Elizabeth (Bailey) Young (1749)

Born 19 Mar 1749 in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Wife of John Virgil Young — married 26 Jul 1768 in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

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Biography

Elizabeth Bailey was born on 19 Mar 1748/49 in Haverhill, Essex, Province of Massachusetts Bay, the daughter of Richard Bailey and Rachel Page.^[1][2]

She married John Young in 1768.^[3] John and Elizabeth had the following children, the first born in Haverhill, MA and the others at Lisbon, NH:

1. Abner, b. 21 Jan. 1769; m. Mehitable Goodale
2. Mary, b. 6 Nov. 1771; m. Solomon Chaplin, 20 Nov. 1794;
3. Benjamin, b. 28 Feb. 1773; and
4. Hannah, b. 17 June 1774; d. 28 Oct. 1791 (unm.).

Note that no birth record has been found for Benjamin, but he remains on the list as a result of the "Guy Rix Manuscripts" in connection with his genealogies of the families of Lisbon, NH. If there was a "Benjamin", he probably died young.

After the Revolutionary War, having apparently abandoned Elizabeth without filing for divorce, John married Yonnica Webb, on 25 Jan. 1778, in Arlington, VT. and they had 11 children together.^[4] Elizabeth Young was recorded in Nottingham, NH on the 1790 census, living with another female, presumably her daughter Hannah. It is not known what ultimately became of Elizabeth, though she made claims on John Young's estate (her son Abner was the Executor) when he died in 1797 and was on 5 May 1798 granted three small parcels of land, plus the northeasterly upper and lower floors of the Concord, NH homestead, one third of the cellar and part of the barn for her dower.

Elizabeth has not been located in the 1800 census or later records. She may have died by 1800 or possibly gone to Vermont and later Canada with her son, Abner.

Sources

1. ↑ Vital Records of Haverhill, Massachusetts: To the End of the Year 1849 (Topsfield Historical Society, 1910)| "Vital Records of Haverhill, Births, Page 25"
2. ↑ Massachusetts Vital Records, Haverhill Town Book| Birth, Elizabeth Bailey
3. ↑ Vital Records of Haverhill, Massachusetts: To the End of the Year 1849 (Topsfield Historical Society, 1910)| "Haverhill Vital Records, Marriages and Deaths, Page 343"
4. ↑ Military Pension| John Young

See also:

• Family Search | Elizabeth Bailey
• Ransom, Jeanne Bailey. The Bailey Family; History and genealogy of descendants of Richard Bailey of Rowley, Massachusetts who came to Michigan by way of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and New York, 1635-1990, with Allied Families (Ann Arbor, Michigan : After Thoughts, Inc., 1991) , pg. 44.
• 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 99, middle left-hand column