Winthrop Bailey (1784 - 1835)

Born 7 May 1784 in Berlin, Mass.

Ancestors

Husband of Martha (Stanwood) Bailey — married 6 Jan 1814 in Harpswell, Cumberland, Maine, Massachusetts, United States

Descendants

Died 16 Mar 1835 at age 50 in Deerfield, Mass.

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Biography

He graduated at Harvard College in 1807, and entered a three years' course at Andover Theological Seminary. He settled in Brunswick, Me., in 1810, as minister of the Congregational Churc, and was tutor in Bowdoin College to 1814. He settled in Pelham, Mass., in 1814, and was minister of the Congregational Church there until 1823, when he became a Unitarian, and moved to Greenfield, Mass., taking charge of the new Unitarian Church. He lived in Deerfield from 1831-5, and was principal of Deerfield Academy. He died there 16 Mar 1835. His first five children were born in Pelham, Mass., the next two in Greenfield, and the last one in Deerfield.

" Rev. Winthrop Bailey & Miss Martha Stanwood Jan. 6th, 1814." ^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ The Records of the Congregational Church of Christ in Harpswell, Samuel Eaton, Bowdoin College Collection, pt.2, p.21 https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/109681569

• Bailey, Gertrude E; Elsworth, Abbie F; Reed, William H; Bailey, Hollis R (Hollis Russell), 1852-1934; Bailey genealogy: James, John, and Thomas, and their descendants: in three parts. Published 1899