OF The; shreve famii^y. 265 "Where shall I go?" some replied, "In the house and hide." He said : "No ; they will burn the house." "Then go to the barn." Pie said : "They are bound to have me and will burn the barn." So he retreated to a thicket and hid. They burned the house and barn. He was near, and the fire so hot he could hardly bear it. The British hunted everywhere for him, as they thought, without finding him. They remounted their horses and left. The family Vv'cre greatly frightened, and only relieved when they found her grandfather all right. Mother has told me that her great grandfather Shreve had ships sailing on the sea. [Fifth Generation]. Children: 1. Jeremiah Warder Shreve; m. Sarah Beck, 1775; d. at sea, about 1783. 2. Amy Shreve; m. Ridgway (ch. living in 1810) ; d. before 1810. 3. Richard Shreve; b. Sept. 25, 1760; m. Margaret Newbold, 1783; d. Sept. 12, 1822. 4. Isaac Shreve; m. (left heirs). 5. Kezia Shreve. 6. Samuel Shreve; (living in 1796); d. before 1810. 7. Anna Shreve; b. Sept. i, 1773; m. Nathan Shumard ; d. Belfast, O., Dec. 20, 1846. I. JEREMIAH WARDER SHREVE, the eldest child of William Shreve and Anna Ivins, was b. ; m. Sarah Beck. He d. at sea. [Sixth Generation]. Children: 8. Rebekah Shreve; b. N. J., 1776; m. John Bailey, Ky., 1791 ; d. Centerville, O., 1864. 8. REBEKAH SHREVE, the only child of Jeremiah Warder Shreve and Sarah Beck, was b. in New Jersey (probably Princeton) ; m. John Bailey, in Kentucky. He was the son of James and Anna Bailey, b. near Lexington, Va., in 1762, and d. at Centerville, O., May loth, 1842. She d. in Centerville, O., June 8th, 1864. John Bailey was a native of Rockbridge Co., Va., and was born in 1762. The place of their marriage is not positively known. They settled in Centerville, eight miles from Dayton, O. At that time the place was a wilderness occupied by many Indians. Mr. Bailey built a little cabin of rough logs, in which they dwelt during the summer in a most primitive manner, and not until fall was it "chinked and daubed." Their first bed was constructed by boring holes in one of the logs on a side wall in which long pins were driven, the ends resting on forks, on these pins or poles, clap boards were laid and on the boards a bed tick,