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1754-1827 (Creation)
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- Bailly (family)
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- 28 cm of textual records
- 1 microfilm reel
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Georges-Frédéric Bailly (ca. 1727-1807) (also George Frederick Bailly), of Montbéliard emigrated to Canada at the age of 25, his occupation recorded as farmer. He arrived at Halifax, N.S. on the sloop Sally in July 1752 and settled at Lunenburg. In 1754 Bailly was appointed schoolmaster to Lunenburg's French-speaking Protestant congregation by Rev. J.B. Moreau. In March 1761 he was issued a certificate of colonial naturalization. Over the years Bailly acquired extensive land holdings in the Lunenburg area. He died at Lunenburg in 1807 at the age of 80. Bailly and his wife Frederica Sibelle (Richardot), married 31 October 1746, had the following children: Jeanne Marguerite (b. 1753), Catherine Marguerite (b. 1756), Barbara Elizabeth (b. 1758), and Joseph (1761-1842). Joseph Bailly became a cordwainer in Lunenburg and married Elizabeth Schwartz. Their son, Henry Bailey (ca. 1818-1897), a baker by occupation and MLA for Lunenburg married Catherine Arenburg in 1842.
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Fonds consists of deeds and other items predominantly accumulated by Georges-Frederic Bailly and his son Joseph Bailly concerning property in Lunenburg, 1754-1824. Also includes deeds of property later acquired by the Bailly family and an account dated 1827, playing cards used to draw lots of land in Lunenburg, baptismal certificate, Georges-Frederick Bailly's certificate of naturalization, and two bound note books of his entitled, "Abrege de 16 discours, sur la redemption des hommes par la mort de Christ", 1780, which contains some notes on the Bailly family, and "Les degres de la vie spirituelle representes dan la vie interieure de Theodore de Brakel ministre de l'eglise de Makum en Frise [Holland]", 1775, written for his son Joseph.
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Donated in 1952 and 1955 by Ethel A. Parker of Beverley Farms, Massachusetts, descendant of Georges-Frederic Bailly.
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The deeds are separated according to buyer then arranged in alphabetical order by surname of the seller.
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The two note books are in French and one document is written in German.
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Use Nova Scotia Archives microfilm 14908 for MG 1 - Volume 105.
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Dalhousie University Archives - manuscript collection - George Frederick Bailly - MS-2-4. Winthrop Pickard Bell's Register - volume 1 page 14 (microfilm 12675)
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Formerly known as Bailly papers.