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Anthony Colby (bef.1605-1661)

Biography

Disambiguation. Not to be confused with Anthony son of Thomas of Beccles.[1]

Genealogical Summary

Anthony Colby (1605–1661) was baptized in Horbling, Lincolnshire, England, 8 September 1605.[2] >>>>>St. Andrews Church in Horbling by Rev. Symon Bradstreete.[citation needed] The church & same Baptismal font are still there.[citation needed]

Susanna Colby Whitridge (1610–1689) was the widow of Anthony Colby.[citation needed] After Anthony’s death, she married William Whitridge.[citation needed] He died in 1668.[citation needed] Susanna lived in the Macy-Colby house during the term of her widowhood.[citation needed]

Immigration

He immigrated to New England in 1630, settling first at Boston.[3]

Records indicate that Anthony came to America with Governor John Winthrop[citation needed]

Anthony arrived in Boston with Gov. John Winthrop on the ship Arbella (aka Arabella)[citation needed] and lived on shipboard for four months before housing could be built.[citation needed]

Life at New England

He lived in Boston. As "Anthony Chaulby," he was admitted member 93 of Boston First Church.[4][5] He went with Saltonstall's company to Watertown in the fall of 1630,[citation needed] however, during the winter the company's assistants selected Cambridge as the best place to fortify.[citation needed]

The earliest records found for Anthony in Newtown, later renamed Cambridge, is the same year the town records begin, 1632, when he is alloted a division of the "Common Pales", 4 rods.[citation needed] It was established at the first town meeting that the "impaled ground shall be divided according to every man's proportion in the said pales."[citation needed] If they wanted to sell their portion it was first to be sold to the town for what they paid or they would give permission to sell to whom they choose.[citation needed] The date was broken off but it was between 7 January 1632 and 5 August 1633.[6]

In the fall of 1631 three families from Boston had settled there, the Colbys, Jarred Haddon and Joseph Redding.[citation needed] By 1 January 1632 the construction of houses outside the village was prohibited.[citation needed] However, since Anthony's home was up the Watertown Road;[citation needed] he must have built his house before the ban. Soon more people moved to Cambridge and he then built a second house up near Observation Hill by 1635. [citation needed] He had been granted 3 acres behind Pine Swamp in Cambridge on 5 January 1634/5[citation needed] and received his share of undivided meadow ground on 20 August 1635.[citation needed] He is on the list of people with a house in the West End of Cambridge on 8 February 1635/6.[7] The land inventory "Anthony Couldby Jn Weftend" was taken on 10 October 1635 showed that he had five pieces of property, a house with backside with about 3 acres in the West End, a house with planting ground also with 3 acres of land in the West End Field, 3 acres by the Pine Swamp, 4 acres in the Neck of Land, and 4 acres in the Great Marsh.[8] After he moved, he sold some of the property to Simon Crosby in 1639.[9]

He also owned land “at first was granted to Waterman who deceased. Anthony Colbye married his widow & they two sold the said land unto James Pennyman.”[10]

He took the freeman's oath in Cambridge 14 May 1634.[11]

On 2 January 1632/3 he was ordered to build four rods of fence around the town commons in Cambridge.[12]

He is listed in the account records for William Pynchon, the colony treasurer for 1632-1634: "paid Anthony Colby for 2 days attendance at court to witness against William Coling and 3 others for drunkeness."[citation needed] He lived in Ipswich where he signed a petition on 21 June 1637[citation needed] and on 3 October 1637 "Anthony Colebie" of Ipswich sued John Hall of Saugus.[13]

Anthony Colby was one of the first settlers of Salisbury, Massachusetts and the new town of Amesbury.[citation needed] He purchased the house and property from Thomas Macy in the year 1654.[citation needed] Nine generations of Colbys lived in this home.[citation needed]

He was a founder of Amesbury, Massachusetts.[citation needed]

The family then moved to Salisbury where he received land in the first division of 1639[citation needed] and had additional grants in 1640 and 1643.[citation needed] He became one of the large land owners in Salisbury and became known as a “planter” as well as being a sawmill owner.[citation needed] Anthony was appointed “appraiser” for the local government in 1640.[citation needed] He was a member of the trial juries in 1648, 1653, and in 1656 ?? ...

...26 September 1648, 12 April 1653 and 3 October 1654.[14] Anthony sat on the grand jury 9 April and 1 October 1650.[15] During this time Anthony was officially a member of the First Church of Boston but on 2 August 1646 he was discharged by the Boston church, “Our brother Anthony Colby according to his desire had letters of dismission unto the Church at Salsbury.”[16]

He was one of the first commoners on 19 March 1654 of "Newtown" or Amesbury where he received land in 1654 and in 1658.[17] In 1654 Thomas Macy sold the house west of the Powow River to Anthony where Susanna was living in 1664. The price of the house was written as: "38 pounds, to be paid as follows: by a mare fole at ten pounds, three pounds in boards and in course, twelve or fourteen pounds in money, rest in pipe-staves or hogshead staves, cattle all at prices current; Indian corne at three s., wheat & Barley five s." The bill of sale was dated 23d, 2d mo, 1654.[citation needed] Susanna received grants from the town in 1662 and in 1664.[citation needed] Their lots included Back River, Fox Island, Lion's Mouth, Great Swamp, Hampton, River, Whiskers Hill, and lots from the third and fourth divisions.[citation needed]

Lifted from Miner Descent>>>>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.[citation needed] Once he was fined for making a speech in Town Meeting on the grounds that he had created a disturbance.[citation needed] He worked incessantly to have the new settlement at Amesbury set off from Salisbury as a town.[citation needed] The fight was carried on after his death by his sons, and the separation was finally accomplished in 1666.[citation needed]<<<<<

Anthony Colby died in Salisbury, 11 February 1660[/1][18] intestate. The inventory of his estate amounted to £349. See Anthony Colby Inventory 9 March 1660.

By a deed dated 24 December 1662 Susanna sold three acres of boggy meadow in Salisbury to her son Samuel for a young mare. Susanna acknowledged this in court on 12 April 1664.[19] "Upon petition of Susannah Whitridge, formerly Colbie, the Ipswich Court, on 28 March 1682 gave her power to sell enough for support in her old age." Susannah died in 1689 and her son Samuel was her Administrator, the inventory of her estate amounted to £151.[20]

The year after Anthony's death, the widow sold to her son Isaac, sixty acres near Haverhill to pay for her board.[citation needed] She also had to defend her homestead against the claim of Thomas Macy from whom it had been purchased.[citation needed] At about the time of the sale, Macy had fled to Nantucket to escape the penalty of sheltering two Quakers during a thunderstorm, but later he denied the sale and tried to expel the widow and her family by legal process.[citation needed] He was unsuccessful and the premises were in the possession of her descendants as late as 1895.[citation needed] In 1678, the son Thomas was deeded half of all the lands remaining in consideration of services rendered the widow.[citation needed]

As noted above, upon the petition of Susanna Whittredge, formerly Colbie, the Ipswich court March 28, 1682 granted her power, with the advice of Samuell Colbie and Thomas Colbie, to sell enough of the estate left in her hands by her former husband for her necessary support in her old age, not exceeding the value of two of the parts or shares which the court on April 9, 1661 allotted to her for her part of the estate: [citation needed]

“Susanna Whitredg formerly wife of Anthony Colbie was granted by [  ? ] to sell ½ her part of land left her by her husband Colbie

Ipswich March [  ? ]
This Court upon ye motion of Susanna Whittredge formerly Colbie that power may be granted for ye sale of some of [ ? ] estate left in her hand by her husband Colbie for her necessary support in her old age I doe hereby grant ye motion that shes sekeing [  ? ] of Samll Colbie & Thomas Colbie shall have libertie to sell so much of ye estate in land left by her husband Colbie for sd end not exceeding ye value of two of the parts of shares wc: by the County Court at Salisbury held Aprill ye 9th 1661 were allotted to her for her part of that estate. Attest Robert Lord clerk”

William Osgood and the other part owners of the old mill at Salisbury were brought to account for failing to pay the town its share of lumber agreed upon in return for allowing the mill to be built in Salisbury.[citation needed] 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 at the September Term in 1682.[citation needed] Among the depositions establishing the number of boards due were several describing immigration to Massachusetts, including that of John Pressy "aged about fourty-four years, testified that the first summer he came into this country, in 1651...I do well remember the saw mill at Salisbury was one thing that was accounted a rare thing and I did go see it and I did see it going and sawing boards that very summer"[21]

At that September Term, 1682 the selectmen of Amesbury described Susannah 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 bodyas usualy 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.”[22]

Family

Children of Anthony and Susanna (_____) Colby,[23]

  1. John Colby, baptized in Boston, 8 September 1633;[BChR 278] married in Salisbury, 14 January 1655/6, Frances Hoyt
  2. Sarah Colby, born about 1635; married in Salisbury, 6 March 1653[/4], Orlando Bagley. Sarah’s birth date as given by Savage (6 March 1634/5) cannot be documented at this point.
  3. Samuel Colby, born about 1639; married by about 1668 (birth of child), Elizabeth Sargent, daughter of William Sargent Sr..
  4. Isaac Colby, born in Salisbury, 6 July 1640; married by 1669 (birth of child), Martha Parrat.
  5. Rebecca Colby, born in Salisbury, 11 March 1643; married in Haverhill, 9 September 1661, John Williams Jr..
  6. Mary Colby, born in Salisbury, 19 September 1647; married in Amesbury, 23 September 1668, William Sargent Jr.
  7. Thomas Colby, born in Salisbury, 8 March 1650/1; married in Amesbury, 16 September 1674, Hannah Rowell.

Research Notes

WikiTree Pages of Interest.

Parentage. WIP = Provide the bibliographic journey to the identity of the parents. Anderson addressed this; note errors n print.

New England Marriages.

Savage.

Prior Version. A prior version of the profile reported ...

Sources

  1. ↑ Glade Ian Nelson, "Anthony Colby’s Purported Ancestry," The American Genealogist, 51 (1975):65-70; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
  2. ↑ Citing "GMC50 123," Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols., paginated continuously (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), 413-416 (Anthony Colby) at 415; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
  3. ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols., paginated continuously (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), 413-416 (Anthony Colby) at 413; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
  4. ↑ Citing "BChR 47," Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols., paginated continuously (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), 413-416 (Anthony Colby) at 413; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
  5. ↑ Richard D. Pierce, ed., The Records of the First Church of Boston in Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, vol. 39 (Boston : Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1961), 14; digital images, InternetArchive (borrow).
  6. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (20 May 2014), Middlesex > Cambridge > Births, marriages, deaths, town records 1632-1703 Vol 1 > image 3 of 287; citing Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston.
  7. ↑ The Records of the Town of Cambridge (formerly Newtowne) Massachusetts, 1630-1703 (Cambridge, Mass.: the town, 1901), 16-19 (8th February 1635) at 18-19 (In Weftend); digital images, InternetArchive
  8. ↑ The Register Book of the Lands and Houses in the "New Towne" and the Town of Cambridge (Cambridge, Mass.: the town, 1896), 32 (10th of Octover 1635); digital images, InternetArchive.
  9. ↑ The Register Book of the Lands and Houses in the "New Towne" and the Town of Cambridge (Cambridge, Mass.: the town, 1896), 67 (Simon : Crosby); digital images, InternetArchive.
  10. ↑ Willam B Trask (v. 1-4), Frank E. Bradish (v. 5-8), Charles A. Drew (v. 9-12) and A. Grace Small (v. 13-14), eds., Suffolk Deeds, multiple volumes (Boston, 1880-1906), 11: f.176-177 (Steevenson to Thornton); digital images, HarhiTrust.
  11. ↑ Nathaniel Shurtleff, ed., Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, 1628-1686, 5 vols. in 6 (Boston: W. White, 1853–1854), 1:368-369 (14 May 1634) at 369 (Anthony Colby); digital images, HathiTrust.
  12. ↑ Citing "CaTR 5," Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols., paginated continuously (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), 413-416 (Anthony Colby) at 416; digital images by subscription, AmweicanAncestors, Anderson notes the date of the list as 2 January 1632/3, adding "but probably from a year or two later."
  13. ↑ George Francis Dow, ed., Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County: 1636-1686, 9 vols. (Salem, Mass. : Essex institute, 1911-1975), 1 (1636-1656):6 (court held at Salem, 3 : 8 [mo.]: 1637); dgital images, HathiTrust.
  14. ↑ Citing "EQC 1:149, 279, 369," Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols., paginated continuously (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), 413-416 (Anthony Colby) at 416; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
  15. ↑ Citing "EQC 1:189, 201," Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols., paginated continuously (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), 413-416 (Anthony Colby) at 416; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
  16. ↑ Richard D. Pierce, ed., The Records of the First Church of Boston in Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, vol. 39 (Boston : Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1961), 47; digital images, InternetArchive (borrow).
  17. ↑ Mary Lovering Holman, Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury and John Sargent Pillsbury, 2 vols., paginated continuously ([Concord, N.H. : Priv. print. at the Rumford press], 1938), 1:137-138 (The First Colby Line); digital images, HathiTrust.
  18. ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols., paginated continuously (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), 413-416 (Anthony Colby) at 415; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
  19. ↑ Sidney Perley, "Old Norfolk County Records" (a continuing series) in The Essex Antiquarian, 5 (1901):135; digital images, HathiTrust.
  20. ↑ George Francis Dow, The Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts, 3 vols. (Salem, Mass., Essex Institute, 1916-1920), 1 (1635-1664):407-410 (Estate of Anthony Colby of Salisbury); digital images, HathiTrust.
  21. ↑ Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County: 1636-1686- Salem, 1911- Vol. VIII, pp. 250, 373-5
  22. ↑ Essex Quarterly Courts- Vol. VIII, p. 388
  23. ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols., paginated continuously (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), 413-416 (Anthony Colby) at 415; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.

See also:

  • Anthony Colby’s Purported Ancestry- Glade Nelson, TAG- Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 65-71 (April 1975)
  • The Old Families of Salisbury & Amesbury, Massachusetts- David Hoyt, Snow & Farnham, Providence, 1900- Vol. I, pp. 103-6
  • Pedigrees of Some of the Emperor Charlemagne's Descendants- Aileen Lewers Langston, Order of the Crown of Charlemagne, Genealogical Pub. Co., Baltimore 1986, Vol. II, p.96
  • Fifty Great Migration Colonists & Their Origins- John B. Threlfall, Madison, Wisconsin, 1990
  • The Great Migration Begins- Immigrants to New England: 1620-1633- article on Anthony Colby- Vol. I-III, pp. 413-6, database at NEHGS
  • Massachusetts Applications of Freemen, 1630-91 Original data - Paige, Lucius R.. List of Freemen of Massachusetts. Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historical and Genealogical Society, 1849.
  • Anthony Colby 1682 estate, case 5896 (9 pp.), Essex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1638-1881; database and digital images by subscription. American Ancestors.
  • Anthony Colby 1682 estate, case 5896 (9 pp.) in "Massachusetts, Essex County ... Probate estate files, nos. 5811 to 5849 … 1638-1840"; digital images, FamilySearch, FSL film 5567033, images 78-86 of 707.
  • The Colby Family in America, by Frederick Lewis Weis, The Colonial Press, Concord, Massachusetts, 1970, Pages 3 and 4
  • Massachusetts Census, 1790-1890 Author: Jackson, Ron V., Accelerated Indexing Systems, comp. Publication: Online publication - Provo, ppUtah: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999. Original data - Compiled and digitized by Mr. Jackson and AIS from microfilmed schedules of the U.S. Federal Decennial Census, territorial/state censuses, and/or census substitutes.




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