Bayly, Esme, 1740-1801

Esme Bayly was the son of Edmund Bayly and Rose Fisher Bayly of Somerset County. During the Revolutionary War he was commissed as a Major of the Salisbury Battalion in 1877. He married Sinah Polk in 1761, and they had eight children, including Thomas Bayly. In the 1800 census, he enslaved 22 people in his household.