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John Bayly, Sr. ★ was allegedly of Chippenham in Wiltshire, England HO19, CU13, DA14, and was born circa 1585 DA14. His surname has also been spelled “Bayley” HO19. Clifford L. Stott located records of John and Anne Bayly in the parish of Bromham, Wiltshire, England, which is about seven miles southeast of Chippenham ST34. He also noted that the baptismal registry for the parish of Bromham contains gaps from March 17, 1581/2 until March 31, 1583, and again from September 1589 through July 1591 ST34. John Bayly of Chittowe married Anne Bayly of Chittowe in July 1611 in the parish of Bromham, Wiltshire, England WI40. Chittoe is a miniscule village about one mile north of Bromham. He was called John Bayly “the yongest” in the burial and christening records of two of his children, Rebecca and John WI40. It becomes evident why the clerk who maintained these parish records felt it was important to note that Rebecca and John were the children of John Bayly “the yongest” when you look at the bottom of the page for the christenings of 1613 (just a few records below the record for John Bayly, Jr.). On January 23, 1613, Joane Bayly, the daughter of John Bayly and his wife, Alice, was christened.
There were multiple men named John Bayly in this parish. A man named John Bayly of Chittow was buried on December 27, 1623 in the parish of Bromham, Wiltshire, England WI40; this was not the John Bayly who married Anne Bayly. Another example of the clerk using the superlative (in terms of age) was in the burial record for Dorothy Bayly “the wife of John Bayly the eldest of Chittow”, who was buried in the parish of Bromham, Wiltshire, England on November 30, 1617 WI40. They were likely the individuals named John Bayly and Dorothy Ward who married on May 6, 1570 in the parish of Bromham, Wiltshire, England WI40. Another man named John Bayly “of Chittow” married a woman named Amy, and they were called the parents of Jaspar Bayly, christened on October 19, 1609, Alse Bayly, christened on July 30, 1609, and John Bayly, christened on January 5, 1616/17 in Bromham parish, Wiltshire, England WI40.
Clifford L. Stott stated that the manorial court rolls of Bromham, which include records for Chittoe, have references for John Bayly the younger ST34. These records state that John Bayly, Jr. was “presented for possessing a crossbow”, which was against the manorial statutes, on September 23, 1617 ST34. This record and the others which discuss John Bayly, Jr. probably pertained to the man named John Bayly who married Anne Bayly. According to Clifford L. Stott, the manorial court rolls of Bromham stated that John Bayly Sr., John Bayly, Jr., and Richard Bayly all served as jurors for the manorial court on March 21, 1618 (perhaps this was 1617/18) and on September 26, 1618 ST34. The manorial jurors of April 4, 1627 stated that John Bayly and two daughters of Ann Bayly were common hedge stealers ST34. Hedge-stealing seemed to pertain to the act of removing the fruit or the usable aspects of hedges which belong to another BL8.
John Bayly was still in Bromham, Wiltshire, England in April 1635 (when he was named as the father of Rebecca in her burial record), but he seems to have left for the Massachusetts Bay Colony by March 1637, when Mary Bayly’s burial record did not include his name. Anecdotally, he was said to have been a passenger on the Angel Gabriel, which departed Bristol, England in April 1635 HO19 or June 4, 1635 CA81, and was shipwrecked at Pemaquid, which is now called Bristol, Maine, in a violent storm on August 15, 1635 HO19, CA81, DA14. Both the James and the Angel Gabriel reached Milford Haven in Wales on June 22, and sailed together for a while toward New England, but the James outpaced the Angel Gabriel CA81. The Angel Gabriel, which weighed 240 tons and was outfitted with sixteen guns, and laden with passengers, cattle, horses, and other animals and supplies, was “dashed in pieces” during a tempest which caused a storm tide of twenty feet CA81. The passenger list of the Angel Gabriel has not been located ST34.
According to his will dated October 28, 1651, John’s wife remained in England, and he was the father of sons named John and Robert and at least two daughters who were also in England, and he was probably the father of the wife of William Huntington TH26. John was a weaver who settled in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts HO19. In 1637 he built a log cabin beyond the Merrimack River SH17, ME3 at Swett’s Hill ST34. In that same year, William Schooler, a man who may have been under the employ of John, perhaps as a farmhand, was asked to escort a servant, Mary Schooler ME3 or Scholee SH17, back to Portsmouth, New Hampshire ME3. A few months had passed when a Native American stumbled across her dead body ME3. The constable of Newbury was ordered to apprehend “old Jno Bayly” and a man with the name of Schooler in June 1637, and to bring them before the magistrates or the Court at Ipswich, and on September 19, 1637, the jury of the Quarter Court of Boston found William Schooler guilty of murdering Mary Scholee SH17.
He was granted land in Salisbury in the first division of land, which was probably laid out between May 1639 and December 29, 1639 SA19:
According unto ye first division of ye Town of Salesbery ther was granted unto John Bayley Senr Two acres more or less for a house Lott: lyng between the house Lotts of Anthony Sadler on ye north & John Bayly Junr: on ye south.
Also there was granted him 4 acres of meddow more or less lyng between the Lotts of John Severance on ye north & Jarrett Hiddon on the south: & upon ye houselott of John Hodges & so unto ye great Creeke leading to ye Towne:
On June 4, 1639, John was fined five pounds because he had purchased land from one or more Native Americans without permission SH17. The fine included the condition that if he relinquished that parcel of land, the fine would be remitted SH17. The name “John Bayly Senr.” was amongst over thirty names of “those yt have lotts ie proportiars granted pshe Towne of Colchester in the first divission” MA70. These were individuals who had been granted land MA70. Colchester was an early name for Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts; it was called Colchester after September 1639 but prior to October 1640 HO19. He was granted three parcels of land at a general meeting of freemen in Salisbury on November 7, 1640 SA19:
…granted unto John Bayly Senr: the neck of land on ye east side of ye Pawwaues River, conteineing by estimacon 30 Acres more or less, butting on ye north side of ye river Merimack
Also ther was granted him five acres more or less on ye west side of ye Pawwaues River, lyng betweene the Lands of Tho. Bradbury…
ther was granted unto John Bayly Senr: fower acres of meddow more or less lyng upon ye south side of ye great neck: betweene the lotts of Willi: Allen on ye est & Joseph Parker on ye west
He had a grant to fish on the “Pawaw” (Powwow) River in 1642 HO19, ME3, DA14, which was rescinded during the general meeting of the freemen of Salisbury on January 10, 1641/2, it was ordered that “ye sole fishing in the powaw River shall be taken out of the hands of John Bayly Singr: for yat [that] he hath forfeited his right given, in not performing ye conditions on which it was granted him and ye same to be continued in ye townes hand till farther consideration” SA19. John caught fish with the use of weirs placed across the river ME3, which trapped the fish, making their harvest easier. On January 12, 1641/2, the freemen of Salisbury granted four acres of upland to Josiah Cobham which adjoined “to ye neck of John Bayly Senr: by ye north side of ye River merimack: & if in case Jno: Bayly Senr: shall refuse to pt [part] wth: his acre and halfe of old ground next ye river: yn [then] the sayd Josiah Cobham is to have eight acres above the sayd old ground adjoyning unto the land of ye sayd Jno: Bayley” SA19. The town reinstated John’s fishing rights on February 12, 1641/2 SA19:
Allso there was granted John Bayly Senr: ye sole fishing in the pawowes River for twoe years insuing on yese [these] conditions first, yat [that] he shall not joyn with anie person yat is not an inhabitant in the town in the working of ye same whereby anie fish should be disposed of from ye town.
2 Yat he shall not dispose of anie fish otherwise yan he shall be appointed by ye town nor himself to have more than his share of alewives [a type of fish]. provided yat if yey [they] be refused by town within 24 hours after ye taking of yem he is ffree to dispose of yem to whom and where he please.
3d that he shall before ye next season of fishing make up ye wyers [weirs] to be full sea hight and provide sufficient materials so as ye town may not suffer in ye fish escaping. and he is to be payd within 20 dayes after ye deliverie of ye sayd fish per rate of yree [three] shillings per 1000 in work, corn, or cattle. or merchantable commodities at equal prices
The Salisbury freemen ordered on March 16, 1642 that John Bayly, Sr. should “have so much meddow layd out as shall make his first lott valuable”, and they ordered that the land should be laid out the discretion of the lot layers and Mr. Samuel Dudly SA19. This was re-ordered at another general meeting of the freemen in Salisbury on May 2, 1642 SA19. He and Andrew Grely were granted a parcel which formerly belonged to George Carr on December 8, 1643 SA19:
Also it was farther Ordered That John Bayly Senr: & Andrew Grely shall have half that lott wch was formerly granted to George Carr to be equally devided between them accordinge to the discresion of ye Lott layers wth Isack Buswell and Anthony Coleby p[ro]vided that Robert Codna: have his six acres formerly granted him first layd out: p[ro]vided that John Bayly lay downe his fower Acres formerly granted him upon the hog house neck Also there was granted three Acres of meddow / unto John Bayly Senr: & two unto John Bayly Junr: when the Towne shall appoint: p[ro]vided that John Bayly Junr: lay downe his meddow, formerly granted him in the Hog-house meddow:
John Bayly, Sr., a weaver of Salisbury, purchased a six-acre parcel of meadow in Salisbury from Anthony Colebie, a planter of Salisbury, for six pounds on April 1, 1644 in a deed witnessed by Thomas Bradbury and Tristram Coffyn OL1. This land formerly belonged to Mr. Thomas Dumer SA19 and it was “bounded on an island, the great river, by the ferry, Jno. Bayley, jr., Willi: Barns, Willi: Sargent, mr. Sam: Winsley, and great creek leading to the town, mr. Jno. Hodges and Enoch Greenleif” OL1. The great river likely meant the Merrimack River, and the great creek leading to the town was probably the Town Creek.
He may have been the John “Balie” who was part of a jury of inquest into the death of the servant of Raph Elwood in August 1644 DO12. At a court in Salisbury on April 24, 1649, John Bayly, Sr. was involved in two cases against Sam Winsley, but both were withdrawn, and during the same court session, two rulings were issued DO12:
John Bayly, sr., of Salisbury, having used sufficient means to procure his wife over from England, and she utterly refusing to come, shall not be constrained to go over to her, using still what means he may to get her over.
John Bayly, sr., freed from all trainings, allowing to the military company of Salisbury five shillings yearly.
Sometime prior to January 27, 1646/7, he sold a meadow “lyng towards the beach” to Mr. Samuel Hall SA19. The freemen of Salisbury ordered Lieutenant Pike and Thomas Bradbury to “treat wth Mr: Carr & John Bayly aboute: their meddowes, uppon the north side of the little river: & to repurchchase it for the towne’s use” on January 8, 1648/9 SA19. John Bayly, a weaver of Salisbury, sold a parcel of six acres of meadow in Salisbury which was bounded by the town creek and by land owned by Thomas Rowell, Richard Currier, and Josiah Cobham to John Hoyt, a planter of Salisbury, for the sum of seven pounds on June 30, 1650 OL1. This deed was witnessed by Thomas Bradbury and Richard Currier OL1. He was taxed twelve shillings and six pence on December 25, 1650 HO19. At a town meeting on February 3, 1650/1, “it was ordered yt all whose names are hereunder written, shalbe accompted townesmen & comoners & none but them” SA19. A list of several names followed, arranged by lots in the location referred to as Higgledy Piggledy (“first higle dee pigle: lotts ther number of places”), and John Bayly, Sr. had lot number 48 SA19.
John wrote his will on October 28, 1651 TH26, HO19, which was witnessed by William Ilsley and John Emery, Jr TH26. John died on November 2, 1651 MA26, HO19, WE12; his death record stated, “Old John Bayley dyed November 2d 1651” MA26. The inventory of his estate was conducted on November 12, 1651 by Edward Woodman and Thomas Macy, and his will was proved on April 13, 1652 TH26, HO19, CU13. His will and the inventory of his estate has been transcribed below TH26:
The 28th of ye 8th mo (1651) This is ye last will: of John Bayly sen: being on his sick bed hee being yett in his right minde & senses. ffirst I giue vnto my Sonne John Bayly my house & land lijng & being in ye Towne of Salisbury during his life; & after my sonnes death his second Sonne Josepth Bayly is to enioy it & if Josephth doth not live to enioy it, then his younger brother is to enioy it, And when Josephth Bayly or his yonger brother cometh to enioy this land he is to pay to his eldest brother John Bayly the some of forty pounds as his Grandfathers guift. And I do likewise make my sonne John Bayly sole Executor of all that ever I have only my Executor is to pay to my wyfe his mother ye some of six pounds a yeare duering hir life pvided she cometh over hither to New-england, likewise my Executor is to pay to my sonne Robert fiueteene pounds pvided also he come over hither to New-england likewise my Executor is to pay to my Daughters his sisters ye some of Tenn pounds a peece pvided they come over hither to new-england butt in case they doe not come over hither butt doe sende by any messenger for their portions, they are to haue fiue shillings a peece for their portions whither sonne or daughte[r]s & all these somes are to bee payed according as it can bee raised out of my land & stocke & likewise it is to bee pay’d to every one of them according as ye Executor & the overseers shall see cause, And farther my Executor is to pay for ye passages of those yt doe come over hither, of them whither it bee wyfe of children, or any of them And farther I doe giue to my Sonne John Baylys Childeren either of them a young beast as soone as maybee wth conveniency, & my Sonne their father is to breed these beasts for eve[r]y of his Children till these beasts groeth to cowes or Oxen, & then the childeren are to haue the proffitt of them And I doe make my brother John Emery sen of Nubery & Mr Thomas Bradbury of Salisbury overseers to see as this to bee performed In wittness herof I doe sett to my hand ye day, & yeare aboue written
likewise I doe giue to willi Huntingtons wyfe & childeren yt house & land yt I bought of vallentine Rowell & do desier my overseers to see it made good to hir & hir childeren
The inventory of his estate was conducted by Edward Woodman and Thomas Macy on November 12, 1651, and included AM1:
Seventy foure acres of upland fifteene of it broke up… Houses… 12 Cows… Two oxen… Two Steeres age 3 yeers & vantage… Five Calves… one Bull… one Swine… Twenty Acres more or lesse of Meadow… houshold goods & tooles… Clothes & Bedding… corne & p[ro]visions… Two Steeres more…
Because John Bayly died on November 2, 1651, he could not have been the John “Baily” who was presented at the court held at Salem on November 28, 1651 for living in Massachusetts while his wife remained in England, and who was instructed to retrieve her at the end of the following summer DO12. Almost exactly one year later, on November 30, 1652, “John Baily of Marblehead” was again presented at court for the same reason, but the case was discharged, and he was again mentioned at the court held at Salem on June 29, 1654 for the same reason DO12. It is remarkable that two men with the same name lived in Essex County, Massachusetts at the same time, and both had wives who declined to cross the Atlantic.
Anne Bayly was the mother of Rebecca, John, Rebecca, Robert, Anne, Joane, Elizabeth, Margery, Francessse, and Mary Bayly WI40. She remained in Wiltshire, England with most of her children, while her husband and two of her children, John and Joane, relocated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Her parents are not known, but there were two children named Anne, the daughter of William Bayly, and one child named Agnes, the daughter of William Bayly, whose baptisms were recorded in Bromham, Wiltshire, England WI40. Anne Bayly, the daughter of William Bayly, was christened on January 14, 1586/7 in the parish of Bromham, Wiltshire, England WI40. Anne Bayly, the daughter of William Bayly, was christened on January 5, 1588/9 in the parish of Bromham, Wiltshire, England WI40. Agnes Bayly, the daughter of William Bayly, was christened on March 16, 1588/9 in the parish of Bromham, Wiltshire, England WI40.
Rebecca Bayly, the “daughter of John Bayly and of Anne his wife of Chitto[w]” was christened on March 22, 1611/12 and buried on May 23, 1612 in the parish of Bromham, Wiltshire, England, as “Rebecca Bayly a child of John Bayly the yongest of chittow” WI40.
John Bayly, the “sonne of John Bayly the yongest and of Anne Bayly his wife of C…to” was christened on December 19, 1613 in the parish of Bromham, Wiltshire, England WI40.
Rebecca Bayly, the “daughter of John Bayly and of Anne his wife Chittow” was christened on March 10, 1615/16 and buried on April 12, 1635 in the parish of Bromham, Wiltshire, England, as “Rebecca Bayly daughter of John Bayly of Bowden” WI40.
Robert Bayly “sonne of John Bayly of Chittow and of Anne his wife” was christened on March 22, 1617/18 in the parish of Bromham, Wiltshire, England WI40. Robert Bayly was called a son of John Bayly, Sr. in his will dated October 28, 1651 TH26.
Anne Bayly, the “daughter of John Bayly of Chittow and of Anne his wife” was christened on September 17, 1620 in the parish of Bromham, Wiltshire, England WI40.
Joane Bayly, “the daughter of John Bayly and of Anne his wife of Chittow” was christened on July 14, 1622 in the parish of Bromham, Wiltshire, England WI40. She was very likely the wife of William Huntington. The will of her father, dated October 28, 1651, stated “likewise I doe giue to willi Huntingtons wyfe & childeren yt house & land yt I bought of vallentine Rowell & do desier my overseers to see it made good to hir & hir children” TH26. According to the records of Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, John Huntington, the son of William and Joanna Huntington, was born during the last week in August, 1643, James Huntington, the son of William Huntington, died on February 5, 1646, and Mary Huntington, the daughter of William Huntington, was born on July 8, 1648 VI36.
William Huntington of Salisbury called himself a planter when he conveyed his dwelling house and land in Salisbury, old Norfolk County (now Essex County), Massachusetts (with the consent of his wife, Joannah) to John Bayly, Sr. of Newbury, a weaver, on December 1, 1652 in a deed witnessed by Thomas Bradbury and Mary Bradbury OL1. This land was located on the west side of “Pawwaus river” and was bounded by land of John Weed, John Bayly, Sr. “late deceased”, Jarrett Haddon, Richard Wells, and the Merrimack River OL1. Joannah, the wife of William Huntington, a planter of Salisbury, together with her son and daughter, John Huntington and Mary Huntington, were granted a dwelling house and land in Salisbury, old Norfolk County (now Essex County), Massachusetts from John Bayly, a weaver of “Nuberie”, with the consent of his wife, “Elnor”, on January 4, 1652 (probably 1652/3) OL1. This deed was witnessed by Thomas Bradbury and Mary Bradbury OL1. The parcel was located on the west side of the “Pawwaus river” and bounded by land owned by John Weed, John Bayly, Sr. “late of Salisbury deceased”, Jarret Haddon, Richard Wells, and the Merrimack River OL1. It appears that William and Joannah Huntington granted his property to John Bayly, who then granted it back to Joannah Huntington.
William Huntington, a husbandman of Salisbury, sold his dwelling house and adjacent five-acre parcel of upland in Salisbury, old Norfolk County (now Essex County), Massachusetts to John Maxfeild, a planter of Salisbury, for the sum of nine pounds on April 2, 1662 OL1. This property was bounded by land owned by John Weed, Jarett Haddon, and by land “formerly of Jno. Bayly, sr., deceased” OL1. The deed was witnessed by Thomas Bradbury and John Colby, and Johannah Huntington assigned her interest in this property to John Maxfeild on April 8, 1662 OL1. Jarrett Haddon and William Huntington exchanged land on April 9, 1662 in a deed witnessed by Anthony Somerby and John Baily OL1. William Huntington received Jarrett Haddon’s “lot of Higgledee pigledee at Mr. Hall’s farm, bounded by Richard Wells and Steven fflanders” and in return he gave Jarrett his “lot of Higgledee piggledee at fox island, bounded by Valentine Rowell and Phillip Challis” OL1.
William Huntington, a planter of Salisbury, and Joanna Huntington sold William’s division of sweepage at the beach to William Osgood, a millwright of Salisbury, for the sum of fifty-five shillings on March 24, 1662 (probably 1662/3) in a deed witnessed by Thomas Bradbury and John Hoyt OL1. This sweepage contained one acre and ninety-two rods OL1. In the same deed, he also sold a two-acre parcel of marsh at Mr. Hall’s farm and the fourteenth lot of upland “at the Indian field on west side of Pawwaus river, bounded by John Weed, Tho: Macy, ye Mayne river and Indian Swamp” OL1.
Elizabeth Bayly, the “daughter of John Bayly of Chittow and of Anne his wife” was christened on December 19, 1624 in the parish of Bromham, Wiltshire, England WI40.
Margery Bayly, the “daughter of John Bayly of Chitway and of Anne his wife” was christened on December 3, 1626 in the parish of Bromham, Wiltshire, England WI40.
Francesse Bayly, the “daughter of John Bayly of Bowden and of Anne his wife” was christened on November 2, 1628 in the parish of Bromham, Wiltshire, England WI40.
Mary Bayly, the “daughter of John Bayly of Bowden and of Anne his wife” was christened on December 5, 1630 in the parish of Bromham, Wiltshire, England, but Mary Bayly, “daughter of Anne Bayly”, was buried on March 18, 1636/7 in the same parish WI40.
Ann Baylie, a “widdow of Bowdon”, was buried on August 27, 1659 in Bromham parish, Wiltshire, England WI40. The village of Bowden Hill is about three miles north of Bromham.