Looking for Richard and Esther Bagley

Little is known about the parents of Edward Cyrenus Bagley. We believe their names were Richard and Esther. There are records that indicate Edward was born in either 1800 or 1810, possibly in Hartford Connecticut, or in one of the Hartford's in what is now the Atlantic Provinces of Canada. Richard may have had a brother Samuel who may have had a son named John. The first actual written record of Edward I have is his marriage in 1833 which lists neither parent. The first record of his parents I have is from his patriarchal blessing in Utah, more than twenty years later.

Here are some interesting leads:

• The name Cyrenus is unusual.  It is a New Testament name from the Christmas story.₁ So anyone with the name could just have Bible reading parents. However, there is a Cyrenus Bagley living in Ontario,₂ who was born in New York. It is possible he could be a cousin. His son, also Cyrenus, moved the United States and settled in Iowa.₃ As far as I know this family has no living descendants, his second wife was childless. Cyrenus may have had a son by his first wife, who may have had children.₄ The last I record I've found for them is in Michigan. Most of the living family of the first Cyrenus are descended from his daughters and could still be living in Canada.
• DNA tests indicate the family is related to the family of Samuel Bagley an early settler in Massachusetts.₅ He had three sons - one stayed in Massachusetts, one settled in Providence, Rhode Island,₆ one settled in Fairfield, Connecticut.₇ The son who settled in Fairfield had three sons - all married. One of the son's moved to Long Island is probably the ancestor of Joshiah Bagley,  a New York patriot during the Revolution.₈ Fairfield had an Anglican/Loyalist contingent during the revolution. Fairfield was burned during a British raid.₉ It is possible that Richard could be from one of the Fairfield families, if any remained in Fairfield. If he is from Fairfield, he could have ties to the Loyalists which might have influenced a decision to migrate to New Brunswick. It is also possible one of the other son's descendants could have moved to Connecticut.
• There is a Richard Bagley in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania in the 1790 Census.₁₀ He is the head of a household consisting of one boy and a woman. He living next to Ezra Bagley. Luzerne county was claimed by both Pennsylvania and Connecticut prior to and during the Revolution.₁₁  In 1798 when a direct tax is raised, Richard is living on land owned by Elias Bagley.₁₂ There are other Bagleys in Providence at that time: James Bagley and Elias.  James is important - he is a veteran of the continental Army who served in Valley Forge.₁₃ His unit was raised from Connecticut.  If Richard, Ezra, and Elias are related to James, they would likely be from New England. By 1800, there is no Richard in the federal census.
• There is a mention of a loyalist named Richard Bagley. He apparently was the surgeon for General Howe.₁₄
• There is a Richard Bagley who entered New York in 1825.₁₅ He is a merchant. This may or may not be the Richard Bagley from Amesbury.

Any of these could potentially lead to a possible Richard Bagley who married or had a child with an Esther and is the father of our Edward Bagley. With this in mind the following next steps seem to be:

• Visit the library of the Fairfield Historical Society to look for Church records from the area. Hope to find Anglican and Congregational records with a possible Bagley name in the congregation, or to find grandsons or great-grandsons.
• Visit the Connecticut State Library to look at tax records - Congregational Churches were the established churches in Connecticut, if there are tax records they would let us know who was paying taxes to the Congregational churches and if they weren't which denomination the taxes were going to support.
• Visit the New Brunswick provincial archives to see if we can find a Richard Bagley in the Loyalist records. This is a long shot - there are extensive indexes on line.

Notes:

¹Luke 2:2
²Archives of Ontario. Registrations of Deaths, 1869-1938. MS 935, reels 1-615. Archives of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
³"Iowa, Marriages, 1809-1992," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XVSP-1Z1 : accessed 6 May 2015), Cyrenius C Bagley in entry for C A Bagley and Ada Russell, 25 Dec 1882; citing Winnesheik, Iowa, reference ; FHL microfilm 1,026,661.
⁴Family Trees on Ancestry list children for the marriage, but no supporting sources: http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/441864/person/6115975137
⁵Bagley YDNA project on Family Tree DNA https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/bagley/
⁹British Burn Fairfield – Today in History: July 7, ConnecticutHistory.org, http://connecticuthistory.org/british-burn-fairfield/
¹⁰ Year: 1790; Census Place: Luzerne, Pennsylvania; Series: M637; Roll: 8; Page: 144; Image: 335; Family History Library Film: 0568148
¹¹ See The Susquehanna Settlers, Luzerne County: History of Luzerne County, Fort Wyoming Historical Marker
¹² United States Direct Tax of 1798: Tax Lists for the State of Pennsylvania. M372, microfilm, 24 rolls. Records of the Internal Revenue Service, 1791-2006, Record Group 58. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C. available on Ancenstry

¹³ Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M246, 138 rolls); War Department Collection of Revolutionary War Records, Record Group 93; National Archives, Washington. D.C.

¹⁴p. 283, The North American Review, Volume 59, 1844 https://books.google.com/books

¹⁵ Records from Record Group 287, Publications of the U.S. Government; Record Group 85, Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service [INS] and Record Group 36, Records of the United States Customs Service. The National Archives at Washington, D.C. (https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/8758/40910_29396-00654?pid=8106264&backurl=https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv%3D1%26dbid%3D8758%26h%3D8106264%26tid%3D%26pid%3D%26usePUB%3Dtrue%26_phsrc%3DXTv82%26_phstart%3DsuccessSource&treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=XTv82&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true)