BAILEY FAMILY GENEALOGY IN PETERBOROUGH NH ---------------------------------- ---------------------------------- Information located at http://www.nh.searchroots.com/HillsboroughCo/Peterborough/ On a web site about GENEALOGY AND HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE and its counties TRANSCRIBED BY JANICE BROWN Please see the web site for my email contact. ---------------------------------- The original source of this information is in the public domain, however use of this text file, other than for personal use, is restricted without written permission from the transcriber (who has edited, compiled and added new copyrighted text to same). ======================================================== SOURCE: History of the town of Peterborough, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire : with the report of the proceedings at the centennial celebration in 1839, an appendix containing the records of the original proprietors, and a genealogical and historical register, by Albert Smith; Boston: Press of G.H. Ellis, 1876, 753 pgs. THE BAILEY FAMILY Page 15 JOSHUA BAILEY, came to town in 1822 or 1823; m. Mary Spring, dau of Silas Spring and resided in the east part of the town, near to the farm of his father-in-law. He was b. May 7, 1798 and d. Feb 18, 1873, ae 74 yrs., 9 mos. She d. April 4, 1862, ae 62. Children: 1. STEPHEN, b. Dec 23, 1824; m. Cordelia W. Houghton, Boston [MA] April 4, 1867. One ch., Maud Abbot, killed by falling out of a window, June 1873, ae 3; resided Charlestown, Mass. 2. MARY E., b. Sept 26, 1826; m. Jonathan E. Drake of Easton, Mass., May 16, 1853. Ch (1) Lewis E.; (2) Albert B.; (3) Flora P.; (4) Charlie E., resided New Bedford, Mass. 3. HARRIET, b. June 27, 1829; unmarried. (end)