Thomas Colby (1650 - 1691)

Born 8 Mar 1650 in Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Hannah (Rowell) Colby — married 16 Sep 1674 in Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts, Bay Colony

Descendants

Died 30 Mar 1691 at age 41 in Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Biography

Thomas COLBY was born on 8 March 1650 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He died on 30 March 1691 at Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. Thomas, his brother Samuel, and their nephew John Colby, took the oath of allegiance and fidelity on 20 December 1677, at Amesbury. 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 30 March 1691. The inventory of his estate was taken 31 March 1691, and the estate was divided in November 1697. Hannah married second, ca. 1691 to Henry Blaisdell, son of Henry and Mary (Hadden) Blaisdell. She died in Amesbury on 9 August 1707.

Parents: Anthony COLBY and Susannah.

Spouse: Hannah ROWELL. Thomas COLBY and Hannah ROWELL were married on 16 September 1674 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. Children were: Thomas COLBY, Hannah COLBY, Abraham COLBY, Isaac COLBY, Jacob COLBY.

Sources

• The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III

• The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts by David W. Hoyt.

• Early Vital Records of Essex County, Massachusetts to 1850. Salisbury

• The Colby Family in Early America by Frederick Lewis Weis, Caledonia, The Colonial Press, Published 1970.

• Old Norfolk County Oaths of Allegiance, in Perley, Sidney, ed. Essex Antiquarian. (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Antiquarian), Vol 6 Page 202. Thomas Colby took "ye oath of Allegiance & Fidelity before Major Robert Pike ye 20th day of December, 1677" in Amesbury.

• Anthony Colby, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), Online database, Accessed 14 January 2010. from NEHGS: "Thomas, b. Salisbury 8 March 1650; married in Amesbury 16 September 1674 to Hannah Rowell."

• Cutter, William Richard Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Volume 2, Published 1908. Reference Pages 574-575