He was a cooper by trade. 8 children.
. JOHN PARISH of Groton, Mass., and earlier of Braintree and Mendon, was probably the first of the line in New England.
On 9 May 1689 he was elected a representative to the General Court.
Deacon Timothy moved from Hanover, Massachusetts, to Bailey's Island, Harpswell, Maine which was named for him, about 1750, accompanied by his wife and children.
Timothy was rather dissipated when the Indian Wars came on, at the time of the Means massacre, the garrison at the upper end of Short Point, Bailey's Island, was built to protect the people from the Wild Savages. In those days three guns were fired in succession to let the people know that Wild Savages were coming. Benjamin Curtis used to get drunk and fire away right and left, giving so many false alarms that at last, the people paid but little attention to them.
On the thirtieth day of September 1753 the church of Hanover, at his desire, voted Brother Timothy a dismission to qualify him in a regular manner to be a member of the Second Church going to be formed in the Second Parish of North Yarmouth, Maine (Harpswell was then a part of North Yarmouth).
Timothy was probably the first Deacon of the Congregational Church at Harpswell, Reverend Elisha Eaton, the pastor, boarded with him for a part of the year. Captain Bailey, for he is thus styled in the old records and was so addressed by the people of his day, bought the whole of what is now Bailey's Island, of a land Proprietor at Freeport, Maine, and it was then called "Proprietor's Land." Will Black was living on the Island when Captain Timothy came there, and was no doubt a "squatter?"
It has been said that Timothy was despised by the local native American tribe. The Abanaki set him out to sea without oars and he came ashore in Wiscasset which is where he spent the remainder of his days.
Timothy died when is not known, at Harpswell. He is buried at Harpswell, Center, in the southwest corner of the cemetery, just back of the old Congregational Church.
[Sources: Walter Merryman of Harpswell, Maine, by Reverend Charles Nelson Sinnett. The Baily Family in Massachusetts and Maine by Reverend Charles N. Sinnett. Bailey Genealogy edited, by Hollis R. Bailey]
Bailey Island originally was called Newwaggin. Prior to 1683, Orr's and Bailey Island were designated as "The Twins." Black, a trader from Kittery, Maine, is said to have been the first settler and built a comfortable home on the shore of picturesque Mackerel Cove for himself and his family. The family had resided at the island quietly for some 20 years. The son, Will, filed claim and received title to the entire island which thereafter became known as "Will's Island,"
Meanwhile, however, Hannah became the second wife of Deacon Timothy Bailey of Hanover, Massachusetts. A very enterprising woman, she, thanks to influential friends, procured for her Deacon, an appointment to the parish in North Yarmouth. She then decided that Will's Island was the most desirable place to establish a home. The Baileys purchased the island about 1750 from the North Yarmouth Land Proprietors for the price of one pound of tobacco and one gallon of rum.
This transaction legally discredited Black's claim, and he moved his family to Orr's Island, over the narrow strait, which immediately thereafter became known as Will's Strait.
Hannah and Timothy, meanwhile built a home at the north end of the island which now bears his name. His house was located near the garrison house or fort which stood on the shore of what is now known as Garrison Cove. He was very friendly with the Indians, especially Chief Mingo.
Besides the Blacks and the Baileys, other early settlers at Bailey Island included the Merrymans, Alexanders, Sinnetts, Johnsons, Gardners, and Orrs.
Hannah died after 1751, at North Yarmouth.
[Taken from: Bailey Genealogy edited by Hollis R. Bailey.]
Occupation: Shoemaker
Henry was the first of the family to emigrate to the new world. His name is found in the passenger list of the ship "Hercules," 200 tons burden, Captain John Weatherby, master, that sailed from Sandwich, England, for New England in March, 1635. In due time the Hercules reached its destination safely, and he together with a large proportion of other passengers, joined the substantial colony already established at Scituate, Massachusetts, composed mostly of "Men of Kent."
Henry was a shoemaker by trade, or cordwainer as it was then called, and a member of good standing of Saint Peter's church at sandwich, as appears by the certificate of Reverend Thomas warren, rector.
Henry became a member of the First Church at Scituate, on the third day of April, 1636, and was a Soldier in the Pequot war in 1637. He moved to Barnstable in 1630, and returned to Scituate about 1648, settling upon a farm on the east side of Walnut Tree hill, two miles southwesterly from Scituate Harbor, and one-third of a mile southwesterly from the Stockbridge mill, now Greenbush. The wing of the Stockbridge mill was built before 1640, and is still standing. The house was burned by the Savages during King Phillip's War, on the nineteenth day of April 1676. In August 1643, at Barnstable, he was on a list of non-commissioned officers and privates, between the age of 16 and 60, able to perform military duty.
Henry was an honest, industrious man, deeply religious, of good repute in the community, and a typical Puritan. About 1660, he became a convert to the teachings of George Fox, and joined the Society of Friends. He sold to the denomination a lot for a meeting house, and in a history of the time, is mentioned as one of the leading members of that organization, which included some of the foremost citizens of Scituate.
His will, was dated the sixteenth day of August 1681, and was presented for probate in 1688.
[Source: Genealogy of Henry Ewell, compiled by Joseph E. Ewell.]
Sarah came to Plymouth with her parents in the ship "Anne," in 1623, and they moved to Scituate before 1630, where her family live on Kent street, near Meeting house lane. She and Henry were married at Green's harbor, by Mister Winslow.
As the world views it, Henry married above his station, and it has been stated that his male descendants have as a rule emulated his example. The plain shoemaker, without money, kith or kin in the new world, was hopelessly outclassed in social rank by the daughter of one of the foremost citizens of the Colony. Such alliances are often mistaken, but not so in this instance, for Sarah, married at sixteen, developed into one of the noblest and best of women. She became a faithful, thrifty, devoted wife, a loving and affectionate mother, and reared her entire family of ten children, save one, to womanhood and manhood, all of them becoming honorable and useful members of society. She lived to her eighty-seventh year, and retained her keen faculties to the last, as is evidenced by her will made when she had far passed the three score and ten milestone.
During King Phillip's War, on the nineteenth day of April 1676, the savages passed over Walnut Tree Hill, and entered her house which stood at the turn of the road. Sarah was alone, save an infant grandchild, John Northey, sleeping in the cradle. Because the house was situated near a high hill, she had not noticed of the approach of the savages until they were rushing down the hill towards her house. In the moment of alarm, she fled towards the garrison, which was not more than sixty rods distant, and either through a momentary forgetfulness, or despair, or with the hope of alarming the garrison in season, she forgot the child. She reached the garrison in safety. The savages entered the house, and stopping only to take the bread from the oven which she was in the act of putting in when she was first alarmed, then rushed forward to assault the garrison. After they had become closely engaged, she returned by a circuitous path, to learn the fate of the baby, and, to her happy surprise, found it quietly sleeping in the cradle as she had left it, and carried it safely to the garrison. A few hours afterwards the house was burnt.
The women of New England not only surpassed the male creations of their period, in the finer and gentler qualities, which was the universal rule, but were fully their equals in the qualities of thrift, industry, wit and intellectual force. This is evidenced in respect to Sarah by the fact that she accumulated property quite respectable in amount for those times, notwithstanding her meager opportunities, the rearing of a large family and twenty years of widowhood. Her will, in which she enjoins upon her children to "live and continue in love and peace one with another after my decease which as their mother I command &require of them," is indicative not only of the nobler sentiments but of intellectual robustness as well.
As bearing upon the question of wit, it is related that at a Colonial dinner given upon an important occasion a roast pig was one of the features. When the time for merry-making came, the pastor, who was always present upon such occasions, held up a rib taken from the debris of the feast, and said, "This is what Eve was made of." A good woman from across the table rejoined, "Yes, and it was from about the same kind of a critter."
Her will, was probated in 1709, which was probably soon after her decease, as there were many people interested in the distribution of her estate.
[Source: Genealogy of Henry Ewell, compiled by Joseph E. Ewell, and Deane's History of Scituate.]
Joseph was a widower when he married Persis.
Resided first on Union Street, and then on Pleasant Street. He was known as "Governor Curtis."
Persis had no children.
Settled in Abington where he and his wife both died.
From the "The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution" Volume 29 page 38:
Joshua Curtis, (1733-91), enlisted, 1775, as a private and, 1776, re-enlisted as sergeant. He was born in Hanover; died in Abington, Mass.
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Middleboro,Mass. Vital Records, Vol 2, page 90, publishments, Nov. 30, 1776Job Smith (1754-1821) served as private at the Lexington Alarm under Colonels Carpenter and Hawes. He was born in Middleboro, Mass.; died in Steuben, Maine. [Source: The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Volume 161, page 44]
Captain of the militia at Middleborough. About 1796 he visited Narragaugus (Cherryfield, ME) with Col. Hall and General Cobb and soon after built a sawmill on the Tunk River in Steuben, ME.
Hon. David Cobb, graduated from Harvard College 1766, and for many years practiced as a physician in Taunton. He was a member of the Provincial Congress in 1775, and for several years during the Revolutionary War, "belonged to the military family of Gen. Washington." After the close of the war, he "became a Major General of Militia in the Old Colony, as the southern counties were called, and he was also for several years a Judge of the Court of Pleas in the county of Bristol." It was while he held these two offices, during Shay's Rebellion, that he uttered the memorable saying that he "would sit as a Judge or die as a General." He was a representative in Congress from 1793-1795; "a member of the Senate and of the House of Representatives in Mass., and sometime Speaker of the latter and President of the former; and afterwards a member of the Executive Committee and Lieutenant Governor for the year 1809. He had great knowledge of the world, was a very entertaining companion and was justly esteemed an honorable man.
[Source: Koster, Fanny Leonard. Annals of the Leonard Family. Garnier & Company. South Carolina.1911.]Job and Diadema are buried in the Job Smith Cemetery, Steuben, ME.
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