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Jacob Bailey, (16 April 1731 – 26 July 1808), a Church of England clergyman and author, was born in the United States and was married with at least six children. He started his career in the ministry as a Congregational preacher in New Hampshire but converted and became an Anglican clergyman in 1760. Bailey was a Loyalist who moved to Nova Scotia in 1779 because he feared repercussions from American Patriots who had, twice previously, made attempts on his life.〔 He served in the parish of Cornwallis for a period and then moved to Annapolis Royal where he remained for the rest of his life. It is through his writings that Bailey’s place in Canadian history was assured. His poetry was widely known and his verse satire was considered to be styled like that of the English poet, Samuel Butler. He wrote a considerable amount of prose as well and much of this can contribute to historians' studies of those times. “Behold the vaunting hero,” Royal Gazette and the Nova-Scotia Advertiser (Halifax), 11 Dec. 1798, and “Observations and conjectures on the antiquities of America,” Mass. Hist. Soc., Coll. (Boston), 1st ser., 4 (1795): 100–5. Three of Bailey’s poems are printed and discussed in Narrative verse satire in Maritime Canada, 1779–1814, ed. T. B. Vincent (Ottawa, 1978). ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jacob Bailey (author)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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