Elizabeth Bailey Young was born Wednesday, January 16, 1782 in Haddam, CT. She was the daughter of Lt. Gideon Bailey, Jr. and Lydia Spencer. She was the mother of Elizabeth Mary Young Otis, and the grandmother of Daniel H. Otis.
Elizabeth died on Sunday, March 8, 1857; age 75 in Maromas, Middletown, CT. (Note that it says "age 77" on her gravestone).
This is the will, and household inventory, for Elizabeth (Bailey) Young. The handwriting (script) in this particular document was not as easy for me to decipher as in Erastus' and Robert's will, so I am just posting most of it as-is, and not attempting to transcribe too much of it here.
Note: a few of the documents I posted in their original size because there was enough room to do so.
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I found the above page extremely interesting and insightful, and there are several things I want to touch on here.
>With her husband having been dead for at least 19 years, Elizabeth (Bailey) Young seems to be the savvy business woman, assuming a position of “landlord,” renting out land and houses to family and neighbors. She certainly had enough property to do so.
As a side point, various other pages of the will lists the following property and structures in her ownership:
Dwelling house (which is the main home a family lives in)
Woodhouse
Barn and sheds (there was also an “east shed”)
23 acres near dwelling house
13 acres north pasture
One piece of meadowland
South garden
North garden—which was 5 rods (82 ½ feet) in front of the woodhouse and 3 rods (49 ½ feet) in the rear of the dwelling house.
The above page of this will says:
“Erastus S. Otis to the estate of Elizabeth Young for the use of her land from April 5th 1847 to April 5th 1858. At eighteen dollars 80/100 per year $206.80. To house rent $15.00”
The will shows that Erastus rented from his mother-in-law for a period of 11 years. Erastus started renting this land ten days before his son Daniel was born. Incidentally, Daniel’s grandmother (Elizabeth Bailey Young) lived close by to the Otis family, as several times her will mentions how parts of her land bounded the land of Erastus S. Otis or heirs.
This page of the will also shows that a Selah Clark paid house rent to Elizabeth (Bailey) Young as well.
“Selah Clark for house rent. $3.00.”
Selah Clark (1827-1903) was the older brother of Ashbel A. Clark (1843-1863).
Incidentally, Elizabeth (Bailey) Young's mother was a "Clark," Abigail Clark to be exact.
Incidentally, Elizabeth (Bailey) Young's mother was a "Clark," Abigail Clark to be exact.
>Ashbel Clark (age 18) enlisted as a volunteer at Elijah Gibbons' recruiting office on August 6, 1862—two days after Daniel Otis did. They were both in Company B, 14th CVI together. Also, they both attended the little red school house in Maromas together.
Daniel’s 2x great uncle, Israel Carrier of Colchester (CT), married a "Clark," Mary Clark to be exact. Both Israel and Mary are buried at Maromas Cemetery near his sister Ruth Carrier Young.
Read more about Ashbel Clark HERE. Just scroll down to his name.
Read more about Ashbel Clark HERE. Just scroll down to his name.
>Alpheus D. Clark (1836-1900) was the individual who signed Elizabeth (Bailey) Young’s will as “distributor,” at the age of 21. (see last page of will on this page, above). Alpheus worked at a quarry in Maromas, and in the winter-time he also taught at the little red school house in Maromas. Actually, he was Daniel's school teacher in 1856, when Daniel was 9 years-old.
On August 1, 1862, Alpheus Clark also enlisted as a volunteer at Elijah Gibbons' recruiting office on Main Street in Middletown. All three men, Alpheus, Ashbel, and Daniel were in Company B, 14th CVI together.
As mentioned on the "Otis Family Genealogy" page, under the subheading: "Arranged Marriages…of sorts?"—many of these old setting families are like a big giant web—all connected somehow. Baileys married Butlers. Clarks married Youngs, and even Baileys married Baileys—cousins perhaps?
Probably all of the above “Clarks” were related somehow, and I’d bet, related to Daniel Otis as well.
