Anthony COLBY 10th & 10th Gr. Grandfather - The Great Mirgation Begins

ANTHONY COLBY ORIGIN: Horbling, Lincolnshire MIGRATION: 1630 FIRST RESIDENCE: Boston REMOVES: Cambridge 1632, Ipswich 1637, Salisbury 1640, Amesbury, Salisbury OCCUPATION: Sawmill owner. CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: "Anthony Chaulby" admitted to Boston church as member #93, which would be in the winter of 1630/1 [BChR 14]. On 2 August 1646 "Anthony Colby according to his desire had letters of dismission" from Boston church "unto the Church at Salsbury" [BChR 47]. FREEMAN: 14 May 1634 [MBCR 1:369]. EDUCATION: Could sign his name [GMC50 125]. OFFICES: Essex grand jury, 9 April 1650, 1 October 1650 [EQC 1:189, 201]. Petit jury, 26 September 1648, 12 April 1653, 3 October 1654 [EQC 1:149, 279, 369]. ESTATE: Granted three acres in Cambridge behind the Pine Swamp, 5 January 1634/5 [CaTR 11]; received a proportional share of one in the undivided meadow ground, 20 August 1635 [CaTR 13]; in the list of those with "houses" in Cambridge (number of "houses" torn, but in the West End), 8 February 1635/6 [CaTR 19]. In the Cambridge land inventory on 10 October 1635 "Anthony Couldby" held five parcels of land: one house with backside, about three acres, in the West End; one house with planting ground, about three acres, in West End Field; three acres by the Pine Swamp; four acres in the Neck of Land; and four acres in the Great Marsh [CaBOP 32]; at least one of these lots, and perhaps more, purchased by Simon Crosby [CaBOP 67]. The inventory of the intestate estate of "Anthony Collby, late of Salisbury" was taken 9 March 1660 by Samuel Hall, Thomas Bradbury and Thomas Barnett. It totalled £349 19s. 4d. of which £185 10s. was real estate: "a dwelling house & barn & fourteen acres of upland in tillage," £70; "a pasture of about thirty acres," £20; "2 lots at ... Mr. Hall's Farm," £5 10s.; "about eighteen acres of fresh meadow," £40; the "accommodation" bought of Mr. Groome, £6; "two lots of sweepage & one higgledee piggildee lot," £4; "sixty acres of upland towards Pentucett bounds with meadow to be laid out," £10; and the "eighth part of the old saw mill," £30. Among the interesting items inventoried were numerous sawmill blades and accoutrements, and "old swords and two old muskets, £1" [EPR 1:407-10]. Near the end of her life, Susannah Whittredge was described by the selectmen of Amesbury as an ancient and helpless widow belonging to the town of Amesbury ... notwithstanding a comfortable and competent maintenance being allowed unto her out of the estate of her former deceased husband Anthony Coleby ... yet she being a woman attended with many infirmities both of body and mind, is utterly incapable of doing anything that may contribute to her livelihood or comfortable subsistence ... she living alone, wanting such help and attendance as may be convenient, continually laboring under such infirmities of body as usually attend old age often times sick and many times destitute of divers necessaries and always of the conveniences of life, any otherwise than she is supplied by one or two of her children, whose families in the meantime want the same at home, and very much defective and decayed in her understanding ..., September Term 1682 [EQC 8:388]. The court ordered that her sons, Samuel, Isaac and Thomas Colby, provide for her and sell what land was necessary to maintain her from the Colby estate [EQC 8:388]. The inventory of the estate of "the widow Susannah Whitridge who deceased July the 8th or thereabouts in the year of Grace 1689" was taken 9 September 1691 and totalled £151 15s. including real estate valued at £143: "5 acres of tillage"; "half the ferry meadow"; "a lot in the division called the great farms"; "a lot of upland in a division called [illegible]"; "a lot in the ox pasture division"; "a lot near the north meadow"; "a lot in Bugsmore division"; and "a lot in the great swamp" [EPR 304:400]. The final division of the estate of Susannah Whitridge on 5 August 1700 allowed a double portion to "Samll Coleby Eldest [surviving] Son" £1. 12s. 6d., and equal shares of 16s. 3d. to: "the children of John Colby..."; "the children of Isaac Colby..."; "the children of Thomas Colby..."; "the children of Sarah Colby..."; "the children of Rebeckah Colby..."; and "the children of Mary Colby..." [EPR 307:176-77]. BIRTH: Baptized Horbling, Lincolnshire, 8 September 1605 [GMC50 123]. DEATH: Salisbury 11 February 1660[/1]. MARRIAGE: By 1633 Susanna ([HADDON]) Waterman, widow of _____ WATERMAN of Boston (land "at first was granted to [blank] Waterman who deceased. Anthony Colbye married his widow & they two sold the said land unto James Pennyman..." [SLR 11:176-77]); she married (3) by 1663 William Whitridge (petitions as Susanna "Whittredge formerly Colbie" to sell real estate 28 March 1682 [EPR 1:409]); she died 8 July 1689. CHILDREN: i JOHN, bp. Boston 8 September 1633 [BChR 278]; m. Salisbury 14 January 1655 Frances Hoyt. ii SARAH, b. say 1635; m. Salisbury 6 March 1653 Orlando Bagley. iii SAMUEL, b. say 1639; m. by about 1668 Elizabeth Sargent (first recorded child b. Haverhill 1 June 1670), daughter of WILLIAM SARGENT. (William Sargent names "my daughter Elizabeth the wife of Samuel Colby" and two of her Colby children in his will written 24 March 1670/1 [EPR 2:438-39].) iv ISAAC, b. Salisbury 6 July 1640; m. by 1669 Martha Parratt (eldest child b. Haverhill 24 January 1669/70) [Rowley Fam 266]. v REBECCA, b. Salisbury 11 March 1643; m. Haverhill 9 September 1661 John William Jr. vi MARY, b. Salisbury 19 September 1647; m. Amesbury 23 September 1668 William Sargent, son of WILLIAM SARGENT. (Ordered to be whipped or pay a fine for fornication, 12 April 1670 [EQC 4:237].) vii THOMAS, b. Salisbury 8 March 1650; m. Amesbury 16 September 1674 Hannah Rowell. ASSOCIATIONS: His association with JOHN BOSWORTH, GARRETT HADDON and JOSEPH REDDING implies that he may have been a servant of SIMON BRADSTREET. This strongly supports the suggestion of John B. Threlfall that the Anthony Colby baptized at Horbling, Lincolnshire, was the immigrant [GMC50 123]. COMMENTS: Earlier writers erroneously placed Anthony Colby's origin in Beccles, Suffolkshire, but in 1975 Glade Ian Nelson showed that the Beccles Anthony was still in England long after the immigrant was settled in the Massachusetts Bay [TAG 51:65-71]. More recently John B. Threlfall made what appears to be the correct identification in Horbling, Lincolnshire [GMC50 123]. Anthony Colby was not at that time and in that area as rare a name as one might think, so the simple appearance of a baptism at about the right time is in itself not sufficient evidence. But the occurrence of a baptism in Horbling, the home of Simon Bradstreet, who seems to be indirectly connected with Colby, makes this very likely the correct solution to the problem. The identity of Susannah _____ is one of the perennial mysteries of the period. Several authors have suggested that Susannah's maiden name was Haddon, given that Colby and Garrett Haddon were neighbors and associates. Others have suggested that she was the daughter of William Sargent, and others that she was a Nutting, all without support. Her identity is currently unknown. Among other defects to be found in the literature regarding Colby and his family, there is no obvious reason why Savage said there were four children earlier than Isaac and no support has been found for Sarah's birthdate given by Waterman. Anthony Colby was ordered to build four rods of fence around the common lands in Cambridge in a list dated 2 January 1632/3 (but probably from a year or two later) [CaTR 5]. At Salem Court on 3 October 1637 "Anthony Colebie" of Ipswich sued John Hall of Saugus [EQC 1:6]. William Osgood and the other part-owners of the old mill at Salisbury were brought to task for failing to pay the town its share of lumber agreed upon in return for allowing the mill to be built on Salisbury land. Osgood had to sue the heirs of the other owners, including "Susan Whitrige, administratrix of Anthony Colbye," to recover boards for Salisbury, which he did at court September Term, 1682. Among the depositions establishing the number of boards due were several describing immigration into Essex County, such as that of John Pressy "aged about forty-four years, testified that the first summer he came into this country, in 1651 ... I do well remember that the saw mill at Salisbury was one thing that was accounted a rare thing and I did go to see it and I did see it going and sawing boards that very summer" [EQC 8:250, 373-75].

The Great Migration Begins Sketches PRESERVED PURITAN Ancestry Chain 1: Anthony COLBY Immigrant b.1605, Isaac COLBY b.1640, Dorothy COLBY b.1677, Martha HADLEY b.1704, Martha SARGENT b.1725, Moses QUIMBY Rev.WarVet.b.1755, Betsey QUIMBY b.1795, Almeda Sophia ROUNDY b.1829, Charles PARKER b.1853, Laura Elizabeth PARKER b.1889, Kirt DeMar WOOD b.1923, Lark, TR. Ancestry Chain 2: Anthony COLBY Immigrant b.1605, Mary COLBY b.1647, Phillip SARGENT Sr. b.1672, Philip SARGENT Jr. b.1703, Martha SARGENT b.1725, Moses QUIMBY Rev.WarVet.b.1755, Betsey QUIMBY b.1795, Almeda Sophia ROUNDY b.1829, Charles PARKER b.1853, Laura Elizabeth PARKER b.1889, Kirt DeMar WOOD b.1923,Lark, TR,

First Settlers of Amesbury Massachusetts

First Settlers of Amesbury

On the Amesbury records, …dated March 19, 1654-5, the following list of the “present inhabitanc and comenors heare in the new towne.”

Richard Currier George Marting [MARTIN] John Hoyt Philip Chalice Thomas Macy William Huntington John Bayly [BAILEY] Henry Blasdale John Colby

William Barnes Vallentine Rowel Thomas Barnard Anthony Colby John Weed Jarret Haddon Edward Cottle [Orlando Bagly]* William Sargent”

*Orlando Bagly is on the original “Macy book,” but not on the official

records, nor on any list of land grants.

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George MARTIN:

Last will & testament of George Martin of Amesbury, MA: 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.

Additional information: George Martyn was born circa 1618 at near, Colchester, England. He married Hannah (Unknown) before 1643. George Martyn married Susannah North, daughter of Richard North and Joan Bertram, on 11-Aug-1646 at Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. George Martyn died before 23-Nov-1686 at Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts. His estate was probated on 23-Nov-1686.

He was also known as George Martin. He emigrated from Wales. He immigrated circa 1639 to Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, He came as a servant to Samuel Winsely. He was a proprietor between 1642 and 1664. He purchased Job Cole's land rights in East Salisbury circa 1643. He took the oath of fidelity in 1646. On 1650 He was on the list of commoners in Salisbury.

He was a blacksmith. On between 1667 and 1668 George was on the list of Commoners who drew land in Amesbury. Amesbury was derived from the Northwestern part of Salisbury in 1654.

His widow Susannah NORTH was hung as a witch in Salem, MA July 19, 1692.

Ancestral Chain: 10th great grandfather George MARTIN Immigrant b.1618 / Jane MARTIN b.1656 / Samuel HADLEY b.1677 / Martha HADLEY- b.1704 / Martha SARGENT b.1725 / Moses QUIMBY b.1755 / Betsey QUIMBY b.1795 / Almeda Sophia ROUNDY b.1829 / Charles PARKER b.1853 / Laura Elizabeth PARKER b.1889 / Kirt DeMar WOOD b.1923 / Lark / TR

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John BAILEY:

Unknown which John Bailey father of son is named on the monument.

John Bailey Sr. was a weaver by trade and came from Chippenham, Wilts, England. He, with his oldest son, John, came over in 1635 in the ship Angel Gabriel, sailing from Bristol, with the expectation of making a home in New England and then sending for his wife and other children, or going back to fetch them over. Unfortunately, he had a terrible experience in the great storm of August 15, 1635, and was shipwrecked off Pemaquid, now Bristol, in Maine....John Bailey, with his son, John, a youth of twenty-two, found their way from the inhospitable shore on which they had been cast to Newbury, and joined the little settlement at Parker River. For only two years did he abide here, and then went in 1637 further into the wilderness, taking with him one William Schooler as a helper, and built a log cabin on the further side of the Merrimack near the mouth of the Powow River. The ruins of an old cellar on what is known as Bailey's Hill can still be discerned....On June 6, 1637, he and William Schooler were arrested for murder and tried at a Court held at Ipswich. At the trial it was demonstrated that John Bailey had naught whatever to do with the murder, and he was discharged....In 1639 John Bailey, was again in trouble. He was brought before the Court and fined five pounds, a very heavy fine, "for buying lands of Indians without leave of court, with condition if he yield up the lands the fine to be remitted."...In 1639 Colchester, afterwards called Salisbury, was settled and John Bailey was one of the proprietors, having lots assigned to him in first division. Probably he and his son resided in what is now the village of Salisbury soon after 1639. He still retained his holdings up the Merrimack where it would appear he had an exclusive right of fishing....About 1650 John Bailey, who was then an old man, went to live with his son John Bailey in Newbury....He died...November 2, 1651.

John Bailey, the second of the name, was born probably at Chippenham about 1613, and came over with his father. In the first allotment of lands in Salisbury hew was granted a homestead. He married Eleanor Emery, a daughter (probably) of John Emery. He was taxed in Salisbury in 1652, 1653, and 1654, and owned land there in 1658. Just when he came over to Newbury side to live is uncertain. He was living there apparently in 1651 when his father died. He settled "on the plain a quarter of a mile from Deer Island." In 1652 he had a dwelling house and twenty acres of lad, which in 1653 he sold to Joanna Huntington. [his sister]. In 1669 he took the oath of allegiance, and again in 1678. He was elected Constable several times, and was a Selectman in 1673 and possibly during other years. He died in March, 1691, and his widow Eleanor died in 1700.

(See: http://the-red-thread.net/genealogy/descendants-of-John-Bailey-1590.html)

Ancestral Chain: 12 great grandfather John BAILEY Immigrant b.1585 / 11 great grandfather John II BAILEY Immigrant b.1613 / Joseph BAILEY b.1648 / Lydia BAILEY b.1695 / John JEFFORDS b.1724 / John JEFFORDS b.1746 / Lucretia JEFFORDS b.1766 / Amariah RAWSON b.1787 / Adaline RAWSON b.1811 / Mary DUNN b.1833 / Harriett Camilla ENSIGN b.1859 / George Ensign SMITH b.1898 / Camilla SMITH-14 b.1926 / Lark / JR

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Macy-Colby House

Anthony COLBY:

Anthony COLBY (September 1605 - 11 February 1661) was the son of Thomas and Anne Jackson Colby, born in Horbling, Lincolnshire, England. He came with the Winthrop Fleet in 1630. He married Susannah, Widow Waterman, probably in Boston in 1632. They had eight children. He was a planter. His first home was in the disputed territory between Cambridge and Watertown which was given to Cambridge in 1632, and was on the road to Mount Auburn close by the river. 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. He built in what is now Amesbury, Jarrett Haddon bought the lot adjoining and came with his family. On this land Anthony and Susannah settled 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 purchased the house and land west of the Ferry Road from Thomas Macy in 1654. At the time of the sale, Macy had need of funds to flee to Nantucket to escape the penalty of sheltering two Quakers during a thunderstorm.

Susannah (possibly 1616 - 8 July 1689) was three times a widow. She lived in the Macy-Colby house until her death....She had to defend her homestead against the claim of Thomas Macy from whom it had been purchased; but later he denied the sale and tried to expel the widow by legal process. He was unsuccessful.

Ancestral Chain 1: 10th great grandfather Anthony COLBY Immigrant b.1605 / Mary COLBY b.1647 / Phillip SARGENT Sr. b.1672 / Philip SARGENT Jr. b.1703 / Martha SARGENT b.1725 / Moses QUIMBY b.1755 / Betsey QUIMBY b.1795 / Almeda Sophia ROUNDY b.1829 / Charles PARKER b.1853 / Laura Elizabeth PARKER b.1889 / Kirt DeMar WOOD b.1923 / Lark / TR.

Ancestral Chain 2: 10th great grandfather Anthony COLBY Immigrant b.1605 / Isaac COLBY b.1640 / Dorothy COLBY b.1677 / Martha HADLEY b.1704 / Martha SARGENT b.1725 / Moses QUIMBY b.1755 / Betsey QUIMBY b.1795 / Almeda Sophia ROUNDY b.1829 / Charles PARKER b.1853 / Laura Elizabeth PARKER b.1889 / Kirt DeMar WOOD b.1923 / Lark / TR

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William SARGENT:

Born: 1598 Bath, somerset, England.

Origin: Unknown.
Migration: 1632.
First Residence: Ipswich.
Removes: Newbury, Hampton, Salisbury, Amesbury.

He with twelve other men, and his daughters Lydia, Sarah, and Mary, commenced the settlement of Ipswich, Massachusetts. He soon after went to Newbury, Massachusetts and with others commenced a settlement there. About 1738, he with others commenced a settlement at Hampton, New Hampshire. About 1740, he removed to Salisbury, New Hampshire and was one of eighteen original proprietors, who settled in New Salisbury, now Amesbury, Massachusetts.

Occupation: Seaman / mariner.
Church Membership: Admission to a Massachusetts Bay church prior to 22 May 1639 implied by freemanship.
Freeman: 22 May 1639 (as "Mr. Willi[am] Sergent") [ MBCR 1:375].
Education: Signed his name to his will and to deeds.

Offices: Essex grand jury, 13 April 1652 [ EQC 1:251]. Petit jury, 8 April
1662, 24 June 1662, 13 April 1669, 12 April 1670 [ EQC 1:377, 385, 4:128,
235]. [Some of this service may belong to William Sargent of Gloucester.]
Sworn clerk of the train band of Salisbury on 8 April 1651 [ EQC 1:223].

Married: 1) m. 1633 Amesbury, Essex, MA - Elizabeth PERKINS she and her parents John PERKINS and Judith GATER emigrated on the Lyon with Roger Williams in 1631. [Elizabeth's sister Mary (Perkins) Bradbury was convicted of witchcraft in Salem, MA in 1692, but was eventually freed.]
2) m. Joanna PINDER 18 September 1670 Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts, daughter of Henry and Mary PINDER. Joanna was the widow of Valentine ROWELL she later married Richard CURRIER.

COMMENTS: William "Sargeant" sued Mr. William Hook of Salisbury for 56s. in corn 26 December 1643 [ EQC 1:55]. He acknowledged judgment in favor of Mr. Jonathan Wade 26 September 1648 [ EQC 1:147]. Michael Spencer sued him for detaining corn and other goods 2 January 1650 [ EQC 1:205]. Hard words were exchanged between the Sargents and their near neighbors, the Martins. Either William Sr. or Jr. was sued for slander by George Martin, who claimed Sargent had called his wife a witch 13 April 1669 [ EQC 4:129]. Martin sued Thomas Sargent for saying that his son George Martin was a bastard and that Richard Martin was Goodwife Martin's imp [ EQC 4:129]. In 1672 William Sargent and Joanna his wife sued Christopher Osgood for debt due part of the estate of Joanna's late husband, Valentine Rowell [ EQC 5:20].

Died: March 1675 Salem, Essex, Massachusetts.
Buried: The Corner Cemetery Amsbury, MA.

Ancestral Chain: 10th great grandfather William SARGENT Immigant b.1598 / William SARGENT Rev. b.1645 / Phillip SARGENT Sr.-5248 b.1672 / Philip SARGENT Jr.-5242 b.1703 / Martha SARGENT b.1725 / Moses QUIMBY b.1755 / Betsey QUIMBY b.1795 / Almeda Sophia ROUNDY b.1829 / Charles PARKER b.1853 / Laura Elizabeth PARKER b.1889 / Kirt DeMar WOOD b.1923 / Lark / TR

Our grandfather Anthony COLBY - is grandfather of Prophets

Our Relationship to the Prophet Joseph Smith

(our common ancestors 1. Anthony and Susanna COLBY)

1. Anthony COLBY (abt. 1606) Of Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts and is wife Susanna HADDON (abt 1806) of Boston, Suffolk, MA.

Our tenth great grandparents Anthony and Susanna COLBY had eight children, two of them are our ancestors, another is a ancestor of the Prophet Joseph SMITH Jr. Making us cousins of Joseph SMITH Jr. and his mother Lucy MACK.

2. Isaac COLBY (6 Jul 1640) Salisbury, Essex, MA [brother / sisters]

2. Sarah COLBY ( Abt 1635) Cambridge, Middlesex, MA

2. Mary COLBY(19 Sep 1647) Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts

3. Dorothy COLBY (15 Jun 1677) Amesbury, Essex, MA, daughter of Isaac COLBY
[1 cousin to Sarah BAGLEY / 1 cousin to Phillip SARGENT]

3. Sarah BAGLEY (2 Mar 1662/1663) Boston, Suffolk, MA daughter of Sarah COLBY

3. Phillip SARGENT Sr. (12 Aug 1672) Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts, son of Mary COLBY
[1 cousin to Sarah BAGLEY / 1 cousin to Dorothy COLBY]

4. Martha HADLEY (23 Oct 1704) Amesbury, Essex, MA, daughter of Dorothy COLBY.
[2 cousin to Ebenezer MACK and 2 cousin to Phillip SARGENT who was her husband]

4. Ebenezer MACK (8 Dec 1697) Lyme, New London, CT

4. Phillip SARGENT Jr. (9 May 1731) Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts
[2 cousin to Ebenezer MACK and 2 cousin to Martha HADLEY who was his wife]

5. Martha SARGENT (14 Jul 1725) Amesbury, Essex, MA
[twice 3 cousin to Solomon MACK]

5. Solomon MACK (15 Sep 1732) Lyme, New London, CT

6. Moses QUIMBY (29 Sep 1755) Kingston, Rockingham, NH
[twice a 4 cousin to Lucy MACK]

6. Lucy MACK (8 Jul 1775) Gilsum, Cheshire, NH

7. Betsey QUIMBY (29 Jun 1795) Lunenburg, Essex, VT
[twice 5 cousin to Joseph SMITH Jr.]

7. Joseph SMITH, Jr. (23 Dec 1805) Sharon, Windsor, VT

8. Almeda Sophia ROUNDY (7 Mar 1829) Spafford, Onondaga, NY
[twice 5 cousin 1 times removed to Joseph SMITH Jr.]
[twice 5 cousin to Joseph F. SMITH]

9. Charles PARKER (30 Dec 1853) Centerville, Davis, UT
[twice 5 cousin 2 times removed to Joseph SMITH Jr.]
[twice 7 cousin to Joseph Fielding SMITH]

10. Laura Elizabeth PARKER (24 Jan 1889) Kanarraville, Iron, UT
[twice 5 cousin 3 times removed to Joseph SMITH Jr.]

11. Kirt DeMar WOOD (12 Dec 1923) Hurricane, Washington, UT
[twice 5 cousin 4 times removed to Joseph SMITH Jr.]

12. Lark
[twice 5 cousin 5 times removed to Joseph SMITH Jr.]

13. TR
[twice 5 cousin 6 times removed to Joseph SMITH Jr.]

Anthony Colby is your 10th great grandfather - twice

New England Colby Family Founder

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 Colby is listed as a founder of both Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts.] Anthony Colby died Feb. 11, 1660, aged about 54 years.

Four of our grandfathers listed as founders of Amesbury, MA. Anthony Colby, John Bailey, George Martin, William Sargent

Anthony came to America in the Spring of 1630 on the ship "Arbella" with the "Winthrop Fleet". His first home was in the disputed territory between Cambridge and Watertown which was given to Cambridge in 1632, and was on the road to Mount Auburn close by the river. His close friend was Jarred Haddon. Anthony's wife might have been Jarred's sister. 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 (Jarred Haddon) joined the church in Charlestown and took the freeman's oath in Cambridge on 14 May 1634. Together lay their houselots at East Salisbury and when Jarred 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. 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 house that he bought from Thomas Macy is still standing and can be seen today. Colbys have been living in the house (no electricity, water, or heat other than the fireplaces) until recently. 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. Thomas Macy was a friendly man. A family of Quakers was passing his home in a big rain storm. They asked if they could shelter in his shed until the rain had passed. He said that they could not shelter in his shed, but should come in by the fire. Harboring Quakers was against the law. He got caught. Anthony was his friend and bought the house from him and gave him enough to go to Nantucket to become the founding father of the Macy's stores. Whittier's poem "The Exiles" is based on this story. Bartlett's Corner is the location of the well described in Whittier's poem, "The Captain's Well". The well was dug by a grandson of Anthony's daughter Mary. Colby's have been living in and around Amesbury ever since. Amesbury is a very pretty, quiet, little town with some interesting features.

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Macy - Colby house

— The antiquated brown saltbox on Main Street, Amsebury, MA —

The Macy-Colby House, dating back to 1652, has been named to the National Register of Historic Places. The list captures the most historic and significant places in the United States and preserves them from future development.

one of the fireplaces

According to the little plaque inside (and another attached to the bottom) the cradle was given to the Colbys by their good friend, Susannah North Martin [another one of my grandparents], the famous witch of Salem.

From Wikipedia The Macy-Colby House is an historically significant Eighteenth Century saltbox, located in Amesbury, Massachusetts. The house, at 257 Main Street, was first built in 1654 by Thomas Macy, a merchant who served as Åmesbury's first Town Clerk. A few years later, Macy was forced to leave town, after he allowed a group of Quakers to take shelter in his home for a few hours, during a thunderstorm. ("Harboring Quakers" was considered a criminal offense.) The house was acquired by prominent Amesbury citizen Anthony Colby. Around 1712, the original house built by Macy was torn down. By 1745 the saltbox style house that exists today was completed by Obadiah Colby. The house remained in the Colby family for nine generations, and was used as a private residence by Colby's descendants until 1958, after which time it was acquired by the Daughters of the Revolution, until 2000. The Friends of the Macy-Colby House have maintained the house (now a museum) ever since.

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Ancestory Chain: My children's 7th Great Grandparents were 2nd Cousins. They were Philip Sargent and his wife Martha Hadley who were both the Great Grand children of Anthony Colby. Anthony Colby and Susanna / their daughter Mary Colby / Pillip Sargent / Philip Sargent / his daughter - Martha Sargent / Moses Quimby / Betsey Quimby / Almeda Sophia Roundy / Charles Parker / Larua Elizabeth Parker / Kirt DeMar Wood/ Lark / TR. Anthony Colby and Susanna / their son Isaac Colby / Dorothy Colby / Martha Hadley / her daughter - Martha Sargent / Moses Quimby / Betsey Quimby / Almeda Sophia Roundy / Charles Parker / Larua Elizabeth Parker / Kirt DeMar Wood/ Lark / TR The Colby family tree includes the following notable people: Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little House on the Prairie) Joseph Smith, Jr. (Founder of the Mormon Church) Chester A. Arthur (21st President of the United States) William Egan Colby (CIA) Anthony Colby (Governor of New Hampshire) Gardner Colby (Colby College & President-Wisconsin Central RR) Carlos W. Colby (Congressional Medal of Honor - Vicksburg, 1863) Rear Admiral Harrison Gray Otis Colby (Commander-North Atlantic Fleet) Bainbridge Colby (U. S. Secretary of State, 1920-21) Stoddard B. Colby (Register of the U.S. Treasury) Richard Bruce Cheney (Vice President of the United States, 2001-) Notable people whose descendants married into the Colby family: Susanna North Martin (Salem Witch Trials) Mary Perkins Bradbury (Salem Witch Trials) Hannah Emerson Dustin (Indian Captive) Myles Standish (Mayflower Passenger) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~colby/colbyfam/