SIXTH GENERATION

15. Unknown BAILEY . We can trace our Bailey line to Richard Henry Lee Bailey. He and other members of "our" line of the Bailey family are in Lunenburg County, Virginia, in the early 1800's. This branch of the family calls home a part of Lunenburg that is just north of the Meheran River and adjacent to the lands of the Vaughan family (who we met in the chapter about the Powers). Some portions of that land remain in the family's hands today (1994). And there is a small overgrown family cemetery next to the Bailey home place (It is located West of the home, north of state route 640, about 0.7 mile west of the intersection with Route 643. Salem Church, now deserted, is at that intersection).

Harry Bailey, shortly before his death, took your author to the area and indicated the land had been in the family even before Richard H.L. Bailey. The land, therefore, becomes the key!

We have been unable to find the name of Richard's father or mother, but we have been able to trace that land. That land was given to one Henry Bailey in a Regal Patent on 12 May 1759 (Patent Book #34, page 245). That land is described as 590 acres, north of the Meheran and adjacent to the Vaughan family land.

It is unlikely that Henry is Richard H.L. Bailey's father (if Henry was 25 when he was given the land, he would have been over 68 when Richard was born!). We believe Henry is Richard H.L. Bailey's Grandfather. Henry's will does exist in Lunenburg County records (Will Book #2, p.15). Henry Bailey mentions his wife Avis and a son William, who is the executor of the will and who gets "...the land and plantation where I now live." There is, however, reference to other -- un-named -- children.

One other note about William Bailey, son of Henry and possible father to Richard H.L. Bailey. Landon Bell's book "Lunenburg: The Old Free State" notes a Revolutionary war unit under Cpt. John Stokes. That unit was formed around Lunenburg County and included in its November 1778 pay roll one William Bailey.

Unknown BAILEY had the following children:

+28 i. Richard Henry Lee BAILEY.