Ancestry of Maj. Gen.
Oliver Otis Howard

Medal of Honor Recipient
U. S. Civil War

Desire Bailey

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• • Grandmother of Oliver Otis Howard — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 5 
  • Father:
  • Benjamin Bailey 
  • Mother:
  • Patience Barrows   
  • Birth Date:
  • 23 Jan 1762 
  • Birth Location:
  • Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
  • 15 Aug 1762 
  • Christening Location:
  • Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Death Date:
  • 28 Dec 1829 
  • Death Location:
  • Leeds, Androscoggin, Maine 
  • Burial Date:
  •  
  • Burial Location:
  • Leeds Center Cemetery, Leeds, Androscoggin, Maine 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Seth Howard
  • Marriage Date:
  • 21 Nov 1782 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Child:

  Rowland Bailey Howard (Ahnentafel No:2 )

• Sources for Desire Bailey

  • ¹ General Society of Mayflower Descendants Membership Applications, 1620-1920, General No. 1853, Membership application for Harry Stinson Howard.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 06/13/2023).
  • ³ Maine, U.S., Death Records, 1761-1922, Death record for Desire (Bailey) Howard.
  • ⁴ Maine, U.S., Marriage Records, 1713-1922, Marriage record for son Rowland B Howard and Eliza Otis.
  • ⁵ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Scituate, Vol. 1, p. 13, Baptism record for Desire Bailey.
  • ⁶ Mayflower Births and Deaths, Vol. 1 and 2, Vol. 2, p. 353.
  • ⁷ Howard, Heman, The Howard Genealogy: Descendants of John Howard of Bridgewater, Massachusetts, from 1643 to 1903, Brockton, Massachusetts: The Standard Printing Co. (1903), 58, incorrectly gives father's name as Jonathan.
  • ⁸ Wakefield, Robert S., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 18, Part 2, 2nd Ed., Richard Warren, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2011), 145.