General Notes

Notes: "Joseph, son of Richard and Ednah Bailey of Rowley, settled in the north part of Rowley on the Merrimack not far from the western border of Newbury, Mass. At the time when several of the Rowley families first began to settle there; which part was at first called the Merrimack lands, but soon incorporated by the name of Bradford; and in 1850 the east part of the town in which his farm was situated was incorporated by the name of
Groveland, and most of his original lot is owned by D.W. Hopkinson, and M.M. Palmer. Mr. Hopkinson, is one of his descendants and purchased the house and land on the
southerly side of Main Street, and lives in the house which stands on the site where the original one was built; and Mr. Palmer has built a house on the northerly side of the street, and nearly opposite the old residence. "He was one of the leading men of the town of Bradford, accordingly was chosen to fill Civil, Military, Ecclesiastic and other offices of trust:-was one of the selectmen of the town twenty-three years between 1675 and 1710, and one of the Deacons for the formation of the church until his death, October 11, 1712. His wife was Abigail, who died November 17, 1735, but who her father was, we have not been able to learn. Their children were first, Abigail, who married Samuel Tenny, and died November 28, 1689, leaving a daughter Abigail born 22d of the same month, who married previous to 1716, a Haseltine; second, Elder Richard, born 1675, who lived in Bradford; third, Anne, born 1678, who married Jonas Platts; fourth, Elizabeth, born 1681, who married Robert Hastings; fifth, Joseph, jr., born 1683, who settled in W. Newbury; sixth, Ednah, born 1686, who married John Hastings; seventh Dea. John, born 1691, who settled in
Methuen; and eighth, Sarah, born July 6th, 1694, who married March 29, 1716, James Davis, but we know nothing else of them, excepting that the following of their children
are on the records of Haverhill, Mass. viz: Elisha, born Oct. 13, 1718, died 1721; Ruth, born Aug. 14, 1720; Richard born Sept. 1, 1721, d. y., and Sarah, born March 18,1722."