64. SAMUEL COLBY (c. 1638–1716), son of Anthony Colby and Susanna Unknown
65. ELIZABETH SARGEANT (b. 1648), daughter of William Sergeant and Elizabeth Perkins
Samuel Colby was born about 1638 in Ipswich. [1] He died in 1716. [1] He married Elizabeth Sargeant. [1]
Elizabeth Sargeant was born on 22: 9m: 1648 in Salisbury. [2]
Samuel Colby was fined for abusing the watch at the 10: 2m: 1666 court. [3]
Samuel was on the jury of trials in 1669, 1676 and 1678. [4]
Samuel Colby of Salisbury sold 24 acres of upland in Salisbury to Thomas Sargeant of Salisbury for five pounds on 7 July 1662. [5]
Samuel Colby of Salisbury conveyed to his brother Isaac Colby a 40-acres lot he bought from William Allen on 26: 5m: 1664. [6]
Samuel Colby, planter of Salisbury, conveyed eight aces of land in Salisbury new town [Amesbury] on 11: 2m: 1665. [7]
On 28 April 1668 Samuel Colby, planter of Haverhill, conveyed an estimated 108 acres within Salisbury new town [Amesbury]. [8]
On 6 May 1669 Samuel Colby, planter of Haverhill, and his wife Elizabeth, sold to Isaac Colby, planter of Haverhill, half of the land in Haverhill that he bought from Robert Clements for 25 pounds and a 24-acres of upland in Amesbury. [9]
On 4 April 1670 Samuel Colby of Haverhill bought three acres of meadow from George Martin of Amesbury. [10]
Samuel was a soldier in King Philip's War and was present at the "Falls Fight" on 18 March 1676. In 1735 Chase Newton tesitified that he was in the "Falls Fight," and had helped bury Captain Turner and that Samuel Colby, late of Amesbury, deceased, was with him. [11]
Samuel took the oath of allegiance on 20 December 1677. [12]
Samuel was fined five pounds for selling wine without a license in 1678. He appealed and the following year his license to keep an ordinary at Amesbury and sell wine and strong waters was renewed. [13]
On 31 March 1685 Elizabeth Colby of Ipswich confessed that she sold liquor to an Indian while a servant at Abraham Parker's house and was fined. [14]
Samuel Colby of Amesbury, being very sick and weak, made hiw will on 6 March 1715/6. He named his wife Elizabeth his sole executrix. He mentioned his son Samuel, his daughter Dorothy Hoyt, his son of his son Philip, deceased, and some grandchildren. Inventory was presented on his estate on 25 May 1716 and amounted to 191 pounds. [15]
On 25 July 1716 Dorothy Hoyt and and William Hoyt and Samuel Colby acknowledged receipt of bequests from their father's estate. [15]
Children of Samuel Colby and Elizabeth Sargeant:
i. Dorothy Colby was born about 1668 in Amesbury. [16] She married William Hoyt. [16]
ii. Elizabeth Colby was born on 1 June 1670 in Haverhill. [17] She died by 6 March 1715/6, when she was not mentioned in her father's will.
iii. Samuel Colby was born on 9 March 1671/[2?] in Amesbury. He married Dorothy Ambrose.
iv. Unknown Daughter Colby was born on 3 April 1672 in Haverhill. [18] She died by 6 March 1715/6, when she was not mentioned in her father's will.
v. Philip Colby was born about 1674. [19] He died by 6 March 1715/6, when his father refers to him as deceased. He married Ann Webster of Salisbury after 1 May 1703 (intention) in Amesbury. [20] Ann, the daughter of John and Bridget (Huggins) Webster, was born on 9 January 1681/2. [19] The inventory of her estate was taken on 10 November 1760. [19]
References:
1. Glade Ian Nelson, "Anthony Colby's Purported Ancestry," The American Genealogist 51 (1975): 65–71.
2. Vital Records of Salisbury, Massachusetts: To the End of the Year 1849 (Topsfield: Topsfield Historical Society, 1915), 213–4.
3. George Francis Dow, Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, digitized volumes (Salem Witch Project: Documentary Archive and Transcription Project : http://salem.lib.virginia.edu/Essex/index.html), 3:319.
4. Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, 4:183; 6:208; 7:102.
5. "Old Norfolk County Records," Essex Antiquarian 6 (1902): 42.
6. "Old Norfolk County Records," Essex Antiquarian 5 (1901): 181.
7. "Old Norfolk County Records," Essex Antiquarian 5 (1901): 183.
8. "Great Migration 1634–1635,C–F," database with images, AmericanAncestors, 110.
9. "Old Norfolk County Records," Essex Antiquarian 10 (1906): 110.
10. "Old Norfolk County Records," Essex Antiquarian 8 (1904): 40.
11. George M. Bodge, "Soldiers in King Philip's War: The Falls Fight," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 41 (1887): 201–18, specifically 210.
12. "Old Norfolk County Aoaths of Allegiance &c.," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 6 (1852): 202.
13. Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, 7:105, 194.
14. Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, 9:451.
15. "Essex County, MA: Probate File Papers 1638–1881," database with images, 5937.
16. Frederick Lewis Weis, The Colby Family in Early America (Concord: Colonial Press, 1970), 22–23.
17. Vital Records of Haverhill, Massachusetts: To End of the Year 1849, 2 vols. (Topsfield: Topsfield Historical Society, 1910, 1911), 1:73.
18. Weis, The Colby Family, 9.
19. Weis, The Colby Family, 24–25.
20. Vital Records of Amesbury, Massachusetts: To the End of the Year 1849 (Topsfield: Topsfield Historical Society, 1913), 311–8.
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