Jesse Bailey And Phariba Johnson Came to Ohio From Virginia

Review of the Quaker Records of William Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy Vol VI Virginia and Vol IV Ohio.

There are several people named Jesse Bailey. But the Quaker records of the Bailey family of Blackwater MM and surrounding monthly meetings all seem to refer to the Jesse Bailey who was the eldest child of Edmond Bailey and Elizabeth Womble. - EAQG, VI Virginia, p. 97

A number of different Bailey family registers are recorded in the records of the Blackwater MM but none show any one else named Jesse Bailey other than the son of Edmund Bailey and Elizabeth Womble.

The records of this meeting references this Jesse Bailey several times.

Family Register of Jesse & Pharaba - EAQG, VI, p. 98

Ch: Henry b. 1793 Sep 1
Edmund 1795 Oct 2
Abigail 1798 Mar 27
Uriah 1800 Nov 27
Delitha 1803 April 9
Samuel 1805 Oct 13 d 1805 Oct 26
Mary 1810 Feb 28

In 1792 Jesse Bailey gct Western Branch MM - EAQG, VI, p. 99

In 1802 Jesse is chosen an elder at Blackwater MM - EAQG, VI, p. 99

In 1804 Jesse, Wm. Bailey Sr. & Wm. Wren granted a minute to travel into state of Ohio; Minute ret 1804. - EAQG, VI, p. 99

1806 Jesse had taken from him the past year 2 hats under the militia law - EAQG, VI, p. 99

1811 16 Mar Jesse and w, Pheriba, & ch Edmon, Abigail, Uriah, Delitha, Matilda & Mary rem, gct Salem MM, Columbiana Col, Ohio -Upper Monthly Meeting EAQG, VI, p. 130

This is the End of Jesse Bailey in the Quaker Records of Virginia.

The records of Jesse Baily pick up in Ohio:
Ohio Quaker Records William Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy Vol IV Ohio.,

Family Register of Jesse & Pharaba is repeated - EAQG, Vol IV Ohio, p. 364

Stillwater Monthly Meeting, Barnsville, Belmont Co., Ohio

Ch: Edmund 1795 Oct 2
Abigail 1798 Mar 27
Uriah 1800 Nov 27
Delitha 1803 April 9
Matilda 1807 March 28 Mary 1810 Feb 28
David 1813 Jan 28 d 1832 Nov 9 Jesse Jr. b 1815 Jan 11

1820, July 17 Phareba d ae 49 bur Stillwater

1822, July 15 Jesse d bur Meigs Creek

Blue Rock PM was held in Blue Rock Township, Muskingum County, Ohio. The meeting for worship was founded in 1820 as Meigs Creek Meeting under Stillwater MM, following a visit by a Stillwater committee that included Hugh Judge. It is thought that a meeting house was built in 1821. The meeting's name was changed to Blue Rock when the PM was granted in 1826.

Blue Rock PM, always a small meeting, was transferred to Deerfield MM in 1827. Blue Rock Friends attended Deerfield MM on 7/21/1827 to discuss the situation. Stillwater MM and Stillwater QM agreed on the change, and Blue Rock PM was officially attached to Deerfield MM on 12/15/1827.

Contact with Deerfield Friends actually undermined the meeting, as most Blue Rock Friends moved south to be closer to the main body of Deerfield MM. The PM was laid down in 1830 and the meeting for worship in 1831. http://www.quaker-chronicle.info/meetings.php?meetingID=229

Blue Rock Meeting was a continuation of Meigs Creek Meeting. A meeting house was constructed in 1821. It stood along the southern border of Section 34 of Blue Rock Township, on the west side of Peyton Road. Most members relocated to the larger Quaker settlements further south, and the meeting was laid down in 1831.

It is clear this is the same family and the same Jesse Bailey the son of Edmond Bailey and Elizabeth Womble.

Sep 6, 2021 proposed merge at Wikitree of Bailey-5704 and Bailey 22771