Should Henry Bailey Bailey-43449 be tagged with PGM?

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I created a profile a few months ago for Henry Bailey (Bailey-43449). He was in Salem (Beverly side of the river) by 1638. I think he should be tagged with the Puritan Great Migration PGM tag. I would do it, but I haven't been accepted into the PGM project. So, I am not clear on the criteria for that tag. Would someone in that project please take a look? I'd love to find more information about Henry as he is a major benefactor of my relatives' line. Thank you.
WikiTree profile: Henry Bayley
in Genealogy Help by Mary Fuat G2G6 Mach 1 (12.4k points)
retagged by Ellen Smith

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It's a good question. The man in Salem by 1638 is in the Great Migration Directory, so his profile would be PGM. But Anderson indicates that there are just two grants of land demonstrating Henry's presence during the time period (Salem Town Records vol. 1 pp. 74, 80, 87, and 89). I would probably infer from this that Anderson did not find the evidence compelling that he was the man of the same name in the records you cite on his profile beginning in the 1660s.

So unless you can provide such evidence (like a later sale of land fitting the same description of that he obtained in the 1630s, but the descriptions were so vague that that could be impossible), then I would say the answer is that he should probably *not* be added to PGM. Indeed, I might move the discussion of records from 1638 on his profile to a research note on the profile and indicate that there is no compelling evidence other than the name and the place to indicate he was the man who came in 1638, and that the time gap before later records is concerning.
by Barry Smith G2G6 Pilot (307k points)
Thank you, Barry. I see your point. I read somewhere that "Henry Bailey" made a deposition in 1661; but I haven't found the court transcript. If it exists, I am hoping that will shed some more light on the connection if any between the Henrys. I'm not very hopeful of finding more land records.  Thank you again for your response.

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