Ezekiel Colby Sr (1739 - 1791)

Born 15 Jul 1739 in Amesbury, Essex, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah (Fowler) Colby — married 1756 in Buffalo, Erie, New York

Husband of Sally (Tucker) Colby — married 1758 in Amesbury, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 7 Dec 1791 at age 52 in Corinth, Orange, Republic of Vermont

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Biography

Captain Ezekiel Colby Sr served with Vermont Republic Militia during the American Revolution.

Ezekiel Colby Sr is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A024045.

Ezekiel Colby Sr is an NSSAR Patriot Ancestor.
NSSAR Ancestor #: 136046
Rank: Captain

Capt. Ezekiel COLBY was born on 15 July 1739 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts^[1]. (SOURCE: Early Vital Records of Essex County, Massachusetts to 1850 for Amesbury.) He was baptized on 22 Jul 1739 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He appeared in the census in 1790 in Corinth, Orange County, Vermont. (family of 5.) He died on 7 Dec 1791 at Corinth, Orange County, Vermont. He has Ancestral File Number BPC0-5R.

Captain Ezekiel Colby is described as a yeoman from Newbury who bought his first land in Corinth, Vt from Col. John Taplin on 1 September 1775, one hundred acres for thirty pounds (lot 35 on town plan dated 1790, on what was known as the South Meadow, later to be known as the Elwin Hastings farm). Ezekiel Colby later sold that property to Hezekiah Silloway for three hundred pounds. Ezekiel used the title 'gentleman' on the contract of sale.

Zadock Thompson's "I Gazetteer of Vermont" I (1824) states that the first men to locate in Corenth, Vt were three sugar makers who came over from Newbury, Vt viz: Ezekiel Colby, John Nutting and John Armond, sent by Col. John Taplin in the spring of 1777 to spend several weeks manufacturing maple sugar. Each carried a five pail kettle (yes - that is what they are called.) as they traveled the twelve miles through the woods, guided by a pocket compass. They joined a number of others who were also making sugar in Corinth, including Ezekiel's future son-in-law Joshua Davis.

Nathan Colby and Hannah Worthen.

Research Notes

To research/verify:

• Captain in the Revolutionary War - Captain of Scouts, Town of Corinth as per DAR Ancestor #: A024045 (link above)

• Died without a will.

Name: Ezekiel Colby. ^[2]

File File: Media Format: jpg. Massachusetts File: Media Format: jpg. Ezekiel Colby-1739.

Sources

1. ↑ Topsfield Historical Society, Vital Records of Amesbury, Massachusetts to the end of the Year 1849 (Topsfield, Mass. 1913)(Free e-book)(Records are also available at ma-vitalrecords.org) p. 60
2. ↑ Source: #S638988254 Ancestry Record 9289 #18556313

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• Source: S638988254 Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-2015 Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. Record Collection 9289

• "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001", , FamilySearch
  • (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29P-QZS8 : Sat Mar 09 01:16:12 UTC 2024), Entry for Ezekiel Colby and Nathan Colby, 15 July 1739.
  • (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29P-QZS8 : Sat Mar 09 01:16:12 UTC 2024), Entry for Ezekiel Colby and Nathan Colby, 15 July 1739.
  • (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29P-QDBY : Sat Mar 09 23:46:38 UTC 2024), Entry for Jerusha Colby and Ezekiel Colby, 2 May 1758.

• Goodrich, John E. editor. ’’Rolls of the Soldiers in the Revolutionary War, 1775 to 1783 (The Tuttle Company, Rutland, VT, 1904)

• "Vermont Vital Records, 1760-1954", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XFJN-29B : Sun Mar 10 00:30:09 UTC 2024), Entry for John Colby and Ezekiel Colby, 26 Feb 1787.

• Goodrich, John E. editor. ’’Rolls of the Soldiers in the Revolutionary War, 1775 to 1783 (The Tuttle Company, Rutland, VT, 1904)