Person:John Bailey (226)

Estate of John Bayly of Newbury

"'The 28^th of y^e 8^th m^o (1651) This is y^e last will: of John Bayly sen: being on his sick bed hee being yett in his right minde & senses, ffirst I giue vnto my Sonne John Bayly my house & land lijng & being in y^e Towne of Salisbury during his life; & after my sonnes death his second Sonne Josepth Bayly is to enioy it & if Josephth doth not live to enioy it, then his younger brother is to enioy it, And when Josephth Bayly or his yonger brother cometh to enioy this land he is to pay to his eldest brother John Bayly the some of forty pounds as his Grandfathers guift. And I do likewise make my sonne John Bayly sole Executo^r of all that ever I have only my Execute^r is to pay to my wyfe his mother ye some of six pounds a yeare duering hir life pvided she cometh over hither to New-england, likewise my Execute^r is to pay to my sonne Robert fiueteene pounds pvided also he come over hither to New-england likewise my Executo^r is to pay to my Daughters his sisters y^e some of Tenn pounds a peece pvided they come over hither to new-england butt in case they doe not come over hither butt doe sende by any messenger for their portions, they are to haue fiue shillings a peece for their portions whither sonne or daughte[r]s & all these somes are to bee payed according as it can bee raised out of my land & stocke & likewise it is to bee pay'd to every one of them according as y^e Executo^r & the overseers shall see cause, And farther my Executo^r is to pay for y^e passages of those y^t doe come over hither, of them whither it bee wyfe or children, or any of them And farther I doe giue to my Sonne John Baylys Childeren either of them a young beast as soone as maybee wth conveniency, & my Sonne their father is to breed these beasts for eve[r]y of his Childeren till these beasts groeth to cowes or Oxen, & then the childeren are to haue the proffitt of them And I doe make my brother John Emery sen of Nubery & M^r Thomas Bradbury of Salisbury overseers to see as this to bee performed In wittness herof I doe sett to my hand y^e day, & yeare aboue written.'

his mark

Jn^o Jb. Bayly Senior.

Witness: william Ilsley, John Emry Jun.

'likewise I doe giue to ║willi║ Huntingtons wyfe & childeren y^t house & land y^t I bought of vallentine Rowell & do desier my overseers to see it made good to hir & hir childeren.'

Proved in Salisbury court 13: 2: 1652 by the witnesses.

Copy of will, Norfolk Deeds, vol. 1, leaf 15.

Inventory taken Nov. 12, 1651, by Mr. Edward Woodman and Thomas Macy: … total, 271li. 1s. 2d. Essex Co. Probate Files, Docket 1,334."^[4]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5} 1 John¹ Bailey, in Hoyt, David W. The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts. (Providence, RI, 1897-1919)
   1:44.

   1 John¹ Bailey [or Bayley], of Salisbury and Newbury, 'weaver,' from Chippenham, Co. Wilts, Eng. , came in the ship 'Angel Gabriel,' from Bristol, April, 1635, and was cast away at Pemaquid, now Bristol, Me., in the great storm of Aug. 15, 1635. John Bayly Sen. received land in the 'first division,' 1640, '42, and '43; held the grant for fishing on the 'Pawaw' river in 1642; was a townsman and commoner and taxed in '50; rem. to Newbury in 1650; d. Nov. 2, 1651[Nb]. Will* Oct. 28, 1651; April 13, 1652; inv. est. Nov. 12, 1651. His wife never came to this country, and he was afraid to go back. The year he died, the court enjoined him 'to return unto his wife by next summer, or send for his wife to come over to him.'
   
   *In it he ment. his wife in Eng.; child given above [Robert, A Daughter, Another Daughter, John, Joanna]; and his 'bro.' John Emery Sen. Of Nb."
   
   NOTE: Robert Charles Anderson did not include a sketch of this man in the Great Migration series, indicating that he found no record evidence that John Bailey was in New England prior to 1636.

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} John Bayley, in Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
   1:142-143.

   "John (Bayley), Salisbury, a weaver from Chippenham, Co. Wilts. came, in the Angel Gabriel, from Bristol, Apr. 1635, and was cast away at Pemaquid, in the great storm of 15 Aug. He rem. 1650 to Newbury (where prob. he had been resid. bef. settlem. of S.), and d. 2 Nov. of next yr. His w. never came over the ocean, and he was afraid to go back for her and his other childr. Robert and two or more ds. But in his will he tried to tempt them hither by parts of his est."

3. ↑ Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Mass.: The Essex Institute, 1911)
   2:547.

   "Bayly, John, "old", [died] Nov. 2, 1651."

4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3} Estate of John Bayly of Newbury, in Massachusetts, Probate Court (Essex County). The Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts. (Salem, Massachusetts: The Essex Institute, 1916, 1917, 1920)
   1:145-46.