THE VAN DYKE FAMILY                 22s

November 10, 1780, Major John GtUick, who owned
the mill at Kingston on the Millstone River, N. J.
Their daughter, Rebecca Gulick, married in 1801,
Robert Bayles, their son William Gulick Bayles,
married Sarah Cruser, daughter of Judge Frederick
Cruser and Catharine Van Dyke; Their son W. Harri¬
son Bayles in an interesting article in the Journal of
American History, vol. 5, no. 3 entitled "Postal Ser¬
vice in the Thirteen Colonies" in speaking of mails
between New York and Philadelphia says: "Kings¬
ton, on the old Dutch road, at the crossing of the
MiUstone was the half-way station at which the
riders met, each rider deHvering to the other the mail
he had carried out and returning with that which he
had received." William GuHck Bayles and Sarah
Cruser his wife had children:

1.    Robert Bayles, bom September 3, 1828, died
October 21, 1906; married November 28, 1865,
Martha N. Smith.    ChUdren:

(a)    Robert W. Bayles, born March 16, 1867.

(b)    Chester Bayles, bom October 9, 1870, married
Evelyn Hoagland.

(c)    EUa H. Bayles, born Jan. 31, 1872, married
Mahlon L. Hoagland.

(d)    William Bayles, born October 11, 1874.

(e)    Mary Louise Bayles, bom May 9, 1879.

2.    Martha Bayles, bom October 23, 1830.

3.    George A. Bayles, bom June 2, 1833, died Febru¬
ary 10, 1905, married Sarah W. Bayles daughter of
Robert J. Bayles; children: Walter and Frederick.

4.    Frederick C. Bayles, bom April 16, 1838, died
July 10, 1905.

5.    WiUiam Harrison Bayles, bom June 26, 1841,
married Charlotte Isabel Peck, daughter of Henry
W. Peck, born January 2, 1850, died December 15,
1901.    Children:

a.    Sarah Josephine Bayles.

b.    Madge Isabel Bayles.