• General Notes

  NOTE:
  Colby is a place name deriving from the parish of Coleby, which lies seventeen miles northwest of Semperingham, and six miles south of Lincoln. There is also a parish of Colby in Norfolk, next to Beccles, and it too seems to have been the source of a quite unrelated Colby clan. There are also villages called Colby in Westmoreland, in Yorkshire, and one in Denmark.
  The name is of Viking origin and means coal place. There are a number of places in England containing Cole, such as Coleridge, Colclough, and Colebrook. The by- suffix is the Viking word meaning homestead or farm. Thus, Coleby was probably a farmstead where charcoal was made in ancient times by Viking settlers.
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  Anthony COLBY was christened/baptized on 8 SEP 1605 in Horbling, Lincolnshire, England. He immigrated on 29 MAR 1630 from England to America. He took the Freeman Oath of the Massachusetts Bay Company in MAY 1634 in Massachusetts. He died on 11 FEB 1660 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He has Ancestral File number 8JDC-NK. He was a Sawmill owner. Emigrated to America in 1630 with the Puritans, on the ship "Arbella" of the Winthrop Fleet. Their first home was in the disputed territory between Cambridge and Watertown which was given to Cambridge in 1632, and was on the road to Mount Auburn close by the river.
  NOTE:
  1 ANTHONY1 COLBY [or COLEBIE], of Salisbury and Amesbury, "planter," recd. land in the
  "first division," in 1640 and '43; was one of the first commoners of A., where he recd. land in 1654??
  and '58, and his wid., in his right, in '62 and '64. Sv. says he was in Boston in 1630, a church member, prob. came with Winthrop; may have been at
  Cambridge in 1632; freeman's oath May 14, 1634; at Ipswich in 1637; sometimes printed "Arthur."
  He d. Feb. 11, 1660-1[S]; inv. and div. est. 1662 and '3. His wid. Susanna m. WILLIAM
  WHITRIDGE [or WHITRED] in 1663 or '4; was again a wid. in 1669; d. July 8, 1689, "or
  thereabout."(*) Children:
  
  
  SOURCES:
  1.    Title: The Colby Family in Early America (1595 - 1661)
  Abbrev: Colby Family (1595 - 1661)
  Author: Frederick Lewis Weis
  Publication: Concord, MA, 1970
  Page: page 3
  2.    Title: Vital Records of Salisbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the
  Year 1849
  Abbrev: Salisbury, MA, Vital Records
  Publication: Newcomb & Gauss, Salem, MA, 1915
  Page: page 541
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Details of Anthony's family with Susannah * HADDON