When Sarah Bailey was born in 1723, in Basking Ridge, Somerset, New Jersey, United States, her father, Benjamin Bayles, was 24 and her mother, Letitia Creed, was 20. She married John Ayers on 17 January 1754, in New Jersey, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She died on 8 September 1753, in her hometown, at the age of 30, and was buried in Basking Ridge, Somerset, New Jersey, United States.