He lived in Lancaster

Family record now in possession of Miss Mary B.S. Bailey of Lancaster, place of birth is listed on death record of his son Joseph Bailey

Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worchester County,  By Ellery Bicknell Crane, page 57


and Dar National Record 410467

Vital Records of Gloucester Joseph was the son of Joseph and Mary

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He resided in Gloucester for a few years, then bought a place a mile south of his grandfather's place in Pigeon Cove, Gloucester where he lived the remainder of his years.

He was a soldier in the War of 1812 and was twice taken prisioner, first from a small trading vessel off the Cape of Virginia by an English fleet going down the coast, afterwards on the privaseer "Harpy" taken from a ship they has taken and which he was beginning to sail.. He was held on a prision ship at the Bermuda Islands, also at Halifax, Nova Scotia, finally at Dartmoor in England, where he remained until the end of the war, when he was sent home and had to walk to Gloucester from New York.

Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915 for Joseph Bailey
Name:     Joseph Bailey
Titles & Terms:     
Event:     Death
Event Date:     10 Oct 1853
Event Place:     Rockport, Essex, Massachusetts
Age:     63
Marital Status:     Married
Occupation:     Mariner
Birth Date:     
Birthplace:     Rockport
Estimated Birth Year:     1790
Volume/Page/Certificate Number:     v 75 p 151
Film Number:     960169
Frame Number:     
Digital Folder Number:     4145880
Image Number:     186

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Family record now in possession of Miss Mary B.S. Bailey of Lancaster

and Dar National Record 410467

d. Bay View, Massachusetts, paralysis, stroke Death record #385


        

Family record now in possession of Miss Mary B.S. Bailey of Lancaster

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https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N7T2-QPL Rockport Death Records

 Joseph Bailey and mother Esther Lane by death certificate #8, Gloucester, MA, private record #55, born Rockport, was called Sandy Bay, now part of Gloucester,  [Gloucester VR 1:81] , VRM 75

marriage record: Joseph, 3d, a. 24 y., mariner, b. Rockport, s. Joseph and Esther, and Elizabeth W. Allen, a 21 y., d. Daniel and Susan, Mar. 21, 1848, vol. 2, page 75

Family record now in possession of Miss Mary B.S. Bailey of Lancaster


Record below proves that Esther Lane and Joseph are Joseph's parents

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Family record now in possession of Miss Mary Belle Sophronia Bailey of Lancaster

Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915 for Abigail L. Bailey Andrews
Name:     Abigail L. Bailey Andrews
Event:     Death
Event Date:     12 May 1905
Event Place:     Gloucester, Massachusetts
Residence:     Gloucester, Massachusetts
Street Address:     9 Andrens Street
Gender:     Female
Age:     79
Marital Status:     Widowed
Birthplace:     Rockport, Mass.
Estimated Birth Year:     1826
Burial Date:     14 May 1905
Burial Place:     Gloucester
Cemetery:     Locust Grove
Father:     Joseph Bailey
Father's Birthplace:     Gloucester, Mass.
Mother:     Esther Lane
Mother's Birthplace:     Gloucester, Mass.
Additional Relatives:     
Spouse:     Joseph L. Andrews
Volume/Page/Certificate Number:     v 45 cn 249
Film Number:     2070773
Frame Number:     
Digital Folder Number:     4292357
Image Number:     200

Family record now in possession of Miss Mary B.S. Bailey of Lancaster

Family record now in possession of Miss Mary B.S. Bailey of Lancaster

name:     Julia A. BAILEY
gender:     Female
birth:     1834 Oct 2
Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts
death:     1834 Oct 18
Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts
AFN:     TQHW-N3
Parents
father:     Joseph BAYLEY (AFN: TQHW-SR )
mother:     Esther LANE (AFN: TQHX-BH )
Source Citation

FamilySearch™ Ancestral File v4.19

Family record now in possession of Miss Mary B.S. Bailey of Lancaster