Job Bailey (1776 - 1850)

Born 12 Oct 1776 in Bradford, Essex, Massachusetts, United States

Ancestors

Died 13 Apr 1850 at age 73 in Bedford, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States

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Biography

Job Bailey was born in 1776, the son of Job Bailey and Mehitable French.^[1]

On 4 Mar. 1801, Job was first married in Merrimack, NH to Jane Darrah,^[2] daughter of James Darrah (1754-1829) and Sarah Kidder (c.1754-1836) of Bedford, NH. Jane was born 27 Nov. 1777 at Bedford, NH. They had ten children born at Bedford, NH:

1. James, b. 1803; d. 22 Oct. 1804
2. Sally, b. abt. 1805; m. Hiram Darrah, bef. 1830; d. bef. 1849
3. Thomas, b. 1807; m. Mary McClintock
4. Polly, b. abt. Feb. 1809; d. 24 Sep.1810
5. Joseph, b. abt. Mar. 1811; d. 25 Sep. 1813
6. James Darrah, b. 1813; m. Adeline Sweetser
7. Mary Jane, b. 1815
8. Daniel Watts, b. 1817; m. Maria Stintson
9. William, b. 1819; m. Sarah Elizabeth McAllister, and
10. Nancy, b. abt. Sep. 1819; d. 20 Feb. 1848 (unm.).

Job lost his wife, when Jane died on 15 Nov. 1822 at Bedford, NH. She was 44.

Job was married a second time on 7 Aug. 1823 to Mary (Dows) Parker, the daughter of Benjamin Dows, Jr. (1752-1821) and Abigail Frost (1747-1788). She was the widow of John Parker (1784-1816) of Billerica, MA. Mary was born 9 Sep. 1785 at Billerica, MA. Mary had five children by her first husband who all predeceased her. Job and Mary had three children born at Merrimack, NH:

1. Ephraim Parker, b. 1824; m1. Olive Annis, 23 Aug. 1848; m2. Mary Pressy, 16 May 1855
2. Elizabeth, b. 25 Oct. 1826; m. Stephen Edwin Sawtelle, 28 Apr. 1847; d. 8 Sep. 1886, and
3. Clarissa H., b. abt. 1828; died young.

This family was living in Merrimack, NH when the 1820,^[3] 1830^[4] and 1840^[5] censuses were taken.

Job passed away of erysipelas in 1850, at age 73. Widow Mary Bailey “of Concord” [NH] executed a will 24 Mar. 1858. In this will, she left:

1. $100 and all her clothing to her daughter, Elizabeth, wife of Edwin Sawtelle of Concord, NH
2. $100 to her son Ephraim P. Bailey
3. $1200 to Charles Bailey, son of James D. Bailey, deceased
4. $100 to George Bailey, son of Daniel W. Bailey, deceased
5. $100 to William Bailey, “son of my late husband Job Bailey”
6. $50 each to Jane Woods, wife of Henry Woods, and to Elisabeth Bailey, both children of Thomas Bailey, deceased
7. $100 to Mary Jane Chase, wife of John Chase, and
8. the remainder of her estate after debts paid to her children Ephraim P. Bailey and Elisabeth Sawtelle in equal shares.

Mary Bailey died 10 May 1860 at Bedford, NH, at age 74. Job and his first wife were buried in Old Bedford Cemetery, Bedford, NH.^[6][7] His second wife was buried in Bedford Center Cemetery, Bedford, NH, with her first husband.^[8]

Sources

1. ↑ Vital Records of Bradford, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (Topsfield Historical Society, Topsfield, Mass., 1907)| Page 14
2. ↑ New Hampshire Marriages, Merrimack| Marriage, Bailey - Darrah
3. ↑ 1820 United States Federal Census, State of New Hampshire, Hillsborough County, Merrimack, Second Page, Fifth Line| 1820 US Census, "Job Bailey"
4. ↑ 1830 United States Federal Census, State of New Hampshire, Hillsborough County, Merrimack, Page 333, Line 19| 1830 US Census, "Job Bailey"
5. ↑ 1840 United States Federal Census, State of New Hampshire, Hillsborough County, Merrimack, First Page, Tenth Line| 1840 US Census, "Jobe Bailey"
6. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #14088864 for Job Bailey
7. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #8070878 for Jane Darrah Bailey
8. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #98650127 for Mary "Polly" Dowse Bailey

See Also:

• Family Search | Job Bailey
• A Genealogy of the Descendants of Richard Bailey of Rowley, Massachusetts, Historical and Genealogical Researches, of Merrimack Valley, Vol 1, Nbr. 1, April 1857, Published by Alfred Poor, Haverhill,| Page 96, bottom left-hand column
• Azro Milton Dows, The Dows or Dowse family in America: a genealogy of the descendants of Lawrence Dows, including the genealogy of the Masterman family, two branches of the Newman family, a branch of the Morse family, and many genealogical lines of other families. 1642-1890 (Lowell, Mass: Vox Populi Press, S. W. Huse & Co., 1890) | Pages 57-58

Acknowledgments

• Many thanks to Chris H. Bailey, Accredited Genealogist, Eustis, Florida, for the "Descendants of Richard Bailey of Rowley, Mass.", 2020