Joseph Bailey (1648 - 1723)

Born 14 Apr 1648 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Priscilla (Putnam) Bailey — married 1675 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts

Husband of Sarah (Poore) Bailey — married 7 Nov 1707 in Newbury, Essex, Massachussets

Descendants

Died 23 Oct 1723 at age 75 in Kennebunk, York, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Biography

Son of John Bailey / Bayley, he married Priscilla ^[1] Their children (all born in Newbury):^[2]

1. Rebecca b. Oct. 21, 1675, bpt. May 12, 1678
2. Priscilla b. Oct. 20, 1676, bpt. May12, 1678
3. John b. Sept. 16, 1678, bpt. Oct. 20, 1678, m. (1) Mary Bartlett, (2) Sarah Butler.
4. Joseph b. Jan. 28, 1680-1, d. abt. 1754, m. Abigail ____.
5. Hannah b. Sept. 9, 1683
6. Daniel b. June 10, 1686
7. Mary b. June 9, 1688
8. Judith b. Feb. 11, 1690
9. Lydia b. Nov. 25, 1695
10. Sarah b. Feb. 14, 1698

and took the Oath of Allegiance and Fidelity at Newbury in Feb. 1668-9. He removed to Arundel now Kennebunk, Maine about 1700, living for 2 years in Casco Bay, left there in 1703, returned in 1714, and was killed by Indians in Oct., 1723.^[3][4]

• 16 March 1670/71 - Joseph Bayley, age 22, was one of 39 men to attend a meeting to suspend their minister, Mr. Parker. The complaint was taken to court
• … part of the church without the knowledg & privity of the pastor & brethren … meet together & there to Agitate and carry on church affaires … against their Pastor …

• … mr woodman at most but a Deacon on a Lord's day immediately after the morning Exercise (though … his pastor … forbade him to proceed) … desire the church to stay …

• … mr Parkar told him he had broke the Agreement, mr woodman replyed to him, I speak not to you but to the church, for I have divers complaints against you …

• … when mr Parkar was gone … he had severall complaints against Mr. Parkar and desired them to appoint a church meeting to heare them ( mr Parker immediately before had warned a church meeting)…

• … many of them consented to, and so upward of thirty voted it …

• … the said persons … cause the bell to Ring and repaire … & observe … an irregular meeting … and in the name of the church to send for the pastor to answer to the charges laid against him by mr woodman...

• … the said persons … publikly contest against their pastor & will not … have their charges read unles their pastor will first vote it to know whether it were the mind of the church that it should be read … after such debate… the said charges … begin to be read there is a uproare & hubbab… an act for the suspension of their pastor from his office and thereby … depriveing the whole church of the ordinances of Christ … without the advice and direction of any other church … when it is not the church nor the major part of the church acting in any lawful meeting that gives them authority so to do … ^[5]

Joseph deposed

• Frauncis Browne [Joseph’s brother-in-law] and Joseph Bayley deposed that they were present at the meeting Mar. 16, 1670-71, thirty-nine answered to their names when called for the suspension of Mr. Parker, and Jno. Merrill and Jno. Bartlet had owned since that they agreed although not present. Also that after they were called, Mr. Woodman desired that if any brother wished to object, he should speak, and there was no objection by any of the thirty-nine... ^[6]

The court ruled

• "Having heard the complaint prsented to this court against mr Edward Woodman, do judge some passages relateing to mr Parker & mr woodbridge to be faulse and scandulous …

But it was not a unanimous vote

• "I dissent from this sentence, Samuell Symonds." "And I dissent, Wm. Hathorne."
• "We conceive the law allows not liberty to the members of this court to enter their dissent in this case, being a criminall case & not properly concerning religion or any other qualification mentioned in ye law. Symon Bradstreet, Daniell Denison."

Mr. Edward Woodman appealed to the next Court of Assistants. Wm. Tittcombe, surety. ^[7] Since it was not a unanimous vote, the court let the order slide and neither side felt vindicated. The fighting continued.

In 1671 Joseph’s brother James, at age 21, became the 1st minister of the Salem Village church, now part of Danvers, Massachusetts. Joseph spent time with his brother in Salem and soon met a local girl named Priscilla Putnam. She was the daughter of Capt. John Putnam, one of the most important men in town. She was born in Salem Village on 4 Mar 1657. Priscilla and Joseph married in October 1674. She was 17 and he was 26. They had nine children born in Newbury, Massachusetts.

Joseph and Priscilla were expecting their first child when the Indian War of 1675 broke out. Joseph, age 27, was listed on Capt. Garrish’s account.

• Joseph Bayly, a bridle lost, 3s … Joseph Bayly, 6 dayes to Concord, 7s ^[8]

Joseph transported provisions to the soldiers for which he was paid for half of his personal costs. Apparently he did not own a horse because he had to hire one. The Treasurer of the Town of Newbury gave an order on 15 February 1675 to the committee of militia

• … every man to give an account of one half of their demands … Joseph Bayly, 6 days to Concord, 7s., horce hier, 3 weaks, 6s., bridle Lost, 4s., disbursement on souldiers Quartering, 19s. 9d., for carrying provisions to Haverill, 4s., 2li. 9d. ^[9]

In March 1678 Joseph received an apprentice

• John Miller, Sr. complained against John Emry and John Bayly for keeping his children from him. It was agreed after debate that John Miller, the younger, should be bound apprentice to Joseph Bayley until twenty-one years of age … ^[10]

John Miller, Sr. was born in Salem, Massachusetts about 1639. He married Hannah Chater of Newbury and moved to Maine with her father. He was living with his family near what is now Westport, Maine when Hannah’s father died. They left the area and were living in Kennebunk when the 1675 Indian war broke out. Since his wife was from Newbury, they decided to send their children there for safety. John Miller, Jr. was about 12-years old. The boys ended up in the Emery and Bayley families. When their father returned to Newbury he had difficulty regaining custody of his children. Joseph’s apprentice moved to Portsmouth, New Hampshire when he was of age and became a soldier. He died in 1701.

Joseph Bailey made the oath of Allegiance in 1678 along with his father and brothers Isaac and Joshua; he was selectman 1682-1683. He was a carpenter and farmer.^[11]

Being a constable, Joseph was often asked to give deposition at court. In 1678 he was asked to make deposition concerning Elizabeth Morse being a witch. His deposition could not be found, but William Morse speaking on his wife's behalf said of Joseph's deposition

• To Joseph Bayley his testimony: Wee are ignorant of any such thing. Had it bin then spoken of, we might have cleared ourselves. He might have observed some other as my wife, it being a frequent thing for Catle to be at a stand. ^[12]

The poor old woman remained in jail for a few more years because of an argument that arose around whether or not the Governor had the right to give her a reprieve. William asked the clergy of local churches to examine her and report to the magistrate their findings. Eventually she was released to her husband, lived quietly for a few more years then died.

Joseph Bayley presented a bill to the court for his costs

• Joseph Bayles Bill of Cost

In primis 2 Days before Mr. Woodbridge.£o-2-6 For two Days coming, 1 Day attending and 2 Days going Home 0-10-0 For my Expences coming, and att Boston, Mony,...........o--6-o Which I hope ye honnored Court will consider of that I may have thee Mony againe which I have layd out of my owne Pockett. ^[13]

1686 Newbury: Inventory of John and Joseph Bayley:

• 1 head [of household], 2 houses, 24 acres plow land, 2 horses, 4 oxen, 9 cows, 3 cows - 3 years old, 2 cows - 2 years old, 30 sheep, 4 hoggs ^[14]

• Early in 1688, Joseph Bayley was traveling on the King’s Highway, which ran from Massachusetts to Maine. He acquired along the road a paper rallying the people against the government of Sir Edmund Andros.

the title of it was: New England alarmed, To rise and be armed, Let not papist you charme…. ^[15]

Joseph gave the paper to his friend Caleb Moody, who apparently was showing it to others when he was arrested and imprisoned for passing seditious literature.

Moody told the authorities grandfather Joseph Bailey gave him the paper.

• Caleb Moody of Newbury aged fifty-two years testifyeth that some time in January 1688 Joseph Baylie of ye same towne gave me a paper, which he told me he had taken up in the king's highway. The purport of the paper was to give notice to the people of the danger they were in, being under the sad circumstances of an arbitrary government, sir Edmund Andros having about one thousand of our souldiers, as I was informed, prest out of the Massachusetts colony and carried with him to the eastward under pretence of destroying our enemy indians (although not one Indian killed by them that I heard of at that time). We had no watching nor warding at our towne by order of those yt sir Edmund put in command there. Justice Woodbridge and Justice Epps sent me a warrant to bring a paper that was in my hands, which I did, and told them I received the paper from Joseph Baylie, who owned it to them, whereupon I was cleared, and they bound said Joseph Baylie in a bond of two hundred pounds to answer it at Salem court ye fifth of March following and they took me for his bondsman. ^[16]

Joseph was put under a bond of £200. The two men were soon arrested and put in the Boston prison. Priscilla was pregnant with her 7th child; they shared a home with Joseph’s parents. Their son John was 10 years old.

Joseph and Caleb were being brought to trial for treason against King James II.

• Notwithstanding this, about a week after the said justices by a warrant brought me [Caleb Moody] before them and then committed me to Salem prison (though I proffered ym bayle [bail] ) they would not take it but I was to be safely kept to answer what should be charged against me upon the king's account for publishing a scandalous and seditious lybell. After I had been in prison a whole week then judge Palmer and Mr. Grayham, ye king's attorney came to Salem and examined me and confined me to close imprisonement ordering that neither my friends, or acquaintance nor fellow prisoners to come to me, which continued for about a week's time, and then judge P. and Mr. G. came againe, and said G. sent for me, and after some discourse he refused any bayle [bail], but committed me to close prison, and after, Charles Redford, the high sheriff, came to prison and told Joseph Baylie and myself that he had orders to examine us, and to put a new mittimus upon us and charge us with treason, and the time came when the court should have sent to try us and there was no court.^[17]

As luck would have it the Prince of Orange deposed King James II. The abdication of the throne by James II was bad news for Sir Edmund Andros, but not for Joseph and Caleb. When Andros heard the news he left his troops in Maine and returned to Boston.

The Bostonians took courage from the mother country and rose up against the papist Sir Edmund Andros. He was placed in irons, imprisoned on Castle Island in Boston Harbor, for almost a year and eventually sent back to England. This was the first American Revolution for taxation without representation.

Caleb and Joseph were soon released from the Boston jail. They sued for damages.

Caleb Moody told the court

• Afterwards there came news of ye happy arrival and good success of ye prince of Orange, now king of England, and then by petitioning I got bayle [bail]…

• The time of my imprisonment was about five weeks, and I doe judge my damage one way and another was about forty pounds.

Boston New England, January ninth, 1689/90

• Caleb Moody appeared personally January ninth, 1689/90 and gave evidence upon oath of the truth of the above written before me.

Samuel Appleton Assistant for ye colony of ye Massachusetts in New England ^[18]

• Caleb Moodey about false Imprisonment and L40: damage.

• Joseph Bailey about ditto and Ƚ30: damage… and [they] told him that he had but a little time to live and bid him prepare for death. ^[19]

The trouble at the meeting house still simmered. In 1689 Joseph was part of a committee to investigate building a 2nd meetinghouse on the plains. Another group wanted it at Pipestave Hill. Both options failed at Town Meeting.

In 1692 he bought land in Cape Porpoise, Maine. ^[20] (later called Arundel and now called Kennebunkport). Later bought another 150 acres of land in Cape Porpoise for 105 pounds from Nicholas Morey. Abt 1703 removed to Newbury during Indian hostilities.

Priscilla Putnam was a cousin to Thomas Putnam Jr of the Salem Putnams. Thomas Putnam, Jr., eldest son of the wealthiest man in town, was married to Ann Carr, the sister of Mary Carr, who was the wife of Joseph’s brother Rev. James Bayley. Mary Carr Bayley died soon after she and her husband, the 1st minister of Salem Village, left the community for Connecticut, due to the controversy surrounding his ministry at the Salem Village church. Joseph was up to his neck in the witch hysteria of 1692. He supported their efforts in court.

• Charles Upham in his book about the Salem Village witches weaves a story of how a sober man like Joseph Bayley could believe in witchcraft and how the charges affected the Proctor family, who lost everything by it.

• Bayley and his wife were going to Boston on election week. It was a good two days' journey from Newbury, as the roads then were, and riding as they did. According to the custom of the times, she was mounted on a pillion behind him. They had probably passed the night at the house of Sergeant Thomas Putnam, with whom he [Joseph] was connected by marriage. It was at the height of the witchcraft delirium. Thomas Putnam's house was the very focus of it. There they had listened to highly wrought accounts of its wonders and terrors, had witnessed the amazing phenomena exhibited by Ann Putnam and Mercy Lewis, and their minds been filled with images of spectres of living witches, and ghosts of the dead. They had seen with their own eyes the tortures of the girls under cruel diabolical influence, of which they had heard so much, and realized the dread outbreak of Satan and his agents upon the lives and souls of men.

• They started the next morning on their way through the gloomy woods and over the solitary road. It was known that they were to pass the house of John Procter, believed to be a chief resort of devilish spirits. Oppressed with terror and awe, Bayley was on the watch, his heart in his mouth. The moment he came in sight, his nervous agitation reached its climax and he experienced the shock he describes. "When he came opposite to the house, to his horror there was Procter looking at him from the window, and Procter's wife standing outside of the door. He knew, that, in their proper persons and natural bodies, they were, at that moment, both of them, and had been for six weeks, in irons, in one of the cells of the jail at Boston. Bayley's wife, from her position on the pillion behind him, had her face directed to the other side of the road. He told her what he saw. She looked round to the house, and could see nothing but a little maid at the door. After one or two more fits of fright, he reached the Lynn road, had escaped from the infernal terrors of the infected region, and his senses resumed their natural functions. It was several days before his nervous agitations ceased. Altogether, this is a remarkable case of hallucination showing that the wildest fancies brought before the mind in dreams may be paralleled in waking hours; and that mental excitement may, even then, close the avenues of the senses, exclude the perception of reality, and substitute unsubstantial visions in the place of actual and natural objects.

• There may be an interest in some minds to know who the "little maid at the door" was. The elder children of John Procter were either married off, or lived on his farm at Ipswich, with the exception of Benjamin, his oldest son, who remained with his father on the Salem farm. Benjamin had been imprisoned two days before Bayley passed the house. Four days before, Sarah, sixteen years of age, had also been arrested, and committed to jail. This left only William, eighteen years of age, who, three days after, was himself put into prison; Samuel, seven; Abigail, between three and four years of age; and one still younger. No female of the family was then at the house older than Abigail. This poor deserted child was " the little maid." Curiosity to see the passing strangers, or possibly the hope that they might be her father and mother, or her brother and sister, brought her to the door. ^[21]

Joseph Bayley gave deposition against Elizabeth Proctor too.

• The deposition of Joseph Bayley aged forty four years testifyeth and saith, that I on the: 25'th day of may last my self & my wife being bound to Boston, on the road when I came in Sight of the house where John proctor did live, there was a very hard blow strook on my brest which caused great pain in my Stomoc & amasement in my head but did see no person near me only my wife behind me on the same hors, and when I came against s'd proctors house according to my understanding I did see John proctor & his wife att s'd house proctor himself loocked out of the windo & his wife did stand Just without the door, I tould my wife of it, & shee did loock that way & could see nothing but a littell maid att the dore I saw no maide there but proctors wife according to my understanding did stand att the dore, afterwards about half a mile from the afores'd house I was taken spechles for sum short time my wife did ask me severall questions and desiered me that if I could not speak I should hould up my hand which I did. and immediatly I could speak as well as ever, and when we came to the way where Salem Road cometh into Ipswich road there I received another blow on my brest which caused much pain that I could not sitt on my hors and when I did alite off my hors, to my understanding I saw a woman coming towards us about sixteen or twenty pole from us but did not know who it was my wife could not see her when I did get up on my hors againe to my understanding there Stood a cow where I saw the woman, after that we went to Boston without any father molestation but after I came home againe to newbury I was pinched and nipt by sumthing invisible for sum time but now through gods goodness to me I am well again.^[22]

In 1692 Joseph was still working to get a second meeting house in Newbury. He was presented to the Grand Jury of Essex County for saying

• the men appointed by the town to answer the petition to those who wanted another minister were devils incarnate… ^[23]

Tired of waiting, a group of men erected a meetinghouse and hired a minister. This caused quite a stir in the community and Joseph was back in court.

• 'John and Samuel Bartlet, Abraham Morrill John Emery and Joseph Bailey were bound over and admonished for opposing their ordained minister, Mr. John Richardson. ^[24]

Finally in 1695, the town voted to tear down the illegal meeting house on the plains and build one on Pipestave Hill. But the congregation voted to repair their meetinghouse on the plains.

• "to build and Repair ye West meeting house and to build and repair ye ministry house." ^[25]

Joseph left Newbury for Maine, but returned to Newbury about 1703 due to Indian attacks.

• Joseph owned a home near Fort Casco when it was attacked in 1702/03 by a company of five hundred French and Indians swooped down upon the shore towns, Cape Porpoise, Wells, York, Saco, and Casco. Few details remain to us, but it is evident that the slaughter and destruction were terrific, and, except the garrison houses, scarcely a building remained in those towns. ^[26]

This property was taken by eminent domain when the fort was enlarged in 1704.

• " September ye 7th : 1704 :

By order of his Excellency to Colonel: march These may Sertify whom it may consern that we the Subscribers by the order of Sd march and ye Desier of Joseph Bailey have vewed a house of Sd Baileys now Standing in Casco ffortt and we do account him richly worth twelve pounds in Silver money” ^[27]

Priscilla died 16 November 1704 and was buried in Wadsworth Cemetery, Salem Village now Danvers, Massachusetts.^[28]

Once back in Newbury, his fight began a new for the meeting house on the west end. In 1706 the precinct voted

• "they either would remove the Meeting-house and build an addition to it, or else build a new Meeting-house". February 28th, it was voted "that ye inhabitants of ye west end of the town of Newbury will build a new Meetinghouse upon Pipe-stave hill, fifty-four feet long and thirty four broad, within the space of five years … Twenty persons dissented from this vote. ^[29]

Second Marriage

Marriage record of marriage to Sarah Sawyer, 2nd wife. ^[30] They married 27 Nov 1707^[31]

The church on the “Plains” petitioned the General Court

• In February 1709, the party in favor of the house on "the plains'" petitioned the General Court for relief… "having built a Meeting-house and settled a minister, which hath not been effected above twelve years …there are certain of our inhabitants since planted in the upper parts of our precinct, who under the supposing notion of a major vote of our inhabitants have adventured against our declared dissents to make a considerable and chargeable process towards the building of another Meeting-house, wherein they have proceeded so far as to… levy a tax upon that account and to employ a collector to take away our goods….^[32]

By April 1709, Joseph, his son John, his Bartlett in-laws, and other members of the meetinghouse on the “Plains”, petitioned Hugh March and Caleb Moody to stop their construction at Pipe Stave Hill.

• …requesting that they cease proceeding with the building of the new meetinghouse until some agreement can be reached as to its location and stating that if construction proceeds they will refuse to contribute towards its construction and maintenance. ^[33]

The court determined Pipe Stave Hill was the best spot for the west end parish and a tax could be levied, in three years, on everyone for its support.

• …to meet in the old Meeting-house five years, not to force any person to pay any money … till three years be expired… then to pay one quarter part yearly until ye whole be paid.^[34]

The court’s decision gave the plains people back the taxes they were forced to pay, but the debt for the church on the hill still hung over their head.

Joseph’s name was one of two whose autographs were on the warrant. He would have been representing the dissenters.

• Warrant issued to Samuel Sayer, Tax Collector, by the assessors for the collection of taxes for the building of meeting and ministry houses on the west end of Newbury with a list of taxes owed by individuals and those who oppose tax and the amount assessed. ^[35]

The 22 plains members were in the minority by 1711 when the new majority voted to remove parts of the meetinghouse on the plains and use them at the Pipe Stave Hill church and to move the old meetinghouse to the new location for use as a barn.

• April 19, 1711 voted, to choose a committee of three men to sell & dispose of ye ministry house that Mr Belcher now dwells in. ... And all so to take the seates and boards & Glass out of ye old Meeting house to be improved in the New meeting house. And all so to remove the old meeting house & sett it up att Pipe Stave hill to be improved for a Barn for the ministry in convenient time.^[36]

The Plains members petitioned the General Court again to save their meetinghouse. While the case was making it’s way through the courts

• a small company of men and boys came down in the night from the upper part of the parish, tore down the old meeting-house, and carried away all the materials that were of value.^[37]

As you can imagine, the plains people were very angry and immediately started rebuilding their church.

The Pipe Stave Hill people filed a complaint with the General Court.

On 19 July 1711 the General Court directed the plains people to stop work on the church.

• … those persons named desist in erecting a meeting house until there is a hearing … before the General Court … ^[38]

But they didn’t stop and another complaint was filed with the court by the congregation on the hill.

• Ordered … be anew Served, by the Sheriffe … a Copy of the Order of this Court of the 19th of July past. Strictly forbiding them and their Associates proceeding in the worke of their intended Meeting House until there be a Hearing of that Affair, as by the said Order is Directed.

And that the said persons be Summou'd, by the Sheriffe, to attend this Court on the second Wednesday of their Session in the Fall to answer for their Contempt of the aforesaid Order. [Passed August 24. ^[39]

The plains people ignored the court order and continued building their meetinghouse.The case was heard by the court 2 November 1711 and it was ordered

• It is ordered that the building of the said House, be not upon any pretence whatsoever further proceeded in; but that the division of the Town into two Precincts between the Old Meetinghouse, and that upon Pipe-staff Hill, be the present division of the Auditory, and is hereby Confirmed and Established; and persons concerned are to yield Obedience accordingly: And that the Disorders that have been in the proceedings about the said House on Brown's land, be referred to the next Session of the Peace in Essex. [Passed November 2. ^[40]

Joseph Bayley and the other members of the old West End meetinghouse really wanted to keep their church on the plains, the group decided to speak to Mr. John Bridger of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, surveyor of the King’s woods, who advised them to conform to the Church of England and declare they were Episcopalian.

The members of the plains church took the advise of Mr. Bridger and declared they were Episcopalian. This caused a severe and bitter battle, pitting brother against brother. Many citizens did not want a Church of England in their town and they hit the dissenters in their pocketbook by forcing them to pay even higher fees for the new church on the hill.

• This resolution has occasioned ye ill will of our dissenting brethren, who levy upon us more than ordinary rates towards the maintenance of their minister, and other purposes of that nature, which act of theirs is a very great hardship and grievance to us, since we have addressed a letter to our right reverend diocesan ye bishop of London to send us a minister, which we shall most gladly receive, but think ourselves under no obligation to any other; it being a thing unknown in her majesty’s dominions yt ye members of the Church of England are obliged to contribute to the support of the dissenting teachers. We therefore pray your excellency’s favour, that we may not be molested for the future upon this account and beg leave to subscribe ourselves Your excellency’s most dutiful and obedient servants.”^[41]

The members of the Plains church wrote to the Bishop of London for support.

• The humble Petition of several Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the Town of Newbury in behalf of themselves and others; Whereas, your Excellency's Petitioners have declared themselves Members of the Episcopal Church of England as by law established and have raised a building of Almighty God according to ye manner of worship prescribed in the said Church. We humbly desire your Excellency’s protection and encouragement in our just and laudable undertakings. We are convinced that the Church of England is a pure orthodox Church and are resolved to continue no longer in that separation which has so unhappily prevailed among the mistaken and prejudiced Inhabitants of this Country.^[42]

On February 27th 1711/12 Joseph Bailey presented the following petition to Governor Dudley:

• … Whereas your excellency’s petitioners have declared themselves ‘members of the Church of England, and have raised a building for the worship of almighty God according to the manner of service prescribed in the said Church humbly desire your excellency’s protection and encouragement in our just and laudable undertakings. We are convinced that the Church of England is a pure Orthodox Church, and so are resolved to continue no longer in that separation, which has so unhappily prevailed among the mistaken and prejudiced inhabitants of this country... ^[43]

The Governor replied to the petitioners.

• I am … of opinion that the said petitioners … ought to be peaceably allowed in their lawful proceedings … for their good establishment; and ought not to be taxed or imposed upon for the support and maintenance of any other public worship in the said town.—Of which I desire all persons concerned to take notice accordingly. – J. Dudley ^[44]

The Plains Church became Queen Anne’s Chapel, an Episcopalian Church.

• In 1712, the Society had appointed a minister to take charge of a congregation in Newbury in consequence of a serious division of the Congregationalists concerning the location of a church building. This building having been erected on Pipe-staff Hill, the people who wanted it on " the plains " became Episcopalians.^[45]

In January 1711/12 the members of the plains church, grandfather Joseph included, were given notice by the Church at Pipe Staff Hill for missing meeting.

• … to give notice to several persons … absented themselves from ye communion at ye Lord’s Table … to give reason for withdrawing from ye communion.^[46]

Members of the plains church answered the notice by informing the Pipe Staff Hill Church that Mr. Bridger would take on the responsibility of rebuilding the plains church. Now called Queen Anne's Chapel.

• We … promise and declare that we will provide and furnish Workmen and materials to … complete the Church … on Mr. Brown’s land, called Queen’s Chappel… fit for the preaching the Gospel … this writing shall be good and valid … as if each of us had given our distinct and Separate Bonds … ^[47]

And so it became the second Church of England to be built in Massachusetts. Rather ironic as Joseph did jail time in 1688 because he was against Andros and the papist religion of the Church of England.

Col. Noyes wrote about the shocking event.

• March 3, 1711-12.

Honored Sir, — The 29th of Febry last I saw the certainty of what I could hardly believe before, namely Deacon Merril, Deacon Brown, John Bartlett and others, 22 in all, Presenting a Petition to the Governour by Joseph Bayly one of the 22 subscribers, Praying his Excellency's protection of them, as being of the Episcopal Church of England; That they might not be oppressed with Rates, whereas they did not any longer continue in the Separation of their mistaken dissenting Brethren. This was done Feb. 27. But the Governour showed it to the Council the 29th. ^[48]

Joseph Bayley was a Vestryman at the new church and he was involved in hiring the new schoolmaster for the new parish.

By a vote taken in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, on 2 April 1714, the members of the Episcopal Church in Massachusetts no longer had to pay a tax to support a meetinghouse and their minister of the Puritan Religion.

• "to free all those persons that are or shall be for the Episcopal way of worship in ye Precinct from paying any rates to the maintenance of ye Ministry amongst us” ^[49]

This was the beginning of the separation of church and state.

The war between France and England ended in 1712. News of it reached Portsmouth, New Hampshire by 29 October 1712 when it was announced to the community. The Indians sent a flag of truce to Fort Casco to agree on some Articles of Peace. The meeting occurred in Portsmouth, New Hampshire in the fall of 1713.

Joseph left Newbury and returned to Cape Porpoise, Maine in 1713.

• …the only road then travelled, passed directly through Cape Porpoise village.^[50]

The Selectmen began the task of moving buildings and roads around for the better defense of the town. There were also a number of garrison houses built and a new Fort.

• The selectmen located "a highway of four rods wide from the western end of the persell of land which Andrew Brown and Thomas Perkins lately bought of James Tyler, Jabez Dorman, and John Watson for to build a fort upon, which highway runeth down upon the back of the creek as appears by several marked trees and stakes, near whare the pound now standeth,I ind so to the place where people pases near to moniagues neck so colled." ^[51]

The selectmen called for a town meeting to reform and rectify land issues to benefit the town. Joseph signed a deed for an exchange of land between the town and James Mussey.^[52]

• " Arondell November, the 5th, 1719.

" The inhabitants of this town are to take notice that there is to be a town meeting on Wensday the eighteenth day Instant at ten of the Clock in the morning at the house of Mr. James Tyler, to Rectifye and Reform some things that have been acted in said town, and some other things which may be for the benifit of said town,—by order of Andrew Brown & Joseph Bailey > Selectmen.

At this meeting the inhabitants discovered that their doings, before the town was reincorporated, " ware not so Leagall as they would have had them to be," and therefore voted to " disanull all the old papers and begin att this meeting to confirm and grant land, allways alowing themselves convenient highways to be laid out as the selectmen seas meet." The first grant was to James Mussy, the town clerk, of 100 acres, in exchange for 100 acres he had deeded to the town. The land Mussy conveyed to the town, was a lot his father bought of John Bush in 1673. ^[53]

• Death of Joseph Baily (Bayley, Bailey)

The Indians first molested Arundel (Kennebunkport) in August 1723 when they took a man. In October 1723, three Indians returned to Arundel Maine.

In October, two men belonging to Huff's garrison, Fitz Henry and Bartow, being on Vaughan's Island for wood, were surprised and wounded by three Indians. In order to compel them to tell how many there were in the garrison, the Indians bit off their finger nails, one by one. Although there were but seven men in it, they persisted in declaring it was full. The little creek in Vaughan's Island, into which their bodies were thrown, still bears the name of Fitz Henry's ditch.

After these three marauders killed two of Huff’s men, they headed for Mr. Major’s garrison. After murdering these two men, the Indians went towards Mr. Major's garrison, and assaulted Joseph Baily, an aged man, who was hunting for his cow. The people in the garrison, who saw his danger, shouted for him to return, but being deaf he did not hear their warnings. He lingered some time after the Indians had taken off his scalp and left him. The rock on which he was murdered is of a reddish color, and is said, by the inhabitants living in its neighborhood, to be stained with his blood. There being but a few men in the garrisons, the women put on men's clothes to make the Indians believe they were well guarded.

These three Indians belonged to a company of twenty under the command of Wahwa, one of the two chiefs, who commanded at Lovewell's celebrated fight. Wahwa was brought up in an English family, but was induced to join the French and Indians, by the offer of the command of a company. He was well known in this town, having visited it frequently, both in times of war and peace. While these Indians, without his orders, went to Cape Porpoise, he was planning to surprise Harding's garrison in which were thirty women and children. Mr. Harding himself was absent on a hunting expedition, and Thomas Wormwood, an inhabitant of the town, had charge of it. Not expecting an attack from the Indians, who had not extended their ravages to this quarter, he took a boat to go on board some coasting vessels that were lying in the river, loading with lumber.

Startled by the report of the alarm guns from Major's garrison, he returned and closed the gates, when Wahwa and his company were within twenty yards of him. Wahwa was extremely irritated with his men for alarming the garrison, merely for the scalp of the white headed old man, Mr. Baily. He afterwards placed the scalp on a pole in view of the people of the garrison. Although disappointed in their plans, they committed many depredations, killing the cattle, destroying the remaining crops, and annoying the whites whenever they left their houses. ^{[54] [55]}

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Additional Sources

1. Sidney Perley, Editor, Essex Antiquarian (The) (Reprint 1988, Anundusen Publishing CO., Decorah, Ia.), VOl. V pg. 123. "born in Newbury April 4, 1648. He was a yeoman; and lived in Newbury until 1702. He then lived at Casco fort, in Casco bay, about two years, and returned to Newbury, where he remained until 1715, when he removed to Cap Porpous, York county. He was also, at Cape Porpus in 1700. He was killed by Indian at Kennebunk in October, 1723, says Savage. He married first Priscilla Putnam of Salem before 1675. She died Nov. 16, 1704, and lies buried in Danvers. He probably married, secondly, widow Sarah Sawyer (published Nov. 27, 1707). Children listed: Rebecca, Priscilla, John, Joseph, Hannah, Daniel, Martha, Lydia, and Sarah."

2. Hollis R. Bailey, Bailey Genealogy: James, John and Thomas and Their Descendants, 1899.

3. Judith E. Burns, Revised Genealogical Records of Descendants of John and Anthony Emery, of Newbury, Ma., Transcript 1982 - ??. "m. Priscilla Putnam daughter of John and Rebecca (Prince) Putnam b. 4 Apr. 1657 Salem, Essex, Ma. d. 6 Nov. 1704 buried Wadsworth Cemetery Danvers, Essex, Ma.; m. 2nd Sarah (Poore) Sawyer 27 Nov. 1707. He d. 23 Oct 1723 Children listed: Rebecca, Priscilla, John, Joseph, Hannah, Daniel, Martha/Mary, Judith, Lydia and Sarah."

4. Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Mass." by Hoyt, p. 45.

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