Cem., Little Compton, Newport, RI
Immediate Family:

Son of John Bailey, Sr. and Sutton Bailey
Husband of Dorothy Bailey
Father of William Bailey; Sarah Brownell; Priscilla Loring; Samuel Bailey; John Bailey and 1 other
Brother of Sarah Sabear; George Bailey; John Bailey, Jr.; Samuel Bailey; Lieut. Thomas Bailey and 5 others
Half brother of Martha Sims; Jane Rogers and Tobias Brown

Managed by: Lori Lynn Wilke
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About William Bailey

From 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 19-20

8. William' Bailey (John,2 William1), b. 1684, d. Feb. 17, 1730, m. Jan. 30, 1708, Dorothy Graves, dau. Richard and Dorothy Graves. (sic: see notes) She d. Nov. 26, 1771.

Children include:

  1.   William Baley (____ - 1740)*
  2.   Priscilla Bailey Loring (1711 - 1787)*
  3. John Bailey (1720-1757) married Elizabeth Pabodie
  4.   Ruth Bailey Church (1727 - 1771)*

Notes Dorothy Graves parents are usually seen as John Graves & Martha Mitton

Citations

  • 147. Benjamin Franklin Wilbour, Little Compton Families, Volume I & II.

Sources

  1. Little Compton Births and Deaths, in Arnold, James N. Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636–1850: First series, births, marriages and deaths. A family register for the people. (Narragansett Hist. Publ. Co., 1891), 4:6:77. "BAILEY, William, ___, 1684, d. Feb. 17, 1730."

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William Bailey's Timeline

1684
1684
Little Compton, Newport Co., Rhode Island
1707
December 5, 1707
Little Compton, Newport County, Rhode Island
1710
June 21, 1710
Little Compton, Newport Co., RI
1711
January 15, 1711
Little Compton, Newport County, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
1713
September 12, 1713
Tiverton, Newport County, Rhode Island
1720
March 27, 1720
Little Compton, Bristol, Massachusets now Newport, Rhode Island, USA
1727
August 3, 1727
Little Compton, Newport County, Rhode Island
1729
February 17, 1729
Age 45
Little Compton, Newport County, Rhode Island
1729
Age 45
Old Commons Cem., Little Compton, Newport, RI