William Bailey1

M, #2857, b. 22 November 1767, d. 11 January 1848
Last Edited: 5 Sep 2011
Charts:
Pedigree of Josephine Bailey

Parents:

Father: Edward Bailey (#2)1 b. 30 Jan 1738, d. 31 Jul 1778
Mother: Ann Satterthwaite1 b. 2 Feb 1742, d. a Apr 1810

Family 1:

Tacy Livezey b. 8 Oct 1763, d. 30 Sep 1833

Children:

Hannah Bailey18 b. 20 Jul 1792, d. 23 Jul 1857
Ann Bailey18 b. 11 Feb 1794, d. 17 Dec 1819
Joseph Bailey+ 18 b. 19 Feb 1796, d. 28 May 1883
Sarah Bailey18 b. 3 Dec 1797
Mary Bailey18 b. 4 Oct 1799
George Bailey18 b. 19 May 1802, d. 27 Feb 1805
William Bailey18 b. 2 Jan 1804
(?) Bailey19 b. c 1805
Elizabeth Bailey18 b. 9 Jul 1806, d. 17 Sep 1854

Family 2:

Margaret Passmore b. 26 Apr 1778, d. 24 Oct 1874

Notes

  • Note*: William Bailey Timeline:
    1767 Born Falls Township, Bucks Co., Penn.
    1786 At Middletown, apprentice to his sister Ann's new husband.
    1788 Returns to Falls.
    1788-9 At Gwynedd.
    1789 Removes from Gwynedd to Falls Twp.
    1789 Marries Tacy Livezey.
    1790 Reside Abington Twp.
    1794- 1818+ Resides in Lower Dublin Twp., Philadelphia Co. on property purchased from father-in-law. Children all born in Lower Dublin Twp.
    1797 Sells land in Falls Twp. inherited from his father.
    1821 Family removes to West Marlborough Township, Chester Co. Penn.; members London Grove Monthly Meeting
    1821-1836 Marriages of children at London Grove.
    1830 William & Tacy are members of London Grove MM.
    1833 Death of Tacy (Livezey) Bailey.
    1838 Removes to Sadbury Township. Called a minister.
    1839 Marries Margaret Passmore.
    1847 Will - of London Grove.
    1848 Death of William Bailey; buried at West Grove (a borough surrounded by London Grove Twp.).
    1874 Death of Margaret (Passmore) Bailey.
  • Note: Falls Monthly Meeting Minutes 8th of 11th mo 1786: Marriage of Nathaniel Price, Junr. and Ann Bayly accomplished on the 18th of last month, parents consenting. ...

    Falls Monthly Meeting Minutes 8th of 11th mo 1786: "The Falls report that Nathaniel Price requests a certificate for himself & wife to Middletown Monthly Meeting. And William Bayly apprentice to said Nathaniel also requests one for himself to the same meeting."

    Meeting 13th day 12th mo 1786: "The Friends appointed to prepare Certificates for Nathaniel Price junior & Ann his wife and William Bayley..."6,7
  • Note: 1786, 12, 6. Wm. gct Middletown MM
    1788, 2, 6. Wm. rocf Middletown MM
    1788, 5, 7. Wm. gct Gwynedd MM
    1789, 8, 5. Wm. rocf Gwynedd MM
    1789, 10, 7: Wm. gct Abington MM, to m. Lacy Levizley8
  • Note: Certificate from Middletown MM to Falls MM, dated 10th day 1st mo 1788: "William Bailey having returned to reside within...your meeting...he hath settled his affairs with his Master to Satisfaction and during his Residence with us was Orderly in Life & Conversation and frequent in attending our Religious Meeting and ...Clear of Marriage Engagements."

    Falls Monthly Meeting Minutes 5th of 8th mo 1789: "William Bayly produced to this meeting a Certificate on behalf of himself from the Monthly Meeting of Friends at Gwynedd which was read and received."

    Falls Monthly Meeting Minutes 9th of 9th mo 1789: "The Falls report that William Bayly requests a Certificate to Abington Monthly Meeting in order to proceed in Marriage with Tacy Levzley a member thereof...".9,10
  • Note: Marriage certificate: William Bailey of Falls Twp in co. of Bucks, and Tacy Livezey daughter of Nathan Livezey of Lower Dublin Twp. in Philadelphia Co., having declared intentions at Abington Monthly Meeting, having consent of parents, married 19th day of 11th mo 1789, at a meeting at Abington. First witnesses Nathan Livezey, Hannah Livezey, Ann Harwaggon, William Satterthwaite.11
  • Note: "William Bailey was a resident of Abington township in 1790 and head of a household containing 2 males over 16, and 1 female. On April 4, 1794 his father-in-law sold him the home place of 92 acres lying along Cottman Street west of the line of Verree Road (Deed book D 46, p. 69). He was still living there in 1818 when Nathan Livezey died. The family is said to have moved later to Chester county."12
  • Note: Deed 1797: William Bayly of Lower Dublin Township, Philadelphia co., yeoman, and Tacy his wife granted on 11 March 1797 in consideration of £300 to Moses Comfort of Falls Twp. a tract of fifty nine and one half acres situated in Falls Twp. which was devised to William Bayly by the will of his father Edward Bayly dated 25 day 7th month 1778. The land is described by metes and bounds and by a diagram, and adjoined the lands of Mathiew Watson, Edward Bayly, John Watson, Deborah Bayly and Abner Watson. [Note that the diagram adjoins the diagram in Bucks Deed Bk. 26, p. 125.] Recorded August 6, 1797, Bucks Co. Bk 29, pp. 322-3. Abstracted by the compiler. Viewed on FHL # 172886.13
  • Note: London Grove Meeting Minutes 4th of 4th mo 1821: "William Baily produced a Certificate for himself, Tacy his wife and their two minor children (viz) Wm E and Elizabeth from Abington Monthly Meeting dated 26th of last month..."14
  • Note: Certificate issued by New Garden Monthly Meeting to Sadsbury Monthly Meeting, 7th of 3rd mo 1838 "William Bailey having removed to reside within the limits of your meeting...we recommend him...and regard he being a minister in good esteem among us". [Sadsbury is NNW about 15 miles from London Grove]15
  • Note: Marriage certificate abstract: 17th day 10th mo 1839. William Bailey of Sadsbury Twp. Lancater [sic] Co. Penn. son of Edward Bailey and Ann his wife (both deceased) and Margaret Passmore of London Grove Twp. Chester Co. dau. of George Passmore and Marcy his wife (both deceased) having declared intentions at West Grove Monthly Meeting which allowed. First witnesses: 7 Passmores, William Hicks, Hannah Hicks, Joseph Bailey, Martha Bailey, Robert Moore, Elizabeth B Moore. And also: George S. Downing, Sarah B. Downing, Wm. E. Bailey, Sarah Bailey, Sarah S. Cole. [so all living children except Joseph & Mary]16
  • Note: Will of William Bailey, London grove twp., dated 22 Nov 1847, proven 18 Jan 1848.
    Bequests to wife Margaret Bailey; five children Hannah Hicks, Joseph Bailey, William E [? C] Bailey, Sarah B. Downing & Elizabeth B. Moore; grandchildren Joseph and Ann Bailey, children of my son Joseph Bailey; granddaughter Ann Bailey, William's daughter; grandchildren Samuel S. & Mary Ann Downing, children of my dau. Sarah B. Downing; grandchildren Hannah, Bailey & James Llewellyn, & William B. Cole & Sarah L [?S] Patton (late Cole); and grandchildren William L Bailey, Tacy Bailey & Sarah Bailey. Refers to household goods wife Margaret had at time of our marriage.
    Executors sons Joseph & William Bailey and brother-in-law Thomas Passmore.
    Witnesses Samuel Hughs, Jeremiah Underwood, David Priscow[Griscon?].
    Abstracted by compiler. Chester Co. Pa., Bk. T, vol. 19, p. 265-7. Viewed on FHL microfilm #20,851.17

Citations

  1. [S477] Society of Friends. Falls Monthly Meeting. Filmed at Hist. Soc. of Penn., 1300 Locust St. Phila. FHL microfilm 387,860. Item 4, Book B, p. 6, Children of Edward Bayly Junr and Ann.
  2. [S413] Satterthwaite, Amos and Elizabeth S. Satterthwaite, Genealogy of the Satterthwaite family descended from William Satterthwaite : who settled in Bucks County, Pennsylvania in 1734 with some account of his ancestors in England (Philadelphia, Franklin Print. Co. 1910. FHL Microfilm 1033711, ), p. 24.   Satterthwaite-Amos--Genealogy.pdf
  3. [S436] Society of Friends, Abington Monthly Meeting, Marriages, 1685-1721. Filmed at Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College. FHL microfilm 21,673. Note: Appear to be original records. p. 310 Marr. Cert. of William Bailey & Tacy Livezey.
  4. [S462] Society of Friends, New Garden Monthly Meeting, Chester Co., Pa. FHL Microfilm 20,466. VIII Marriage Records 1829-1890, p. 29-30, Marr. Cert. of William Bailey and Margaret Passmore.
  5. [S461] Society of Friends, New Garden Monthly Meeting, Chester Co., Pa. FHL Microfilm 20,465. p. 214.
  6. [S523] Watring, Anna Miller and Wright, F. Edward, Bucks County, Pennsylvania Church Records of the 17th & 18th Centuries, Volume 2, Quaker Records: Falls and Middletown Monthly Meetings (Westminister, Maryland: Family Line Publications, 1994), p. 128.
  7. [S480] Society of Friends. Falls Monthly Meeting. Men's Minutes, vol. 5-8, 1767-1816. Filmed at Hist. Soc. of Penn., 1300 Locust St. Phila. FHL Microfilm 387,862. Vol. 8.
  8. [S201] Hinshaw, William Wade, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. II (Pa. & N.J.), Vol III (N.Y.) (Originally published Ann Arbor, 1938. Reprinted Genealogical Publishing Co. Baltimore 1969., ), 2:977.
  9. [S458] Society of Friends, Middletown Monthly Meeting, Bucks Co. Pa. filmed at Dept. of Friends Records, 302 Arch St. Phila. FHL Microfilm 20,464. Certificates of Removal (Issued) 1776-1834, p. 53.
  10. [S480] Falls MM - Minutes 5-8, Vol. 7.
  11. [S436] Abington MM - Marr, orig, p. 310.
  12. [S431] Smith, Charles Harper, The Livezey Family; A Genealogical and Historical Record; assembled for The Livezey Association (Philadelphia: Buchanan Co., 1934), p. 94.   Smith--Livezey-Family-1320642.pdf
  13. [S36] Bucks Co., Pennsylvania, Recorder of Deeds; Deeds, 1684-1866; Index, 1684-1919. FHL microfilm series.
  14. [S264] London Grove Monthly Meeting, West Marlboro Twp., Chester Co., Pa. original records. Filmed at Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College, Swarthmore Pa. Contains pre-split & Hicksite post-split. FHL Microfilm 20,417. Men's Minutes 1808 - 1834, p. 253.
  15. [S461] New Garden MM - BD, IV Certificates of Removal Issued, p. 27.
  16. [S462] New Garden MM - M, p. 29-30.
  17. [S56] Chester County, Pennsylvania. Register of Wills. filmed at Court House, West Chester. FHL microfilm series 'Wills, 1713-1854 ; Index to Wills, 1713-1923'.
  18. [S435] Society of Friends, Abington Monthly Meeting, Births & Deaths 1682-1809 Vol I. Filmed at Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College. FHL microfilm 20,375. Appear to be original records. p. 132. Children of William & Tacy Bailey.
  19. [S431] Smith, Charles Harper, Livezey Family, p. 94-95.