General Notes

 John Bailey was a prominent man in the town government, and volunteered in the service of the colony as a member of Sir William Phipp's expedition of 1690 against the French settlement of Port Royal to Acadia, and of the larger expedition the same year when thirty-four vessels and two thousand men were sent by the Massachusetts Bay Colony against Quebec, and on the return of this unsuccessful expedition John Bailey was among them who lost their lives, November 19, 1690, when nine of the vessels of the fleet were wrecked and lost. He had left at home his wife and eight children, and his widow gave birth to their ninth child after learning of his death. She administered his estate in Salem, and died about 1693