1764 Gamaliel Bailey, son of Gamaliel, was baptized at the First Presbyterian Church of Southold, Long Island, New York. [1]
1807-1821 Gamaliel Bailey was named as a watchmaker in New Jersey: Mt. Holly, New Jersey (1807-1821); Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1828-1833); and Cincinnati, Ohio (1834-1846). [2] [3] [4]
1795 [Gamaliel Bailey] "was reassigned to the Burlington County Circuit a few miles to the south. There in 1795 he met and married seventeen-year-old Sarah Page, a daughter of a well-to-do, well-educated family dominated by physicians. Between 1789 and 1805 Sarah bore six children of whom one boy and one girl survived infancy. [5]
1796 Gamaliel Bailey was received at the Old St George Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelhia. [6]
1796 Gamaliel Bailey and Sarah Bailey were named on a listing of members accepted at Old St George Methodist Episcopal Church, Philadelphia. [7]
1802 Gamaliel Bailey was a minister at the Methodist Church, Flanders, Morris County, New Jersey. [8] [9]
1819 John Page and Susanna Page and Gamaliel Bailey were in Class 45 at the Old St George Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelhia. [10]
1820 G Bailey lived in Northern Liberties Ward 5, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania in a household with males: 1 (10 thru 15), 1 (16 thru 25), and 1 (45 and over); and females: 1 (under 10), 3 (16 thru 25), and 1 (26 thru 44). [11]
1823 Gamaliel Bailey, Sarah Bailey, and John Page were named on a directory listing of the Charge of Old St George Methodist Episcopal Church, Philadelphia. [12]
1825 Gamaliel Bailey, Sarah Bailey, and John Page were named on a directory listing of the Charge of Old St George Methodist Episcopal Church, Philadelphia. [13]
1828 … "Gamaliel Bailey and Sarah Bailey, his wife late Sarah Page, of the city of Philadelphia, who are all children and heirs of the said Thomas Page, dec'd", were named in a Letter of Attorney to partition the land of Sarah's father, Thomas Page, in New Jersey. [14]
1829 Gamaliel Bailey Jr, seaman, notarized that he was a citizen of New Jersey, on May 4, in Philadelphia. Gamaliel Bailey Sr confirmed the fact. Gamaliel Bailey Jr was 5' 5½" tall with dark complexion, dark brown hair, and hazel eyes. [15]
1830 Gamaliel Bailey lived in Philadelphia North Mulberry Ward, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania in a household with males: 1 (under 5) and 1 (50 thru 59); and females: 1 (15 thru 19), 1 (20 thru 29), and 1 (70 thru 79). [16]
1834 Gamaliel Bailey (watchmaker) lived at Main bw 8th and 9th, Cincinnati, Ohio. Gamaliel Bailey Jr was also listed. [17]
1836 Gamaliel Bailey (watchmaker) lived at Main W side bw 8th and 9th, Cincinnati, Ohio. Gamaliel Bailey Jr was also listed. [18]
1840 Gamaliel Bailey lived in Cincinnati Ward 5 Twp, Hamilton County, Ohio in a household with males: 1 (15 thru 19) and 1 (70 thru 79); and females: 1 (50 thru 59). [19] Gamaliel Bailey Jr was listed nearby.
1849 Gamaliel Bailey died on April 24 at age 84 in Washington D.C. [20] [21] [22] [23]
Correspondence of (son) Gamaliel Bailey, preserved at Princeton, includes mention "of Gamaliel Bailey, Sr., a silversmith and Methodist minister, and Sarah Page." [24]
Gamaliel Bailey (1807-1859) played a dominant role in shaping the direction of the country's abolitionist movement, particularly its influence and visibility within the national political arena. He accomplished this largely through his role as editor of prominent abolitionist newspapers, such as the Cincinnati-based Philanthropist and the National Era. As a political organizer, strategist, and lobbyist, Bailey helped found the Republican Party, and worked to make the slavery issue a central feature of the Party's platform.
Bailey was born in Mount Holly, New Jersey, the son of Gamaliel Bailey, Sr., a silversmith and Methodist minister, and Sarah Page. The family moved to Philadelphia in 1816, and Bailey graduated from Jefferson Medical College in 1827. While practicing medicine, Bailey also began to pursue his interest in journalism by assisting with and editing several small religious and medical periodicals, such as the Baltimore-based monthly Methodist Protestant.
Around 1832, Bailey moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, and in 1833 married Margaret Lucy Shands with whom he had twelve children, six of whom survived infancy. There, Bailey set up a medical practice and became a lecturer on physiology at the Lane Theological Seminary. It was in Cincinnati that Bailey became increasingly interested in the antislavery movement. He became an operator of the Underground Railroad, and served as corresponding secretary of the Ohio State Anti-Slavery Society. In 1836, Bailey became associate editor of James G. Birney's Philanthropist before becoming its editor the following year. In 1843, Bailey also started the daily newspaper, Cincinnati Morning Herald, which he ran for three years. As editor of Philanthropist, Bailey emerged as one of the country's dominant figures within the abolitionist movement and used the paper to promote his philosophy of using politics as a way to end slavery in the United States.
Bailey's efforts continued when he was selected by the nation's leading abolitionists to edit National Era, an antislavery newspaper based in Washington, D.C. Editing the paper from 1847 until his death, Bailey combined antislavery articles with popular literature, and made the Era one of the most important weeklies in the country. Notably, he published Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin in serial form in 1851-1852.
One of the founders of the Liberty Party, Bailey and his associate Salmon P. Chase later led the majority of Liberty Party voters into the Free Soil Coalition in 1848. Several years later in 1854, Bailey helped convince anti-Nebraska Whigs and Democrats to meet in common caucus during the struggle over the Kansas-Nebraska Bill, an event that contributed to the founding of the Republican Party. By the late 1850s, Bailey was in poor health. He died on June 5, 1859, while on a voyage to Europe that had been meant to help with his recovery.
A biosketch of son Gamaliel Bailey reported [25]
BAILEY, Gamaliel, journalist, b. in Mount Holly, N. J., 3 Dec., 1807; d. at sea, 5 June, 1859. He studied medicine in Philadelphia, and after obtaining his degree in 1828 sailed as a ship's doctor to China. He began his editorial career in the office of the "Methodist Protestant" in Baltimore, but in 1831 he removed to Cincinnati, where he served as hospital physician during the cholera epidemic. His sympathies being excited on the occasion of the expulsion of a number of students on account of anti-slavery views from Lane seminary, he became an active agitator against slavery, and in 1836 he associated himself with James G. Birney in the conduct of the "Cincinnati Philanthropist," the earliest anti-slavery newspaper in the west, of which in 1837 he became sole editor. Twice in that year, and again in 1841, the printing - office was sacked by a mob. He issued the paper regularly until after the presidential election of 1844, when he was selected to direct the publication of a new abolitionist organ at Washington. The first number of the "National Era," published under the auspices of the American and foreign anti-slavery society, appeared 1 Jan., 1847. In 1848 an angry mob laid siege to the office for three days, and finally separated under the influence of an eloquent harangue by the editor. The "Era," in which "Uncle Tom's Cabin" originally appeared, ably presented the opinions of the anti-slavery party. Dr. Bailey died while on a voyage to Europe for his health.
A biosketch of son Gamaliel Bailey reported [26]:
Bailey, Gamaliel (b. 3 December 1807; d. 5 June 1859), white antislavery journalist and political organizer. Gamaliel Bailey was born in Mount Holly, New Jersey. His father, Gamaliel Bailey Sr., was a silversmith and itinerant Methodist minister. His mother Sarah Page Bailey, was a member of a locally prominent family that included several physicians. In 1816 the Baileys moved to Philadelphia … In 1832 Bailey moved to Cincinnati …
See also: Paul Finkelman, Donald R. Kennon, In the Shadow of Freedom: The Politics of Slavery in the National Capital, 58 [27]
Research Notes:
Gamaliel Bailey and Sarah Page were named in a Sons of the American Revolution application. [28] [29]
Were the Page family named in the 1811-1825 Methodist Church listings related to the family of Joseph Page [30], spouse of Margaret Robins? They had children named Jonathan and Hannah.
1810 John Page lived in East Northern Liberties, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in a household with males: 1 (45 and over); and females: 1 (45 and over). [31]
1811 John Page and Mary Page were named on a listing of members accepted at Old St George Methodist Episcopal Church, Philadelphia. Susanna and Hannah Page were accepted in 1815. [32] [33]
1815 John Page purchased a lot in Philadelphia bounded by Pewter-Platter Alley, Walters Alley, and Front Street from William Maris. This was about 3 blocks from Old St George Methodist Episcopal Church. [34]
1815 John Page purchased a 3 story brick tenement on Front Street between Spruce and Union in Philadelphia from the estate of David Ray on July 17. William Plumstead owned an adjacent lot. [35]
1816 John Page, farmer of Penn Twp, purchased a frame messuage on Ann St, Penn Twp, Philadelphia from William Strembeck. [36]
1820 John Page lived in North Liberties, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in a household with males: 1 (45 and over); and females: 1 (45 and over). [37]
[1] Extracts from The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, [AncestryRecord].
[2] U.S., Craftperson Files, 1600-1995, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[3] U.S., Craftperson Files, 1600-1995, citing several secondary sources, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[4] U.S., Craftperson Files, 1600-1995, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[5] Stanley Harrold, Gamaliel Bailey and Antislavery Union (1986), [URL].
[6] Pennsylvania and New Jersey, U.S., Church and Town Records, 1669-2013, [AncestryRecord].
[7] Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Church and Town Records, 1708-1985, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[8] New Jersey, United Methodist Church Records, 1800-1970, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[9] New Jersey, United Methodist Church Records, 1800-1970, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[10] Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Church and Town Records, 1708-1985, Persons 7, 8, and 53, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[11] United States Federal Census, 1820, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[12] Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Church and Town Records, 1708-1985, Class 25, Persons 11-13, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[13] Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Church and Town Records, 1708-1985, List 25, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[14] Burlington County, New Jersey Deeds (1785-1901), W2-533, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[15] U.S., Citizenship Affidavits of US-born Seamen at Select Ports, 1792-1869, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[16] United States Federal Census, 1830, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[17] Cincinnatti Directory, 14, Cincinnati Library, [URL].
[18] Cincinnatti Directory, Morgan Library, [URL].
[19] United States Federal Census, 1840, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[20] Charles R. Hale, ed., Hale Collection of Connecticut Cemetery Inscriptions, manuscript (Hartford, Connecticut: Connecticut State Library, 1937), [AncestryImage].
[21] New York, U.S., Death Newspaper Extracts, 1801-1890 (Barber Collection), [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[22] U.S., Newspapers.com Obituary Index, 1800s-current, [AncestryRecord].
[23] U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930, [AncestryRecord].
[24] Gamaliel Bailey correspondence, 1839-1868, Princeton link, [URL].
[25] Appletons' Cyclopedia of American Biography, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[26] Paul Finkelman, ed., Encyclopedia of African American History 1619-1895, Vol. 2 (2006), [URL].
[27] Paul Finkelman, Donald R. Kennon, In the Shadow of Freedom: The Politics of Slavery in the National Capital, [URL].
[28] U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[29] U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[30] Janet and Robert Wolfe, Genealogy Page for Joseph Page, [JRWolfeGenealogy].
[31] United States Federal Census, 1810, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[32] Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Church and Town Records, 1708-1985, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[33] Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Church and Town Records, 1708-1985, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[34] Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Deed, M3-749, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[35] Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Deed, MR7-225, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[36] Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Deed, MR12-358, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[37] United States Federal Census, 1820, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].