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1. John Bailey b. abt 1613

2. Robert   living in England in 1651

3. daughters living in England in 1651

Massachusetts and Maine Families by Walter Goodwin Davis
"John Bailey, born about 1585, is traditionally said to have lived in Chippenham, co., Wilts, and, with his son, to have been a passenger on the ill-fated ship Angel Gabriel which was cast away at Pemaquid in the great storm of August 15, 1635, at the end of a long voyage from Bristol.  The experience was so terrifying, the story continues, that he did not dare to return to England, and his wife and other children were unwilling to run a similar risk to join him in America.  In any event, in 1649 the court decreed that he, 'having used sufficient means to procure his wife over from England, and she utterly refuseing to come,' should not be constrained to go over to her, still using what means he might to persuade her to come to him.
Bailey and his son settled in Salisbury, where he had land granted him in the division of 1640, 1642 and 1643, also a fishing grant in the Powwow river in 1642.  He was a commoner of the town in 1640.  He and his family lived quiet and respectable lives and their names seldom appear in the court records.  He brought two suits against Mr. Samuel Winsley in 1649, but withdrew them before trial, and in the same court Philip Challis withdrew a suit of trespass against Bailey.  he was freed from all training in April, 1649, allowing the military company of Salisbury 5s. yearly.  In 1650 he moved to New bury, where he died November 2, 1651.

John Bailey made his will October 28, 1651.  To his son John he left his house and land in Salisbury for life, with remainders to John's sons Joseph and his young brother (James), they to pay their oldest brother John 40 pounds as his grandfather's gift.  John, his son and executor, was to pay his mother 6 pounds a year, his brother Robert 15 pounds and his sisters 10 pounds apiece, but only on condition that they came to New England.  In case they did not come but sent by messenger for their portions, they were to receive 5s. apiece.  His executor was to pay the passages of those that came over.  to his son John Bailey's children, a young beast apiece, 'their father is to breed these beasts for every of his children till these beasts groeth to cows or Oxen.'  Overseers; my brother John Emery sen. of Nubery and Mr. Thomas Bradbury of Salisbury.  Witnesses:  William Ilsley, John Emery, jr.  After his signature was added a devise of the house and land he had bought from Valentine Rowell to the wife and children of William Huntington.  This substantial legacy probably indicates some relationship, but not that of father and daughter.  The will was proved March 13, 1652.  The inventory added up to 271 pounds.