John Bayly

Abt 1586 - 1651  (~ 65 years)

• Name	John Bayly  [1]
  Birth	Abt 1586	of Bromham, Wiltshire, England   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	2 Nov 1651	Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts   [2]
  Person ID	I12431	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of FF, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of LDN, Ancestor of TNH
  Last Modified	5 Sep 2019

  
  

  Family	Ann Bayly   d. Bef 27 Aug 1659, Bromham, Wiltshire, England
  Marriage	Jul 1611	Bromham, Wiltshire, England   [2]
  Children	+ 1. John Bayley,   b. Bef 19 Dec 1613, Bromham, Wiltshire, England d. Bef 5 Mar 1691, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts (Age < 77 years) + 2. Joanna Bailey,   b. Abt 1621, Bromham, Wiltshire, England d. Abt 1663 (Age ~ 42 years)
  Family ID	F7164	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Sep 2018

  
  

• Notes

  He was a weaver. From Stott (citation details below): On 23 September 1617, John Bayly Jr. was presented for possessing a crossbow contrary to the statutes of [Bromham] manor...Perhaps the most interesting entry is dated 4 April 1627, when the jury declared that John Bayly was "a common hedge stealer...And that Ann baylyes twoe daughters were also common hedgestealers." The meaning of "hedgestealer" has yet to be determined. John is last mentioned in Bromham parish registers on 12 April 1635, in the burial entry of his daughter Rebecca. If the family tradition is correct, John Bayly and his son John left England soon after Rebecca's burial, as they are supposed to have been passengers on the Angel Gabriel bound from Bristol to New England that wrecked off Pemaquid, Maine, on 15 August of the same year. By 1637 John Bayly, William Schooler, and others had taken up residence "beyond the Merrimack" in what is now Amesbury. Bayly built his home at "Sweet's Hill." Bayly's Pond at the foot of the hill testifies that he was present there. John was fined £5 by the General Court of 4 June 1639 for buying land from the Indians without authority from the court. The fine was remitted pending his forfeiture of the land. John Bayly was an original proprietor of Salisbury in March 1639/40. Most of the early settlers of Salisbury were Wiltshiremen. John received additional lands in the divisions of 1642 and 1643, and in 1642 he was granted fishing privileges on the Powow River. The Quarterly Court held at Salisbury on 24 April 1649 freed John from the obligation of bringing his wife over from England, "she utterly refusing to come." The same court freed John from military training, with John paying 5s annually to the military company of Salisbury. John moved to Newbury in 1650.

  
  

• Sources

  [S2318] The Ancestry of Samuel Blanchard Ordway by Dean Crawford Smith; edited by Melinde Lutz Sanborn. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1990. [S1407] Clifford L. Stott, "John Bayly of Bromham, Wiltshire, and Essex County, Massachusetts." The American Genealogist 77:241, October 2002.