Bailey, Jacob

  • DICTIONARY OF CANADIAN BIOGRAPHY ARTICLE: Julie Ross and Thomas Vincent, “BAILEY, JACOB,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 5, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–. https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/bailey_jacob_5E.html
  • DCB profile notes:
    • Church of England clergyman and author; b. 16 April 1731 in Rowley, Mass., second child of David Bailey and Mary Hodgkins; m. August 1761 Sally Weeks of Hampton, N.H., and they had at least six children; d. 26 July 1808 in Annapolis Royal, N.S.
    • As a cleryman in Massachussets, he was concerned as colonial America drifted towards open rebellion, this religious friction took on political overtones and rapidly intensified. Bailey, appalled by “the obstinacy, the madness, the folly, the perfidy” of the rebels, was determined to remain loyal to his church and king. As a result, from 1774 on he was at various times mobbed, assaulted, shot at, and forced to flee for his life; and on two separate occasions in 1776 he was called before the local committee of correspondence.
    • Bailey chose to leave Pownalborough for Nova Scotia in June 1779 so that he would not have to do “great Violence to . . . his Conscience.”
  • Proven Loyalist listed in Loyalist Directory –https://uelac.ca/loyalist-directory/detail/?wpda_search_column_id=301
  • Find a GRAVE: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/149662215/jacob-s-bailey