Thomas (Darby) Derby (1657 - 1738)

Born 1657 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay

Husband of Mary Marcy (Browne) Darby — married 1680 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 13 Oct 1738 at about age 81 in Holliston, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

• Thomas Darby was the son of John & Elizabeth (Legg) Darby/Derby/Daby/ Darbe

• He married Mary Browne, daughter of John Browne "The Scotchman" & Esther/Hester Makepeace in MA - parents of Ann/Anne, Robert, John & William

• 1676: "Thomas Daby was a Narragansett soldier under Capt. Joseph Sill in King Philip's war, 1676"^[1]

• 1683-05-16: Stow incorporated.^[2]

• 1684-06-17: Thomas granted land in Stow and removed there from Concord with wife Mary. ^[3]

• 1687: Birth of John. ^[4]

• 1706: Elected deacon of the Stow Church. ^[5]

• 1727-01-04: wife died.^[6]

• Death: Oct 13 1738 Holliston, Middlesex County, Mass.^[7]

• 1749-12-29: Died before this.^[8]

• Birth: 1657 Stow, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States

• Marriage: Mary Browne 1683 Salem, Essex, Massachusetts
• Marriage: Mary Browne 1686 Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts,

• Wife: Mary Darby (born Browne) 1662 - 1727

• Daughter: Ann Rice (born Derby) 1681 - 1773 WikiTree profile Derby-382

Deacon THOMAS DABY, DERBY, DARBY

From: FamilySearch Family Tree ~

Parents Remain undetermined pending....

One Sibling probable with same premise to parents

JOSEPH DABY (1654-1734)

Spouse and Children

MARY MARCY BROWNE (1662–1726)

Marriage: 1680 Massachusetts Bay Colony

The Children of Mary Browne and Thomas Derby

1. ANNE DABY RICE (1681–1773)​
2. ELIZABETH DABY (1683–1765)
3. ROBERT DABY-DARBY (1684–1759)​​
4. JOHN DABY (1687–1769)​​
5. ESTHER DARBY (1690–1767)​​
6. ROBERT DARBY or DABY (1694–1759)​
7. WILLIAM DARBY (1698–1739)

Following From:

DERBY GENEALOGY

FIRST GENERATION

FAMILY 1.

1.---THOMAS1 DERBY, DARBY, or DABY

In 16S4 removed from Concord, Massachusetts, to Stow, Massachusetts, with his wife MARY.

STOW was incorporated May 16, 1683, at which time "12 Foundation Lots," each containing 50 acres of upland and 15 of meadow, were granted to the first settlers in the following order:

1. Eev.
2. Boaz Brown
3. Gershom Heald
4. John Butterick
5. Ephraim Hildreth
6. Thomas Stevens
7. Stephen Hall
8. Samuel Buttrick
9. Joseph Freeman
10. JOSEPH DARBY
11. Thomas Gates, and
12. Shadrack Hapgood.

Other lots were afterwards granted, including one to THOMAS DARBY on June 17, 1684. :THOMAS and JOSEPH DARBY, or DABY, as their names were often written, were from Concord (--Shattuck's History of Concord, pages 44-45) .

THOMAS DABY was a Harragansett Soldier under Capt. Joseph Sill in King Philip's War, 1676 ; and may have been the THOMAS DABY who joined the First Church of Salem, Massachusetts, October 5, 1863.

THOMAS DABY of Stow was elected in 1706, a Deacon of the Stow Church, which was organized in 1706. He died before December 29, 1749.

His wife MARY died January 4, 1727, at Stow.

Their Children, born in Stow:

1. -2 i... ELIZABETH, Baptized November 2, 1684.
2. -3 ii...MARY, Baptized July 26, 1685,--died May 10, 1765.
3. -4 iii...JOHN, born January 26, 1687-Family 2,---page 19.
4. -5 iv...ESTHER, born October 19, 1690.
5. -6 v....JOSEPH
6. -7 vi... ROBERT, died December 6, 1759---Family 3, Page 20.
7. -8 vii...WILLIAM, married at Canterbury, Mass. June 9, 1718 to ELIZABETH SPAULDING, daughter of Ensign EDWARD SPAULDING

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Notes Regarding...NAME(S)

From: USGENNET.ORG

http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/historical/SouthernNewYork2/sny2_pt103.htm#Darbee

DARBEE—This name appears in the Massachusetts records as DARBY—DABY—and—DERBY, and in the records of Canterbury, Connecticut, as DARBIE. Many prominent descendants have used the form Derby and others Darby. It is perhaps an Anglicized form of the French d’ Arbe. According to some authorities all English names ending with "by" are from Lincolnshire, England.

The most prominent pioneer of the name in this country was ROGER DERBY, born in 1643, in Devonshire, England, who arrived at Boston, July 18, 1671, settling in Salem, Massachusetts. JOHN DERBY appears about the same time in Marblehead, Massachusetts, where he was a fisherman. ROGER DERBY was also interested in fisheries. THOMAS DERBY joined the first church of Salem, October 1663. The members of this Family were Non-Conformists, but affiliated with the Quakers, hence are almost wholly ignored in the Puritan records. Descendants have been conspicuous in the settlement of Southern New York, and are still ably represented in that section.

-( I )-THOMAS DARBY, DERBY, DABY—is presumably the one who joined the church in Salem in 1663. The first definite account of him appears in his removal in 1684, from Concord, Massachusetts, to the neighboring town of Stowe, where twelve proprietors, one of whom was a DARBY, received "Founders Lots" of fifty acres of upland and fifteen acres of meadow in that year.

On June 17, 1684, THOMAS DARBY was granted a lot in that town. He was a soldier in King Philip's War, under Captain Joseph Still, in 1676, and probably received this lot in recognition of that service. He was elected deacon of the church at Stowe in 1706, and died before December 29, 1749, probably several years before.

His wife—MARY, died in Stowe, January 24, 1727.

Their Children, (all born in that town): STOW

1.—ELIZABETH, Baptized November 2, 1684

2.—MARY, July 26, 1683

3.—JOHN, born January 26, 1687

4.—ESTHER, October 19, 1690

5.—JOSEPH

6.—ROBERT

7.—WILLIAM

[This Record was Last Changed: 3 August 2015]

ABSTRACTS ~

Massachusetts, Town Clerk,

Vital and Town Records

Name:---------JOHN DABY

Event-Type:-------------Birth

Event-Date:----26 Jan 1687

Event Place:Stow, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Gender:------------------Male

Father's Name:----THOMAS DABY

Mother's Name:-------MARY

Source Citation Follows...

The parents and origin of THOMAS DABY are not known. Theories that he was the son of a John Daby appear to be without any merit. See my book,--Ancestry of Alice Maud Clark https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~ahgilbertson/genealogy/amc.pdf

According to Daby-Dorby Data (1967) his wife was MARY BROWNE(e), daughter of JOHN BROWNE(e) and HESTER /ESTHER MAKEPEACE. This appears likely, since in his will, John Brown(e) mentioned son-in-law Thomas Darby.

THOMAS DABY apparently did not leave a Will, and no probate records of any kind seem to be available. More research on this Family is warranted, perhaps further information could be obtained by checking deeds, or other records not currently available online.

INSCRIPTION

Here lies buried

ye body of Deacn

Thomas Daby

of Stow who

departed this

life October ye

13 AD 1738

in ye 82d year

of his age.

Deacon THOMAS DABY

Birth------1656

Death----13 October 1738 (aged 81–82) Holliston, Middlesex County, Massachusetts

Burial-----Central Burying Ground, Holliston, Middlesex County, Massachusetts

URL Find A Grave: Memorial #20604521

Sources

1. ↑ #Bromley
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4. ↑ #BirthJohn
5. ↑ #Bromley
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7. ↑ #Burial
8. ↑ #Bromley

See also:

• Bromley, Viola A. Derby, Derby Genealogy Being a Record of the Descendants of Thomas Derby (The Grafton Press, New York, 1905)p. 15

• Shattuck, Lemuel A History of the Town of Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts (Russell, Odiorne & Co., Concord, 1835); pp. 44,45

• "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FC9S-S3F : 13 July 2016), Thomas Daby in entry for John Daby, 26 Jan 1687; citing Birth, Stow, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 892,249.
  • "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FHVK-Z22 : 13 July 2016), Thomas in entry for John Daby, 26 Jan 1687; citing Birth, Stow, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 815,613.

• Daby-Dorby Data
  • AuthorLastName, AuthorFirstName. ArticleTitle, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Mass., 1847-); 1856, VOL. X, p. 171
  • Bond, Henry. Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts (Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1855); p. 145,411
  • Essex Institute Historical Collections (Salem, Massachusetts); VOL. VII, pp. 124,128
  • Tolman, George. Concord, Massachusetts Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1635-1850 (Beacon Press, Boston, Mass., 1895), p. 54; "Jonathan Rice of Sudbury & Anna Darby of Stow were marryed by ye Rever'nd mr Joseph Estabrook march 25th, 1702."
  • Vital Records of Sudbury Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (New-England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Mass., 1903), p. 189; "DARBE (see Daby Dawby Derby) Mary of Stow and Thomas Brown, June 27, 1723."
  • Bodge, George. Soldiers in King Philip's War Being a Critical Account of that War (Leominster, Mass., 1896)

, p. 274; "Thomas Dawby"

• • Vital Records of Holliston, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 1908); p. 308; "DARBY, Thomas Dea. of Stow, Oct 13, 1738 in 82nd y G.R.I."
  • Vital Records of Wayland, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 1910)

, p. 66; "DERBY, Anne [of] Stow, and Jonathan Rice [of] Sudbury Mar. 25, 1702, in Concord."

• • Vital Records of Stow, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Mass., 1911)

, p. 28, 136, 240

• • Southern N Y & Hudson Valley, C Reynolds 1913, Vol. II, p. 679
  • Cutter, William Richard. New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial (Lewis Historical Publishing Co., New York, 1913)

, Vol. III, p. 1366

• • Darby of Marblehead, Salem, S P May, 1921, p. 19
  • John Grout, E E B Jones, 1922, p. 91,92
  • COMP AMER GENE, F A Virkus, 1930, Vol. IV, pp. 190, 427
  • Congreg Church Canterbury CT, Conn H S, 1932, p. 98
  • Peirce & Darby, L Bender, 1936, p. 68

• Ancestry of Alice Maud Clark;p. 120

• https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-1-331471271-14-23839/thomas-darby-in-myheritage-family-trees?s=216760841

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  MyHeritage family tree

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• "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHVK-Z22 : 18 October 2017), THOMAS for JOHN DABY, 26 Jan 1687; citing Birth, Stow, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 815,613.
• "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCMX-35Q : 18 October 2017), Deacon THOMAS for MARY DABY, 04 Jan 1727; citing Death, Stow, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 815,613.
• "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FC9S-S3F : 3 November 2017), THOMAS DABY for JOHN DABY, 26 Jan 1687; citing Birth, Stow, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 892,249.