The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-10-29

dflVe cattle 10 NeWbury III the tall OF 1901 He
was drowned i'll the river and was the first man
buried in the cemetery on the Oxbow.
General Bayley was one of the original mem
bers and first deacon of the Congregational
church, and led the singing on Sundays until
Jeremiah ingalls, came to Newbury. He was
the most prominent in eastern Vermont for
many years
The wife of General Bay1ey was Prudence,
daughter Of Ephriam Noyes, and her grand
mother was daughter of Dea Joseph Bailey of
Bradford, so the descendants of Jacob Bay1ey
are also descendants of Richard Bailey, who
came from Yorkshire, England about 1874, and
settled at Haverhill Mass, and is the ancestor
OF the family to which the late Judge Henry w.
Bailey belonged.
Few families can trace their ancestry through
so many generations, along so many lines as the
BaileyS. The EmerVs, Collins, NoYeses, and
Bayleys are English yeomanry in the central
and southern counties. Each generation has
furnished many notable men bearing their
names who illustrated the Puritan principles of
the founders of New England. Good ancestry
IS grand heritage; it is grander thing to be
worthy of it.
General Bayley had ten children, of whom
six reared families, and descendants of all of
them are residents of this town.
Colonel Joshua, the third son, served with dis
junction i'll the Revolutionary war, and built i'll
1885 the house i'll which he spent the rest of his
life, and which is now occupied by Frank w.
Powers Joshua Bayley and Anna Fowler were
! married Ill I775 and lived together sixty-three
years
In the first volume of the church records is the
| following
May g. 1884 at lecture at Mr.. Joshua Bav-
lery's, sd Bayiey and wife owned the covenant,
and their children, Elizabeth, Sarah Merrill,
| Noyes and Joshua were baptised by Rev Ebe-
neZer Cleveland Nathan noddard, ciefk.'.
Their other children were James, Hannah
| Jacob, John, Anna, Ephram and Benjamin.
These all married and reared families except
Sarah.
In the year 1901 John Peach, Noyes and Joshua
Bailey went out to Jefferson Hill then covered
with unbroken woods, and began to clear land
John Peach built the first log house and Joshua
Bailey the second, these were joined by Merrill
| James, Jacob John and Ephriarn, seven broth
ers, who cleared adjoining farms.
Dr. Samuel White came about 1906 and later
/ corners settled around them These built log
houses, and after some years, a log school house
which stood until IS47 lanes, son of John
Peach, was the first child born on the hill in
1903, and Sarah Jane, now Mrs. Fuller, daughter
OF Jacob Bailey, born in 1888, was the Youngest
OF the children of the original settlers. bride
road, whose location is almost forgotten, led up
through Scotch Hollow to the east side of the
hill The first public road from the hill went to
Beecher Mills, now Boltonvil1e, and was survey
ed by Nathan Avery, July I, 1910.
About 1884, Merrill and James Bailey removed
families and died there. All the other children
of Col. Joshua Bailey died in Newbury. Joshua, |
Jacob and John Bailey served in the war of 1872. |
III 1885 there were siXty-nine children of school
age reported in the Jefferson Hill school district
The wife of Col. Joshua Bailey was Anna Fow- |
Ter, daughter of Lieut.. Jacob Fowler, and of the
hrst wife OF Ephriam Bailey, General Bayley's |
oldest son.
John Bailey and Martha Powers were married
Jan. %, 1919, ana their married lie sixty
years, six months and sixteen days, and to them
at the house of Col. Joshua Bailey, his father |
was born Jan 80 1922, John, Jr., their only son
and second child.
Before the first proprietors of Newburv took
possession of the land, they began to make ar
engagements for the preaching of the Gospel and |
the settlement of a minister BY their request |
Mr.. Silas Moody, recent graduate of Harvard |
college came to Coos i'll the fall of 1903, and
preached the first sermons i'll Newbury and
HaVerhil
But he did not see fit to settle here and they
secured the Rev, Peter Powers, who had been
preaching several years i'll Connecticut, TO come
to Coos, and see the country. This he did i'll the
summer of 1904, and the present First Congre-
gational church then called, "The Church of
Christ in Newbury and Haverhill' was organic
ed at Hollis, n. H., upon Presbyterian platform,
i'll September, 1904 Mr.. Powers was born i'll
Dunstable, N H., in 1928, and graduated at Har-
ward college in 1854.
His parish extended at first from Charlestown,
N H., to Lancaster, and he called upon to
preach, solemnize marriages, and bury the dead
wherever there were any settlements, travelling
on foot on horseback, by canoe and on snow
shoes i'll winter. He was of treless in
dustry, his labors for his church and country
were many and only a man of iron frame could
have endured all he did. His personal appear
ance related by aged lady to the historian
of Warren, was that he was above the middle
height, vigorous and active. He wore, when he
came to preach, black kerseymere coat, with
breeches and stockings, three-cornered hat a
fleece like wig, white beard and white silk
gloves.
Such was the clerical garb of those days He
lived in house which occupied nearly the site
of Mrs. Pillsbury's house on the Oxbow, the
log meeting house being south of him, between
his house and General Bayley's, which stood
where Mr.. Does brick house now stands.
/ have seen il stated that he preached the first
sermons i'll twenty-seven towns in this vicinity
Mr.. Powers ministry very successful I'M
til the Revolutionary war, during which his in
tense patriotism offended the Tories A sermon
which he preached from Judges V, 23d chapter
made them threaten his life, and he removed to
Haverfill Corner and lived two years in what is
now William Tarleton's house. He removed to
records of Newbury are lost and diligent search
by the present writer among his descendants in
Maine failed to bring to light single one of his
sermons, or scarcely scrap of his handwriting.
His answer to the call of the Deer Isle church
copied from the records of the town of Deer Isle
is a fine specimen of his work, and may interest
many.
TO the Church of Christ on Deer Island Dear
" beloved in our Lord Jesus Christ. You hav-
ing invited and called upon me to the, paterna1 !
oversight OF YOU in the Lord. and it appearing to
be of God. after mature deberation and PRAYER !
I now publically return my answer in the affirm
alive l ask a daily interest in your prayers for
the gracious fulhlment of that great promise
10 / am with You Away, even TO the end of the !
world. Amen To the inhabitants and good
people who have. conCurred with the church in !
the call and liberality offered for my support
Thankfully accept it. and promise through the
grace Of God to serve You all, the poor well as
trust strive together with me in your PRAYERS
for me that may be enabled to be faithful unto
the death and present YOU and your dear chill I
haf he Of I