Ancestors of Hannah COLBY - 12 OCT 2002
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FIRST GENERATION

1. Hannah COLBY was born on 16 OCT 1758 in Newton, Rockingham County, New Hampshire. SOURCE: Index to births, early to 1900 New Hampshire. Registrar of Vital Statistics. She was baptized on 10 DEC 1758 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. She died in SEP 1831 in Dunbarton, Merrimack County, New Hampshire. SOURCES: (1). "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts" by David W. Hoyt; (2). "The Colby Family in Early America" by Frederick Lewis Weis, Caledonia, The Colonial Press, pub 1970.



SECOND GENERATION

2. Moses COLBY was born on 26 JUN 1723 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He was baptized on 18 MAR 1743/44 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He was living in 1761 in Newton, Rockingham County, New Hampshire. He died in 1797. Renewed covenant of the Second Church in Amesbury, 1744.
SOURCES: (1) "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts" by David W. Hoyt; (2) Early Vital Records of Essex County, Massachusetts to 1850 for Amesbury. Birth, marriage (listed as Collby); (3) "The Colby Family in Early America" by Frederick Lewis Weis, Caledonia, The Colonial Press, pub 1970. He was married to Mary SARGENT on 24 FEB 1742/43 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts.

3. Mary SARGENT was born on 14 MAR 1726 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. Moses COLBY and Mary SARGENT had the following children:

i. Sargent COLBY was born on 10 AUG 1743 in Newton, Rockingham County, New Hampshire. SOURCE: Index to births, early to 1900 New Hampshire. Registrar of Vital Statistics. He was baptized on 18 MAR 1744 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He died after 1790 in Dunbarton, Merrimack County, New Hampshire. Sargent signed the Association Test at Dunbarton, 1776.
SOURCES: (1) "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts" by David W. Hoyt; (2) Early Vital Records of Essex County, Massachusetts to 1850. Amesbury; (3) "The Colby Family in Early America" by Frederick Lewis Weis, Caledonia, The Colonial Press, pub 1970.
ii. Barzillai COLBY was born on 1 MAR 1746 in Newton, Rockingham County, New Hampshire. SOURCE: Index to births, early to 1900 New Hampshire. Registrar of Vital Statistics. He was baptized on 20 APR 1746 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. SOURCES: (1) "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts" by David W. Hoyt; (2). Early Vital Records of Essex County, Massachusetts to 1850. Amesbury; (3) "The Colby Family in Early America" by Frederick Lewis Weis, Caledonia, The Colonial Press, pub 1970.
iii. Susannah COLBY was born on 4 JUN 1748 in Newton, Rockingham County, New Hampshire. SOURCE: Index to births, early to 1900 New Hampshire. Registrar of Vital Statistics. She was baptized on 31 JUL 1748 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. She died on 14 DEC 1832 in Bow, Merrimack County, New Hampshire. SOURCES: (1) "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts" by David W. Hoyt; (2) "The Colby Family in Early America" by Frederick Lewis Weis, Caledonia, The Colonial Press, pub 1970; (3) "A Genealogy of the Descendants of Abraham Colby and Elizabeth Blaisdell, his wife Who settled in Bow in 1768" By one of them, Concord, NH Printed by the Republican Press Association 1895.
iv. Sgt. Moses COLBY was born on 7 JUN 1751 in Newton, Rockingham County, New Hampshire. SOURCE: Index to births, early to 1900 New Hampshire. Registrar of Vital Statistics. He was baptized on 21 JUL 1751 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He died on 25 SEP 1832 in Warner, Merrimack County, New Hampshire. "Sergeant Moses Colby, b. 4 June 1748, bapt. Amesbury, 21 July 1751; signed the Association Test, Dunbarton, 1776. On 25 September 1832, Moses Colby of Warner, New Hampshire, aged 81 years (thus born in 1751), deposed: That he enlisted at South Hampton, New Hampshire, the last of November 1776, as a Sergeant under Captain Ballard, in the New Hampshire Line, to fill up a company; that he was stationed in the college buildings at Cambridge, Massachusetts, for two and a half months; then was discharged. That he enlisted in November 1777, at South Hampton, for four months under Captain Page, and served out his entire term at Winter Hill, Massachusetts, and was discharged at the end of his term. That he enlisted 1 October 1778 at South Hampton under Captain Prescott, marched to Worcester, Massachusetts, thence to Peekskill, New York, and served out the full term of two months, though he never received a written discharge, but served eight and a half months. That he was born in Newtown, New Hampshire, in 1751, lived there until ten years of age, when he moved to Jamaica (Vermont?), 1761-1766, where he lived about five years; then went to South Hampton, 1766, where he lived until after the Revolution, when he moved to Warner, where he now lives. (No mention of wife or children; however a Moses Colby married at Dunbarton, 27 September 1790, Susanna Silver, possibly this man.)"
SOURCES: (1) "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts" by David W. Hoyt; (2) "The Colby Family in Early America" by Frederick Lewis Weis, Caledonia, The Colonial Press, pub 1970.
v. Hezekiah COLBY was born on 11 JUN 1753 in Newton, Rockingham County, New Hampshire. SOURCE: Index to births, early to 1900 New Hampshire. Registrar of Vital Statistics. He was baptized in OCT 1753 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. Signed the Association Test, 1776, Dunbarton.
SOURCES: (1). "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts" by David W. Hoyt; (2). "The Colby Family in Early America" by Frederick Lewis Weis, Caledonia, The Colonial Press, pub 1970.
vi. Sergeant Samuel COLBY was born on 15 OCT 1756 in Newton, Rockingham County, New Hampshire. SOURCE: Index to births, early to 1900 New Hampshire. Registrar of Vital Statistics. He was baptized on 6 MAY 1757 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He died in Weare, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire. A Samuel of Dunbarton was a Rev. War soldier.
SOURCES: (1) "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts" by David W. Hoyt; (2) "The Colby Family in Early America" by Frederick Lewis Weis, Caledonia, The Colonial Press, pub 1970; (3) "History of Weare, New Hampshire 1735-1888" by William Little, pub. 1888.
1 vii. Hannah COLBY.
viii. Archelaus COLBY was born on 24 MAR 1762 in Newton, Rockingham County, New Hampshire. SOURCE: Index to births, early to 1900 New Hampshire. Registrar of Vital Statistics. He died about 1826 in New Hampshire. SOURCES: (1) "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts" by David W. Hoyt; (2) "The Colby Family in Early America" by Frederick Lewis Weis, Caledonia, The Colonial Press, pub 1970.



THIRD GENERATION

4. Samuel COLBY was born on 19 APR 1698 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. (SOURCE: Early Vital Records of Essex County, Massachusetts to 1850. Amesbury, listed as Colbey.) He was living in 1768 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. SOURCES: (1) "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts" by David W. Hoyt; (2) "The Colby Family in Early America" by Frederick Lewis Weis, Caledonia, The Colonial Press, pub 1970. He was married to Anna NICHOLS on 23 OCT 1718 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts.

5. Anna NICHOLS was born on 1 MAY 1694 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. SOURCE: Early Vital Records of Essex County, Massachusetts to 1850. Amesbury, marriage Samuel COLBY and Anna NICHOLS had the following children:

i. Samuel COLBY was born on 20 DEC 1720 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. SOURCES: (1). "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts" by David W. Hoyt; (2). Early Vital Records of Essex County, Massachusetts to 1850 for Amesbury. Marriage listed as Collby; (3). "The Colby Family in Early America" by Frederick Lewis Weis, Caledonia, The Colonial Press, pub 1970.
2 ii. Moses COLBY.
iii. Aaron COLBY was born on 13 OCT 1726 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. (SOURCE: Early Vital Records of Essex County, Massachusetts to 1850. Amesbury.) He died in 1752 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He had administration granted for estate on 30 MAR 1752 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. SOURCES: (1) "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts" by David W. Hoyt; (2) "The Colby Family in Early America" by Frederick Lewis Weis, Caledonia, The Colonial Press, pub 1970.
iv. Gideon COLBY was born on 13 MAY 1729 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He was a carpenter in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. Gideon served in the French War in 1755 and '58
SOURCES: (1) "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts" by David W. Hoyt; (2) Early Vital Records of Essex County, Massachusetts to 1850 for Amesbury. Listed as Colbey; (3) "The Colby Family in Early America" by Frederick Lewis Weis, Caledonia, The Colonial Press, pub 1970.
v. Barzillai COLBY was born on 22 OCT 1731 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He was baptized on 4 OCT 1761 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He signed a will on 12 MAR 1807 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He died on 21 NOV 1811 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He will was proved on 6 DEC 1811 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. Barzillai fought at Princeton and Trenton in the Revolutionary War.
SOURCES: (1) "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts" by David W. Hoyt; (2) Early Vital Records of Essex County, Massachusetts to 1850 for Amesbury; (3) "The Colby Family in Early America" by Frederick Lewis Weis, Caledonia, The Colonial Press, pub 1970; (4) FHL film 0599730, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, marriage.
vi. Lydia COLBY was born on 26 JUN 1735 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. SOURCES: (1). "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts" by David W. Hoyt; (2). Early Vital Records of Essex County, Massachusetts to 1850 for Amesbury. Birth. Marriage in Amesbury and Haverhill; (3). "The Colby Family in Early America" by Frederick Lewis Weis, Caledonia, The Colonial Press, pub 1970.

6. Timothy SARGENT was born on 11 MAR 1697/98 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He died in 1769 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. SOURCE: "The Colby Family in Early America" by Frederick Lewis Weis, Caledonia, The Colonial Press, pub 1970 He was married to Mary WILLIAMS on 12 NOV 1720 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts.

7. Mary WILLIAMS was born on 2 JUL 1697 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. She was living in 1756 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. Parents: Thomas Williams and Mary Lowell. Timothy SARGENT and Mary WILLIAMS had the following children:

i. Enoch SARGENT was born after 1720.
3 ii. Mary SARGENT.



FOURTH GENERATION

8. Samuel COLBY was born on 9 MAR 1671 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He died in 1746 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He had administration granted for estate on 29 SEP 1746 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. In a letter to the Boston Transcript, a New England Genealogy publication, asks "I have read that three decendants of Anthony of Amesbury - Ruggles, Ambrose and Benjamin went to Wiscasset, Maine." This is true. In 1749, a petition was sent to the governor of Massachusetts (Maine was part of Mass untill 1820) asking that Wiscasset be made an independent town. This petition was signed by Ambrose, Ruggles, (Brothers) and Benj'n Colby. A similar petition was repeated in 1754 signed by Ambrose. The town was incorporated in 1760 as Pownalborough, in honor of Governor Pownall. It later was divided into three towns, Wiscasset, Dresden, and Alna. fron Lineage of Philander M. Colby of Arborville $ Bradshaw, Ne., and Spencer Colby of Hamilton County, Ne. by Claudia K. (Miller) Forster.

Widow Dorothy was appointed administratrix of the estate of Samuel, 29 September 1746, and the estate was divided, 1748/1750. As Samuel Colby of Amesbury, son of Samuel Colby, deceased, he petitioned the General Court of Massachusetts for a grant of land west of the Connecticut River in Massachusetts for the services of his father in King Philip's War: the petition was not granted.

SOURCES: (1) "The Colby Family in Early America" by Frederick Lewis Weis, Caledonia, The Colonial Press, pub 1970; (2) "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts" by David W. Hoyt; (3) Early Vital Records of Essex County, Massachusetts to 1850. Amesbury. He was married to Dorothy AMBROSE in 1693 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts.

9. Dorothy AMBROSE was born on 21 SEP 1673 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. She died after 1759 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. The widow Dorothy was appointed administrator of the estate of Samuel Colby, Jr., 29 September 1746 and the estate was divided 1748/1750. As Samuel Colby of Amesbury, son of Samuel Colby deceased, he petitioned the General Court of Massachusetts for a grant of land west of the Connecticut River in Massachusetts for the services of his father in King Philip's War; the petition was not granted.
SOURCE: "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts" by David W. Hoyt. Samuel COLBY and Dorothy AMBROSE had the following children:

i. Elizabeth COLBY was born on 7 DEC 1694 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. (SOURCE: Early Vital Records of Essex County, Massachusetts to 1850. Amesbury, listed as Colbey.) She was living in 1741 in Chester, Rockingham County, New Hampshire. She died after 1748 in Chester, Rockingham County, New Hampshire. SOURCES: (1). "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts" by David W. Hoyt; (2). "The Colby Family in Early America" by Frederick Lewis Weis, Caledonia, The Colonial Press, pub 1970.
ii. Keziah COLBY was born on 11 MAY 1696 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. (SOURCE: Early Vital Records of Essex County, Massachusetts to 1850. Amesbury, listed as Colbey.) She died on 3 NOV 1754 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. SOURCES: (1). "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts" by David W. Hoyt; (2). "The Colby Family in Early America" by Frederick Lewis Weis, Caledonia, The Colonial Press, pub 1970.
4 iii. Samuel COLBY.
iv. Ambrose COLBY was born on 11 MAY 1700 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. (SOURCE: Early Vital Records of Essex County, Massachusetts to 1850. Amesbury, listed as Colbey.) He was baptized on 21 DEC 1718 in Charlestown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. He was living between 1731 and 1737 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He was living in 1776 in Pownalborough, Lincoln County, Maine. He signed a will on 2 MAR 1778 in Wiscasset, Lincoln County, Maine. He died on 2 MAY 1778 in Wiscasset, Lincoln County, Maine. Comment 1:
Ambrose was executor of the will of his father-in-law, B. Lawrence in 1740. Elizabeth was the daughter of Benjamin Lawrence and Mary Clough, of Charlestown. Mary was the daughter of John Clough, a taylor who became a freeman in Watertown, Mass., 05/18/1642. Ambrose's will, dated 2 March 1778, leaves his great bible to his grandson Ambrose; his looking glass to his 'beloved daughter Annah Hoyt and all other property to his beloved wife Betty. Upon Betty's death, according to Walker in "EMBDEN TOWN of YORE", this property then passed on to thier grandson Benjamin, who by then had moved to Embden, Maine.

Comment 2:
Ambrose Colby, father of Benjamin and son of Samuel, was born in 1700 in Amesbury, Mass. He was baptised and admitted to the church in Newbury on December 21, 1717.

He married December 22, 1720 Elizabeth Lawrence of Charlestown.

They lived in the latter town the greater part of the time until about 1740 when they moved to Pownalborough, now Wiscasset, Maine. In 1740, when he administered the estate of his wife's father, he is mentioned as of Sheepscot. In 1749, he and his brother Ruggles and his son Benjamin signed the petition to the General Court of Mass. asking for the incorporation of the town of Pownalborough. He was a blacksmith by trade.

His will is dated March 2, 1778 and mentions his wife, Elizabeth, his daughter Anna Hoyt, his grandson Ambrose and several children including Benjamin. The latter administered the estate of his brother Ambrose in 1766.

The census of 1790 shows that the widow was still living in Wiscasset, probably with one of her children as there is a male over 16, another under 16, and two females in the family.

SOURCES: (1) "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts" by David W. Hoyt; (2) "The Colby Family in Early America" by Frederick Lewis Weis, Caledonia, The Colonial Press, pub 1970; (3) "History of the Colby Family" by James W. Colby, pub 1895.
v. Ensign Enoch COLBY was born on 7 NOV 1702 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. (SOURCE: Early Vital Records of Essex County, Massachusetts to 1850. Amesbury, listed as Colbey.) He signed a will on 5 JAN 1779 in Chester, Rockingham County, New Hampshire. He died on 17 JUL 1780 in Chester, Rockingham County, New Hampshire. He will was proved on 30 AUG 1780 in Chester, Rockingham County, New Hampshire. Enoch Colby is said to be of Hampton, but his name appears on the Hampton Falls tax-list of 1727; m. Abial, daughter of Benjamin Sanborn, a grantee, who was a son of Lt. John. She was sister of the wife of William Healey, b. July 20, 1700, m. Dec 16, 1725. Jan. 1, 1723 Benjamin Sanborn, of Hampton, in consideration of affection, coveyed to Enoch Colby, also of Hampton, one half of his right in Chester, and the house on said right. The H.L. is No. 115, where he settled, where the Misses Pressey now lives. He probably did not come to Chester till abt 1728; his name first appears on the record as surveyor of highways in 1730.

He was a selectman, 1731, Tythingman, 1734. His wife Abial was admitted to full communion in the Hampton Falls Church, 22 Jul 1727, and was later dismissed to the Church in Chester.
SOURCES: (1) Chase's History of Chester, New Hampshire; (2) "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts" by David W. Hoyt; (3) "The Colby Family in Early America" by Frederick Lewis Weis, Caledonia, The Colonial Press, pub 1970; (4) "History of the Colby Family" by James W. Colby, pub 1895.
vi. Susanna COLBY was born on 15 AUG 1705 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. (SOURCE: Early Vital Records of Essex County, Massachusetts to 1850. Amesbury, listed as Colbey.) She died on 12 SEP 1790 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. SOURCES: (1). "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts" by David W. Hoyt; (2). "The Colby Family in Early America" by Frederick Lewis Weis, Caledonia, The Colonial Press, pub 1970.
vii. Obadiah COLBY was born on 15 JUL 1706 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. (SOURCE: Early Vital Records of Essex County, Massachusetts to 1850. Amesbury, listed as Colbey.) He died in 1749 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He had administration granted for estate on 2 OCT 1749 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He was a blacksmith of Amesbury and Boston.
In 1753, Elizabeth, the widow of Obadiah, deeded the Macy/Colby house to her son Obadiah. It was held by him until his death.
SOURCES: (1) "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts" by David W. Hoyt; (2) "The Colby Family in Early America" by Frederick Lewis Weis, Caledonia, The Colonial Press, pub 1970.
viii. Dorothy COLBY was born on 25 MAY 1708 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. (SOURCE: Early Vital Records of Essex County, Massachusetts to 1850. Amesbury, listed as Colbey.) She was baptized on 1 NOV 1719 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. She filed marriage intentions on 5 NOV 1727 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. She was living in 1748. She died in Chester, Rockingham County, New Hampshire. SOURCES: (1) "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts" by David W. Hoyt; (2) "The Colby Family in Early America" by Frederick Lewis Weis, Caledonia, The Colonial Press, pub 1970.
ix. Hezekiah COLBY was born on 25 MAR 1710 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. (SOURCE: Early Vital Records of Essex County, Massachusetts to 1850. Amesbury, listed as Colbey.) He was baptized on 1 NOV 1719 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He was living on 21 JUL 1770 in Newburyport, Essex County, Massachusetts. He died about 1788 in Deer Isle, Hancock County, Maine. He had administration granted for estate on 17 JUL 1788 in Deer Isle, Hancock County, Maine. He was a Shipwright in Newbury, MA., Newburyport, MA., and as early as 1768, he settled at Deer Island, ME. Samuel Colby of Amesbury, mariner, conveyed to his son Hezekiah Colby of Newbury, shipwright, on 5 November1743, land west of his homestead near Powow River. Hezekiah Colby of Newburyport, MA, shipwright, conveyed land in Amesbury to his brother, Obadiah Colby, of Amesbury, blacksmith, 21 July 1770. On 13 August 1770, Hezekiah Colby appeared at Fort Pownal, in Lincoln County, Maine, and acknowledged this deed. Later, on 15 October 1770, Hezekiah Colby, shipwright, "late an inhabitant of Newburyport, but now dwellin on a place called Deer Island," conveyed to John Greenleaf of Newburyport, a dwelling house and barn with land in Newburyport. This deed was also signed by Sarah Colby, his wife, who relinquished her right of dower, and it was acknowledged at Fort Pownal. His wife and family accompanied him to Deer Island, Maine, where they remained.
SOURCES: (1). Birth: Vital Records of Amesbury, Massachusetts, to 1850. Listed as Colbey; (2). "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts" by David W. Hoyt; (3). "The Colby Family in Early America" by Frederick Lewis Weis, Caledonia, The Colonial Press, pub 1970.
x. Ruggles COLBY was born on 10 JUN 1711 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. (SOURCE: Early Vital Records of Essex County, Massachusetts to 1850. Amesbury, listed as Colbey.) He died before 1790 in Edgecomb, Lincoln County, Maine. He was a Shipwright in Edgecomb, Lincoln County, Maine. They lived in Amesbury, East Parish, South Hampton, New Hampshire and settled in Wiscasset, Maine in 1749. He served in the militia in 1757. The record of baptisim of the First Amesbury Church, gives Mary as the name of marriag, but Hoyt says this is probaly a mistake as Abigail wife of Ruggles' was baptized and owned the covenant and was baptized at the First Church in Amesbury 16 May 1736. He was a shipwright and one of the early settlers on the Sheepscot River, Maine. On 26 January 1774 he signed a petition for the incorporation of a new town called Freetown, later Edgecomb, Maine. He signed a petition as one of the inhabitants of Kennebec River for protection 22 April 1755. Ruggles sold half of 1800 acres to Elijah Packard of Bridgewater, Mass. on 10 October 1765; 102 aacres to Joseph Huff on 22 March 1782 and to Moses Huff 50 acres on 1 October 1789. A number of his grandchildren were living at Wiscassed, Edgecomb, and other nearby places, and we suppose them to be the children of his son Edmund Colby.
SOURCES: (1) "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts" by David W. Hoyt; (2) "The Colby Family in Early America" by Frederick Lewis Weis, Caledonia, The Colonial Press, pub 1970; (3) "History of the Colby Family" by James W. Colby, pub 1895.
xi. Abigail COLBY was born on 29 APR 1713 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. (SOURCE: Early Vital Records of Essex County, Massachusetts to 1850. Amesbury.) SOURCES: (1) "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts" by David W. Hoyt; (2) FHL film 0599730 Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah; (3) "The Colby Family in Early America" by Frederick Lewis Weis, Caledonia, The Colonial Press, pub 1970.

10. Thomas NICHOLS was born on 16 OCT 1670 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He died in NOV 1724 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He was married to Jane JAMESON in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts.

11. Jane JAMESON was born on 23 FEB 1673/74 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. Thomas NICHOLS and Jane JAMESON had the following children:

5 i. Anna NICHOLS.
ii. Esther NICHOLS was born on 11 SEP 1703 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. She was living in 1768 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. Weis notes on page 63: "The widow Esther was admitted to full communion, 1 st Church, Amesbury, 19 March 1748/49."
SOURCE: Early Vital Records of Essex County, Massachusetts to 1850. Amesbury, marriage.

12. Charles SARGENT was christened/baptized on 31 JAN 1674 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He died on 6 AUG 1737 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He had administration granted for estate on 19 SEP 1737 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He has Ancestral File number 8JCW-J0. He was a farmer in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He was a "snow shoe" man, 1708.
SOURCES: (1) Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996, Family History Library, 35 North West Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150; (2) Sargent Records by E. E. Sargent of St. Johnsbury, VT, p 21, par 3; (3) Pillsbury Family by M. L. Holman, First Colby line, Vol 1, p 137-138; (4) "The Colby Family in Early America" by Frederick Lewis Weis, Caledonia, The Colonial Press, pub 1970; (5) "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts" by David W. Hoyt. He was married to Hannah FOOTE on 6 AUG 1695 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts.

13. Hannah FOOTE was born in APR 1675 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. Charles SARGENT and Hannah FOOTE had the following children:

i. Elizabeth SARGENT was born on 26 JUN 1696 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. SOURCE: "The Colby Family in Early America" by Frederick Lewis Weis, Caledonia, The Colonial Press, pub 1970
6 ii. Timothy SARGENT.
iii. Hannah SARGENT was born on 1 MAY 1701 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. SOURCE: "The Colby Family in Early America" by Frederick Lewis Weis, Caledonia, The Colonial Press, pub 1970
iv. Samuel SARGENT was born on 22 SEP 1703 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He died in 1789 in Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts. He was a farmer. SOURCE: "The Colby Family in Early America" by Frederick Lewis Weis, Caledonia, The Colonial Press, pub 1970
v. Elias SARGENT was born on 10 AUG 1707 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. SOURCE: "The Colby Family in Early America" by Frederick Lewis Weis, Caledonia, The Colonial Press, pub 1970
vi. Bethsheba SARGENT was born on 10 OCT 1709 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. SOURCE: "The Colby Family in Early America" by Frederick Lewis Weis, Caledonia, The Colonial Press, pub 1970



FIFTH GENERATION

16. Samuel COLBY was born in 1638/39 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He signed a will on 6 MAR 1715/16 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He died about 1716 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He will was proved on 2 JUL 1716 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. Samuel Colby, father of Samuel and son of Anthony, was born in 1639 in Amesbury. He was made a freeman in 1660. This title gave a man the right to vote in town affairs. It was necessary to own property and be a church member in order to receive it.

In his youth, he was something of a black sheep and in 1665 was convicted of a misdemeanor. In 1676, he was in King Philip's War and helped bury Captain Turner after the Deerfield Massacre. In 1686, he was prosecuted for selling drink without a license, but was acquitted. In 1689, he was a representative to the General Court of Massachusetts and in 1696 was chosen assessor of his native town.

He lived first at Amesbury, but like many others, he took up a lot in the Ox Common at East Haverhill without asking leave. The contest for ownership between the squatters and the legal proprietors continued for forty years. Before it was settled, he returned with his family to Amesbury. In 1678, he opened an inn at Bartlett's Corner near the old homestead and continued as the proprietor until his death in 1715.

About 1666, he married Elizabeth Sargent.

Comment #2

Samuel fought in King Philip's War, in the Falls Fight under Captain Turner. Salisbury town records show that Samuel was fined in 1665 for 'abusing a wench'. Samuel and Elizabeth owned a 'public house' or inn in Amesbury in 1678. In 1686, he was acquitted of a charge of 'selling drink without a license'. Samuel represented Amesbury in general court (Attorney?) in 1689. On July 22, 1692, Samuel signed a petition in favor of Mrs Bradbury who was accused of witchcraft.

Elizabeth was the daughter of William Sargent, a friend of Anthony. William's wife was Elizabeth Perkins. William was born in England in 1602. His Father was Richard Sargent, an officer in the Royal Navy. William also immigrated with Winthrop in 1630. from 'Lineage of Philander M. Colby of Arborville & Bradshaw, Me., and Spencer Colby of Hamilton County, Me. by Claudia K. (Miller) Forster, Seattle, Wa.

Samuel was a planter and innholder at Amesbury and later settled at Haverhill between 1664 and 1667. He received land in Amesbury, 1659 & 1662; townsman of Amesbury in 1660, lived in Haverhill, 1668, 1672 and 1674, but had returned to Amesbury, 1676, where he died. Among the few affidavits that were made to sustain claims for land near Turner's Falls, found in the Massachusetts M. S. Archives, is one from John Chase, in which he states that he and Samuel Colby were in the fight and helped to bury Captain Turner, and in 1689 served as representative from Amesbury.

He made his will 6 March 1715/6, which was proved 2 July 1716.

Comment #3

From the "Essex antiquarian, Old Norfold County Records."

"Planter", and "innholder," He received land in Amesbury in 1659 and '62; townsman of Amesbury in 1660; took oath of allegiance and fidelity in Amesbury, Dec. 1677. He was soldier in King Philip's War; was in the "Falls Fight" under Capt. Turner, March 18, 1676. (From; Old families of Salisbury and Amesbury).

"John Chase, of Newbury, certifies that he was in the expedition with Capt. Turner, and helped to bury him, and that Samuel Coleby, late of Almsbury, deceased, was with him.

A grant was made of a township of land, as near as might be to the scene of the "Falls fight," to all officers and soldiers who were engaged therin."

Two new claimants, Samuel Coleby, eldest son of Samuel Coleby, of Almsbury, and tryall Newbury, of Malden, were admitted to first choice lots on the new tract, by act of the Court august 1, 1741.

From: "Soldiers in King Philip's War" originally published in Boston, 1906.

In 1669 was a representative to the General Court and tything man several years until resigning in 1707. In 1667 her served as Sergeant in King Phillips War at the Falls Fight, under Capt. Turner, and was at the massacre near Deerfield, on the Connecticut River, where the Indians ambushed them, killing Capt. Turner. By order of the General Court, a township of land near the scene of battle was given to each survivor or his heir, yet it was not until 60 years later that Samuel, his son, was admitted to first choice of lots.

"John Ilsley (also, Isly) of Salisbury, barber, conveyed to Richard Goodale, sr., of Salisbury, husbandman, 12-acre planting lot, formerly of Mr. Jn Hodges, in Salisbury, bounded by Richard Singletary, Jn Clifford, ye mill way and boggie meadow, April 14, 1664. Wit: Mary Goodale and Sam: Colby. Ack. in court 12: 2 mo: 1664."

"William Allin (his A mark) of Salisbury releases Samuell Colby, late of Salisbury of a lost bill of twenty pounds, given for land he bought of me, March 16, 1667-8. Wit: Joh Pike and Moses Pike. Ack. March 16, 1667-8, before Robert Pike." Vol VI. Old Norfolk County Records. 1902, pg. 175.

"Samuel Colby of Haverhill, planter for 10 pounds, conveyed to Jn Clough of salisbury, house carpenter, my division of upland, of 108 acres, in Salisbury new town, bounded by Robert Quenby, lot formerly of Mary Peasly, highway and Nathan Gold, April 23, 1668. Wit: Tho: Bradbury and John Bradbury. Ack. april 23, 1668, before Robert Pike, commissioner." Vol. VI. pg. 176.

"George Martyn (his M mark) of Amsbery, blacksmith, conveyed to Samuel Colby of Haverhill, planter, 3 acres of meadow I had of Isaac Colby and which was formerly Mr. Bradburie's; bounded with Fox Island creek, Goodman Stevens, Mr. Winsly, Robert fitts and Richard Goodale, April 4, 1670. Wit: John Colby and tho: Currier. Ack. 12: 2 mo: 1670, in court at Salisbury. Grantor's wife, Susanna Martin released dower April 24, 1682, before Nath Saltonstall, assistant." Vol. VIII. 1904, pg. 40

From Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, pg. 999:

"In Apr., 1665, Nath'l Barnard and Samuel Colby deposed that they were "at the house of Heaniry Sawers" and read the court's order to Wid. Peasley concerning a division of land between Wid. Peasley and Thomas Barnard Jr. (her son-in-law), and she refused, etc. (Es. Co. Ct. Rec. vol. 3, p. 253).

Samuel Colby was fined in 1665 for 'abusing a wench'. Samuel and Elizabeth owned a 'public house' or inn in amesbury in 1678. In 1686, he was acquitted of a charge of 'selling drink without alicense'. Samuel represented Amesbury in general court (Attorney?) in 1689. On Jul 22, 1692, Samuel signed a petition in favor of Mrs. Bradbury who was accused of witchcraft.

SOURCES: (1) A History of Deerfield, Ma, by George Sheldon, Vol I, page 159; (2) Society of Colonial Wars, Index of Ancesters, 1922, page 113; (3) "The Colby Family in Early America" by Frederick L. Weis, 1970, page 8; (4) Colby Clan Ancester Sheets, by Various members; (5) "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts" by David W. Hoyt. He was married to Elizabeth SARGENT in 1667 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts.

17. Elizabeth SARGENT was born on 22 NOV 1646 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. She died on 5 FEB 1736/37 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. She has Ancestral File number 8JDB-4N. Elizabeth was the daughter of William Sargent, a friend of Anthony. William's wife was Elizabeth Perkins. William was born in England in 1602. His Father was Richard Sargent, an officer in the Royal Navy. William also immigrated with Winthrop in 1630. from 'Lineage of Philander M. Colby of Arborville & Bradshaw, Me., and Spencer Colby of Hamilton County, Me. by Claudia K. (Miller) Foster, Seattle, Wa.

In 1703 she was granted the liberty of making pew in our meeting house and to have half of ye hindermost seate towards the southeast corner of the meeting house betwixt the greate post and the women's gallery stairs.

SOURCES: (1) Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996, Family History Library, 35 North West Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150; (2). Lynn Hist. Reg. Mass. 27A-7B, B4 D8, B6 3A. Samuel COLBY and Elizabeth SARGENT had the following children:

i. Dorothy COLBY was born on 13 NOV 1668 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. She died in 1728 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. SOURCES: (1) "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts" by David W. Hoyt; (2) Early Vital Records of Essex County, Massachusetts to 1850. Amesbury. Marriage listed as Collby; (3) "The Colby Family in Early America" by Frederick Lewis Weis, Caledonia, The Colonial Press, pub 1970.
ii. Elizabeth COLBY was born on 1 JUN 1670 in Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts. She died before 1716. Not in father's will of 1716.

SOURCES: (1). "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts" by David W. Hoyt; (2). Early Vital Records of Essex County, Massachusetts to 1850. Haverhill; (3). "The Colby Family in Early America" by Frederick Lewis Weis, Caledonia, The Colonial Press, pub 1970.
8 iii. Samuel COLBY.
iv. Infant Daughter COLBY was born on 3 APR 1672 in Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts. She died on 3 APR 1672 in Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts. SOURCES: (1). "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts" by David W. Hoyt; (2). "The Colby Family in Early America" by Frederick Lewis Weis, Caledonia, The Colonial Press, pub 1970.
v. Philip COLBY was born about 1676 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He died before MAY 1715 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. SOURCES: (1) "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts" by David W. Hoyt; (2) Early Vital Records of Essex County, Massachusetts to 1850. Amesbury; (3) "The Colby Family in Early America" by Frederick Lewis Weis, Caledonia, The Colonial Press, pub 1970.

18. Henry AMBROSE was born in JUN 1649 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He died before 1724. He was a weaver in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. SOURCE: "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts" by David W. Hoyt. He was married to Susanna WORCESTER in OCT 1672 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts.

19. Susanna WORCESTER was born about 1650 in Massachusetts. She died on 22 DEC 1730 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. Question as to Her surname. Widow of Timothy Worcester.
SOURCE: "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts" by David W. Hoyt.
Henry AMBROSE and Susanna WORCESTER had the following children:

9 i. Dorothy AMBROSE.
ii. Nathaniel AMBROSE was born on 26 JAN 1675/76 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He died young. SOURCE: "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts" by David W. Hoyt.
iii. Nathaniel AMBROSE was born on 26 FEB 1677/78 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. SOURCE: "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts" by David W. Hoyt.

20. Thomas NICHOLS was born in 1630 in Great Coggeshall, Essex, England. He died in 1720 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He was married to Mary MOULTON in SEP 1655 in Malden, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.

21. Mary MOULTON was born in 1634 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. Thomas NICHOLS and Mary MOULTON had the following children:

10 i. Thomas NICHOLS.

22. John JAMESON was born on 3 SEP 1648 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He died about 1713 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He was married to Esther MARTIN on 15 MAR 1669 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. (SOURCE: Early Vital Records of Essex County, Massachusetts to 1850 for Amesbury.)

23. Esther MARTIN was born on 7 APR 1653 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. (SOURCE: Early Vital Records of Essex County, Massachusetts to 1850 for Salisbury.) She died Est 1682-1747 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. John JAMESON and Esther MARTIN had the following children:

i. Mary JAMESON was born on 30 AUG 1670 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. She was living in 1718 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts.
ii. Susanna JAMESON was born on 20 FEB 1671/72 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. SOURCE: "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts" by David W. Hoyt.

11 iii. Jane JAMESON.
iv. Esther JAMESON was born on 19 JUL 1676 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts.
v. Hannah JAMESON was born about 1678 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. She died before 1748 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. Not mentioned in Jonathan's will of 1748.
vi. Elizabeth JAMESON was born on 28 DEC 1690 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts.
vii. John JAMESON was born on 14 AUG 1696 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts.

24. William SARGENT was born on 2 JAN 1645/46 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He died on 31 MAY 1712 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He has Ancestral File number 8JCW-FG. William Sargent was a farmer and held public office. He took the oath of allegiance and fidelity December 20, 1677 at Amesbury before Major Robert Pike. His estate was probated at Salem, Mass. March 31, 1712.
WILLIAM, b. Salisbury MA 2 January 1645/6; m. in Amesbury MA, 23 September 1668 Mary Colby, daughter of ANTHONY COLBY. He was ordered to be whipped or pay a fine for fornication, 12 April 1670.

SOURCES: (1) Sargent Records by E. E. Sargent of St. Johnsbury, VT, p 21, par 3.; (2) Pillsbury Family by M. L. Holman, First Colby line, Vol 1, p 137-138; (3) Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996, Family History Library, 35 North West Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150; (4) Early Vital Records of Essex County, Massachusetts to 1850. Amesbury; (5) "The Colby Family in Early America" by Frederick Lewis Weis, Caledonia, The Colonial Press, pub 1970; (6) "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts" by David W. Hoyt. He was married to Mary COLBY on 23 SEP 1668 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts.

25. Mary COLBY was born on 19 SEP 1647 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. She was christened/baptized on 19 SEP 1647 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. She died after 1689 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. She was buried in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. She has Ancestral File number 9JCW-GM. SOURCES: (1) Sargent Records by E. E. Sargent of St. Johnsbury, VT, p 21, par 3; (2) Pillsbury Family by M. L. Holman, First Colby line, Vol 1, p 137-138; (3) "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts" by David W. Hoyt; (4) Early Vital Records of Essex County, Massachusetts to 1850. Salisbury; (5) "The Colby Family in Early America" by Frederick Lewis Weis, Caledonia, The Colonial Press, pub 1970. William SARGENT and Mary COLBY had the following children:

i. William SARGENT was christened/baptized on 19 APR 1669 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He was living in 1720 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He has Ancestral File number 8JCW-HS. He was a farmer and held public office in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. SOURCES: (1). Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996, Family History Library, 35 North West Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150; (2). Sargent Records by E. E. Sargent of St. Johnsbury, VT, p 21, par 3; (3). Pillsbury Family by M. L. Holman, First Colby line, Vol 1, p 137-138; (4). "The Colby Family in Early America" by Frederick Lewis Weis, Caledonia, The Colonial Press, pub 1970; (5). "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts" by David W. Hoyt.
ii. Philip SARGENT was born on 12 AUG 1672 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He died in 1742 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He has Ancestral File number 8JCT-PK. He was a farmer in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. SOURCES: (1). Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996, Family History Library, 35 North West Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150; (2). Sargent Records by E. E. Sargent of St. Johnsbury, VT, p 21, par 3; (3). Pillsbury Family by M. L. Holman, First Colby line, Vol 1, p 137-138; (4). Marriage Index: Massachusetts 1633-1850; (5). "The Colby Family in Early America" by Frederick Lewis Weis, Caledonia, The Colonial Press, pub 1970; (6). "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts" by David W. Hoyt.
12 iii. Charles SARGENT.
iv. Elizabeth SARGENT was born about 1675 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. She was christened/baptized on 5 NOV 1710 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. She died on 21 APR 1731 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. She has Ancestral File number 8JCW-K5. SOURCES: (1). Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996, Family History Library, 35 North West Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150; (2). Sargent Records by E. E. Sargent of St. Johnsbury, VT, p 21, par 3; (3). Pillsbury Family by M. L. Holman, First Colby line, Vol 1, p 137-138; (4). "The Colby Family in Early America" by Frederick Lewis Weis, Caledonia, The Colonial Press, pub 1970.
v. Infant Son SARGENT was christened/baptized in 1678 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He died in 1678 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He has Ancestral File number 8JCW-LB. SOURCES: (1). Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996, Family History Library, 35 North West Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150; (2). Sargent Records by E. E. Sargent of St. Johnsbury, VT, p 21, par 3; (3). Pillsbury Family by M. L. Holman, First Colby line, Vol 1, p 137-138; (4). "The Colby Family in Early America" by Frederick Lewis Weis, Caledonia, The Colonial Press, pub 1970.
vi. Ensign Jacob SARGENT was born on 13 MAR 1687/88 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He died on 6 APR 1749 in Chester, Rockingham County, New Hampshire. He had administration granted for estate on 24 JUL 1749 in Chester, Rockingham County, New Hampshire. He has Ancestral File number 8JCW-MH. He was a farmer and held public office. Jacob and Judith removed to Chester, New Hamshire, where he was selectman, 1728, and Ensign, 1730.
SOURCES: (1) Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996, Family History Library, 35 North West Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150; (2) Sargent Records by E. E. Sargent of St. Johnsbury, VT, p 21, par 3; (3) Pillsbury Family by M. L. Holman, First Colby line, Vol 1, p 137-138; (4) Vital Records to 1850, Amesbury, Massachusetts; (5) "The Colby Family in Early America" by Frederick Lewis Weis, Caledonia, The Colonial Press, pub 1970.

26. Samuel FOOTE was born before 1630 in Bedfordshire, England. He died on 7 JUL 1690 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. Baptized at the 1st Church of Salem ( as an Elder Child) He was killed by Indians, son John administered his estate ["THE RELATIONSHIP OF DECENDANCY FROM PASCO HAS NEVER BEEN PROVEN POSITIVLY"; Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachesetts by David W Hoyt (1897)]

Savage & other have concurred on the relationship. Samuel's baptism on 6 Dec 1652 along with that of his brother and sisters proves the credibility of Savage's hypothecation. The relationship is further proved by being named in his father's will in 1670 and the probated thereof in 1671.

From the History of Amesbury & Merrimac. MA by Joseph Merrill (1814-1898) published by F P Stiles of Haverhill in 1880: "Capt. Samuel Foot died July 7th (1690). He was not a signer of the articles, but came to town (Amesbury) about 1658 when he was choen one of a committee to lay out the river lots. He drew lot #1, which lay on the western side of the Buttonwood Road, but cut off from the river by John Weed's 10 acre lot. He was made a townsman Dec. 10th,1660, and afterwards recieved nnumerous grants of land. He held many offices, and was representative in the 1689 and was on of the favored three who were seated at the "tabell" in the church in 1667. He lived at Jamaco and is very probable probable that his house was a "Garrison house," several times spoken of as "Capt Foots Fort." Judging from his frequesnt services, he must have been specially fitted to preside ober town meetings, and was, no doubt, a man of more than ordinary dicision and ability.

Dr Parish in his history of New England says: "Amesbury was assaulted, three persons killed and three houses burned, and Capt. Foot was tortured to death." No mention is made of such fact on the Amesbury records".

13 Feb 1661 he was a witness on a deed of a house lot in Salisbury, Essec, MA from Thomas Carty to Richard Goodale,Sr.

13 Dec 1662: Deed from Samuel Foote to John Jennison: "Samll ffoot of Emsbury, for a house and land, conveyed to John Jimson of Emsbury, planter, 10 acrs lot at ye Lyon's mouth, bounded by Pawwaus river, common highway leading to ye town, Robert Jones and John Colby; also othe lots at ye Lyon mouth, both containing 15 acres, bounded by said highway, Slate brook, Richard Currier, Georg Martin and Tho; Barnett, jr; also, my 7 acre lot in ye ox pasture, bounded by ye great swamp. and a highway leading to ye farms; all of said land lying in said town, July 8, 1671. Wit: Tho: Bradbury and Georg Carr, jr Ack by grantor his wife Hanna releasing dower July 8, 1671 before Rober Pike Commissioner."

8 Jul 1671: Deed from John Jennison to Samuel Foote: "John Jimson(his mark) of Emsbury, planter for land, comveyed to Samll ffoot of Emsbury, planter, my house and 35 acres of land in Emsbury bounded by ye country highway (4 rods wide) leading to Haverhill, grantee and Cobler's brook, July 8, 1671. Wit: Tho: Bradbury and Georg Carr,jr. Ack. by Grantor, his wife Hester releasing dower, July 8, 1671, before Robert Pike Commissioner." He was married to Hannah CURRIER on 23 JUN 1659 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts.

27. Hannah CURRIER was born on 8 JUL 1643 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. She died before 26 AUG 1703 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. Samuel FOOTE and Hannah CURRIER had the following children:

i. Captain John FOOTE was born on 9 JUL 1660 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He died on 6 JUN 1737 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts.
13 ii. Hannah FOOTE.
iii. Dorothy FOOTE was born about 1680 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. She died on 14 JUL 1720 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts.



SIXTH GENERATION

32. Anthony COLBY was christened/baptized on 8 SEP 1605 in Horbling, Lincolnshire, England. He immigrated on 29 MAR 1630 from England to America. He took the Freeman Oath of the Massachusetts Bay Company in MAY 1634 in Massachusetts. He died on 11 FEB 1660 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He has Ancestral File number 8JDC-NK. He was a Sawmill owner. Emigrated to America in 1630 with the Puritans, on the ship "Arbella" of the Winthrop Fleet.

Comment 1.

Colby is a place name deriving from the parish of Coleby, which lies seventeen miles northwest of Semperingham, and six miles south of Lincoln. There is also a parish of Colby in Norfolk, next to Beccles, and it too seems to have been the source of a quite unrelated Colby clan. There are also villages called Colby in Westmoreland, in Yorkshire, and one in Denmark.
The name is of Viking origin and means coal place. There are a number of places in England containing Cole, such as Coleridge, Colclough, and Colebrook. The by- suffix is the Viking word meaning homestead or farm. Thus, Coleby was probably a farmstead where charcoal was made in ancient times by Viking settlers.

Comment 2.

Anthony Colby, was the founder of the Colby family in New England. He was born about 1605 at Horbling, Lincolnshire, England. Horbling is next to Semperingham where his Colby ancestors had lived for several generations. He was apparently named for his uncle Anthony Jackson.

Anthony came to America in the Spring of 1630 on the ship "Arbella" with the "Winthorp Fleet". Their 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.

In 1633, on the second Sabbath that Rev. John Cotton preached, he baptized his own son Seaborn Cotton and John Colby, son of Anthony.

Anthony built a second house near the Washington Elm and a third one near the Fresh Pond. He was admitted freeman in Cambridge in 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. Together, the men (Jared Haddon) joined the church in Charlestown and took the freeman's oath in Cambridge on 14 May 1634. Together lay their house lots at East Salisbury and 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.

In 1640, he was appointed an appraiser for the government and in 1651 was elected a selectman.

He died Feb. 11, 1660, aged about 54 years.

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 ground 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.

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. His inventory set a value of 359 pounds sterling upon his property.

The old house was on the southwest side of Main St. which leads from Amesbury Center to the Merrimac and was the seventh from Bartlett's Corner. Here is the well described in Whittier's poem, "The Captain's Well". The well was dug by a grandson of the daughter Mary.

The year after Anthony's death, the widow sold to her son Isaac, sixty acres near Haverhill to pay for her board. From the public divisions she received land in 1662 and 1664. In the latter year she married William Whitridge, a carpenter from Gloucester. he died in 1669. In the meantime, she had 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, and in 1682, the homestead was deeded to her son Samuel, who cared for her during the infirmities of old age.

The widow lived until July 8, 1689.

Comment 3.

Noted in "The Great Migration Begins" 1996, New England Historical and Genealogical Society, pages 413-416 He died on Feb 11 1660 in Amesbury, Ma.
BIO: Left London (Isle of Wright) in March of 1630 with more than 400 others arrived on ship Arbella at Boston. Lived on shipboard 4 months before housing could be made. In Boston, Ipswich, Salisbury & Amesbury. Noted as "planter", received land in the 'first division' in 1640 and '43; one of the first commoners of Amesbury, where he received land in 1654 and 1658, and his widow , in his right, in '62 and '64. Was church member in Boston, living Cambridge 1632, affirmed freeman oath 14 May 1634; at Ipswich 1637; Sometimes printed as "Arthur" He was married to Susannah (Colby) about 1632 in Boston, Ma (?).

Extract from The American Genealogist
Whole number 202 Vol. 51, No 2
April 1975

Anthony Colby’s Purported Ancestry
By 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 probably with the Winthorp 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 here 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 his comes from the will of his 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 (1 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 show 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 Anthony’s 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.;
(2) David W. Hoyt, Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Mass. (Providence, R.I., 1897), 1:103 f.
(3) Norfolk County Quarterly Court files 1:33.
(4) Ibid. p. 24
(5) Donald Lines Jacobus, The Waterman Family (New Haven 1939), 1:8.
(6) Holman, op. Cit.; Belle Preston, Bassett-Preston Ancestors (New Haven 1930), pp. 66 f.
(7) Holman, op. Cit. Hoyt, op. Cit.
(8) Walter C. Metcalfe, ed., Visitations of Suffolk (Exeter 1882), p. 127.
(9) Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Wills 1588 9 Leicester.
(10) 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.
(11) Metcalfe, op. Cit.
(12) Jacobus, op. Cit.
(13) Essex Institute Hist. Coll. 60 (1924) pp. 149 f:
(14) Hoyt, op. Cit.
(15) Probate Records of Essex County, Mass. (1916), 1, 1635-1664, pp. 407-410.
(16) Episcopal Consistory Court of Norwich, Wills 1642, f. 77.
(17) Ibid. 1580.
(18) Banham Parish Registers.
(19) Archdeaconry of Norfolk, Wills, 1622, f. 53.
(20) St. Nicholas, Ipswich, Parish Registers.

* The ancestry of Anthony has been found in recent years and he is from Horbling, Lincolnshire, England as first suspected by the Winthrop Society.


Comment #4

All I can do is pass on the information printed in "The Great Migration Begins".

Page 416 states:
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 peerennial mysteriesof the period. Several authors have suggested that Susannah's maiden name was Hadden, 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 Colbby 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 Oct 1637 "Anthony Colebie" of Ipswich sued John Hall of Saugus (EQC 1:6).

William Osgood and the other pert-time owners of the 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 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" (EQC 8:250, 373-75)

EQC = Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County,
Massachusetts, 1636-1686, 9 volumes (Salem 1911-1975)
GMC50 = John Brooks Threlfall, Fifty Great Migration Colonists to New
England & their Origins (Madison, Wisconsin, 1990)
TAG = The American Genealogist, Volume 9 to present (1932+)
CaTR = The records of the Town of Cambridge (formerly Newtowne)
Massachusetts, 1630-1703.....(Cambridge 1901)

SOURCES: (1) "The Great Migration Begins", Vol. I. by Robert C. Anderson, 1995 pages, 186-187, 413-416; (2) "Fifty Great Migration Colonists to N.E." by John W.Threfall,1990, pages 122-148; (3) "National Genealogical Society Quarterly", Jun 1974, Vol 62, "Anthony Colby of MA", by John Hunt; (4) "New England Historical and Genealogical Register" Apr 1997, Vol. CXLI: Apr 1987. pg. 104-107, "Disproved Royal Descendants."; (5) "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts" by David W. Hoyt; (6) "The Colby Family in Early America" by Frederick L. Weis. He was married to Susannah in 1631/32 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.
Estate of Anthony Colby of Salisbury

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, 2li. 10s.; 1 feather bed & bolster & old Cotten Rugg, a payer of course sheets & a course bed case, 4li. 15s.; one old warming pan, 3s. 4d.; an other feather bed, feather pillow, feather bolster & a payer of sheets & Cotten Rugg, 4li. 10s.; about 8li. of sheeps wooll, 10s 8d.; five pound of cotton wooll, 5s.; 10li. of Hopps, 6s. 8d.; a copp. kettle & a payer of tramells1li.; 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, 1li.; old swords & 2 old muskets, 1li.; 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, 1li.; a croscutt saw & half a one, 1li.; 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, 1li. 15s.; an old tumbrill with an old payer of wheeles, 1li.; 2 sleades, 1li.; a long cart & wheels & Spanshakle & pin 4th pt. of and other cart, 2li.; a plough & plough Irons, 10s.; 2 Canoas & 1-2 a canoa, 3li. 15s.; 6 oxen, 42li.; 6 Cowes, 27li.; 2 3 yeare old steers, 7li.; 2 Yearlins, 3li.; 2 calves, 1li.; 7 swine, 5li. 5s.; 8 sheep, 4li.; 1 mare & colt, 20li.; 1 horse, 10s.; a dwelling house & barne & 14 acres of upland in tillage, 70li.; a pasture of about 30 acres, 20li. 2 lotts att yt wch is cald Mr. Hall's Farme, 5li. 10s.; about eighteen acres of fresh meadow, 40li.; ye accoodacon bought of Mr. Groome, 6li.; 60 acres of upland towards pentuctt bounds with meadow to be laid out, 10li.; ye 8th pt. of ye old saw mill, 30li.; 40 bushells of wheat, 9li.; 10 bushels of barley & 6 of rice, 3li. 4s.; about 60 bushels of Indian corne, 9li.; total, 359li. 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, 1li. 7s.; Willi Osgood, 2li. 9d.; Goodman Tappin, 1li. 2s. 6d.; Abram Morrill, 2li. 10s. 10d.; John Tod, 10s.; Tho. Clarke, 9s.; Mr. Russell of Charlstown, 10li.; Mr. Gerish, 5li. 8s. 6d.; Mr. Woodman, 2li. 14s.; Jno. Bartlett, 2li. 2s. 1d.; Steven Sweat, 2li. 5s. 5d.; John Webster, 13s.; Steven Greenleif, 13s.; Goodman Peirce, 10s.; Goodman Cillick, 3li.; Jno. Lewis, 1li. 10s.; Orland Bagly, 5li. 19s.; Jno. Blower, 6s.; Mr. Worcester, 1li. 13s. 6d.; Mr. Bradbury, 16s. 9d.; to the widow Colby, 10li.; Henry Jaques, 2li. 10s.; Willi. Huntington, 11s.; John Severans, 1li. 13s. 8d.; Jno. Clough for grass, 6s.; for 9 weeks worke, 8li. 2s.; total, 68li. 14s. 7d. Debtor p Contra: Rodger Eastman, 10s.; Robert Clements, 1li. 5s.; from ye town, 9s.; Jno. Maxfield, 2li.; Leonard Hatherlee, 1li.; Sam. Worcester, 14s. 6d.; Goodman Morrill, 1li. 10s.; Steven Flanders, 6s.; Goodman Randall, 6s.; boards at ye saw mill, 3li. 7s. 6d.; loggs to make 2000 of bord, 2li. 5s.; for work done to ye estate, 1li. 2s. 6d.; total 14li. 15s. 6d.

Norfolk Co. Quarterly Cout Files, vol. 1, leaf 33.

The division of the estate of Anthony Colby of Salisbury, late deceased, made by Tho. Bradbury and Robert Pike, Apr. 9, 1661, by order of the county court held at Salisbury. To ye widdow for hir part & the two youngest children: ye dwelling house, barne and 14 acres of upland in tillage, 70li.; ye ferric meadow, 30li.; ye household goods, 19li. 19s. 4d.; a yoake of Oxen, 14li.; 3 Cowes, 13li. 10s.; 7 Swine, 5li. 5s.; in sheep, 2li. 10s.; in Corne, 21li. 4s.; the boggie meadow, 10li. To John Colby: an acre of land aded to his halfe acre at his house, 2li. 16s.; two cheyns, 10s.; a yoake of oxen 15li. 10s.; Mr. Groom's accomodacons, 6li.; in sheep, 1li. 10s.; a cart & wheels, span, shackle & pin & ye 4th pt. of another cart. 2li. To Sarah, ye wife of Orlando Bagly: one Cowe & one 3 yeere old steere, 8li.; a young horse, 10li.; another Cowe, 4li. 10s.; p. Isaac Colby, 5li. 16s. More payd by Isaac Colby to Orlando Bagly for ye which the estate was debtor. 5li. 19s. 8d. To Samuell Colby: one yoade of oxen, 13li.; the pasture, 20li. To Isaac Colby: the eleven lotts of marshe at Mr. Hal's farme, 2 lotts of sweepage & one higledee pigeledee lot, 9li. 10s.; 2 yearlins, 3li.; ye part of ye saw mill, 30li. To Rebecka Colby: a Cowe, one 3 year old steere & ye mare colt, 14li.; two Calves, 1li.; a bed & bolster, 4li. 10s.; p. Isaac Colby, 2li. 11s.; p. Sam. Colby, 5li. 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.

Norfolk Co. Quarterly Court Files, vol. 1, leaf 34.

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 coutr Apr. 9, 1661 allotted to her for her part of the estate.

Petition of Thomas Challis, Orlando Bagly, Ephraim Weed and Ebenezer Blasdell for some part of the estate of their grandfather Anthony Collby formerly of Salisbury left in the hands of their grandmother Susanna widow of Anthony, administratrix to his estate, afterward Susanna Whithredg, deceased: the Court Ordered the division of the estate Apr. 9, 1661, and it was allowed 14: 2m: 1663. Also such of us as have married the daughters of John Collby, deceased, eldest son of said Anthony and Susanna, hath letters of administration granted him unto the estate of Susanna Whithredg, deceased, and hath exhibited a large account of debt from the estate and also he designeth a further application for liberty for alienation of more of said estate.

We address ourselves to the court :where we think we ought for ye interposing & improvement of yt authority for ye prevention of ye evacuation of yt estate whereunto we have right (as we think) out of half gills or gills, and ye exhausting & wasting thereof by such embezelling trifles," also crave you advice whereby we may be orderly possessed of our rights. Dated Sept. 28, 1698.

Citation of Samuell Coleby to appear before Jonathan Corwin, Esq., at the house of Mr. Frances Elles to take administration on the remaining estate of Anthoney Coleby of Amesbury, deceased. Dated Salem, Nov. 16 1699,

Said citation read to Samuell Colby Nov 18, 1699 by Ebenezer Blasdell, Constable of Amesbury.

Essex Co. Probate Files, Docket 5,896


33. Susannah was born in 1610 in London, Middlesex, England. She died on 8 JUL 1689 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. She has Ancestral File number 8JDC-PQ. It has been speculated that Susannah's surname may be Haddon, Nutting or Sargent, but as of this date it is pure speculation. No one has been able to prove who she really is.
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Near the end of her life, Susannah Whittredge was described by the selectmen of Amesbury as: an anchient 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 subsistance ... 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 conveniencies 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].

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.

SOURCES: (1) EQC = Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts. 1636-1686, 9 volumes (Salem 1911-1975); (2) From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996, Family History Library, 35 North West Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150; (3) "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts" by David W. Hoyt; (4) "The Colby Family in Early America" by Frederick Lewis Weis, Caledonia, The Colonial Press, pub 1970; (4) EPR = The Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts, 1635-1681, 3 volumes (Salem 1916-1920; rpt. Newburyport, Massachusetts, 1988). Citations to the unpublished probate records are to case numbers, or to register volumes (which begin with volume 301); (5) SLR = Suffolk Deeds, Volumes 1 through 14 (Boston 1880-1906). Citations to later volumes are from the microfilm copies of the originals. Anthony COLBY and Susannah had the following children:

i. John COLBY was christened/baptized on 8 SEP 1633 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. He signed a will on 22 JAN 1673/74 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He died on 6 FEB 1673 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He will was proved on 24 APR 1674 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He has Ancestral File number 9JP1-WC. He was baptized on 8 SEPT 1633 in First Church of Boston, Mass.

John Colby was a planter at Amesbury, where he was granted land in 1658, 1659, 1662, 1666 and 1668. He was granted thirty acres in 1658.

John entered a suit against the town of Salisbury, in the Old Norfolk Co. court, at Salisbury, claiming that he was a possessor of the estate of Mr. Samuel Groom in Salisbury, purchased by his father, Anthony Colby, decd.; and that he (John) was entitled to a townsman's rights on account of Groom. As John had been admitted a townsman 8 or 10 years before, the case was decided in favor of the town, Oct 1663.

John Colby's name heads a list of seventeen signatures on a petition presented to the Court at Hampton, in October, 1671, by "divers of the Inhabitants and souldiers of the towne & military company of Amsbery" that they may continue "under the Conduct of or loveing friend & neighbour John Hoyt, senr, our chosen and established sergeant & chief military officer here." (Weis, 1970; Hoyt, 1857)

"John Clough of Salisbury, house carpenter, for a 25-acre lot of upland, today conveyed to me by Isaac Colby of Haverhill, planter, conveyed to Jn Colby of Amsbery, planter, a 2-acre division of salt marsh in Salisbury at Mr. Hall's farm, formerly of Mr. Sam Groome, and I bought it of said Isaac Colby, bounded by Richard Singletary, (not in possession of said Cllough), Willi: Osgood and Tho: Hauxworth, Aug 29, 1671. Wit: Tho: Bradbury and William Bradbury, Ack. in court at Salisbury April 8, 1673. John Hoyt, jr., of Amsberie, planter, wife Mary, for 15 pounds, conveyed to Jn Easman of Salisbury, planter, 30 acres of upland in Amsbery, bounded by grantee (formerly John Colby), Robert Jones, a highway and a brook called ye back river yt runs into ye pond, --, 1669. Ack. in court at Salisbury April 8, 1673.

John Hoyt, jr. of Amsbery, house carpenter, conveyed to John Colby of Amsbery a 4-acre marsh lot in Salisbury bouth by Willi: Barnes of Mr. Samuell Hall then of Salisbury, and by him given to me, bounded by George Martyn, Sam Felloes, Jn Eaton, Jn Ilsley and Tho: Barnard, March 25, 1672. Wit: Jeremiah Hubbard and Tho: Barnard. Ack. March 25, 1672, before Samuell Dalton, commissioner. His wife, Mary Hoyt, released dower same day."
"John Colby of Amsbery, planter, for 20 pounds, conveyed to John Easman of Salisbury, planter, my 30-acre lot of upland in Amsbery, bounded by John Hoyt, jr., Edmond Elliott, highway, and a brook called back river (yt leads to ye pond), May 11, 1669. Wife Frances Colby (her X mark) signed. Wit: tho: Bradbury and William Hooke. Ack. by grantor and his wife frances, who released dower, May 11, 1669, before Robert Pike, commissioner."

"Old Norfolk County Records, Vol. VII. 1903, pg. 89. "The Essex Antiquarian."

"Frances Colby (her + mark) of Amsbury, widow, executrix of her late husband John Colby of Amsbury, deceased, conveyed to Richard Dole of Nubery a 4-acre meadow or marsh lot in Salisbury, bought of Mr. Sam Hall then of Salisbury by William Barnes, who gave it to John Hoyt, jr., who sold it to the deceased, bounded by George Martyn, Sam Felloes, John Eaton, John Ilsly and Tho: Barnaard, april 15, 1674. Wit: Daniel Ela, steven Greenleafe and Nath Clarke. Ack. April 15, 1674, before Nath Saltonstall, commissioner."

Vol XII, 1908, pg. 84

"Will of John Colby of amsbery, dated Jan. 22, 1673-4. To my tow sons. To my wife Frances my dwelling house, land, orchard, etc. To my eldest son John Colby (minor), who is to remain with his mother, 1/2 of ye Grooms lot of meadow in ye higledee pigledes, in Salisbury, between ye lots of John Dickison and William Buswell. To my youngest son Thomas Colby (minor) my two lots of land in ye great plain, -- one lot bought of Edward Goue, and the other I had of my father Colby, -- and 1/2 of said Groom's lot.

To my eldest daughter Sarah Colby my little pasture lying by ye Pawwaus riverside, which I bought of my brother Sam Colby, and my now dwelling house, orchard, etc. To my daughters Elizabeth and Frances Coleby (under 20 years of age). To my daughters Mary and Hannah Coleby (under 23 years of age and unmarried). My wife, executrix, Overseers, my trusty friends my brother Sam Colby of Haverhill and Thomas Barnard, jr., of amesbury. Part of his father Colby's estate, after the decease of his mother, Susannah Whitredg. Wit: John Hoyt, sr., (his H mark) and Thomas Wells.

Inventory of estate of Joh Colby of amsbury, deceased, 6: 12 mo: 1674-4, appraised by William Barnes (his > mark) and Tho: Barnard, sr., of amsbury 2: 1 mo: 1673-4. Amount £234, 4 s. (real 170 pounds; personal 64 pounds, 4 s.). House, land, etc., by Pawwaus river, land at Bugmore, in ye great plain, in ye Lyon's mouth, Groom's lot, meadow in ye lower highlede piglede, bible, arms, spinning wheels, etc. Sworn to by Frances Colby, executrix."

Vol. XII 1908, pg. 84-85

"William Sargent, jr., of amsberrie, planter, conveyed to Jn Hoyt, jr., of Amsberrie, house carpenter, 5 acres of land in aplace called the plain falls, bounded by a highway. John Colby, John Coleby and widow Rowell: also, 8 acres of upland in ye ox pasture, bounded by Tho: Barnard, sr., a highway, ye great swamp and Jarrett Haddon, May 18, 1670. Wit: Thomas Rowell and Louis Decamp. Ack. March 10, 1673-4, before Robert Pike, commissioner.

"John colby of Eamesbury, planter, for £10, 10 s., conveyed to Jn Hoyt, jr., of Eamesbery, carpenter, my 8-acre higgledee pigledee lot in ye Lyons mouth, in Eamsbery, bounded by widow rowell, grantee, a highway and great swamp, March 25, 1671-2. Wit: Jermiah Hubbard and tho: Barnard. Ack. March 25, 1672, before Sam Dalton, commissioner."

Vol XII, 1908, pg. 178-179

John Colby's name heads a list of seventeen signatures on a petition presented to the Court at Hampton, in October, 1671, by "divers of the Inhabitants and souldiers of the towne and military company of Amsbery" that they may continue "under the conduct of our loving friend and neighbour John Hoyt, senr. our chosen and establisher sergeant and chief military officer here."
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Will and Estate of John Colby of Amesbury
"Know all men by these presents That I John Coleby off ye Towne off Amsbury in ye County off Norfolke NE being weake & infirme off body yett through Gods goodness off perfedt memory & undstanding Doe make this my last will & testamt as followeth: 1: Inprimis I commend my Sould into ye hands off X my Redeemr & my body to ye grave. decently to be buried att ye chardge off my Executrix whome I shall here after name & appoynt: In hopes off a joyfull resurrection. 2: I dispose off my worldly Goods as is hereaftr expressed: scil: My will is yt all my Just & due debts be duly payd & discharged by my Exccutrix: unto wch prupose, & not otherwise but only for ye payment off any Just & due debt off mine, & yt only only in such case off absolute necessity as yt ye debt cannot be otherwise dischardged & satisfied I doe Invest my Executrix with full powe to sell any part off ye land or estate in this present Instrument hereaftr by mee bequeathed unto my two sons or eldest daughtr. Alwayes provided yt itt be not done without ye advice off those whome I shall appoynt ovrseers off this my last will & testament: Whose advice also be her is to be had in ye disposall off any othr land or stock by way off sale & alienation in any case whatsoevr 3: Alsoe my will is yt in ye first mentioned case ye Damage done thereby unto any off my sayd children shall be born & sustained by every off them three proportionably to ye value off the severall legacies or protions by mee bequcathed vnto ym in this my last will & testament viz: yt child out off whose land or estate any such sale shall be made shall have his or her damage according to the formentioned ordr & proportion made vp out off ye land portion or estate off ye other twoe by such sale not damnified or less damnified: ye child damnified alsoe bearing his or her own poticulr proportion off ye loss or damage by such sale 4: Also I give & bequeath unto ffraunces Coleby my wife my now dwilling house & ye land orchard outhousen with all fences priviledges and appertiances & town rights thereunto belonging. As also one thired part off all the lands yt I now stand seized & possessed off during her life. 5 Also I give & bequeath unto John Coleby my eldest son to him & to the heirs off his body lawfully begotten for evr one halfe of a lott off meadow in ye towne off Salisbury commonly calle Groomes lott, seituate in a place commonly called the higglety pigleys laying betwixt the lotts off John Dikerson & William Boswell when he shall come to ye age off twenty one years. Att weh time iff my son john shall & will make oyr his right, title & interest unto his lott in ye childrens land commonly soe called in ye town off Amsbury: unto my Executrix then I doe moreovr give & bequeath unto him & his heirs as before sayd all yt land wch I purchased of the Town of Amsbury which iff my gd son shall refuse to doe my will is yt ye sd land purchased off ye Town shall be equally divided amongst all my children to |'be|| inherited by them & ye lawfull begotten heirs off their bodyes for evr. 6: My Will furthr is That my son John shall remaine with & helpe my wife his mother untill yt he come unto ye age off twenty one years 7 I give & bequeath unto Thomas Coleby my youngest sonn all my land in & adjoyning unto ye greatt plaine being two lott ye one purchased off Edwrd Gove more perticulary specified in the deed I had off him ye othr being a lott wch I had off my ffathr Coleby: & ye othr halfe off ye sd Gromes lott, every off which premises he is to be possesed ||of|| for an inheritance unto himselfe & ye heirs off his body lawfully begotten forevr aftr yt he shall come to ye age off twenty one years. 8: My will is yt iff any off my sons depart this life without an heir off their body lawfully begotten yt then the portions bequeathed to them shall be equally divided amongst all ye rest off my children then surviving 9: I give & bequeath unto Sarah Coleby my eldes daughtr my little pasture lying by ye Powow Rivr side, wch I purchased off my Brothr Samll Coleby to be immediately possessed by her for the Inheritance for herselfe & ye lawfull begotten heirs off her body for evr aftr my decease: As alsoe my now dwelling hous, land, orchard, & outhousen, with all priviledges & appertinances Thereunto belonging to herselfe & heirs as before aftr the decease off ffraunces my wife:

"10 My will is yt my wives thirds out of every parcell off land bequeathed unto my tow sonns & eldest daughtr shall be excepted to remanine firme unto her propr use & benefitt during her life 11: I give & bequeath unto my daughtrs Elizabeth & ffrauces Coleby five pounds apiece to be payd unto each off ym att the day off mariage or att ye age off twenty years iff they marry not before my son John Coleby: 12 I give & bequeath unto my daughtrs Mary & Hannah Coleby unto each off them five pounds apiece to be payd unto Them by my son Thomas Coleby when he my sayd son shall come unto ye age off twenty three years. 13 Also my will is that iff any off my daughtrs sheall depart This life without an heir off their bodies lawfully begotten then ye portion or legacie bequeathed by mee shall be equally divided amongst the rest off my daughtrs then surviving. 14: I give also & bequeath all the rest off my whole estate both moveable & immoveable, lands, chattells both personalll & reall unto ffraunces my wife: whome I make, constitute & appoynt sole executrix unto this my last will & testament. 15: ffinally I doe make &appoynt my trusty ffriends; My brothr Samuell Coleby oof haverhll & my Loving friend Thomas Barnerd junr off Amsbury ovrseers off this my last will & testamentt, to see & take care yt in every ptielr itt be duly pformed. And in confirmation off ye forwritten premisees to be the ptieulr contents off my last will & testament I the Sayd John Coleby have hereunto subscribed my hand & seale. Dated this twenty second day off January Anno Domini: one thousand six hundred seventy three (Seventy four) 22:1:1673-4:

"It is alsoe declared before sealing to be ye will off this Testatr John Coleby: yt his part off his ffather Colebyes estate belonging unto him from & by virtue off a Court ordr aftr the decease off his mother Susanna Whithredg shall be equally divided amongst all his daughtrs: as Witness his hand the day & year abovesayd & seale affixed."

John Colby (SEAL)
Witness: John (his H mark) Hoyt, senr., Thomas Wells.
Proved in Salisbury court Apr. 14 1674 by the witnesses.

Inventory of the estate of John Coleby of Amsbury, deceased 6: 12m: 1673-74, taken 2: 1m: 1673-74, by William Barnes and Thomas Barnerd, Sr. of Amesbury: eight sheep & a lanbe, £4.; twoe oxen at £5. pr. & four cowes at £3. pr., £22.; one two year old heifer, £1, 10s.; one yearling & a calfe, £1; five young swine, £1; ye dwelling house, outhousen, homestead & land by ye Powwow River, £30; a lott of land at Bugmore, £4; fourty acres of land in ye great plaine, £46; a parcell of land purchased of ye towne, £20; thirty five acre lott in ye woods, £20; lott in ye ox pasture, £5; a division of land in ye Lyons mouth, £5; a lot of meadow called Groomes lott, £20; a lot of meadow in ye lower higglety pigley, £20; beadstead, feather bed, bedding & curtaines, £8; trundle bedstead, flockbed & bedding thereto belonging, £3; twenty pound of wool, £1; his wearing cloathes, £1, 10s.; halfe a barrell of meat, £1, 10s.; and old chest, box & linnen therein & a bible, £2; his Armes, £2, 10s.; cart, sled, plow, yoke & tackling belonging, £3; flax, & a tenent saw, 16s.; axes, hows, sickles & a shave, 12s.; pott, pot hockes, tramell, kettle & two skillets, £2; frying pan & warming pan, 8s.; pewter, smothing Iron & a sieve, 12s.; trenchers, trayes, wooden platters, dishes & spoones, 10s; two spinning wheels, three payr of cards, 8s.; old tubs, barrels & payles &c, £1; a bill, £1, 18s.; total £234, 4s.
Attested Apr. 14, 1674 by Frances Coleby, the executrix.

Thomas Challis with Mary his wife acknowledged Sept. 3, 1696, the receipt from her brother Thomas Colby of Amesbury of the 5li. bequeathed to the said Mary by the will of her father, John Colby of Amesbury.
Thomas Challis, Mary (her M mark) Challis (SEAL)
Witness: Thomas Wells, William Challis.

William Osgood of Salisbury with Hannah Coolby his wife, acknowledged Sept. 1 1722, the receipt from her brother Thomas Collby, of the £5 bequeathed to the said Hannah in the will of her father John Coolby, formerly of Amesbury.
hannah (her X mark) Osgood, William Osgood. (SEAL)
Witness: Joseph Osgood, Apphiah Osgood.
Essex County Probate Files, Docket 5,919

Joseph Prichitt and Fraunces his wife acknowledged Dec. 12, 1687, the receipt from John Collby of Amesbury of the £5 bequeathed to the said Fraunces by the will of here father Joh Collby, Sr. of Amesbury.
Joseph Pricte (SEAL)
Witness: Thomas Wells, Thomas (his X mark) Hoyt, Jr.

Elisabeth Collby of Amesbury acknowledged May 18, 1689, the receipt from her brother John Colby, eldest son of John Colby, of the £5 bequeathed to her by the will of her father John Collby of Amesbury.

Elizebth (her X mark) Colby (SEAL)
Witness: John Hoyt, Sr., Mary Hoyt.
Attested Nov. 22, 1723 by the witnesses, John Hoyt and his wife Mary Hoyt before Thomas Noyes and Joseph Woodbridge, Jus. of the Peace.
Essex County Probate Files, Docket 5,921.

SOURCES: (1). John Hoyt of Salisbury, by David W. Hoyt, C. Benjamin Richardson, Boston, pub 1857; (2). "The Colby Family in Early America" by Frederick Lewis Weis, Caledonia, The Colonial Press, pub 1970; (3). Colby Clan ancester sheets, submitted by various members; (4). Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996, Family History Library, 35 North West Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150; (5). Early Essex County Vital Records to 1850, Salisbury, Massachusetts. Listed as Colebey; (6). "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts" by David W. Hoyt.
ii. Sarah COLBY was born on 6 MAR 1634 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. She died on 18 MAY 1663 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. SOURCES: (1) "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts" by David W. Hoyt; (2) "The Colby Family in Early America" by Frederick Lewis Weis, Caledonia, The Colonial Press, pub 1970.
iii. Infant Son COLBY was born in 1637 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He died in 1637 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. SOURCES: (1). "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts" by David W. Hoyt; (2). "The Colby Family in Early America" by Frederick Lewis Weis, Caledonia, The Colonial Press, pub 1970.
16 iv. Samuel COLBY.
v. Isaac COLBY was born on 6 JUL 1640 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He died on 15 APR 1684 in Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts. Isaac was a planter at Salisbury, 1663; had a seat in the meeting house at Amesbury, 1667, where he was living in 1668, and later he lived at Haverhill and Rowley, but returned to Amesbury before he died. He made his will 29 March 1684 which was proved 15 April 1684. His estate was divided in 1725.

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Notes for ISAAC COLBY:
"Isaac ye sone of Anthony Colby and Susana his wife was born ye: 6: 5 mo: 1640." From: "Salisbury and Amesbury Births." microfilm at FHL.

Isaac Colby was called a "Planter" of Salisbury in 1663; meeting house seat in Amesbury, 1667.

From "The Essex Antiquarian", "Old Norfolk County Records." Pub. 1900.

"John Hoyt, sr. (his H mark), of Salisbury, husbandman, for $6 pounds, in pipe staves, conveyed to Isaac Colby of Salisbury, planter, 40 acres of upland in Salisbury newtown upon a place called the Champion land, bounded by Jn Weed, Joseph Peasly, late deceased, and common land, Feb. 5, 1662. Wit: William Tilton and Benjamin Sha. Ack., grantor's wife releasing dower, April 14, 1664, before Tho: Wiggin."

"Edward Cottell (his II mark) of Salisbury, planter, conveyed to Isaac Colby of Salisbury, planter, 30 acres granted to me by ye new town of Salisbury, near burchin meadow, bounded by ye path leading to Haverhill, Tho: Macy and common, April 17, 1663. Wit: Rich: Currier and John Clough. Ack., grantor's wife Judith releasing dower, April 14, 1664, before Tho: Wiggin.

"John Colby os Salisbury, planter, conveyed to Isaac Colby of Salisbury, planer, 30-acre lot of upland granted to me by the Salisbury new town lying upon champian ground in said town, bounded by Lt. Phillip challis, Thomas Barnard and common, June 11, 1663. Wit: Eben Severans and Robert Ring. Ack., and wife released dower, in court at Salisbury, 12: 2 mo: 1664."

"George Martyn (signed by mark) of Salisbury, blacksmith, conveyed to Isaac Colby of Salisbury, planer, 30 acre lot of upland in Salisbury newtown at the champian ground, bounded by Valentine rowell, late deceased, and Henry Blasdale, April 17, 1663. Wit: Jn Colby, Ack., wife Su: releasing dower, April 14, 1664, before Tho: Wiggin."

"John Eaton of Salisbury, cooper, conveyed to John Cram of Hampton, planter upland and meadow purchased by Salisbury of Mr. Sam: Hall's farm, etc, April 12, 1664. Wit: John Colby and Robert Ring. Ack., wife Martha releasing dower in court at Salisbury, 12: 2 mo: 1664."

"Old Norfolk County Records", "The Essex antiquarian" Vol. 5, 1901, pg. 180-181:

"James George of Salisbury, planter, conveyed to Isaac Colby of Salisbury, planter, my 10-acre lot of upland granted to me "by the newetowne of Salisbury" on the champion ground in said township, bounded by John Weed and common land, april 17, 1663. Wit: Samuell Colby and Tho: Payne. Ack., grantor's wife Sarah surrendering dower, in court 11: 1 mo: 1665."

"John Clough of Salisbury, carpenter, for salt marsh and boards, conveyed to Isaac Colby of Salisbury, planter, 2 acres of meadow, bounded by Mr. Henry Biles and meadow formerly of Thomas Barnard, little neck towards the hoghouse, and creek; also, 2 acres of meadow formerly of Josia Cobham, bounded by Mr. Thomas Bradbury, Isaac Buswell and William Barnes, both lots lying in Salisbury -- --, 1663. Wit: Tho: Bradbury and Sarah Bradbury, Ack., grantor's wife Joana surrendering dower, in court 11: 2 mo: 1665."

"William Allin (his w mark) of Salisbury conveyed to Samuell Colby of Salisbury, planter, 40-acre lot in Salisbury newtown on champion ground near Haverhill line, formerly bought of Tho: Macy of Salisbury, weaver, bounded by Richard Currier, Isaac Colby and highway leading to Haverhill, Nov. 16, 1663. Wit: Tho: Bradbury and Willi: Buswell. Ack., in court 11: 2 mo: 1665."

"Samuell Colby of Salisbury, planter, conveyed to my brother Isaac Colby of Salisbury, planter, 40-acre lot I bouth of William allin, 26: 5: 1664. wit: Thomas Sargent and Nathanell Barnard. Ack., in court 11: 2 mo: 1665."

"Isaac Colby of Salisbury, for two meadow lots, conveyed to John Clough of Salisbury, carpenter, 5 of 10 2-acre lots of marsh in the higledee pigledee lots in Mr. Hal's farm in Salisbury, exchanged by brantee with Anthony Colby, towards Mr. Monday's island, the other five belonging to Mr. Samuel Groom, John Weed, Henry Brown, John Eaton and Anthony Colby, June 10, 1663. Wit: Tho: Bradbury and Sarah Bradbury. Ack. in court 11: 2 mo: 1665."

"John Colby of Salisbury conveyed to Isaac Colby of Salisbury, planter, my farm lot of 160 acres granted to me by the newtown of Salisbury, and lying therein, bounded by John Hoyt, jr., Henry Blasdall, and common highways, Aut. 20, 1664. Wit: Samuell Colby and John Osgood. Ack. in court 11: 20 mo: 1665.

Widow Susannah Colby (her+ mark) of Salisbury, for a mare, conveyed to Samuell Colby of Salisbury, planter, 3 acres in the boggie meadows in Salisbury, bounded Jarrett Haddon and a great creek, Dec. 24, 1662. Wit: William Whited (his .> mark) and John Colby. Ack. by Susanna Whitrid (formerly Colby) in court 12: 2 mo: 1664.

Samuell Colby of Salisbury, planter, conveyed to my brother Isaac Colby of Salisbury, planter, 3 acres of fresh meadow purchased of my mother Susanna Colby, now ye wife of Willi: Whitrid, 26: 5: 1664. Wit: Tho: Sargent and Nathaniell Barnard. Ack. cin court 11: 2 mo: 1665."
Page # 42. The Essex Antiquarian, Old Norfolk County Records. Vo. 6:

"Isaac Colby of Salisbury, planter, for 23 pounds, conveyed to Christopher Bartlett of Nuberie, planter, 3 acres in boggie meadow in Salisbury, formerly of Anthony Colby, bounded by Jarret Haddon and a great creek, Jan 8, 1665. Wit: Tho: Bradbury, sr., and Jacob Bradbury. Ack. Jan 8, 1665, before Robert Pike, commissioner."

"Samuel Colby of Salisbury, planter, for 5 pounds, conveyed to Thomas Sargent of Salisbury, planter, 24 -acre lot of upland on west side of Pawwaus river in Salisbury, bounded by William Osgood, William Sargent, Merrimack river and Haverhill highway, July 7, 1662. Wit: Tho: Bradbury and Joh Hoyt, jr. Ack. in court 12: 2 mo: 1664."

"John Clough of Salisbury enters his caution against Isaac Colby of Salisbury converning a farm of 160 acres he bought of said Colby in Salisbury new town, bounded by John Hoyt, jr., Henry Blasda and two highways. Entered March 9, 1667-8." Vol. VI. 1902, Pg. 175.

"Isaac Colby of Salisbury, for 21 pounds conveyed to Jn Clough of Salisbury my farm lot of 160 acres of upland I bout of my brother Jn Colby of Salisbury, planter, Aug. 22, 1664, in Salisbury new town, bounded by John Hoyt, jr., Henry Blasdal and two highways, 21: ---: 1667. Wit: Richard Currier and William Hackett, Ack. April 15, 1668, before Sam: Simonds." Vol. VI. pg. 176.

"Court held at Salisbury April 9, 1661, ordered distribution of estate of anthony Colby of Salisbury, deceased, intestate, by Capt. Thomas Bradbury and Capt. Robert Pike, both of Salisbury, trustees. They assigned to Isack Colby, one of the sons of the deceased, all the shares of salt marsh belonging to the deceased, lying within the bounds of Mr. Hall's farm, so called, in Salisbury. John Weed of Salisbury released his interest in the marsh June 10, 1663. Wit: Tho: Bradbury and John Easton. Ack. 12: 2 mo: 1670 before Samuel symonds.

John Weed of salsbury, husbandman, conveyed to Isaac Colby of Salisbury, planter, my first higledee pigledee lot of 4 acres of salt marsh granted to me by Salisbury, in Salisbury, bounded by Georg Carr, William Osgood, Andrew Greely and Philip Challis, June 10, 1663. Wit: Tho: Bradbury and John Eaton. Ack. 12: 2 mo: 1670, before Samuel Symonds.

Isaac Colby assigned the above marsh to William Sargent of Salisbury, seaman, Dec. 24, 1663. Wit: Tho: Bradbury and Judeth Bradbury. Ack. 12: 2 mo: 1670, before Sam symonds.

John Weed of Salisbury, planter, conveyed to Isaac Colby of Salisbury my 40 acres granted to me by Salisbury lying upon the Champion ground in Salisbury bounded by John Hoyt, James George and common land, March 24, 1662-3. Wit: Thos. Bradbury, sr., and Mary Bradbury. Ack. 12: 2 mo: 1670, before Samuel symonds.

Robert Jones ( his I mark) of Salisbury, planter, for 25 pounds conveyed to Isaac Colby of Salisbury, planter, 12 acres, being one-half of burchin meadow in ye new town of Salisbury near about Haverhill, laid out to William Osgood, bounded by Edward Cottle and thomas Macy, Nov. 14, 1665. Wit: Sam Colby and Tho: Currier. Ack. (wife Jone relasing dower) 5: 2 mo: 1669, before Rob Pike, Commissioner."

"The Essex Antiquarian, Old Norfolk County Records, Vol. VIII, 1904, pg. 38.

"Isaac Colby of Haverhill and wife Martha, for 20 pounds, conveyed to Richard Bartlett of Nubery 35 acres of land town of Amsbery granted to me, bounded by grantee (formerly Henry Blasdale's grant, highway, land held by Jn Weed and a pond, Nov. 28, 1670). Wit: anthony somerby and Abiell Somerby. Ack. 26: 11: 1671, before Ribert Pike, commissioner." Vol. X. 1906. pg. 89

"Isaac Colby of salisbury, planter, conveyed to Mr. Tho: Bradbury. sr., of Salisbury 3 acres of upland and meadow in Salisbury I bought of Jn Clough of Salisbury, house carpenter, being a part of ye planting lot of Josiah Cobham, and meadow (1/2 of ye first division of meadow granted to said Cobham by Salisbury), bounded by Isaac Buswell, land formerly Mr. John Hodges' houselot, William Barnes, and a little creek, March 25, 1664. Wit: Sarah Blumfield. ( her S mark), and Abigail Ambros (her x mark), Ack. 11: 2 mo: 1672. before Robert Pike, commissioner." Vol. X. 1906. Pg. 109

"Susana Whitrid (her > mark) of Emsbury, widow (formerly wife of Anthony Colby), for 10 pounds conveyed to my son Isaac Colby of Haverhill, planter, 3 acres of fresh meadow in ye new town of Salisbury now called Emsberie at ye back river near to bare hill, lying on both sides of the river, April 11, 1671. Wit: Sam Colby and Tho: Hayne. Ack. May 21, 1671, before Robert Pike, commissioner.

Sam Colby of Haverhill, planter, and wife Elizabeth, for 25 pounds and a 24-acre lot of upland in Amesbury, bounded by Marrimack river and Haverhill highway, formerly ye lot of robert Jones, conveyed to Isaac Colby of Haverhill, planter, 1/2 of land in Haverhill I bought of Robert Clements of Haverhill upon a plain near old Eyers carte way, May 6, 1669. Wit: John Colby and William Huchen. Ack. by both grantor and wife Dec. 25, 1671, before Nath Saltonstall, commissioner.

Widow susanna Colby (her X mark) of Salisbury, for 10 pounds in board, conveyed to Isaac Colby of Salisbury, planter, 60 acres of upland in Salisbury near the Haverhill line, bounded by Wm. Sargent, Jarret Haddon and common land, Dec. 24, 1662. Wit: Sam Colby and John Colby. Ack. 21: 3: 1671, before Robert Pike, commissioner.

Robert Jones (his I mark) of Salisbury, planter, for 30 pounds conveyed to Isaac Colby of Salisbury, planter, my 24-acres planting lot in Salisbury-newtown, being lot No. 23, bounded by Richard Currier, Wm. Barnes, Marrimack river and highway leading to Haverhill: also, a 2-acre meadow lot within the above, on both sides of ye back river yt runs tintoye pond, bounded by Wm. Barnes, right of Tho: Macy, late of Salisbury, and Mr. E. Rmington, Nov. 5, 1666. Wit: Tho: Bradbury and William Bradbury. Ack. 11: 2 mo: 1672, bofore Robert Pike, commissioner.

Isaac Colby of Haverhill, carpenter, conveyed to Robert Jones of Amesbury, planter, 7 1/2 acres of land called the ox pasture, lot No. 14, bounded by the Pawwaus river, John Hoyt, sr., William Osgood and John Week, May 7, 1669. Wit: Richard Currier and Samuell Fowler. Ack. 11: 2 mo: 1672, before Robert Pike, commissioner.

Vol. X 1906, Pg. 110

"At a meeting of the select men of Rowley November 2 1677 The Persons that are chosen for the well keeping of the Sabbath according to a law maid by the General Court May 23 1677 and it is intended that they shall have the spetiall inspection into ten of those families that are nerest to there house of ether or of boath sides of them, and there names are as followeth

John Person Junior a tithing man, and the men to be inspected by him John Person Senior John Baley george Whit David Benit Joseph Boynton Isack Colby Thomas Birkby Richard Swan Thomas Lever Junior Thomas Lever Senior

The above list, which is given in full, shows who were heads of the one hundred and four families."

"Mr. T. F. Waters calls him, ("Tithing Man"), "a most important functionary." The law enjoined him to "inspect disorderly persons, and to p'sent the name of single persons that live out from under family government, to enter ordinaries and inspect them" --and "whatever else tends to irreligion." He was to admonish all offenders against the law and if this proved ineffectual was bound to make complaint to the Court. Tithing men were at first appointed by the selectmen and sworn before a Justice of the Peace to faithfully discharge the duties of the office, later they were elected at the annual meeting of the town. The office was abolished in Rowley in 1845."

From: ROWLEY, MASSACHUSETTS
Mr Ezechi Rogers Plantation
1639-1850
By
Amos Everett Jewett
And
Emily Mabel Adams Jewett
With Maps and Illustrations
The Jewett Family of America
Rowley, Massachusetts 1946

SOURCES: (1) "The Colby Family in Early America", by Frederick L. Weis, The Colonial Press, 1970; (2) Colby Clan Ancester Sheets, by Various Members; (3) "Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Mass", by David Hoyt, compiled and published 1897 to 1919, repub by New England Press, Somersworth, NH, 1981, 1987 and 1990; ISBN 0-89725-026-5. This pub does not mention a 2nd wife of Isaac called Elizabeth (I question if there was a 2nd wife); (4). Early Vital Records of Essex County, Massachusetts to 1850. Salisbury.
vi. Rebecca COLBY was born on 11 MAR 1643 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. She died on 10 JUN 1672 in Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts. SOURCES: (1) "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts" by David W. Hoyt; (2) Early Vital Records of Essex County, Massachusetts to 1850. Salisbury; (3) "The Colby Family in Early America" by Frederick Lewis Weis, Caledonia, The Colonial Press, pub 1970.
25 vii. Mary COLBY.
viii. Thomas COLBY was born on 8 MAR 1650 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He died on 30 MAR 1691 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He has Ancestral File number 8JDC-Z4. Thomas, his brother Samuel, and their nephew John, took the oath of allegiance and fidelity on December 20, 1677, at Amesbury. He was a snow-shoe man in Thomas Harvey's . Thomas and his family may have lived with his mother in the family home. In or about 1678, "in consuderation of services rendered her, Susanna gave to Thomas, half of all the lands Anthony left." He died in Amesbury on March 30, 1691. The inventory of his estate was taken March 31, 1691, and the estate was divided in November 1697. Hannah married second, ca. 1691, Henry, son of Henry and Mary (Hadden) Blaisdell. She died in Amesbury on August 9, 1707.

SOURCES: (1) "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts" by David W. Hoyt; (2) Early Vital Records of Essex County, Massachusetts to 1850. Salisbury; (3) Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996, Family History Library, 35 North West Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150; (4) "The Colby Family in Early America" by Frederick Lewis Weis, Caledonia, The Colonial Press, pub 1970.

34. William SARGENT was christened/baptized on 28 JUN 1606 in Bath, Somerset, England. He immigrated in 1630 from England to America. He signed a will on 24 MAR 1670/71 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He died in MAR 1673/74 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He will was proved on 13 APR 1675 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He has Ancestral File number 8JD9-XN. In the General Court of records of Massachusetts Colony in April, 1633, by an act of the court, protecting certain grantees of land then at Agawam, now Ipswich, Massachusetts, in their rights and "Willm S'jeant" was one of those grantees.. He took the oath of allegiance to the Colony and King in 1639. He was one of the first settlers of Newbury in 1635. He was at Hampton, New Hampshire in 1639, and is taxed in Salisbury New Town, December 25, 1650, 7s.4d. He was next located at same place, now Amesbury and Merrimac, in 1655 where he resided until his death in 1675.

He married Elizabeth Perkins about 1633. No record of her death is found but it was before September 18, 1670, for on that date he remarried to Joanna Rowell, who survived him.

His will was probated April 29, 1675 and names his son Thomas and daughter Sarah as executors; his brother-in-law Thomas Bradbury and friend Major Pike as overseers. All his property was left to his children and grandchildren, which inventoried at 191 pounds.

Hoyt's "Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury" page 310,311, indicate William was b. 1598. He was labeled as "seaman". Indicated he married 1st Judith Perkins, 2d Elizabeth Perkins; 3d., Sep 18, 1670 (records at Salem) Joanna Pinder (wid of Valentine Rowell). He is said to have been one of the first settlers of Ipswich in 1633; afterwords of Newbury; one of the first settlers of Hampton in 1638, rec land in Salisbury in 1640, 41,42,43, and '54; commoner and taxed in 1650; moved early across the Powow; one of the origional settlers of Amesbury where he received land 1654-68; a "township" for one of his sons, 1660; meeting house seat 1667; d. ab 1674; will 24 Mar 1670-1; 13 April 1675. Wid Joanna m. 26 Oct 1676 in Amesbury, Richard Currier. (listed 7 children) He was born in 1606 in Bath, Somerset, England. He was baptized on Jun 28 1606 in Bath, Somerset, England. Baptised in Abbey Church, Bath, County Somerset, England He died about 1674 in Salisbury, Ma. Another William Sargent, in Gloucester, 1649; m. 1651 Abigail Clark; descendants given in Babson's Gloucester, pp 148-50. The court rec. at sm. state that he was in 1652 nearest of kin in this country to Thomas Wathing, who died with Prince Rupert, "said Wm. being his father's sister's son."

WILLIAM SARGENT.
Edwin Everett Sargent's book, "The Sargent Record," self-published in 1899.

Since my extensive research in England, which included the examination of probate, church, naval, judicial and other records by genealogists and others; advertising in the leading daily and Episcopalian papers of London, offering a reward for information, I failed to substantiate the statements I copied in my former work, therefore I feel it incumbent on me to give the following explanation: The quotations that William, "was born in London in 1602," that his father Richard, "was a barrister at law," and his mother, "a daughter of Sir Richard Saltonstall," I could not substantiate and found much to disprove the last. two. I believe that a part of these statements I quoted from the persons making them, were conclusions drawn from a record furnished them about fifty years ago, of a 'Richard Sargent, a justice, who died at Dinton, England, in 1665, who had a son William." But the Dinton Parish records show that the children (if William the son of Richard, were baptised there from 1630, to 1634, and that Richard died aged 79. He therefore would have been but thirteen years old when our ancestor William was born, if born in 1602. That William "was appointed midshipman in the navy," I found no record. That William "sailed with Captain John Smith, in 1614, to Jamestown, Virginia, stopping at Agawam, Massachusetts, en route," may be true as to his being with Captain Smith at Agawam, as he settled there afterwards. But that he went to Virginia, as that writer alleges, is questioned, as history does not give Capt. Smith as being in Virginia later than 1609. William was a seaman in his younger years as he is designated as a "seaman" or "mariner" in his will and other documents, but he no doubt later in life followed other occupations with it. That his father Richard held a position in the "Royal Navy," another tradition advanced by others, is not confirmed, so far as I can learn, by the navy records. As to William being born in London, and in 1602, it may be claimed that it has been a tradition so long it must be true, but I have proven so many traditions untrue, I am skeptical in this matter. As the birth of William of Malden, whose record was written by Aaron Sargent of Somerville, Mass., was known to have been in 1602, and the two Williams lived so near each other in Massachusetts, their records of birth might have got "mixed up." Then I have a letter from a person in England stating that he was born in 1598, but cannot learn as there is any authority for it. The nearest record to the one claimed in 1602, I have been able to find in England, of a William born to a Richard, is the following from the Abby church, Bath: "Marriages. 1602, November, Richard Sargent, and Katherine Steevenes the 22 day. Ano Dom., 1630, Jening Walters and Joane Sergeant, were married April 15." "Baptisms. Elizabeth the daughter of Richard Sargeant, 28 day 1603, October. 1606 June, William the Sonne of Richard Sargeant the 28th. March 1609, Joane the daughter of Richard Sargent was baptized the 26th." As there is no further record of the father or son found there, they may have gone to London and William shipped from there. At first I was not inclined to believe this William was our ancestor or from this part of England, for the following reasons: There were many Sargents, and some whose given names were Richard, in Cambridge and Suffolk counties, England, and as John Winthrop and some of the others who settled at Agawam, Mass., and changed its name to Ipswich, were from Ipswich, Suffolk county, and vicinity, England, I was inclined to believe William was from there. But since learning that the father of William's first wife, "Quartermaster John Perkins," was at Agawam in August, 1631, in a short time after arriving in America, and that he came from near Bath, England, that if William was from there and with Capt. Smith in 1614, when the latter landed at Agawam and wrote up its beauties and advantages. William may have returned and induced John Perkins and others to emigrate. The first recorded record I bond of William is in the General Court records of Massachusetts Colony in April, 1633, by an act by said court protecting certain grantees of land then at Agawam, now Ipswich, Massachusetts., in their rights, and ''William Sarjeant was one of them. The next record is that of his oath of allegiance and fidelity in 1639, and his name is recorded ''Willi : Sergent,'' but neither is as he spelt it. It is shown by records and deeds that he was later one of the first settlers at Wessacucon, now Newbury, MA, 1635; at Winnacumet, now Hampton, N. H., in 1638; at South Merrimac, now Salisbury, Mass., in 1639, and that "Wm. Sargent, townsman and commoner of Salisbury, tax rate Dec. 25, 1650, 7s. 4d." He was next located at Salisbury New Town, now Amesbury and Merrimac, in 1655, where he resided until his death in 1675. The statement in the town history of Amesbury, "that William married for his first wife Judith, a sister of his second wife, Elizabeth Perkins," the author informs me he made on information of another, and had no other authority. The genealogy of the John Perkins's family gives no daughter Judith, and that Elizabeth was born in 1618, at Newent, Gloucestershire, England, and therefore old enough by 1634 to have been the mother of Mary, the eldest child of William, who married Philip Challis, and Mary old enough to be a mother in 1653, when her first child was born. This therefore refutes the marriage of William to Judith, and also the idea that Elizabeth was too young to have been the mother of the eldest children of William. The date of their marriage was probably about 1633, as she came to America with her parents in the ship Lion in the spring of 1631, and they were both at Agawam prior to 1633. I found no date of her death, but it was before Sept. 18, 1670, for he married on that date Joanna Powell, who survived him and married Richard Currier of Amesbury. Owing to a lack and contradiction of records, there is an uncertainty as to William's children, their order, dates of birth and death. Where there are two records which conflict, I have used the Salisbury, if that is one of the two. There is a record of "Mary b. June 17, 1647," and no record of her death, and it is not probable a second child was named Mary after the one who married Mr. Challis, the one named in William's will. So I am convinced it Should have been "Lydia," Of whom I find no record of birth, hut "died in 1661I," and have given the former under the latter name. The "Elizabeth" given as the "wife of William died 1641" must have been the daughter "Elizabeth" who "died July 14, 1641" He was one of the "Prudential" men in Amesbury in 1675; he resided in the part of the town known as the ''West Parish,'' and built a house near the church and academy. He died in March, 1675, and was buried in the cemetery at the '' Ferry.’’ His will was probated at Salem Mass., in 1675. The inventory of William's estate (as near as can be made out) amounted to 191 pounds.

The following is the will of William SARGENT ca 1606-1675, as recorded in Edwin Everett Sargent's book, "The Sargent Record," self-published in 1899.

In the name of God Amen. the 24 day of March 1671\72 I William Sargent of ye town of Emefbury in ye County of Norfolk Maffachufettf in Newengland Seaman being in pritty good health of body & of found & pfect memorie (praise bee given to god for ye same) & knowing ye uncertainty of thif life on earth & being Defirouf to fettle thingf in order doe make thif my laft will & teftamt in manner & form That if to fayFirst & principally I comend my soule to Allmighty God my Creator affurdely believing yt fhall recieve full pardon & free remiffion of all my fins & bee faved by ye peciouf death & meritte of my bleffed Savioc & Redemmer Chrift Jefuf & my body to ye earth from whence it waf taken to bee buried in fuch Decent & Chriftian manner af to my Executoed hereafter named fhall be thought meete & convenient.

And af touching fuch wordly eftate af ye lord mercy hath lent mee my will & meaning if ye fame fhal bee imployed & beftowed af hereafter by thif will & Teftament Item I give & bequeath to my grand child William Challis five poundf & to my grandchildren Elizabeth, Lydia, Mary & Phillip watson Challif to each of them twenty fhillings Item I give & bequeath unto my grand children Dorothie & Elizabeth Colby to each of them twenty fhillings Item I give unto my grand child William Sargent thirty shillings Itt I give & bequeath unto my daughter Elizabeth ye wife of Sam Colby five poundf Item I give all ye remayndere of my estate (these my legacies & my funeral chargef being firfte paid) unto my daughter Sarah both howfing & landf, chattelf & other movablef wt foever alwayf pvided that if fhe die wth out children that these howfing & landf: to bee equally divided: unto my four children hereafter named, i: e: my fons Thomaf & William & my daughters Mary & Elizabeth Item I do conftitute ordaine & appointe my fone Thomaf Sargent & my daughter Sarah Sargent Executors unto thif my will & Teftamt & doe make my loving brother in law Tho Bradbury & my efteemed friend Major Pike my overfeerf to take care that thif my will may bee prformed according to ye true intente & meaning thereof

And to thif my last will & Teftament I doe hereunto fess my hand & feale ye day & year above named
William Sargent (Seal)
Signed, fealed and thto in
ye prfence uf
Thomas Bradbury
The mark of MB Mary Bradbury
John Bradbury
Tho Bradbury & Jno Bradbury testified upon oath yt they faw Wm Sargent
senr. figne, feale & declare thif to bee hif will before ye court held
at Salifbury 13 Aprill 75
Tho Bradbury rec
Entered and Recorded in ye County recordf for Norfolk (tit 3d pa 6 ye
29th of Aprile 1675) as attefte
Tho Bradbury recr

Submitted by jim roaix
cooperroaix@chesapeake.net

SOURCES: (1) Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996, Family History Library, 35 North West Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150; (2) Perkins Family in Ye Olden Times. p 78-79 (B11C27); (3) Old Families of Salisbury & Amesbury, Mass by Hoyt, p 281 (Mass S&); (4) Dawes & Allied Families by Mary Walton Ferre, p 484-85 (B12F12); (5) Lynn Hist. Reg. Mass. 27A-7B, B4 D8, B6 3A.; (6) Edwin Everett Sargent's book, "The Sargent Record," self-published in 1899.
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MORE NOTES:
William Sergent 2d, also of Gloucester, "mariner," appeared in Gloucester in 1678; m. Mary Duncan; descendants given in Babson's Gloucester, pp. 150-7. It is stated that he was the son of Wm. and Mary (Epes) Sargent of Exeter, Eng., Barbadoes and Bristol, Eng., Where Wm. 2d was born.

There was still another William Sargent, of Charlestown, 1638-45. It is stated, G.R. 1885, p. 291, apparently on the authority of Somerby, that the two William Sargents, of Amesbury and Charlestown were brothers, and sons of Richard Sargent of London. The eldest son, William, held a position in the navy, was left behind in Virginia, where he married his first wife, Judith Perkins, and had by her two daughters. His parents, supposing him to be dead, gave the name William to a child of subsequent birth. This William afterwards came to Charlestown in this country. M. Ames., p. 102, gives nearly the same story, but states that his first wife Judith Perkins d. abt 1633, leaving three daus.; Lydia, Sarah, who must have died young, and Mary. (See p. 282 (John Perkins, of Ipswich, b. abt 1590)) He was married to Elizabeth Perkins on Sep 18 1640 in Salisbury, Ma. He was married to Elizabeth PERKINS on 18 SEP 1640 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts.

35. Elizabeth PERKINS was christened/baptized on 3 MAR 1611 in Hillmorton, Warwickshire, England. She immigrated on 1 DEC 1630 from England to America. She died on 18 SEP 1670 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. She has Ancestral File number 7TTF-7J. Elizabeth's father came from England in the ship "Lyon" with Roger Williams, in 1631; lived in Boston two years; settled in Ipswich in 1633;

Sailed on the "LYON", William Peirce, Master, from Bristol December 1, 1630, and arrived February 5, 1631, with about twenty passengers and two hundred tons of goods.

SOURCE: 1. Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996, Family History Library, 35 North West Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150
2. Perkins Family in Ye Olden Times. p 78-79 (B11C27)
3. Old Families of Salisbury & Amesbury, Mass by Hoyt, p 281 (Mass S&)
4. Dawes & Allied Families by Mary Walton Ferre, p 484-85 (B12F12)
5. Planters of the Commonwealth, Charles E. Banks 1930
6. Hoyt's "Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury" page 281/282 (John Perkins #12)

Alternate date and place:
Death: Bef APR 1675, Amesbury, Exxex County, Mass.
William SARGENT and Elizabeth PERKINS had the following children:

i. Mary SARGENT was born in 1633 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. She died on 27 SEP 1716 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. She has Ancestral File number 8JD9-ZT. SOURCE: Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996, Family History Library, 35 North West Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150
2. Lynn Hist. Reg. Mass. 27A-7B, B4 D8, B6 3A.

ii. Elizabeth SARGENT was born in 1638 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. She died on 14 SEP 1641 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. She has Ancestral File number 8JDB-00. Alternate date and place:
Born: Abt 1641, Salisbury, Essex County, Mass.

iii. Lt. Thomas SARGENT was born on 11 JUN 1643 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He died on 27 FEB 1705/6 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He has Ancestral File number NRJ0-5R. Thomas was a farmer and resided on "Bear Hill". He took the oath of Allegiance and fidelity at Amesbury before Major Robert Pike Dec 20, 1677; He held public office and was quite a prominent man. He was a lieut in the Amesbury Militia.
THOMAS, b. Salisbury 11 June 1643; m. Salisbury 2 March 1667/8 Rachel Barnes. (Found not guilty of fathering Sarah Osgood's child, October 1668 [EQC 4:64].)*

*Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts, 1636-1686, 9 volumes (Salem 1911-1975)

SOURCES: (1) Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996, Family History Library, 35 North West Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150; (2). Lynn Hist. Reg. Mass. 27A-7B, B4 D8, B6 3A.

Also has AFN: 8JDB-2B
Alternate date and place: Died: 27 Feb 1704/05.
24 iv. William SARGENT.
17 v. Elizabeth SARGENT.
vi. Lydia SARGENT was born on 17 JUL 1647 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. She died about 1661 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. She has Ancestral File number 8JDB-3H. SOURCE: Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996, Family History Library, 35 North West Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150
2. Lynn Hist. Reg. Mass. 27A-7B, B4 D8, B6 3A.

vii. Sarah SARGENT was born on 29 FEB 1652 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. She died on 3 OCT 1701 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. She has Ancestral File number 8JDB-61. SOURCE: Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996, Family History Library, 35 North West Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150
2. Lynn Hist. Reg. Mass. 27A-7B, B4 D8, B6 3A.


36. Henry AMBROSE was born about 1613. He was married to Mrs Susanna AMBROSE about 1640.

37. Mrs Susanna AMBROSE was born about 1615. Her surname is unknown. Henry AMBROSE and Mrs Susanna AMBROSE had the following children:

18 i. Henry AMBROSE.
ii. Abigail AMBROSE was born on 28 DEC 1654 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. She died on 30 JAN 1715 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts.

40. Walter NICHOLS was born in 1604 in England. He was married to Mrs Walter NICHOLS date unknown.

41. Mrs Walter NICHOLS was born date unknown. Walter NICHOLS and Mrs Walter NICHOLS had the following children:

20 i. Thomas NICHOLS.

42. William MOULTON was born in 1615/16 in Ormsby, Norfolk, England. He died on 18 APR 1664 in Hampton, Rockingham County, New Hampshire. He was married to Margaret PAGE on 18 APR 1663 in Hampton, Rockingham County, New Hampshire.

43. Margaret PAGE was born about 1630 in Acle, Norfolk, England. She died on 13 JUL 1699 in Hampton, Rockingham County, New Hampshire. William MOULTON and Margaret PAGE had the following children:

21 i. Mary MOULTON.

44. James JAMESON was born in 1625 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. He died in JAN 1661/62 in Massachusetts. He was married to Mrs Sarah JAMESON in 1645.

45. Mrs Sarah JAMESON was born between 1625 and 1628 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. She died on 25 MAR 1696 in Massachusetts. James JAMESON and Mrs Sarah JAMESON had the following children:

22 i. John JAMESON.

46. George MARTIN was born in 1618 in Romsey, Hampshire, England. Comment: FHL show place of birth as Ramsey, Hampshire, England. Cannot find this place in any England reference books or maps. Book shows two Ramseys, one in Huntingdon and the other in Essex. He died in 1686 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He signed a will on 23 NOV 1686 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. November 23, 1686

In ye name of God Amen
I George Martin of ye town of Amsbury in ye County of Essex being through Gods goodness of prfect memory & understanding, doe make this my last will & testament in mannr as followeth
Imprimis I commend my spirit to God whoe gave it, & and my body to ye dust decently to be buried (at ye chardges of my executr, whome I shall hereafter name and appoynt) in hopes of a [joy]full resurrection at ye last day unto life eternall
2dly I give & bequeath unto my natural [i.e. legitimate] Children viz: my Sonns Richrd Martin, & John Martin, & my Daughters, Hanna Wathen: Hester Gimson, Jane Hadley & Abigail Hadlock unto each & every of them five shillings apiece to be payd in good and merchantable pay within one twelvemonth next aftr my decease
3dly I give & bequeath unto my Grandchild John Hadlock five pounds in good & merchantable pay in case yt ye sd John live wth me or my wife or my son
Will: untill yt he come unto ye full & compleat age of twenty one years.
4thly I give & bequeath all ye rest of my housing, lands stock & estate both moveable & Immoveable unto my wife Susanna during her Widowhood, & after her marriage, or decease (in case she marry not againe) unto my youngest son William.
ffinally: I Doe appoint, Constitute & ordaine my Wife Susanna, to be exectutrix and my youngest son Will: martin to be executr in conjunction wth her unto this my last Will & testament. A[nd in] confirmat[ion] of ye promisees I have hereunto subscribed my hand & seale Dated the nineteenth day of January An: Dom: one thousand six hundred eighty & three or foure.

Source: Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts;
He has Ancestral File number 8JDG-B8. He was buried in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. George Martin came from England to New England as a servant to Samuel Winsley about 1639.

He was of Amesbury and Salisbury, Massachusetts.

He was a blacksmith.

George was one of the earliest pioneers in Amesbury, and was fined for cutting trees there in 1645.

He took the oath of fidelity in 1646.

He was very active in land dealing.

In 1649, he bought 10 acres from Thomas Macy on the Powow River, and lived there about 5 years.

He then removed a short distance to the farm which he had bought of Anthony Saddler in 1650, also on the Powow.

He sold his original farm to Philip Challis Feb 11, 1651.

He sold his second farm to Richard Currier in 1660 and removed to the west side of Ring's Hill, where he lived until his death.

A general meeting was held Jul 9, 1667 for the purpose of seating the people in the new church. "Good Wiffe Martyn do enter his contry desent to the plasen of his wiffe in that seat." (The seating in the church was very important in those days).

In April 1669, George Martin sued William Sargent Jr. "For saying that his son Gorge Marttin was a bastard and that Richard Marttin was Goodwife Marttin's imp".

In October 1669, George Martin's son Richard was presented by the grand jury at the Salisbury Court for abusing his father and throwing him down, taking away his clothes and holding up an axe against him.

Susanna, his widow, was tried for witchcraft at Salem Jun 29, 1692 and executed Jul 19, 1692. See notes on Susanna North for this story.

SOURCES: (1) The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts (1982) David W. Hoyt; (2) History of Amesbury (1880) Joseph Merrill; (3) Salisbury Vital Records. He was married to Susanna NORTH on 11 MAR 1646 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts.

47. Susanna NORTH was christened/baptized on 30 SEP 1621 in Olney, Buckinghamshire, England. She died on 19 JUL 1692 in Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts. She has Ancestral File number 8JDG-CF. Susanna evidently spoke out harshly against a neighbor woman who eventually suffered severe mental problems. The woman's husband blamed Susanna for his wife's trouble and Susanna was accused and found guilty of witchcraft while her husband was still alive..
At a later trial, there were at least fifteen adult males among the hostile witnesses. A former neighbor, John Kimball, dredged up an old story dating back to her first trial, 23 years earlier. He remembered how Susannah had insisted that he live up to his part of the bargain whereby he would pay cash or goods in return for land owned by her husband, George Martin. When Kimball offered the Martins three cows, but now two others which he particularly wanted to keep. "Martin himself was satisfied, but not the wife who threatened that if they would not part with one of the two cows, "she will never do you any more good". And sure enough, one month later that very cow lay dead in the yard, though careful examination revealed no reason. And in a little while after, another cow died, and then an ox, and then other cattle to the value of 30 pounds sterling that spring. In other words, anger over a property dispute combined with the chance deaths of several farm animals to mark Susannah Martin as a witch. She was tried, convicted and hung, together with nineteen others, in 1692.

Please note that she was exonerated in the Salem Witch Retrials of 1992. Didn't help the ol' gal tho.


Susanna Martin was an ancestor of President Chester Alan Arthur.


THE AMERICAN GENEALOGIST
Vol 58, #4; October 1982

SALEM WITCHES III: Susanna Martin

By DAVID L. GREENE, Ph. D.

When Susanna Martin, an Amesbury, Massachusetts widow was arrested on May 2, 1692 for alleged witchcraft, the authorities took into custody a woman who had been suspected of that crime for some thirty years and one who may have used her reputation in order to get her own way with some of her credulous neighbors. Modern commentators have found her one of the more noteworthy victims of the Salem witchcraft hysteria, probably because at her preliminary hearing she defended herself with vigor and without respect for authority.

Testimony against Susanna Martin in 1692 indicates that she was accused of witchcraft as early as 1660 or 1661. On May 11, 1692, William Browne of Salisbury, aged 70 or thereabouts, deposed that thirty-one or thirty-two years ago his wife Elizabeth had seen the apparition of Susanna Martin and thereafter was frequently tormented physically until the church appointed a day of "humilling" on her behalf. After Elizabeth complained to a Grand Jury that Goody Martin was the one who had bewitched her, Susanna made vague threatening comments to her. About two months later, Elizabeth became insane, a condition in which she continued in 1692. No record of proceedings on Elizabeth's charges against Susanna has been found.

In 1669, another accusation was brought against Susanna: at Salisbury Quarterly Court, April 13, 1669, "Susanna Martyn, wife of Georg Martyn, was ordered to be commited to prison unless she give bond for l00 li. for appearance at the next Court of Assistants upon suspicion of witchcraft". At the same session of the Quarterly Court, George Martyn sued William Sargent, Jr., for slander, for "saying that said Martyn's wife had a child at Capt. Wiggin's and was wringing its neck in Capt. Wiggin's stable, when a man entered, and she took him by the collar and told him she would be the death of him if he told"; he also sued Thomas Sargent "for saying that his son Gorge Marttin was a bastard and that (his son) Richard Marttin was Goodwife Marttin's imp," that is, a witch's familiar. These suits against the gossiping Sargents did not go well for the Martins. The suit against Thomas Martin was withdrawn; that against William Sargent brought a verdict for the defendant, although the court did not concur, an empty gesture, since the same court session committed Susanna on a charge of witchcraft." Witchcraft was a capital crime, which meant that it fell under the jurisdiction of the Court of Assistants, the records of which, at least so far as they have been published, are inadequate for this period and do not include anything about the charge against Susanna.

Perhaps while that charge was still pending, Susanna was again in legal difficulty. At Hampton Quarterly Court, Oct 12, 1669, Georg Martyn was sued by Christopher Bartlet because Susanna had said that Bartlett was "a liar and a thief and had stolen leather"; the verdict was for the plaintiff.

That suit was nothing compared with the charges brought against the Martin's son Richard at the same court session. Richard had been "presented by the grand jury at the Salisbury court, 1669, for abusing his father and throwing him down, taking away his clothes and holding up an axe against him." The court found him guilty and sentenced him to be whipped ten stripes at Hampton Meeting House on Oct 14, 1669.

The Martins continued to supply scandal. Susanna's father, Richard North, died at Salisbury March l, 1667/8, apparently leaving a will dated Jan 26 1648/9. This will, the authenticity of which was later questioned, left L5 to daughter Mary Jones, wife of Thomas Jones; L5 to grandchild Ann Bates, child of daughter Sarah, "pvided shee bee aliue att my decease"; to daughter Susanna Martune, wife of George Martyn, "twenty shillings & the tenn pound which hir husband the said George Martyn doth owe vnto mee for cattle which hee receiued of mee"; and the residue to "deare & welbeeloued wyfe Vrsula North," who was made executrix.

The original document did not indicate later additions, but calls North's granddaughter Ann Bates, even though she did not marry Bates until some years later; and it leaves Susanna a debt owed by her husband to his father-in-law even though that debt had not been contracted when the will was supposedly executed.

On April 30, 1692, six years after her husband's death, another warrant was issued for Susanna Martin's arrest for witchcraft, this time as part of the hysteria that had begun several months earlier at Salem Village through the accusations of several "afflicted girls" who claimed that they were being tormented by witches. Susanna was arrested on May 1, and a preliminary examination on the same day was noteworthy for the vigor of her answers and for the lack of respect she showed for the presiding magistrates. She laughed when the "afflicted girls" went into a fit and when asked why she did so, she responded, "Well I may at such folly." When she was asked what ailed the girls, Susanna said: " I do not desire to spend my judgm't upon it." She stated bluntly that she did not think the girls were bewitched. Her answer to the request that she provide her thoughts about them was impertinent: "Why my thoughts are my own, when they are in, but when they are out, they are anothers." Other replies show that she was aware of the seriousness of her situation and that she denied guilt fervently. But she kept her sharp tongue even at the end of the examination: "Do you not see how God evidently discovers you?" "No, not a bit for that." "All the congregation think so." "Let them think w't they will."

The jurors thought what they would and indicted her.

Susanna's lack of respect for authority was not, of course, the main reason that she was indicted, though it can hardly have prejudiced the magistrates in her favor. The Rev. John Hale, minister of the Beverly Church, who had supported the trials but had second thoughts after his wife was accused, states, rather clumsily, that Susanna was one of those who "had been suspected by their Neighbours several years, because after quarrelling with their Neighbours, evils had befallen those Neighbours".

In several instances, depositions indicate that Susanna was given to muttering enigmatic phrases that could be--and were, at least by hindsight--interpreted as threats. The evidence that any accused witch uttered such threats is weakened by the tendency of the superstitious to create something ominous out of nothing, but the cumulative effect of testimony against many accused witches throughout several centuries suggests that some consciously fostered suspicions about themselves in order to get their way in village dealings or simply to increase their own sense of importance.

Among the more interesting depositions against Susanna is that of William Brown, who believed that his wife Elizabeth had been driven insane by Susanna some thirty years earlier. John Pressy testified that about twenty-four years previously, he had followed a light "about the bignes of a half bushell" and gave it "at Lest forty blows." Later he saw Susanna and decided that she was the source of the light, to the modern mind an obvious ignis fatuus. Joseph Ring, aged 27, deposed that he had seen several "mery meettings" with "most dreadfull shapes noyses & scretching" and that among those present was Susanna Martin, testimony that suggests that for him superstition was handmaiden to mental imbalance. In comparison, the deposition of Joseph Knight is tame: he believed that around Oct 20, 1686, Susanna had picked up a dog running at her side and changed it into a "Kegg or halfe feirkin".

The most famous accusation against Susanna merits quotation in full:

Sarah Attkinson aged forty Eight years or thereabouts testifieth thatt Some time in the Spring of the year about Eighteen years Since Susanna Martin came unto our house att Newbury from Amsbury in an Extraordinary dirty Season, w'n She came into our house I asked whether she came from Amsbury a fot She Sayd She did I asked how She could come in this time a foott and bid my children make way for her to come to the fire to dry her selfe She replyed She was as dry as I was and turn'd her Coats on Side, and I could nott pceive thatt the Soule of her Shows were wett I was startled att itt that she should come soe dry and told her thatt I should have been wett up to my knees if I Should have come So farr on foott she replyed thatt She scorn'd to have a drabled tayle.

The hint is, of course, that Susanna flew from Amesbury to Newbury. This testimony has frequently been cited as the main reason for Susanna's troubles in 1692. Other testimony, especially Joesph Ring's about witches's meetings, was almost certainly more significant, but it is easy to see why Sarah Atkinson's description of a simple incident has struck modern commentators. In it, we hear Sarah's volubility and Susanna's sharp-tongued response, with its implied insult that Sarah had let fester for eighteen years.

Susanna Martin underwent the indignity of a physical examination on June 2, 1692. Such examinations were intended to discover whether the accused had any physical abnormalities, especially anything that could be used to suckle a familiar or even the devil himself. Susanna was examined twice during the same day; at neither examination was any abnormality discovered, but at the first her breasts appeared to be full and at the second slack. Doubtless the magistrates found this apparent indication that she had actually suckled even more satisfactory than an abnormal "witch's teat."

At her trial held at Salem on 29 or 30 June 1692, Susanna pleaded not guilty but was convicted and hanged at Gallows Hill on July 19, with four others tried at the same time: Sarah Good, Elizabeth How, Sarah Wildes, and the famous Rebecca Nurse. Cotton Mather choose her case as one of the five that he detailed in his "Wonders of the Invisible World" (1693), a defense of the proceedings that, as modern scholars have shown, he would rather not have made. Mather clearly considered these five the most obviously guilty, and he commented that Susanna "was one of the most Impudent, Scurrilous, wicked creatures in the world; and she did now throughout her whole Trial discover herself to be such an one. Yet when she was asked, what she had to say for her self? her Cheef Plea was, That she had Led a most virtuous and Holy Life!" I suspect that her scorn of authority led Mather to this outburst, for Cotton Mather--the son of the Rev. Increase Mather and the grandson of two other prominent Puritan divines, Richard Mather and John Cotton--never, in his own estimation, received fully from the third generation of Puritans the respect that he thought his position and ancestry merited.

But we must acknowledge that no one had leapt to Susanna's defense. When the venerable Lt. Robert Pike marshalled opposition to the trials, it was in behalf of Mary Bradbury, not of Susanna Martin, who was left to defend herself, unsuccessfully but with a sharpness of tongue that makes her personality still vivid after nearly 100 years.

With her execution, Susanna Martin disappears from contemporary records. In 1711, the General Court granted compensation to many of the victims or their heirs, but Susanna's children made no application to the authorities and they received nothing. Susanna was not among those whose attainder was lifted.

See Whittier's Poem, "The Witch's Daughter".

George MARTIN and Susanna NORTH had the following children:

i. Richard MARTIN was born on 29 JUN 1647 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. (SOURCE: Early Vital Records of Essex County, Massachusetts to 1850 for Salisbury.) He died on 11 MAR 1729 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts.
ii. George MARTIN was born on 21 OCT 1648 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. (SOURCE: Early Vital Records of Essex County, Massachusetts to 1850 for Salisbury.) He died young.
iii. John MARTIN was born on 26 JAN 1650 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. (SOURCE: Early Vital Records of Essex County, Massachusetts to 1850 for Salisbury.) He died on 6 OCT 1693 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He has Ancestral File number 9CQQ-W1.
23 iv. Esther MARTIN.
v. Jane MARTIN was born on 2 NOV 1656 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. (SOURCE: Early Vital Records of Essex County, Massachusetts to 1850 for Salisbury.)
vi. Abigail MARTIN was born on 10 SEP 1659 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. (SOURCE: Early Vital Records of Essex County, Massachusetts to 1850 for Salisbury.)
vii. William MARTIN was born on 11 DEC 1662 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. (SOURCE: Early Vital Records of Essex County, Massachusetts to 1850 for Salisbury.)
viii. Samuel MARTIN was born on 29 SEP 1667 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. (SOURCE: Early Vital Records of Essex County, Massachusetts to 1850 for Salisbury.)

48. William SARGENT is the same as person number 34.

49. Elizabeth PERKINS is the same as person number 35.

50. Anthony COLBY is the same as person number 32.

51. Susannah is the same as person number 33.

52. Pasco FOOTE was born before 1608 in Bedfordshire, England. He died on 28 SEP 1670 in Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts. Occupation: Fisherman & Merchant, Probated 4-30-1671. In 1636 Granted 40 acres of land by the town of Salem,MA

16 Jan 1636/37 The Town of Salem gave him a Grant of 1/2 acre of Winter Harbor (on Winter Island) to build upon and to carry on the fishing trade. He could hold it fo life or a term of years and is was not inheritable [history of Salem, Perley];

10 Apr 1637 Was Assigned a portion of the land by the Town of Salem at Frost Fish Brook, nest to Goodman Barney"if there be so much or else pasco ffoot to be left out";

14 Mar 1640 He signed a petition to remove to his land a Jefferyes Creek (also known as) "Manchester".

26 Apr 1649 Took the oath of Fidelity and was sworn as Constable of Manchester [Essex Antiquarian]

1649 to 1652 Lived in Manchester.

abt 1652 Moved back to Salem.

6 Feb 1653 United himself to the First Church of Salem[Ist Church , Salem Church Records]

6 Dec 1653 8 Children baptised (ie) Jon, Nalaky, Samuel, Elizabeth, Mary, Isaac, Pasca & Abigail [Ref: Essex Inst Vol IV (5 Oct 1864) pg 243]

16 Jun 1655 A John Foote, (his son) " A Seamen of Manchester" dies at Boston [Boston Vitals]

In Jun 1670 Was a signer of a Petition in Salem to buil a " New Meeting House" 21 Sep 1670 Makes a will and his children: Isaac, Samuel, Pasco, Abigail, Mary, and Elizabeth (who is married to a Bertch);

30 Apr 1671 His will is probated in the Essex County Court and "mentions son (unnamed - probably Isaac), Daughters Elizabeth, Mary ffoot, sons Samuel and Pasco, dau. Abigaile ffoot" [Essex Institute Vol II, pg 70] He was married to Mrs Pasco FOOTE before 1628 in England.

53. Mrs Pasco FOOTE was born before 1613 in Bedfordshire, England. Pasco FOOTE and Mrs Pasco FOOTE had the following children:

i. John FOOTE was born before 1628 in Bedfordshire, England. He died on 16 JUN 1655 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.
ii. Malachi FOOTE was born before 1629 in Bedfordshire, England. He died about 1670 in Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts.
26 iii. Samuel FOOTE.
iv. Elizabeth FOOTE was born before 1631 in Bedfordshire, England. She died after 1670 in Massachusetts.
v. Mary FOOTE was born before 1632 in Bedfordshire, England. She died after 1670 in Massachusetts.
vi. Isaac FOOTE was born about 1633 in Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts.
vii. Pasco FOOTE was born about 1634 in Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts. He died in 1685 in Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts.
viii. Abigail FOOTE was born about 1635 in Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts.

54. Richard CURRIER was born on 3 MAY 1616 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. He died on 22 FEB 1686/87 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He received land in Salisbury in 1641 and '42; a commoner and taxed in 1650. His name heads one list of the firs commoners of Amesbury, 1654-55, where he was town clerk after Macy, and received land in 1654, '58, '59, '62, '64, and '68. He and Macy were authorized to build a saw mill in 1656, and he owned a saw mill right in 1675. In the seating of the Amesbury meeting house, 1667, his name stands first, "to set at the tabell;" but he was apparently a member of the Salisbury church in 1677. He was evidently one of the most prominet men in the new town.
SOURCES: (1). Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996, Family History Library, 35 North West Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150; (2). "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts" by David W. Hoyt. He was married to Mrs Ann CURRIER before 1636.

55. Mrs Ann CURRIER was born about 1618 in England. She died before 26 OCT 1676 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. Richard CURRIER and Mrs Ann CURRIER had the following children:

i. Samuel CURRIER was born about 1636 in Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts. He died on 14 MAR 1712/13 in Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts.
27 ii. Hannah CURRIER.
iii. Thomas CURRIER was born on 18 MAR 1645/46 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He signed a will on 25 AUG 1708 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He died on 27 SEP 1712 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He will was proved on 3 NOV 1712 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He has Ancestral File number 84PS-L4. SOURCES: (1). Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996, Family History Library, 35 North West Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150; (2). "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts" by David W. Hoyt.


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