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Name: Richard
Paton (Payton) Bailey Sr.
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Surname: Bailey
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Given Name:
Richard Paton (Payton)
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NSFX: Sr.
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Sex: M
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Birth: 22 Aug
1735 in Wigan, Lancasterhire, England 1
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Death: 1818 in
Tazewell County, Virginia 1
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Burial: 1818
Leatherwood Farm, Route 460, Bluefield WV.
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_UID:
D9D996D775EAC8489D2836A8F1B461346BAA
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Note:
Note: RICHARD PATON
BAILEY I was born 1735 in Lancastershire, England, and died 1818
in Tazewell County, Virginia. It is said he was killed in an
Indian raid in Wythe Co. He married ELIZABETH ANNE BELCHER 1762 in
Dale Parish, Chesterfield Co. Va. daughter of RICHARD BELCHER and
MARY OBEDIENCE CLAY. ELIZABETH was born 1742 in Chesterfield Co.
Va. and died 1820 in Tazewell County, Virginia. The grave of
RICHARD BAILEY is marked with a Revolutionary war stone and is
located on the Leatherwood Farm near US. Route 460 at the state
line in Bluefield Wv. Though unmarked, it is said his beloved wife
ELIZABETH is buried by his side. Richard was a spy during the
Revolutionary war.
It has not been determined when Richard Bailey came to America
from England. In September 1764 he sold his 100 acres of land
which he had bought from John Skelton in 1760 and moved with his
family for the Black Water River section of Bedford County. We do
know that John Goolman Davidson, an Irishman, born in Dublin,
Ireland, a cooper by trade, from which he was generally called and
known as "Cooper Davidson," came with his family from
that part of the Valley of Virginia now known as Rockbridge
County, and with him came Richard Bailey and his family, from the
Blackwater section, then in Bedford, now in Franklin County,
Virginia, and settled in the year of 1780 at the Beaver Pond
Spring, a branch of Bluestone, now in Mercer County. A fort was
built which was called and known as the "Davidson-Bailey
Fort," the marks of the foundation of which may yet be seen
near the residence of Mr. Harvey Bailey just west of the Beaver
Pond Creek. Both Davidson and Bailey had considerable families,
the latter had eight sons and two daughters. In his book "A
History of the Middle New River Settlements and Contiguous
Territory" David E. Johnston indicates that Richard Bailey
served as a soldier in the American Army during the Revolutionary
War; however, it is believed that he served as a spy for the
American Army on the western frontier at that time. These men as
well as their sons and daughters, were a brave and courageous
people, and maintained their position on the border at the
settlement they had made from the day they came in 1780, until the
close of the Indian wars in 1795. Tradition indicates that he
traded a saddle blanket to the Indians for land around Bluefield,
West Virginia. He was one of the original settlers of Mercer
County, Virginia around 1780. According to Beverly E. Humphreys, a
boulder that was used at the Davidson-Bailey Fort has been erected
at the Bluefield College to mark the site. Richard Bailey and
Isham Belcher were among the group that migrated to Franklin
County, Virginia. The exact date of the migration is unknown.
Richard's father, James, wrote his will in February 1765. The
following September, Richard sold his land in Chesterfield and
migrated to Bedford County, the same records show Isham sold some
land of Richard Belcher, deceased, and left for Franklin County,
Virginia. The earliest record of james Bailey was in Henrico
County, Virginia, where he was named in John Nash's Sheriff's bond
along with John and Richard Belcher. On November 1, 1760, Richard
Bailey purchased 100 acres of land in the Skinquarter area of
Chesterfield County, Virginia. In 1765, Richard Bailey sold his
100 acres and left with his family for Franklin County, Virginia.
He lived very close to John and Richard Belcher. The following is
research by Ann Waller Reedy, Historical & Genealogical
Researcher, 500 Franklin Street, Richmond, Virginia in November
1962: Franklin County, Va. Deed Book 1, p. 262 10 April 1787 -
Richard Bailey of Montgomery County to John Jones of Franklin
County, Pounds 45 - 125 acres being part of a tract of land
containing 268 acres. Survey dated 20 April 1778 in Franklin
County. Witnesses: John Arthur John X Chitwood Joseph X Henrick
Co. Recorded Monday ____ Sept. 1787 Test. Ste. Smith, Cl. Cur.
Deed Book 2, p. 109 10 April 1787 - Richard X Bailey of Montgomery
County to John Arthur of Franklin Co, Pounds 60, 10 acres part of
tract of 445 acres granted to Richard Bailey by Patent dated 21
Dec. 1762 in Franklin County on south side Blackwater River (in
Bedford Co.) Signed - Richard X Bailey Witnesses: John X Chitwood
Joseph X Hambreck Sary X Whealer Recorded June Court, Franklin
County 1787 Assigned by James Cheatwood to Richard Bailey July 20,
1783 Amherst County, Virginia in the Revolution by Sweeny - p. 188
Soldiers of the French and Indian War service proved in Amherst
County Court in order to obtain bounty land allowed by
proclamation of the King of Great Britain of 1763 - Order Book
1773 - 1782 Richard Bailey served under Colonel William Byrd in
1760 - p. 404 According to Donna Beers, Richard Bailey died on
July 6, 1812 in Beaver Pond, New Field, Virginia. From a series of
segments by Barton Wyatt which were published in the Princeton
Times during the summer of 1966: "The descendants of Richard
Bailey made four important settlements, namely, Bluefield, Rock
and along the Bluestone River, Beartown, and Baileysville in
Wyoming County. Three of the Bailey brothers, Eli, Richard and
Henry, settled t Rock in Mercer County about the years 1800 to
1810. The Baileys began to multiply nd replenish the earth at this
point. The three brothers were then in their erly thirties and
were lovers of adventure and hardwork. Within the first fifty
years they had built a thriving, self-supporting community for a
distance of twelve to fifteen miles along the Bluestone River from
Clover Bottom to old River Side, now Montcalm. These pioneer
settlers had cleared up the bottoms and mountainsides, built
homes, planted orchards and vineyards, and were groiwing thousands
of bushels of corn, wheat, rye, buckwheat and oats where today not
one single bite of food is grown. Two of the Bailey brothers, Anos
and Charles built the Tunnel Mill to do the community grinding.
This mill served the community for many yers and was finally
washed away by the Bluestone flood of 1872, which flood also
washed away the old Rolland Mill above Spanishburg and the old
Callahan Mill later known as the old Lilly Mill. Besides having
the old Brush Mountain mill stoned for grinding corn meal and
flour it had a carding machine for the carding of wool for making
clothing. Every log cabin home in the community became a unique
factory, making all the family needs in the way of clothing and
shoes. The old time weaving loom, made in the community, was found
in every home, with all the necessary equipment for the weaving of
jeans for pants, lindsey for dresses and linen for shirts. This
equipment consisted of a large and small spinning wheel, reels,
winding blades, warping bars, flax breaks, hackles, scutching
paddles, shuttles and other equipment too numerous to mention went
along with the weaving in the home. There were no such terms as
relief, poverty or hand out commodities in those precious old
days. In the study of seven generations of Baileys the writer
discovered some noticable tendancies. There is the tendency toward
smaller familes of children. In those days it was not uncommon to
find families of twelve to twenty children in multiple marriages.
In most cases eight or ten boys and four or five girls. Today the
family size does not go beyond three or four children with one boy
and two or three girls. Unless the trends change seven more
generations will end the Bailey family
Father: James
Bailey Sr. b: 24 Oct 1714 in Wigan, Lancashire, England
Mother: Lucy
Simms b: 1716 in Lancashire England
Marriage 1 Elizebeth
Anne (Annie) Belcher b: 1742 in Skinquarter, Dale Parrish,
Chesterfield Co. Va.
- Married: 1762 in Dale
Parish, Chesterfield County, Virginia
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