John Ansolme Bailey (1642 - bef. 1688)

Born 3 Apr 1642 in Gloucestershire, England

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Died before Sep 1688 before age 46 in Isle of Wight, Isle of Wight, Virginia

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Will^[1]

All children under age sixteen :1st=1st son: John, when he comes of ye age sixteen, my negro boy, Harry and bay mare about 5 years old, named Sib, with her increase, two cows and calfs, two sows and two barrow-between two and three years old and my shortest gun.

:2nd=2nd son: Ansolme Bayly, the one half of my land or thereabouts being divided from ye Plantation I live on. Nineteen acres or thereabout on ye south side ye road. I also give my 2nd son, two cows & calves, two sows,and two barrow betweens two & three yrs old and my longest gun all to be delivered to him at sixteen yrs of age.

:3rd=dau: Joan, one feather bed, rug and pair of blankets and a bay mare filly, to be delivered to here when she comes to ye age of fifteen or is married.

:4th=sons: Walter, Robert and William to each of them, three thousand pounds of tobacco, when they come of ye age of sixteen years.

:5th=dau, Eliz, two sows and two burrows between two and three years old and I oblige my son, John to pay her a mare between three and four yr,sold when she comes to age 15 or is married.

:6th=I give my loving wife, Eliza, the Plantation where I now live as long as she remains unmarried together with all the rest of my estate, but from immediately after her marriage or death, I give my Plantation to my eldest son, John.

I do also appoint and ordain my loving wife, Eliza and my son John,Executor and Executrix of this my last Will and Testament and I do appoint: Robert Caufield and Arthur Allen to be overseers or Exe-intrust. Ansolme Bayly (mark)

In One of First Families of Colonial America :He can be found in the Book called Southside Virginia family Volume II, by John Bennett Boddie. He was a footman in the Surry militia in 1687.The date of his death is not known but his widow married Thomas Tarver sometime before 13 Dec 1711,when her second husband,Thomas Tarver,made his will (Book # 6,pg 125).

Anselm Bailey's Children are mentioned in the will of his son, Robert Bailey,dated 4 Oct 1712 and probated 18 Mar 1714,as follows: " To my mother, Elizabeth Tarver, a horse and at her death to sister, Sarah Boyce. To sister Sarah Tarver, dishes. To Samuel Tarver, a gun; to Benjamin Bailey, my brother Anseln's son,to sister ,Jane Lother bed and furniture.

• Fact: Christening (11 July 1648) Saint Dunstan and All Saints Church, Stepney, Middlesex, England
• Fact: Religion Probably Quaker : Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy-VA-OH-IN by William Wade Hinshaw

Sources

1. ↑ WILL Surry Co,VA-1688 p72a,73 Reel 2;

• Boddie, J.B. (1956). The Anselm Bailey family of Surry. Southside Virginia Families Vol. II, p. 24. Retrieved from Bailey_Family_History
• RootsWeb
• U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s; Name: Ansell Bayly Arrival year: 1661 Arrival Place: Virginia Primary Immigrant: Bayly, Ansell Source Publication Code: 2899.10 & 1219.5
• Virginia Land, Marriage, and Probate Records, 1639-1850;