Ezekiel Ladd Bailey Genealogy

EZEKIEL LADD BAILEY  (Jacob⁶, Jacob⁵), , born June 12, 1786, married in Rutland, Vermont, Elethear Ruggles, born in Pomfret, Conn., May 25, 1795, daughter of Thomas Ruggles and Alitheah Smith. He was descended by his mother Mary (Ladd) Bailey directly from Samuel² Ladd of Haverhill, Mass., who was killed by the Indians, Feb. 22, 1698, in Haverhill. Elethear Ruggles, his wife, was as directly descended by her mother, Alitheah (Smith) Ruggles, from Jonathan Haines, who was with Samuel Ladd at the same place, time and manner, killed by the Indians; there being the same number of generations in each succession,- when the blood of these two men first flowed together.

Alitheah Smith was the daughter of James Smith and Lois Preston Smith, the granddaughter of Stephen Smith and Mary Preston, the great-granddaughter of John Preston and Mary Haines, who were the daughter and son-in-law of Jonathan Haines.

The children of Ezekiel Ladd and Elethear Bailey are:

1. THOMAS R. BAILEY.
2. MARY L. BAILEY (deceased).
3. FRANKLIN L. BAILEY.
4. ELEANOR BAILEY.