He compiled a Dictionarium Britannicum: a more complete universal etymological English dictionary than any extant, bearing the date 1730, but supposed to have been published in 1721. This was a great improvement on all previous attempts, and formed the basis of Dr Johnson's great work.
Bailey, who was a Seventh Day Baptist (admitted 1691), had a school at Stepney, and was the author of Dictionarium Domesticum and several other educational works.
Nathaniel Bacon (1640/6 – October 26, 1676) was a colonist and plantation owner of the Virginia Colony of Jamestown, famous for his "Virginia Rebellion", commonly known as Bacon's Rebellion, which ended in the burning of Jamestown to the ground.
Bacon's Rebellion was brought upon by Nathaniel Bacon's disagreement with Royal Governor William Berkeley's friendly policies toward the Native Americans.
Instead, the rebellious Nathaniel Bacon was the proprietor of Curles Neck Plantation in Henrico County, about 30 miles upriver on the northern bank of the James River.
Nathaniel Platt Bailey (1809-1891), the namesake of both this playground and bounding Bailey Avenue, was a 19th Century Bronx landowner.
Born in Chateangay, New York, Bailey was the son of Judge William Bailey, one of the earliest settlers of Plattsburg.
Bailey was a Vestryman in the Protestant Episcopal Church of St. James, senior governor of New York Hospital, and in 1884, was elected president of the St. Nicholas Society of the City of New York.
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