BAILEY, Ann, scout, died in Harrison Township, Gallia County, Ohio, 23 November 1825. She was reputed to have been born in Liverpool, England, about 1725, to have been kidnapped at the age of nineteen, carried off to Virginia and sold, and to have married a man named Trotter when thirty years of age. Trotter was a member of Colonel Lewis's regiment, and was killed by the Indians in the battle of Point Pleasant on 10 October 1774. His widow, moved by revenge, assumed male clothing and adopted the life of a scout and spy, and was often employed to convey information to the commandants of forts. In 1790 she married a soldier named John Bailey, stationed at Fort Clendenin, on Kanawha river. She was exceedingly expert with the rifle, possessed a black horse of remarkable intelligence, and made many perilous journeys from the settlements on the James and Potomac rivers to Fort Clendenin and other distant outposts. On one occasion she rescued the garrison of the fort from destruction by bringing a supply of ammunition from Fort Union, now Lewisburg. After the Indian war, during which her second husband was killed, she lived with her son, William Trotter, on Kanawha river, and removed with him in 1818 to Ohio, where, in old age, she taught school, displaying great mental and physical vigor.