Bayly, Josiah, 1769-1846

The Hon. Josiah Bayly served as representative to the Maryland House of Delegates, 1803-04, Deputy Attorney of the State for Somerset and Worcester Counties, and later as Attorney General for Maryland, 1831-1846. He was the son of Esme Bayly and Sinah Polk Bayly. He married Leah Lockerman who died in 1805, then married Ann Hack Waters in 1806. In the 1820 U.S. Census, his household numbered 34 people, which included 27 enslaved. He died at his home in Cambridge, and is buried at Christ Episcopal Church Cemetery.