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State of Service: NY
Qualifying Service: Lieutenant
This small inactive cemetery is located on the east side of Gibson Road in the town of Whitestown. Many of the stones are broken and there ar
Author: Rexford M. Ennis
Samuel Bailey was born March 19, 1740 in Ponset, Connecticut; he was a grandson of John Bailey founder of Hadden. When he was only 15, Samuel entered the Army with his father Samuel Sr., and served in the French and Indian wars until 1762. He married Ruth Clark and moved to Canaan and, much later, to Stephentown. He was one of the petitioners from New Britain, who were seeking to clear their land titles in 1774. In the Revolution he served first as Ensign and then as a Lieutenant in the 17th Regiment, Albany County Militia (New York) under Col. William B. Whiting and Captain Elijah Hudson. August 12, 1778 he was on the list of Associated Exempts. In his later years he followed sons Stephen and Timothy to Whitestown, Oneida, New York where he died September 9, 1827 and is buried in the Gibson Road Cemetery. Records of Kings District show that Samuel Bailey signed the “resolution recommending that the Colonies be independent of Great Britain.” This resolution became known as the Canaan, NY, Declaration of Independence passed 24 June 1776!
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Born 1740 on his parent's farming tract settled prior to the 1788 est. of Stephentown, now, Rensselaer Co., NY. Stephentown early pioneer settlers were typically New Englanders from Rhode Island and Connecticut