… Deacon John Bailey, born in Bradford, 26 Nov., 1691, son of Dea. Joseph and Abigail (Trumbull). He was a bricklayer and yeoman and lived in Bradford until 1713, when he removed to Haverhill, and thence to Methuen in 1725. He was a deacon of the North Church of Methuen (now in Salem, N. H.), and was living in Methuen in 1763.