53. ESME⁵ BAYLEY (MJR.) (EDMUND⁴, HANNAH³ SCARBURGH, URSULA² WHITTINGTON, WILLIAM¹) (#208) birth date unknown. ESME died before December 9, 1801 in Somerset Co. MD.

He married SINAH POLK. (SINAH POLK is #4800.) Thomas Marshall was named guardian for Patience's grandson 1 May 1751. Will dated May 4, 1799 names wife Sinah, sons Thomas, Henry, Josiah and daughter, Peggy. Esme owned "Addition to Flower Field" between Wicomico and Quantico, "Rye Rains" in Rockawakin, "Hogsdown" and "Goodwill" and two lots in Princess Anne. (Somerset Co. MD Wills EB23, Ruth Dryden)

Isaac W. K. Handy, in "Annals and Memorials of the Handys and Their Kindred" notes a Major Esme Bayley of Somerset Co MD (uncle of Col. Thomas Bayley of Accomac Co. VA, m. Unknown Polk, sister of Gilliss Polk and Judge William Polk) and had children: Henry E. Bayley, Josiah Bayley, Thomas Bayley, James Bayley, and Patience Bayley. The relationship of Esme Bayly to Thomas of Accomac, combined with tombstone and other records found in Whitelaw's VA Eastern Shore has been used as a base for the Bayly family in this journal.

ESME BAYLEY (Mjr.) and SINAH POLK had the following children:

137 i. THOMAS⁶ BAYLEY (#4801).

+ 138 ii. HENRY E. BAYLEY .

139 iii. JOSIAH BAYLEY (#4803). His father left him Lot 17, Princess Ann, Somerset Co. MD. (Ruth T. Dryden, Land Records of Somerset Co. MD, Family Line, Westminster MD, 1985, p.41)

140 iv. PEGGY BAYLEY (#4804).

141 v. PATIENCE BAYLEY (#4805). She married THOMAS LOCKERMAN. (THOMAS LOCKERMAN is #6799.) Thomas was from Cambridge, MD.

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