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• Birth	15 Jun 1742	Little Compton, Newport County, Rhode Island   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Died	11 Sep 1813	Little Compton, Newport County, Rhode Island   [2]
  Buried	Little Compton, Newport County, Rhode Island (Old Commons Cemetery)   [3]
  Person ID	I77804	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	28 Aug 2004 00:00:00
  Father	John BAILEY, b. 16 Jun 1713, Little Compton, Newport County, Rhode Island
  Mother	Mary WHEATON, b. 1721, Swansea, Bristol County, Massachusetts
  Family ID	F33714	Group Sheet
  Married	21 Jun 1770	Tiverton, Newport County, Rhode Island   [4]
  Notes	Sarah was of Tiverton and Isaac was of Little Compton when they married.
  Family ID	F33716	Group Sheet

• Notes

  His will, made 25 AUG 1813 and proved 6 OCT 1813, recorded book 4 page 437: "....To wife Sarah Bailey all chambers and rooms above stairs at the head of kitchen and privilege in garret and cellar wash house and improve as long as she is my widow. To my daughter Mary Richmond to live with her if she outlives my widow, then she to have the use of the foregoing. I give her use and improvement of that part of homestead my son Peleg improves. To three sons Abraham, Tillinghast and Peleg Bailey. To son Abraham all my homestead farm with all the buildings, salt marsh, and I give him three acres west end of pasture on White farm and 8 acres on White farm in pond meadow near Manchester pasture. To son Tillinghast Bailey all farm called White farm with buildings with the above exceptions and the right for his brother to pass over it for seaweed. To son Peleg land I bought of my brother John Bailey, with all buildings and also pasture to westward and northward of the highway on my homestead farm. And all the land I bought of the Widow Head and also salt meadow of my homestead farm. To my three sons the land I bought of Mase Shepard. To three daughters, Albigail Almy, Deborah Bartlett and Sarah Coe, 500 dollars. To grandson Isaac Bailey Richmond 50 dollars. To son Tillinghast my silver headed cane. To wife the improvement of my books ...."

• Sources

  [S204] James N. Arnold, Arnold Collection, Vital Records of Rhode Island; 1636-1850 (Providence, RI: Narragansett Historical Pub, Volume 4. Newport County, Little Compton, page 78. [S204] James N. Arnold, Arnold Collection, Vital Records of Rhode Island; 1636-1850 (Providence, RI: Narragansett Historical Pub, Volume 4. Newport County, Little Compton, page 79.. [S285] Benjamin Franklin Wilbour, Town of Little Compton, Rhode Island, Families (Little Compton, RI: Little Compton Historical, Page 31. [S204] James N. Arnold, Arnold Collection, Vital Records of Rhode Island; 1636-1850 (Providence, RI: Narragansett Historical Pub, Volume 4. Newport County, Little Compton, page 7..