Anthony Colby, the Emigrant, was born circa 1595 in England.
7 He emigrated in 1630 from England to Boston wtih the Winthrop Fleet.
1,7 He lived in 1630 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.
7 He lived in 1631 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.
7 He was a sawmill owner.
1 COLBY, ANTHONY, Cambridge 1632, freeman 1634, removed to Salisbury, and died 1663, leaving 8 children. Coffin.
8 He lived in 1637 in Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts.
7 He lived in 1640 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts.
7 He lived in 1644 in Amesbury, Massachusetts.
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Anthony's AncestryOver the years many fanciful versions of Anthony Colby's ancestry have been told. An eminent genealogist (and descendant) researched the truth, and the result was published.
Extract from The American GenealogistWhole number 202 Vol. 51, No 2April 1975Anthony Colby’s Purported AncestryBy Glade Ian Nelson
James W. Colby’s frequently unreliable ‘Colby family History’, published in 1895, is the basis for the statement that Anthony Colby of Massachusetts Bay Colony was the son of Thomas Colby, Esquire, by his second wife Beatrice Felton of Beccles, Co. Suffolk, England. Since the printing of that volume, this relationship has been repeated in many other publications with elaboration’s upon the various royal personages which fill the ancestral pedigrees of the Colby and Felton families. Most recently it has appeared in Michel L. Call, ‘Royal Ancestors of some L.D.S. Families’ (Salt Lake City: 1972), and in Count d’Angerville, ‘Living Descendants of Blood Royal’, vol. 4.
While the first book is so error-filled as to make it completely untrustworthy to any serious student of royal genealogies, the second does contain some lineage’s of merit. To the discredit of both authors they fail their readers by not giving documentary source material or references for data contained in their books. It should not be too surprising, therefore, that the claim of the Massachusetts immigrant, Anthony Colby, as the son of Thomas and Beatrice (Felton) Colby is without substantiation and most likely completely fallacious.
Certain lineage societies have rather blindly accepted this lineage in the past and, I presume, continue to do so. (See Langston and Buck, ‘Pedigrees of Some of the Emperor Charlemagne’s Descendants’, Vol. ii (1974), p. 96--Ed.). Therefore, in order to correct this purported parentage and to warn those who might be tempted to accept the questionable lineage, the following information is presented.
Anthony Colby came to New England with the Winthrop Fleet in 1630 for in that year he was of Boston and recorded as a church member. He was of Cambridge as early as 1632 when he owned land and buildings there, and was still there when, on 14 May 1634, he took the oath of "freeman" before the General Court in Boston. About 1637 he moved to the settlement at Ipswich, but soon thereafter moved on to Salisbury, then called Colchester, where he received land in the first division of 1639. Additional grants of land were given to him by the town of Salisbury in 1640 and 1643. Anthony Colby was one of the original settlers of the "newtown", now called Amesbury, where he was made a commoner on 19 March 1654, receiving a grant of land there in that same year as well as grants in subsequent years.(1) He died intestate, 11 Feb. 1660/1, in Salisbury, Mass., and the inventory was taken on 9 March 1660/1, (2) with the division made 9 April 1661.(3) Although as early as 1939, information concerning the identity of Anthony Colby’s wife was printed by Donald Lines Jacobus, (4) many errors have since been printed concerning her. Mr. Jacobus clearly pointed out that Anthony Colby married after coming to New England, probably between 1630 and 1632, the widow Susannah Waterman of Boston, Mass. She married, thirdly, about 1663-4, William Whitridge, a carpenter from Gloucester who died 5 Dec. 1668, leaving her a widow for the third time. Susannah died 8 July 1689 in Salisbury, Mass. Various accounts state her maiden name to have been Haddon and make her either a sister or daughter of William Sargent, and still others ascribe her to her the name Nutting. None of these claims, however, is substantiated by documented evidence, leaving her maiden name unknown.(5) Anthony and Susannah Colby had the following children:(6)
i. John, bapt. 8 Sept.1633, Boston, Mass., d 11 Feb 1673/4; m. Salisbury, 14 Jan 1655/6, Frances Hoyt.
ii. Sarah, b. 6 March 1634/5, Cambridge, Mass.; m. 6 March 1653/4, Orlando Bagley.
iii. Child, b. ca.1637, prob. Ipswich, Mass.; may have d. y. (Savage states there were four children older than Isaac. which is the basis for the inclusion of this unnamed child).
iv. Samuel, b. ca. 1638, Ipswich, d. 1716; m. Elizabeth Sargent.
v. Isaac, b. 6 July 1640, Salisbury, d. by 1691; m. Martha Parratt.
vi. Rebecca, b. 11 March 1643, Salisbury, d. by 1673; m. Haverhill, Mass., 9 Sept 1661, John Williams.
vii. Mary, b. 19 Sept 1647, Salisbury; m. Amesbury, 25 Sept. 1668, William Sargent.
viii. Thomas, b. 8 March 1650/1, Salisbury; estate inventory taken 31 March 1691; m. 16 Sept 1674, Hannah Rowell.
Examination of English Colby records sheds light on the problem at hand. The 1612 Visitation of Suffolk contains the family of Thomas and Beatrice (Felton) Colby as "Thomas, son and heir; Charles, second son, obit; John, obit; Anthony; Edmond, obit; Philip; Francis; Huntington; Beatrice, mar to Edmond Thurston of Colchester; Mary, mar. to John Copuldyke of Kirby in suff.; Penelope, mar. to Sir Walter Aston in Chesh.; Katherin, unm." (7) Thus it can be seen that there was a son Anthony belonging to this family. However, justification for rejecting him as the immigrant Anthony is substantial, as will be further explained. Thomas Colby of Beccles, Co. Suffolk, England, wrote his will 8 June 1588 and it was proved that same year at the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. (8) In this will Thomas referred to "Beatrice my well beloved wife" to whom he gave all his manors for life as well as other items. He then bequeathed to his "son Thomas from and after the decease of my wife all my manors. . ." Provision was made that should the son Thomas die without legal heirs, the lands were to be entailed to his other living sons, Anthony, Edmond, Philip, Francis and Huntington, in that order. Concerning these last five sons mention is made of a distribution of an annual rent in the sum of 9 pounds and 6 shillings to each of the sons from a farm in Brundish, co. Suffolk, that "eache and every of them shall begin to receyve their saide annuitic or portion at twentie years of age untill whiche time I will and devise that my executors shall putt the saide money during their minorities or manage to the only profit and bringing upp of my said sonnes in vertu good education and bearinge. . ." Thomas also mentioned "my thre (sic) daughters and the child whiche my wife is at the making. . . at their age of twentie yeares or at their severall dayes of marriage. . ." Thomas made his son Thomas and his brother-in-law Anthony Felton executors of his will, with his brother Francis Colby as supervisor. The children of Thomas and Beatrice (with approximate birth years based on the best documentation available) were: (9)
i. Thomas, b. ca. 1566; m. Brundish, 1599, Amy Brampton; lived in Brundish where six of their children were baptized, with two additional children mentioned in the 1612 visitation of Suffolk.
ii. Charles, 2nd son, b. ca. 1568; appears only in the 1612 Suffolk Visitation as already deceased; not mentioned in father's will in 1588 nor in that of Uncle Francis in 1599.
iii. Beatrice, b. ca. 1570; under 20 years of age in 1588 when her father's will was made; m. Edmond Thurston of Colchester; her unnamed children are referred to in her brother Philip’s will in 1643.
iv. John, 3rd son, b. ca. 1572; mentioned only as deceased in the 1612 Visitation; not mentioned in the wills of his father (1588 or Uncle Francis (1599).
v. Anthony, 4th son, b. ca. 1574; erroneously claimed as the New England immigrant.
vi. Mary, b. ca. 1576, m. 1598 in Beccles, John Copuldyke of Kirby, Suffolk.
vii. Edmond, 5th son, b. ca. 1578; mentioned in will of his father (1588) and in his Uncle’s (1599), but listed in the 1612 Visitation of Suffolk as already deceased.
viii. Philip, 6th son, b. ca. 1580; m. 1609 in Beccles, Lady Dorothy (Bacon) Gawdy, daughter of Sir Nicholas Bacon, Knt. and widow of Sir Bassingbourn Gawdy, Bart. She d. 1621 at age 47. Philip’s will in 1643 mentioned only one daughter. This will, referred to later on, contains additional valuable information concerning his brothers, sisters, nephews and nieces.
ix. Penelope. b. ca. 1582, m. Sir Walter Aston; mentioned in brother Philip’s will as "my loveing sister ye Lady Aston."
x. Francis, 7th son, b. ca. 1584; m. 1610 in Beccles, Margaret Sampson, daughter and coheir of George Sampson of Sampson’s Hall, Kersey, Suffolk; gentleman of the Privy Chamber to Prince Henry. Francis and Margaret had one son Hertford aged 1 in the 1612 Visitation.
xi. Huntington, 8th son, b. ca. 1586; knighted 28 Nov. 1616.
xii. Katherine, b. shortly after her father's will (1588) in which he refers to "the child whiche my wife is at the making." Unmarried when the 1612 Visitation was recorded.
The Anthony Colby living in Beccles, England, son of Thomas and Beatrice (Felton) Colby, as has been pointed out, was under 20 years of age in 1588 when his father made his will. His eldest brother Thomas was the only one of the family not designated as under age. Consequently Thomas’s birth year cannot be placed later than 1568 and was probably just one or two years before that date. The Visitation of Suffolk taken in 1561 (10) indicated the father as then married to Ursella, Lady Brend, his first wife. Therefore, Thomas’s second marriage, to Beatrice Felton, occurred subsequent to 1561. The 1612 Visitation of Suffolk lists the children of Thomas and Beatrice, listing Anthony as the fourth of their eight sons along with four daughters. Other listings of the brothers follow the same basic position of Anthony as fourth son. Given this information, and knowing all of Thomas and Beatrice’s children were born between 1561 and 1588, their son Anthony’s birth year can be approximated as 1574. Certainly a few years variance is possible, one way or the other, but reason dictates it cannot be placed earlier than 1570 nor later than 1579. If this was the Anthony Colby who came to New England in 1630, he would then have been at least 50 years of age! That by itself would not be too astounding, but his next feat, marriage to a young, recent widow who had the attractive attribute of owning property and not under the necessity of making an undesirable marriage arrangement, certainly would have been. (11) Next, this Anthony would have sired at least eight children, the last arriving when he was at least 70 years of age. For this to be the case, the wife Susannah would have had to be at least twenty years his junior. While not biologically impossible, these accomplishments are not very probable. Their improbability is further accentuated by a knowledge of what the immigrant Anthony did after coming to New England.
In the old Norfolk County, Mass., records, (12) can be found an agreement made 4 Nov. 1658 between Willi: Osgood, Phillip Challis, William Barnes,
Anthony Colby and Sam’ll Worcester, copartners, present possessors of a saw mill situated in Salisbury. David W. Hoyt in his work, ‘Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury,’ (13) presents information concerning each of these men. According to Hoyt’s records, William Osgood was born about 1609 and hence would have been about 49 years of age in 1658. Philip Challis, according to his own deposition, was born in 1617, and therefore 41 years of age in 1658. William Barnes would have been born between 1605 and 1615, as his children are recorded as born from about 1640 to 1653; his age then in 1658 would have been between 43 and 53, say 48 as a compromise. Samuel Worcester was first married in 1659 when he was about thirty, placing his birth about 1629. Compare these ages of 49, 41, 48 and 29, with the 78 years of the son of Thomas and Beatrice (Felton) Colby. The wording of the sawmill agreement is such as to make it seem that all were able-bodied men who would be personally laboring at the mill. For a man of 78 this would have been difficult, even if in excellent health. Association of a elderly man with men of middle years might be reasonable if he had superior financial capacity, but this does not seem to have been present to the advantage of Anthony Colby. The total value of his estate when appraised just three years later was only li 359, of which li 185 was in real estate and the remainder in various sundry personal goods. (14) Of interest also is the fact that the inventory contained several items belonging to the saw mill and its activities. The logical conclusion that must be reached is that the
Anthony Colby associated with the saw mill in 1658 was not in his late seventies, and therefore could not have been the son of Thomas and Beatrice (Felton) Colby of Beccles, England. The most enlightening information concerning this comes from the will of his [Tomas, in England] brother Philip. (15) This will, made and proved in 1643, mentions, among others, two of his sisters, two of his brothers and seven nephews and nieces, including: Item I doe give into my brother Mr. Anthony Colby in present moneys xx li and doe give & confirm unto him his anuity or porsion being ffive pounds by ye yeare during the terme of his naturall life, payable at hollowmas and candlemas. Item I doe give unto his sonne Thomas Colby three score pounds to be payd unto him within one yeare next after my decease. This document is important because (16) it mentions Philip’s brother Anthony with no hint whatever that he was not residing in England, thirteen years after the American Anthony had arrived in New England, and (2 it shows that Anthony had a son Thomas in 1643 also presumably living in England. It would have been very unusual for Philip not to make provision for sending Anthony’s "ffive pounds by ye yeare during the term of his natural life" twice yearly, if this money was to have been transported to the New World! Failure to make such a provision is further indication that two Anthonys are involved. The second item quoted shows that Anthony had a son Thomas in 1643 who was to receive a substantial legacy within one year after his uncle Philip’s death. An examination of the American Anthony’s family, as presented earlier, indicates that his son Thomas was not born until 1650, with only sons John, Samuel and Isaac in 1643! Furthermore, none of the American Colbys would have been anywhere near their majority when the will was written. Had Philip’s nephew Thomas then been a minor, provision would certainly have been made for supervision of his legacy monies until a specified age was attained. In fact, this is exactly what Philip did with two of his three grandchildren with legacies to become due and payable when the grandchildren reached the ages of 16 and 14, respectively. The logical conclusion to be reached, again, is that Philip’s brother Anthony was not the same person as the Amesbury Anthony. While use of the given name Anthony in the Beccles Colby family does provide a valuable clue as to the immigrant’s possible ancestry, the Beccles branch of the Colby family had no monopoly of this Christian name. Edward Colbye, Gentleman, Of Banham, co. Norfolk, wrote his will 31 March 1580, proved 17 May 1580, (16) in which he named, among others his wife Elizabeth, daughter Alice and sons Thomas, Francis, Anthony and Edward. The Banham parish registers contain the baptismal records of Edward (28 Jan 1560) and Thomas (14 Sept. 1561), (17) but not those of Alice, Francis and Anthony. There seems to have been a break in the Banham registers from about 1565 to about 1580, and their births probably occurred during this time. This Anthony could logically be estimated as born about 1568, making him even older than the Beccles Anthony. The Colby family of Banham, co. Norfolk, and that of Beccles, co. Suffolk, were branches of the same family, sharing common ancestry. It can be seen that the name Anthony was known in both branches at least one generation before the American Anthony came to New England. Furthermore, two other contemporary Anthony Colbys can be located in England. In 1622, Elizabeth Colby, singlewoman of Matshell (Mattinshall?) , co. Norfolk, made a nuncupative will in which she left the majority of her goods to "Anthoney Collby my brother Also his wife"(18) but as Thomas and Beatrice did not have a daughter Elizabeth, this must be another Anthony, especially in light of the significant distance. The parish registers of St. Nicholas, Ipswich, Suffolk, (19) contain the baptismal record on 29 April 1597 of Richard, son of Anthony Colby. The burials of this church show in 1604 - 29 Aug. John Colby, Richard Colby, fratres Ralph Davy, 31 Aug Anthony Colby pater.
The only similarity between the immigrant and the son of Thomas and Beatrice was the given name. However, other Anthonys located in England, without any additional documentation, have just as valid a claim to be the New England immigrant. Further research into source material in Suffolk and Norfolk may reveal the parentage of the immigrant to New England who now has a large posterity in America, including the author of this article. Nevertheless, until documentation is forthcoming, the parentage of Anthony Colby of Amesbury must be regarded as unknown, and the previously accepted connection with the son of Thomas and Beatrice (Felton) Colby must be discarded.
SOURCES
(1) Mary Lovering Holman, Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury and John
Sargent Pillsbury (Concord, N.H., 1938), pp. 137 f.; David W.
Hoyt, Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Mass. (Providence, R.I., 1897), 1:103 f.
(2) Norfolk County Quarterly Court files 1:33.
(3) Ibid. p. 24
(4) Donald Lines Jacobus, The Waterman Family (New Haven 1939), 1:8.
(5) Holman, op. Cit.; Belle Preston, Bassett-Preston Ancestors (New Haven
1930), pp. 66 f.
(6) Holman, op. Cit. Hoyt, op. Cit.
(7) Walter C. Metcalfe, ed., Visitations of Suffolk (Exeter 1882), p. 127.
(8) Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Wills 1588 9 Leicester.
(9) Metcalfe, op. Cit., pp.17 f., 127; Brundish Parish Registers; Prerogative
Court of Canterbury: Wills 1588 9 Leicester (will of Thomas Colby), 1599 94
Kidd (will of Francis Colby); Episcopal Consistory Court of Norwich, Wills
1642, f. 77 (will of Philip Colby; Boyd’s Marriage Index: Suffolk, vols. 1, 4,
7; Visitations of Norfolk in the year 1563 (Norwich 1878-1895), 1:97, 2:493 f.
(10) Metcalfe, op. Cit.
(11) Jacobus, op. Cit.
(12) Essex Institute Hist. Coll. 60 (1924) pp. 149 f: (13) Hoyt, op. Cit.
(14) Probate Records of Essex County, Mass. (1916), 1, 1635-1664, pp. 407-410.
(15) Episcopal Consistory Court of Norwich, Wills 1642, f. 77.
(16) Ibid. 1580.
(17) Banham Parish Registers.
(18) Archdeaconry of Norfolk, Wills, 1622, f. 53.
(19) St. Nicholas, Ipswich, Parish Registers.
Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historical & Genealogical Society, 1995-).
BIRTH: Baptized Horbling, Lincolnshire, 8 September 1605 [GMC50 123].
Immigrated 1630, probably as a servant of Simon Bradstreet, first to Boston ( "Anthony Chaulby" admitted to Boston church as member #93, which would be in the winter of 1630/1 [ BChR 14]. ). Cambridge 1632, Ipswich 1637, Salisbury 1640, Amesbury, Salisbury. (On 2 August 1646 "Anthony Colby according to his desire had letters of dismission" from Boston church "unto the Church at Salsbury" [ BChR 47].)
MARRIAGE: By 1633 Susanna (_____) Waterman, widow of _____ WATERMAN of Boston (land "at first was granted to [blank] Waterman who deceased. Anthony Colbye married his widow & they two sold the said land unto James Pennyman..." [ SLR 11:176-77]); she married (3) by 1663 William Whitridge (petitions as Susanna "Whittredge formerly Colbie" to sell real estate 28 March 1682 [ EPR 1:409]); she died 8 July 1689.
DEATH: Salisbury 11 February 1660[/1].
COMMENTS: Earlier writers erroneously placed Anthony Colby's origin in Beccles, Suffolkshire, but in 1975 Glade Ian Nelson showed that the Beccles Anthony was still in England long after the immigrant was settled in the Massachusetts Bay [ TAG 51:65-71]. More recently John B. Threlfall made what appears to be the correct identification in Horbling, Lincolnshire [ GMC50 123]. Anthony Colby was not at that time and in that area as rare a name as one might think, so the simple appearance of a baptism at about the right time is in itself not sufficient evidence. But the occurrence of a baptism in Horbling, the home of Simon Bradstreet, who seems to be indirectly connected with Colby, makes this very likely the correct solution to the problem.
The identity of Susannah _____ is one of the perennial mysteries of the period. Several authors have suggested that Susannah's maiden name was Haddon, given that Colby and Garrett Haddon were neighbors and associates. Others have suggested that she was the daughter of William Sargent, and others that she was a Nutting, all without support. Her identity is currently unknown. Among other defects to be found in the literature regarding Colby and his family, there is no obvious reason why Savage said there were four children earlier than Isaac and no support has been found for Sarah's birthdate given by Waterman.
ANTHONY COLBY
ORIGIN: Horbling, Lincolnshire
MIGRATION: 1630
FIRST RESIDENCE: Boston
REMOVES: Cambridge 1632, Ipswich 1637, Salisbury 1640, Amesbury, Salisbury
OCCUPATION: Sawmill owner.
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: "Anthony Chaulby" admitted to Boston church as member #93, which would be in the winter of 1630/1 [ BChR 14]. On 2 August 1646 "Anthony Colby according to his desire had letters of dismission" from Boston church "unto the Church at Salsbury" [ BChR 47].
FREEMAN: 14 May 1634 [ MBCR 1:369].
EDUCATION: Could sign his name [ GMC50 125].
OFFICES: Essex grand jury, 9 April 1650, 1 October 1650 [ EQC 1:189, 201]. Petit jury, 26 September 1648, 12 April 1653, 3 October 1654 [ EQC 1:149, 279, 369].
ESTATE: Granted three acres in Cambridge behind the Pine Swamp, 5 January 1634/5 [ CaTR 11]; received a proportional share of one in the undivided meadow ground, 20 August 1635 [ CaTR 13]; in the list of those with "houses" in Cambridge (number of "houses" torn, but in the West End), 8 February 1635/6 [ CaTR 19].
In the Cambridge land inventory on 10 October 1635 "Anthony Couldby" held five parcels of land: one house with backside, about three acres, in the West End; one house with planting ground, about three acres, in West End Field; three acres by the Pine Swamp; four acres in the Neck of Land; and four acres in the Great Marsh [ CaBOP 32]; at least one of these lots, and perhaps more, purchased by Simon Crosby [ CaBOP 67].
The inventory of the intestate estate of "Anthony Collby, late of Salisbury" was taken 9 March 1660 by Samuel Hall, Thomas Bradbury and Thomas Barnett. It totalled £349 19s. 4d. of which £185 10s. was real estate: "a dwelling house & barn & fourteen acres of upland in tillage," £70; "a pasture of about thirty acres," £20; "2 lots at ... Mr. Hall's Farm," £5 10s.; "about eighteen acres of fresh meadow," £40; the "accommodation" bought of Mr. Groome, £6; "two lots of sweepage & one higgledee piggildee lot," £4; "sixty acres of upland towards Pentucett bounds with meadow to be laid out," £10; and the "eighth part of the old saw mill," £30. Among the interesting items inventoried were numerous sawmill blades and accoutrements, and "old swords and two old muskets, £1" [ EPR 1:407-10].
Near the end of her life, Susannah Whittredge was described by the selectmen of Amesbury as an ancient and helpless widow belonging to the town of Amesbury ... notwithstanding a comfortable and competent maintenance being allowed unto her out of the estate of her former deceased husband Anthony Coleby ... yet she being a woman attended with many infirmities both of body and mind, is utterly incapable of doing anything that may contribute to her livelihood or comfortable subsistence ... she living alone, wanting such help and attendance as may be convenient, continually laboring under such infirmities of body as usually attend old age often times sick and many times destitute of divers necessaries and always of the conveniences of life, any otherwise than she is supplied by one or two of her children, whose families in the meantime want the same at home, and very much defective and decayed in her understanding ..., September Term 1682 [ EQC 8:388].
The court ordered that her sons, Samuel, Isaac and Thomas Colby, provide for her and sell what land was necessary to maintain her from the Colby estate [ EQC 8:388].
The inventory of the estate of "the widow Susannah Whitridge who deceased July the 8th or thereabouts in the year of Grace 1689" was taken 9 September 1691 and totalled £151 15s. including real estate valued at £143: "5 acres of tillage"; "half the ferry meadow"; "a lot in the division called the great farms"; "a lot of upland in a division called [illegible]"; "a lot in the ox pasture division"; "a lot near the north meadow"; "a lot in Bugsmore division"; and "a lot in the great swamp" [ EPR 304:400].
The final division of the estate of Susannah Whitridge on 5 August 1700 allowed a double portion to "Samll Coleby Eldest [surviving] Son" £1. 12s. 6d., and equal shares of 16s. 3d. to: "the children of John Colby..."; "the children of Isaac Colby..."; "the children of Thomas Colby..."; "the children of Sarah Colby..."; "the children of Rebeckah Colby..."; and "the children of Mary Colby..." [ EPR 307:176-77].
BIRTH: Baptized Horbling, Lincolnshire, 8 September 1605 [John Brooks Threlfall, Fifty Great Migration Colonists To New England - GMC50 - p. 123].
DEATH: Salisbury 11 February 1660[/1].
MARRIAGE: By 1633 Susanna (_____) Waterman, widow of _____ WATERMAN of Boston (land "at first was granted to [blank] Waterman who deceased. Anthony Colbye married his widow & they two sold the said land unto James Pennyman..." [ SLR 11:176-77]); she married (3) by 1663 William Whitridge (petitions as Susanna "Whittredge formerly Colbie" to sell real estate 28 March 1682 [ EPR 1:409]); she died 8 July 1689.
CHILDREN:
i JOHN, bp. Boston 8 September 1633 [ BChR 278]; m. Salisbury 14 January 1655 Frances Hoyt.
ii SARAH, b. say 1635; m. Salisbury 6 March 1653 Orlando Bagley.
iii SAMUEL, b. say 1639; m. by about 1668 Elizabeth Sargent (first recorded child b. Haverhill 1 June 1670), daughter of WILLIAM SARGENT . (William Sargent names "my daughter Elizabeth the wife of Samuel Colby" and two of her Colby children in his will written 24 March 1670/1 [ EPR 2:438-39].)
iv ISAAC, b. Salisbury 6 July 1640; m. by 1669 Martha Parratt (eldest child b. Haverhill 24 January 1669/70) [ Rowley Fam 266].
v REBECCA, b. Salisbury 11 March 1643; m. Haverhill 9 September 1661 John William Jr.
vi MARY, b. Salisbury 19 September 1647; m. Amesbury 23 September 1668 William Sargent, son of WILLIAM SARGENT. (Ordered to be whipped or pay a fine for fornication, 12 April 1670 [ EQC 4:237].)
vii THOMAS, b. Salisbury 8 March 1650; m. Amesbury 16 September 1674 Hannah Rowell.
ASSOCIATIONS: His association with JOHN BOSWORTH , GARRETT HADDON and JOSEPH REDDING implies that he may have been a servant of SIMON BRADSTREET . This strongly supports the suggestion of John B. Threlfall that the Anthony Colby baptized at Horbling, Lincolnshire, was the immigrant [ GMC50 123].
COMMENTS: Earlier writers erroneously placed Anthony Colby's origin in Beccles, Suffolkshire, but in 1975 Glade Ian Nelson showed that the Beccles Anthony was still in England long after the immigrant was settled in the Massachusetts Bay [ TAG 51:65-71]. More recently John B. Threlfall made what appears to be the correct identification in Horbling, Lincolnshire [ GMC50 123]. Anthony Colby was not at that time and in that area as rare a name as one might think, so the simple appearance of a baptism at about the right time is in itself not sufficient evidence. But the occurrence of a baptism in Horbling, the home of Simon Bradstreet, who seems to be indirectly connected with Colby, makes this very likely the correct solution to the problem.
The identity of Susannah _____ is one of the perennial mysteries of the period. Several authors have suggested that Susannah's maiden name was Haddon, given that Colby and Garrett Haddon were neighbors and associates. Others have suggested that she was the daughter of William Sargent, and others that she was a Nutting, all without support. Her identity is currently unknown. Among other defects to be found in the literature regarding Colby and his family, there is no obvious reason why Savage said there were four children earlier than Isaac and no support has been found for Sarah's birthdate given by Waterman.
Anthony Colby was ordered to build four rods of fence around the common lands in Cambridge in a list dated 2 January 1632/3 (but probably from a year or two later) [ CaTR 5].
At Salem Court on 3 October 1637 "Anthony Colebie" of Ipswich sued John Hall of Saugus [ EQC 1:6].
William Osgood and the other part-owners of the old mill at Salisbury were brought to task for failing to pay the town its share of lumber agreed upon in return for allowing the mill to be built on Salisbury land. Osgood had to sue the heirs of the other owners, including "Susan Whitrige, administratrix of Anthony Colbye," to recover boards for Salisbury, which he did at court September Term, 1682. Among the depositions establishing the number of boards due were several describing immigration into Essex County, such as that of John Pressy "aged about forty-four years, testified that the first summer he came into this country, in 1651 . . . I do well remember that the saw mill at Salisbury was one thing that was accounted a rare thing and I did go to see it and I did see it going and sawing boards that very summer" [ EQC 8:250, 373-75].
1 About Anthony Colby
Anthony had come with John Winthrop's fleet, on the ship
Confidence. His first home was in the disputed territory between Cambridge and Watertown which was given to Cambridge in 1632, and was on the road to Mount Auburn close by the river. His close friend was Jared Haddon. Anthony's wife, Susannah, was probably Jared's sister. Anthony built a second house near the Washington Elm and a third one near the Fresh Pond. He was admitted freeman in Cambridge on 14 May 1634. Three years later, he appeared in Ipswich, and three years after that in Salisbury. He was among the first settlers of the latter town. When Jared sold his homestead in 1644 and built in what is now Amesbury, Anthony bought the lot adjoining and came with his family. On this land he at last settled down to make a permanent home. He received additional lots of land from the divisions in 1643, 1654, and 1658. He was an industrious man, and in spite of moving every few years and in spite of many children, he became one of the largest property holders in Amesbury. His lots included: Back River, Fox Island, Lion's Mouth, Great Swamp, Hampton, River, Whiskers Hill, and lots from the third and fourth divisions. In 1654, Anthony purchased a house and property from John Macy. That house remains.
37 WikiTree.comAnthony Colby (bef. 1605 - 1661)
Born before 8 Sep 1605 in Horbling, Lincolnshire, England
ANCESTORS
Son of Thomas Colby and Anne (Jackson) Colby
Brother of Abraham Colby, Mathew Colby, Richard Colby, William Colby, Margaret Colby and Robert Colby
husband of Susanna (UNKNOWN) Whitredge — married about 1633 [location unknown]
DESCENDANTS
Father of John Colby, Sarah (Colby) Bagley, Unknown Colby, Samuel Colby, Isaac Colby, Rebecka (Colby) Williams, Sussanah Colby, Mary (Colby) Sargent, Thomas Colby, Amos Colby, Anthony Colby and Susanna Colby
Died 11 Feb 1661 in Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony
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The Puritan Great Migration.
Anthony Colby migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1620-1640)
Disambiguation
Not to be confused with Anthony son of Thomas of Beccles.[1]
Biography
Anthony Colby (1605 – 1661) was born in Horbling, Lincolnshire, England and came to America in 1630 on the Winthrop Fleet.[2] Anthony Colby was one of the first settlers of Salisbury, MA and the new town of Amesbury. He purchased the house and property from Thomas Macy in the year 1654. Nine generations of Colbys lived in this home.
Susanna Colby Whitridge (1610 – 1689) was the widow of Anthony Colby. After Anthony’s death, she married William Whitridge. He died in 1668. Susanna lived in the Macy-Colby house during the term of her widowhood.
Records indicate that Anthony came to America with Governor John Winthrop
He was a founder of Amesbury, MA
Born in his Mother's parents' house in Horbling. Baptised on 9/8/1605 in St. Andrews Church in Horbling by Rev. Symon Bradstreete. The church & same Baptismal font are still there.
Anthony arrived in Boston in 1630 with Gov. John Winthrop on the "Arabella" and lived on shipboard for four months before housing could be built. He lived in Boston where he was member No. 93 of the church.[3] He went with Saltonstall's company to Watertown in the fall of 1630, however, during the winter the company's assistants selected Cambridge as the best place to fortify. The earliest records found for Anthony in Newtown, later called Cambridge, MA, is the same year the town records begin, 1632, when he is alloted a division of the "Common Pales", 4 rods. It was established at the first town meeting that the "impaled ground shall be divided according to every man's proportion in the said pales." If they wanted to sell their portion it was first to be sold to the town for what they paid or they would give permission to sell to whom they choose. The date was broken off but it was between 7 Jan 1632 and 5 Aug 1633.[4]
In the fall of 1631 three families from Boston had settled there, the Colbys, Jarred Haddon and Joseph Redding. By 1 Jan. 1632 the construction of houses outside the village was prohibited, however, since Anthony's home was up the Watertown Rd. he must have built his house before the ban. Soon more people moved to Cambridge and he then built a second house up near Observation Hill by 1635. He had been granted 3 acres behind Pine Swamp in Cambridge on 5 Jan. 1634/5 and received his share of undivided meadow ground on 20 Aug. 1635. He is on the list of people with a house in the West End of Cambridge on 8 Feb. 1635/6.[5] The land inventory for Cambridge taken on 10 Oct. 1635 showed that he had five pieces of property, a house with backside with about 3 acres in the West End, a house with planting ground also with 3 acres of land in the West End Field, 3 acres by the Pine Swamp, 4 acres in the Neck of Land, and 4 acres in the Great Marsh. After he moved, he sold some of the property to Simon Crosby in 1639.[6] He also owned land “at first was granted to Waterman who deceased. Anthony Colbye married his widow & they two sold the said land unto James Pennyman.”[7] He took the freeman's oath in Cambridge 14 May 1634.[8] On 2 Jan. 1632/3 he was ordered to build four rods of fence around the town commons in Cambridge.[9] He is listed in the account records for William Pynchon, the colony treasurer for 1632-4: "paid Anthony Colby for 2 days attendance at court to witness against William Coling and 3 others for drunkeness." He then lived in Ipswich where he signed a petition on 21 June 1637 and on 3 Oct. 1637 "Anthony Colebie" of Ipswich sued John Hall of Saugus.[10] The family then moved to Salisbury where he received land in the first division of 1639 and had additional grants in 1640 and 1643. He became one of the large land owners in Salisbury and became known as a “planter” as well as being a sawmill owner. Anthony was appointed “appraiser” for the local government in 1640, a member of the trail jury in 1648, 1653, and in 1656 and was on the grand jury in 1650.[11] During this time Anthony was officially a member of the First Church of Boston but on 2 August 1646 he was discharged by the Boston First Church to the First Church of Salisbury “Anthony Colby according to his desire had letters of dismission unto the Church at Salsbury”.[12]
He was one of the first commoners on 19 Mar. 1654 of "Newtown" or Amesbury where he received land in 1654 and in 1658.[13] In 1654 Thomas Macy sold the house west of the Powow River to Anthony where Susanna was living in 1664. The price of the house was written as: "38 pounds, to be paid as follows: by a mare fole at ten pounds, three pounds in boards and in course, twelve or fourteen pounds in money, rest in pipe-staves or hogshead staves, cattle all at prices current; Indian corne at three s., wheat & Barley five s." The bill of sale was dated 23d, 2d mo, 1654. Susanna received grants from the town in 1662 and in 1664. Their lots included Back River, Fox Island, Lion's Mouth, Great Swamp, Hampton, River, Whiskers Hill, and lots from the third and fourth divisions.
Anthony Colby seems to have been always at odds with the leaders in town affairs and was often in controversy, legal or personal, with the authorities. Once he was fined for making a speech in town meeting on the grounds that he had created a disturbance. He worked incessantly to have the new settlement at Amesbury set off from Salisbury as a town. The fight was carried on after his death by his sons, and the separation was finally accomplished in 1666.
Anthony died intestate in 1661 and the inventory of his estate amounted to £349. The division of his estate was made on 9 Apr. 1661. By a deed dated 24 Dec. 1662 Susanna sold three acres of boggy meadow in Salisbury to her son Samuel for a young mare. Susanna acknowledged this in court on 12 Apr. 1664.[14] "Upon petition of Susannah Whitridge, formerly Colbie, the Ipswich Court, on 28 March 1682 gave her power to sell enough for support in her old age."
Susannah died in 1689 and her son Samuel was her administrator, the inventory of her estate amounted to £151.[15]
"Inventory of the estate of Anthony Collby, late of Salisbury, deceased, taken Mar. 9 1660, by Sam. Hall, Tho. Bradbury and Tho. Barnett:
His waring Apparrell.................................... £2. 10s
1 feather bed & bolster & old Cotten Rugg, a payer
of course sheets & a course bed case….... £4. 15s
one old warming pan.......................................... 3s. 4d
an other feather bed, feather pillow, feather bolster
& a payer of sheets & Cotten Rugg............ £4. 10s
about £8. of sheeps wooll................................. 10s 8d
five pound of cotton wooll.................................. 5s
£10. of Hopps....................................................... 6s. 8d
a copp. kettle & a payer of tramells.............. £1
a little old brass skillett & old morter & pestle. 3s 4d
trayes & other dary ware.................................. 15s
a landiron, gridiron, frying pan, old cob iron....5s
in old peuter......................................................... 3s 4d
4 scythes............................................................... 8s
2 pillow beers….................................................... 3s
table, two joynstooles, 2 chayres................. £1
old swords & 2 old muskets.......................... £1
one chest & one box........................................... 10s
an old saddle & a pillion..................................... 10s
old lumber............................................................ 10s
a grindle stone with an Iron handle...................3s. 4d
a new millsaw & 1-2 an old one..................... £1
a croscutt saw & half a one............................ £1
a broad bow, 3 forkes, a rake, 2 axes & an Iron
Spade...................................................................... 12s
5 yoakes................................................................... 10s
2 Iron cheynes......................................................... 10s
halfe a tymber cheine & a new draft cheyne. £1. 15s
an old tumbrill with an old payer of wheeles.£1
2 sleades........................................................... £1
a long cart & wheels & Spanshakle & pin 4th pt. of
and other cart.................................................. £2
a plough & plough Irons....................................... 10s
2 Canoas & 1-2 a canoa.................................. £3. 15s
6 oxen............................................................. £42
6 Cowes.......................................................... £27
2 3 yeare old steers........................................ £7
2 Yearlins......................................................... £3
2 calves............................................................ £1
7 swine............................................................. £5. 5s
8 sheep............................................................. £4
1 mare & colt.................................................. £20
1 horse................................................................... 10s
a dwelling house & barne & 14 acres of upland in
tillage............................................................... £70
a pasture of about 30 acres.......................... £20
2 lotts att yt wch is cald Mr. Hall's Farme...... £5. 10s
about eighteen acres of fresh meadow.......£40
ye accoodacon bought of Mr. Groome......... £6
60 acres of upland towards pentuctt bounds with
meadow to be laid out.................................. £10
ye 8th pt. of ye old saw mill.......................... £30
40 bushells of wheat....................................... £9
10 bushels of barley & 6 of rice......................£3. 4s
about 60 bushels of Indian corne................. £9
total............................................................... £359. 19s. 4d
Copied from the files of the Norfolk county court records, and sworn to by the widow Colby, Tho. Bradbury, rec.
Anthony Colby, debtor:
To Sam. Worcester........................................ £1. 7s
Willi Osgood.................................................. £2. 9d
Goodman Tappin..................................... £1. 2s. 6d
Abram Morrill............................................. £2. 10s. 10d
John Tod............................................................ 10s
Tho. Clarke......................................................... 9s
Mr. Russell of Charlstown........................ £10
Mr. Gerish.................................................... £5. 8s. 6d
Mr. Woodman............................................. £2. 14s
Jno. Bartlett.................................................. £2. 2s. 1d
Steven Sweat............................................... £2. 5s. 5d
John Webster..................................................... 13s
Steven Greenleif................................................ 13s
Goodman Peirce................................................ 10s
Goodman Cillick........................................... £3
Jno. Lewis...................................................... £1. 10s
Orland Bagly................................................ £5. 19s
Jno. Blower.......................................................... 6s
Mr. Worcester.............................................. £1. 13s. 6d
Mr. Bradbury...................................................... 16s. 9d
to the widow Colby................................... £10
Henry Jaques............................................... £2. 10s
Willi. Huntington............................................... 11s
John Severans............................................. £1. 13s. 8d
Jno. Clough for grass.......................................... 6s
for 9 weeks worke...................................... £8. 2s
total............................................................ £68. 14s. 7d
Debtor p Contra:
Rodger Eastman.............................................. 10s
Robert Clements......................................... £1. 5s
from ye town...................................................... 9s
Jno. Maxfield............................................... £2
Leonard Hatherlee..................................... £1
Sam. Worcester................................................. 14s. 6d
Goodman Morrill........................................ £1. 10s
Steven Flanders................................................. 6s
Goodman Randall.............................................. 6s
boards at ye saw mill................................... £3. 7s. 6d
loggs to make 2000 of bord........................ £2. 5s
for work done to ye estate.......................... £1. 2s. 6d
total............................................................. £14. 15s. 6d” [16]
“Att ye Court held at Salisbury the 9th of Aprill 1661
Whereas Anthoney Collby late of ye town of Salisbury died intestate And Susannah widow of ye sd Collby desiring & having letters of administration granted unto her by this Court…
This Court doth order that the whole estate shalbee divided into twelve parts fower wherof shall bee for ye widdowes part…
[water damage] portion (provided that what any of them have had already given unto them by their father as part of their portions be accompted as part of what they are now to have, according to ye value when given unto them: Also it is ordered yt the widow shall give in securitie for ye portions left in her hands: for the use wherof she is to bee att ye charge of their education: The portions are to bee given unto ye sones at ye age of one & twenty yeares & to ye daughters at ye age of eighteen yeares, or their day of marriage wth there mothers consent wch shall first happen: Also it is ordered that [ ] Robert Pike & mr Tho: Bradbury shall bee overseers, for ye division of ye estate according to this order & to alott to every one that [ ] of ye estate for their portions wch they in their best judmts shall think most meet & equall: And if any of ye children decease before there portions bee due: the said portions shalbee & portionalbly divided to those yt do survive: after ye proportion of this division.
This is a true copie as attests
Tho Bradbury rec
At ye county court held at Salisbury ye 14 3 mo: 1663
In ye division of Anthony Colbyes estate: yt wc was allowed to ye widow for her part & ye two youngest children as was as followeth:
Imp: the dwelling house & barne & 14 acres of upland
in tillage............................................................ 70-00-00
It: ye ferry meadow..........................................30-00-00
It: ye household goods....................................19-19-04
It: one yoke of oxen.........................................14-00-00
It: 3 cowes.........................................................13-10-00
It: 7 swine..........................................................05-05-00
It: in sheep........................................................02-10-00
It: in corn...........................................................21-04-00
It: the boggi meadow......................................10-00-00”[17]
“To ye widdow for hir part & the two youngest children:
ye dwelling house, barne and 14 acres of upland in
tillage........................................................... £70
ye ferric meadow....................................... £30
ye household goods.................................. £19. 19s. 4d
a yoake of Oxen......................................... £14
3 Cowes....................................................... £13. 10s
7 Swine.......................................................... £5. 5s
in sheep......................................................... £2. 10s
in Corne....................................................... £21. 4s
the boggie meadow................................... £10
To John Colby:
an acre of land aded to his halfe acre at his
house.............................................................. £2. 16s
two cheyns........................................................... 10s
a yoake of oxen........................................... £15. 10s
Mr. Groom's accomodacons....................... £6
in sheep.......................................................... £1. 10s
a cart & wheels, span, shackle & pin & ye 4th pt. of
another cart…................................................ £2
To Sarah, ye wife of Orlando Bagly:
one Cowe & one 3 yeere old steere............ £8
a young horse.............................................. £10
another Cowe................................................ £4. 10s
p. Isaac Colby................................................. £5. 16s
More payd by Isaac Colby to Orlando Bagly for ye
which the estate was debtor.........................£5. 19s. 8d
To Samuell Colby:
one yoade of oxen....................................... £13
the pasture................................................... £20
To Isaac Colby:
the eleven lotts of marshe at Mr. Hal's farme, 2 lotts
of sweepage & one higledee pigeledee lot. £9. 10s
2 yearlins......................................................... £3
ye part of ye saw mill................................... £30
To Rebecka Colby:
a Cowe, one 3 year old steere & ye mare colt. £14
two Calves........................................................ £1
a bed & bolster................................................ £4. 10s
p. Isaac Colby................................................... £2. 11s
p. Sam. Colby.................................................... £5. 4s
in corne.................................................................. 11s
This division was consented to by the widow Colby and all the children who were of capacity. Confirmed by the Norfolk county court at Salisbury, 14:2:1663, and recorded by Tho. Bradbury, rec." [18]
The year after Anthony's death, the widow sold to her son Isaac, sixty acres near Haverhill to pay for her board. She also had to defend her homestead against the claim of Thomas Macy from whom it had been purchased. At about the time of the sale, Macy had fled to Nantucket to escape the penalty of sheltering two Quakers during a thunderstorm, but later he denied the sale and tried to expel the widow and her family by legal process. He was unsuccessful and the premises were in the possession of her descendants as late as 1895. In 1678, the son Thomas was deeded half of all the lands remaining in consideration of services rendered the widow.
As noted above, upon the petition of Susanna Whittredge, formerly Colbie, the Ipswich court Mar. 28, 1682 granted her power, with the advice of Samuell Colbie and Thomas Colbie, to sell enough of the estate left in her hands by her former husband for her necessary support in her old age, not exceeding the value of two of the parts or shares which the court on Apr. 9, 1661 allotted to her for her part of the estate:
“Susanna Whitredg formerly wife of Anthony Colbie was granted by [ ? ] to sell ½ her part of land left her by her husband Colbie
Ipswich March [ ? ]
This Court upon ye motion of Susanna Whittredge formerly Colbie that power may be granted for ye sale of some of [ ? ] estate left in her hand by her husband Colbie for her necessary support in her old age I doe hereby grant ye motion that shes sekeing [ ? ] of Samll Colbie & Thomas Colbie shall have libertie to sell so much of ye estate in land left by her husband Colbie for sd end not exceeding ye value of two of the parts of shares wc: by the County Court at Salisbury held Aprill ye 9th 1661 were allotted to her for her part of that estate. Attest Robert Lord clerk”
William Osgood and the other part owners of the old mill at Salisbury were brought to account for failing to pay the town its share of lumber agreed upon in return for allowing the mill to be built in Salisbury. Osgood had to sue the heirs of the other owners, including "Susan Whitrige, administratrix of Anthony Colbye," to recover boards for Salisbury, which he did at court at the September Term in 1682. Among the depositions establishing the number of boards due were several describing immigration to Massachusetts, including that of John Pressy "aged about fourty-four years, testified that the first summer he came into this country, in 1651...I do well remember the saw mill at Salisbury was one thing that was accounted a rare thing and I did go see it and I did see it going and sawing boards that very summer"[19]
At that September Term, 1682 the selectmen of Amesbury described Susannah as: “an ancient and helpless widow belonging to the town of Amesbury… notwithstanding a comfortable and competent maintenance being allowed unto her out of the estate of her former deceased husband Anthony Coleby… yet she being a woman attended with many infirmities both of body and mind, is utterly incapable of doing anything that may contribute to her livelihood or comfortable subsistence… she living alone, wanting such help and attendance as may be convenient, continually laboring under such infirmities of bodyas usualy attend old age often times sick and many times destitute of divers necessaries and always of the conveniences of life, any otherwise than she is supplied by one or two of her children, whose families in the meantime want the same at home, and very much defective and decayed in her understanding.”[20]
Children
• I. John- bpt. 8 Sept. 1633 Boston by Rev. Cotton Mather, m. 14 Jan. 1655/6 Salisbury, Frances Hoyt (m.2. 27 Dec. 1676 Amesbury, Capt. John Barnard (b. 12 Jan. 1654/5 Salisbury, d. 15 July 1718 Amesbury), d. 2 Jan. 1720/1 Amesbury), d. 11 Feb. 1673/4 Amesbury
• II. Sarah- b. ?6 Mar. 1634/5 Cambridge, m. 6 Mar. 1653/4 Salisbury, Orlando Bagley (d. after 1662), d. after 1662. Sarah’s birthdate as given by Savage cannot be documented at this point.
• III. Samuel- b.c.1638, m.c.1668 Elizabeth Sargent (d. 5 Feb. 1736/7 Amesbury), will 6 Mar.-2 July 1716
• IV. Isaac- b. 6 July 1640 Salisbury, m.c.1669 Martha Parrat (b. 9 Oct. 1649 Rowley, MA, d. 13 July 1730 Amesbury), will 29 Mar.- 15 Apr. 1684
• V. Rebecca- b. 11 Mar. 1643 Salisbury, m. 9 Sept. 1661 Haverhill, John Williams Jr. (b. 25 Oct. 1636 Salisbury, m.2. 5 May 1675 Haverhill, Esther Blakely (m.1. 15 Aug. 1649 Newbury, John Bond (d. 3 Dec. 1674 Haverhill), living in 1698), d. 30 Apr. 1698 Haverhill), d. 10 June 1672 Haverhill
• VI. Mary- b. 19 Sept. 1647 Salisbury, m. 23 Sept. 1668 Amesbury, William Sargent Jr. (b. 2 Jan. 1645/6 Salisbury, d.c.1700)
• VII. Thomas- b. 8 Mar. 1650/1 Salisbury, m. 16 Sept. 1674 Hannah Rowell (b. Jan. 1653 Salisbury, m.2. c.1691 Henry Blaisdell (b. 28 May 1663 Salisbury, m.1. Mary ______, 3. 27 Oct. 1707 Amesbury, Dorothy Martin (m.2. 7 Mar. 1709/10 Haverhill, Thomas Ayers (b. 9 June 1666 Haverhill, m.1. Ruth Wilford (killed by Indians)), inv. 11 Mar. 1707/8), d. 9 Aug. 1707 Amesbury), inv. 31 Mar. 1691
Sources
1. Glade Nelson, Anthony Colby’s Purported Ancestry, TAG- Vol. 51(1975), No. 2, pp. 65-70
2. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins, Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols., 1995), p. 413ff. americanancestors
3. The Records of the First Church in Boston: 1630-1868- Richard D. Pierce, Ed. , Pub. of the Colonial Soc. of Mass., Volumes 39, 40 and 41, Boston 1961- p. 14
4. "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (20 May 2014), Middlesex > Cambridge > Births, marriages, deaths, town records 1632-1703 vol 1 > image 3 of 287; citing Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston.
5. Cambridge Town Records- pp. 11, 13, 19
6. The Register Book of the Lands and Houses in the "New Towne" and the Town of Cambridge- Cambridge, 1896- pp. 32, 67
7. Suffolk County Registry of Deeds- Vol. 11, pp. 176-7
8. Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay: 1628–1686- Nathaniel Shurtleff, Ed., Boston, 1853- Vol. I, p. 369
9. The Records of the Town of Cambridge (Formerly Newtowne): 1630-1703- Cambridge, 1901- p. 5
10. Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County: 1636-1686- Salem, 1911- Vol. I, p. 6
11. Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County: 1636-1686- Salem, 1911- Vol. I, pp. 149, 189, 279, 369
12. The Records of the First Church in Boston: 1630-1868- Richard D. Pierce, Ed. , Pub. of the Colonial Soc. of Mass., Volumes 39, 40 and 41, Boston 1961- p. 47
13. Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury and John Sargent Pillsbury- Mary Lovering Holman, Concord, NH, 1938- pp.137ff
14. Old Norfolk County Records- Vol. V, p. 135
15. Essex County Probate- Vol. I, p. 407
16. Norfolk County Quarterly Court Files- Vol. I, folios 33 & 34
17. Essex County Probate Files- Docket No. 5896
18. Norfolk County Quarterly Court Files- Vol. I, folios 33 & 34
19. Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County: 1636-1686- Salem, 1911- Vol. VIII, pp. 250, 373-5
20. Essex Quarterly Courts- Vol. VIII, p. 388
See also:
Anthony Colby’s Purported Ancestry- Glade Nelson, TAG- Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 65-71 (Apr. 1975)
The Old Families of Salisbury & Amesbury, Mass.- David Hoyt, Snow & Farnham, Providence, 1900- Vol. I, pp. 103-6
Pedigrees of Some of the Emperor Charlemagne's Descendants- Aileen Lewers Langston, Order of the Crown of Charlemagne, Genealogical Pub. Co., Baltimore 1986, Vol. II, p.96
Fifty Great Migration Colonists & Their Origins- John B. Threlfall, Madison, WI, 1990
The Great Migration Begins- Immigrants to New England: 1620-1633- article on Anthony Colby- Vol. I-III, pp. 413-6, database at NEHGS
Massachusetts Applications of Freemen, 1630-91 Original data - Paige, Lucius R.. List of Freemen of Massachusetts. Boston, MA, USA: New England Historical and Genealogical Society, 1849.
Essex Probate Docket # 5896
The Colby Family in America, by Frederick Lewis Weis, The Colonial Press, Concord, Mass, 1970, Pages 3 and 4
Massachusetts Census, 1790-1890 Author: Jackson, Ron V., Accelerated Indexing Systems, comp. Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999. Original data - Compiled and digitized by Mr. Jackson and AIS from microfilmed schedules of the U.S. Federal Decennial Census, territorial/state censuses, and/or census substitutes.