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Georges-Frédéric Bailly (ca. 1727-1807) (also George Frederick Bailly), of Montbéliard emigrated to Canada at the age of 25, his occupation recorded as farmer. He arrived at Halifax, N.S. on the sloop Sally in July 1752 and settled at Lunenburg. In 1754 Bailly was appointed schoolmaster to Lunenburg's French-speaking Protestant congregation by Rev. J.B. Moreau. In March 1761 he was issued a certificate of colonial naturalization. Over the years Bailly acquired extensive land holdings in the Lunenburg area. He died at Lunenburg in 1807 at the age of 80. Bailly and his wife Frederica Sibelle (Richardot), married 31 October 1746, had the following children: Jeanne Marguerite (b. 1753), Catherine Marguerite (b. 1756), Barbara Elizabeth (b. 1758), and Joseph (1761-1842). Joseph Bailly became a cordwainer in Lunenburg and married Elizabeth Schwartz. Their son, Henry Bailey (ca. 1818-1897), a baker by occupation and MLA for Lunenburg married Catherine Arenburg in 1842.