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BAILEY, Jacob, soldier, born in Newbury, 3lass., 2 July 1728; died in Newbury, Vermont, 1 March 1816. He settled in Hampstead in 1745, and served as a captain during the French war in 1756. He was with Colonel Munroe in the siege of Fort William Henry, and was among those who escaped the subsequent Massachusettsacre on 7 August 1757. He was also present at the capture of Ticonderoga and Crown Point in 1759. In 1764 he removed to Vermont, and there obtained a Township. Later he was appointed Brigadier-General of militia by the state of New York. During the revolutionary war he was commissary-general of the northern department, and in that capacity did much in benefiting the cause of the Americans.
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