John Bailey

- 1811

• Name	John Bailey  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	14 Jun 1811	Walkill, Orange, New York   [2]
  Person ID	I25924	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of BAM
  Last Modified	4 Aug 2019

  
  

  Father	Nehemiah Bailey,   b. Abt 1725, Rye, Westchester, New York d. Aft 1800, North Towanda, Bradford, Pennsylvania (Age ~ 76 years)
  Mother	Hannah Nickerson,   b. Abt 1730   d. Aft 1800, North Towanda, Bradford, Pennsylvania (Age ~ 71 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1766  [3]
  Family ID	F15522	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Hannah Vail,   b. 10 Aug 1752   d. Bef 27 May 1850, Lansing, Tompkins, New York (Age < 97 years)
  Marriage	25 Dec 1773	Salem, New London, Connecticut   [2]
  Children	+ 1. Isaac Bailey,   b. 1774, Orange County, New York d. 4 Nov 1848, Licking County, Ohio (Age 74 years)
  Family ID	F15521	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	4 Aug 2019

  
  

• Notes

  From his wife's pension application of 20 Apr 1848 (citation details below): John Bailey was a private in the Levies or Militia of the State of New York, and served as such against the enemy in the War of the Revolution. [...] John Bailey entered the service of his country as such private near Sugar Loaf in the County of Orange and State of New York where she and her said husband then resided and continuedto reside until after the close of said war. [...] [H]e entered said service about the fall of the year seventeen hundred and seventy seven as near as she can recollect. That he served from that time, pretty much 'till the end ofthe war. He came home several different times during the war armed and equipped as a soldier professing to have come from service in the army and after getting wood & the like and making provision for his family would leave home armed and equipped as a soldier stating that he was going again to join the army, and when at home his neighbours would converse with him of the service he had been in, in the army, and where he was gone out as a soldier such neighbours would converse with her as to her said husband's being in the army, and she thinks she has heard him and his neighbours say that he was in the battle at White Plains, Fort Montgomery & Stony Point, the two last places being in the same county in which she then resided as aforesaid. That he was in other battles, but from her great age cannot name -- her said neighbours during the war, which she now remembers were James Parshall, Jason Horton, John Wood, James Wells, Samuel Wells, George Howell, John Howell, Oliver Bailey, brother of her said husband but believes they are all dead. She remembers to have heard her said husband speak during the time he was a soldieras aforesaid as well as his neighbours of his officers and she remembers the names of Captains Horton, Honeywell, Hunt, Schultze, Colonels Hammond and Brinkerhoof as some of his officers.

  
  

• Sources

  [S3324] The Descendants of Nicholas and Margaret Bailey of Westchester County, NY. [S3323] Application by John Bailey's widow Hannah for his pension for service in the Revolution, 20 Apr 1848. [S2654] The Nickerson Family: The Descendants of William Nickerson, 1604-1689, First Settler of Chatham, Massachusetts, Parts I, II & III: The First Six Generations with Vital Statistics of the Seventh Generation, The Combined 2nd Edition With Corrections by Pauline Wixon Derrick with Gertrude James and Barbara E. Goward. Cape Cod, Massachusetts: The Nickerson Family Association, 1997., "married _____ BAYLEY, before 1766.".