John Daby (abt. 1687 - 1769)

Born about 26 Jan 1687 in Stow, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Hannah (Buttrick) Daby — married about 1712 in Stow, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Husband of Elizabeth (Unknown) Holden — married 20 Apr 1747 in Harvard, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 6 Jan 1769 at about age 81 in Harvard, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

He was an original petitioner for the town of Harvard, in 1731. He was a blacksmith. Along with his son Joseph, he built a saw and grist mill "upon the stream at the western foot of Pine Hill." ^[1]

m2. widow Elizabeth Holden of Groton, Mass., April 20, 1747. She was born in 1689 and died Sept. 9, 1767.

From FAMILYSEARCH Family Tree ~

Parents and Siblings:

JOHN WILLIAM DABY or DARBY

(PLEASE NOTE per to name: John William Daby, Darby, Derby...This WikiTree Profile has benefited significantly from materials cited to several different source entities, and Source Records from FamilySearch. The FamilySearch Profile was created May 20 2018. The original name was: John Daby. At some point near to creation-date, the name was modified to: John William Daby. While not ready to abandon my ongoing search...just yet...I have found no other record or textual reference to the later name. At least one well-informed, knowledgeable, and published Family Researcher asserts very probable that another child who did not survive childhood, was named: William..and I must propose that as a possible origin for the name.)

NOTE to above entry: review of all current sources failed to establish any connection to a known/referenced second or middle name. See bottom Administration actions for likely explanation)

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Father:

THOMAS DABY [1657-1749]

http://dkdonovan.com/getperson.php?personID=I15065&tree=Main

Birthplace—Massachusetts

Also known as —DARBY, DERBY

Death at—Holliston, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Notes: "Derby Genealogy"

Person ID—I15079

THOMAS DABY was a Narragansett Soldier under Capt. Joseph Sill in King Philip’s War, 1676..He Was elected in 1706, a Deacon of the Stow Church, which was organized in 1706.

Wife—MARY MARCY BROWNE

born 19 December 1662, at Stow, Middlesex County, Massachusetts

died 04 January 1727, at Stow, in Middlesex County, Massachusetts—(Age 64 years)

The Children of John Daby and Mary 'Marcy' Browne:

1. ELIZABETH DABY [1683-1765] Currently in 'Disputed' claim
2. JOHN DABY [1687-1769]
3. JOSEPH DABY [1692-Deceased]
4. WILLIAM DARBY [1698 -1739]
5. ANN DABY [1681-1773]
6. ROBERT DABY [1684-1759]
7. MARY DABY [1685-1765]
8. ESTHER DABY [1690-Deceased]

A Principal Source of Information was:

DERBY GENEALOGY

BEING A RECORD OF

THE DESCENDANTS OF

THOMAS DERBY OF STOW,

MASSACHUSETTS

BY

VIOLA A. DERBY BROMLEY

THE GRAFTON PRESS --

GENEALOGICAL PUBLISHERS

NEW YORK----MCMV

Copyright, 1905, by

VIOLA A. BROMLEY

HAROLD B. LEE LIBRARY

BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY

PROVO, UTAH

___________________________

SECOND GENERATION

FAMILY 2.

See page 15.

4. JOHN DABY (Thomas1)

born: January 26, 1687

married first: HANNAH, who died November 17, 1744, aged 58 years 5 months, and ~

married, secondly: Widow ELIZABETH HOLDEN of Groton, Massachusetts, on April 20, 1747. She was born in 1689, and died September 9, 1767.

JOHN DABY was one of the original petitioners for the creation of the town of Harvard in 1731. His estate was partly within the old Lancaster bounds. He bought of John Willard, October 27, 1718, lands lying upon both sides of the brook at the northern end of Pine Hill, extending along the Lancaster and Stow Line.

He was a blacksmith, and his son, JOSEPH, a joiner. Together they built a saw and grist mill or mills upon the stream at the western foot of Pine Hill about the date of Harvard's incorporation.

JOSEPH DABY is mentioned as proprietor of a gristmill in 1748. He sold both cornmill and sawmill to Jonathan Symonds in 1751.

JOHN DABY's sawmill is mentioned in the records as early as 1733 when he provided a part of the material for the meeting-house. From the first he held a prominent place in town, his pew in the church being the third in dignity.

The site of his first home is not definitely known, but appears to have been in Stow Leg, near the Lancaster line.

JOHN DABY was Corporal in 1757 (Nourse: History of Harvard). The following items appear in the records:

"Feb. ye 3rd, 1723-4, John Darby for Som alowance for a hiway Taken Through ye Land he purchased of John Willard.

We also mesored the Hiway in John Darbes Land and find it to Run in his Land one hundred and fifty Eods and we think he ought to be alowed three acres for one, this return was exsapted the hiways alowed and ye alowances Granted by the Propriety."

(Annals of Lancaster, page 210.)

JOHN DABY died January 6, 1769, in Harvard, Massachusetts.

Page---20

DERBY GENEALOGY

Children ~

1. 9i.NAHUM DABY, born February 23, 1712, in Concord. Family--4, Page 23.
2. 10ii.SIMON DABY, born February 27, 1714, in Stow. Family--5, Page 23.
3. 11iii.JOSEPH DABY, born December 15, 1716, in Stow. Family--6, Page 24.
4. 12iv.HANNAH DABY, born January 20, 1720, in Stow; married: WILLIAM WHITCOMB
5. 13v.MARY DABY, born October 24, 1722, in Stow; married, first, “___” GATES; secondly, "___" WHEELER.
6. 14vi.ROBERT DABY, born Oct 24, 1722, in Stow. Family--7, Page 25.
7. 15vii.JOHN DABY, Jr. born about 1740. Family--8, Page 25.
8. 16 viii.THOMAS DABY

(PLEASE NOTE:

1. The incomplete Spousal Names as they appear here, will be complete for individual Profiles. This particular Source did not have said details which others did...
2. Some discrepancies from Source to Source is common enough....but when the discrepancy regards the correct Family Member in the proper Familial relative associations--I find it too difficult the assumed burden of perpetuating error(s) rather than attend the task at hand......so, be aware that at least one name from above list will quite probably need to be removed --with notation-- and shown in the correct Family-of-Origin...)

Following material is from:

THE HOLDEN GENEALOGY

ANCESTRY AND DESCENDANTS OF

RICHARD AND JUSTINIAN HOLDEN

AND OF RANDALL HOLDEN

COMPILED BY EBEN PUTNAM

FOR THE FAMILY OF MR. L. E. HOLDEN

VOLUME I

BOSTON

1923

The HOLDEN GENEALOGY

SECOND GENERATION---Page 77

6-6 WILLIAM, died probably in 1746

married ELIZABETH DARBY (DABY).

Page 122---THE HOLDEN GENEALOGY

Dudley Bradstreet in his Journal, kept at the siege of Louisburg,

notes under date of Christmas (1745):

“Died in the Royal Hospital, Sergt. Wm. Holden.”

Administration on his estate was granted 13 Sept., 1746, to his widow

ELIZABETH, who accounted for the estate as £8004 real and £359-17-64

personal property 13 March, 1748, signing as ELIZABETH DABY, and on :

the 1 May, 1750, ELIZABETH and JOHN DABY of Harvard quitclaim to

WILLIAM HOLDEN, in consideration of £2-2-8, the said Elizabeth’s right

of dower.

Page 120---The HOLDEN GENEALOGY

THIRD GENERATION

196 William (Stephen, Richard), born probably in Groton; died 25

December,1745, in the army before Louisburg; married about 1725

ELIZABETH, who married, second, 20 April, 1747, JOHN DABY (or

DARBY) of Harvard,2 who died 6 January, 1769, at Harvard, aged 80

years, 11 months (g.s .). His widow died 9 Sept., 1767, in her 62nd year

(g.s. at Harvard).

The Following from the Find A Grave Memorial Record of John Daby,

Memorial Record ID 21600264

He was an original petitioner for the town of Harvard, in 1731.

He was a blacksmith. Along with his son Joseph, he built a saw and

grist mill "upon the stream at the western foot of Pine Hill." (Derby

genealogy)

He left a will in which he mentioned his (second) wife Elizabeth,

granddaughters Molly Wheeler and Molly Gates (the children of his

daughter Mary),

the “...the female heirs of my daughter Hannah Whitcomb,”sons Simon, Nahum, and Joseph Daby, and grandson Thomas Daby.

~Inscription~

Here lies the Body

of Mr John Daby

who Departed this

Life Jan'y 6th AD 1769

Aged 80 years and

11 months.

Tis but a few whose Days amount

To three score years and ten;

And all beyond that short Account,

Is Sorrow, Toil and Pain.

Our Vitals with laborious Strife

Bear up the crazy load.

And drag those poor Remains of Life,

Along the tiresome Road.

Note: The following information was Posted to the FamilySearch Family Tree Profile: LBRZ-6N6 of: JOHN WILLIAM DABY/DARBY

(Sources):

(1)---Viola A. Derby Bromley, Derby Genealogy---Descendants of Thomas Derby of Stow, MA, (The Grafton Press, New York, MCMV).,

(2)---Nourse, History of Harvard, MA....

John Derby was one of the original petitioners for the creation of the town of Harvard in 1747. He was a blacksmith and his son, Joseph was a joiner. Together they built a saw and grist mill about the date of Harvard's incorporation.

Last Changed: 26 August 2013 by FamilySeach contributing Member (name not shown for privacy reasons)

Note

!VITAL RECORDS:--------------Stow V.R. 974.44/S5 V2n.

---------------------------------Harvard V.R. 974.43/H2 H2n.

Concord V.R. 974.44/C44 V2c.

!FAMILY HISTORY:--------Mass.S33b

Hist. Stow pg 93.

Watertown Genealogy. p 45. :Hist. Cambridge pg 502.

Early Vital Records of Massachusetts

From 1600 to 1850: http://ma-vitalrecords.org/

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  • page 28
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• Bromley, Viola A. Derby, Derby Genealogy Being a Record of the Descendants of Thomas Derby (The Grafton Press, New York, 1905); Page 19-20, 15

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  • p. 318: 1775-04-19: Ens'n in militia responding to the Lexington alarm
  • p. 334: 1778-Jul/Aug/Sep: Lt. in militia operations in RI.
  • p. 336: 1779: Lt. in militia serving in Claverack NY.
  • p. 367: 1738: school district "The Old Mill Quarter"
  • p. 422: 1734: selectman

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• "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQ64-SXM : 10 February 2018), John Daby for Nahum Daby, 23 Feb 1712; citing CONCORD,MIDDLESEX,MASSACHUSETTS, ; FHL microfilm 0823762 IT 1.
• "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZVY-PXF : 10 February 2018), John Daby, 26 Jan 1687; citing STOW,MIDDLESEX,MASSACHUSETTS, ; FHL microfilm 0873749 IT 2.
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• "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCHJ-9XV : 9 February 2018), John Daby and Elizabeth Holden, 04 Apr 1747; citing reference ; FHL microfilm 0874025 IT 2.
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