Bayley would gladly give the required information, but the statistics of the Archdiocese of Baltimore have been badly kept. He is endeavoring to collect information on the subject, and arrange the archives they have, but his health is poor, and his time is occupied. He is unwilling to request the help of a priest. In his diocese, the Catholic Church is making very little progress. The war had a disastrous effect upon the Maryland Catholic families and the immigration to the state is very small. As regards himself, he is unwilling to say anything. The article about him in Appleton's Encyclopedia is accurate except that he was never a Protestant minister in Hagerstown. He is descended from old English and Dutch colonial families both of which came into the colony of New Amsterdam or New York in the 17th Century. He was received into the Catholic Church in Rome in April, 1842, and was ordained in 1844. :: I-1-d A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.