General Notes

m. (2) Waterman
m. (3) William Whitridge

CHILDREN:

   1. Joseph/John Colby bapt. Boston Sept. 8, 1633 d.1675 m.Jan. 14, 1655/56 Frances Hoyt
   2. Sarah Colby m.Mar. 6, 1653/4 Orlando Bagley
   3. Samuel Colby, b.abt.1638 d.1715/6 m.bef.1668 Elizabeth Sargent dau. of William Sargent (progenitor of Ambrose Colby, pioneer to Deer Isle about 1768-BLN)
          * CHILDREN of Samuel and Elizabeth: Dorothy Colby, b.abt.1669; m.1688 Wm. Hoyt
          * Elizabeth Colby, b.June 1, 1670 (Savage); not in will 1716
          * Samuel, b.Mar. 9, 1671, Amesbury, "1st son", m.Dorothy Ambrose; ancestor of Ambrose Colby of Deer Isle
                o Children of Samuel and Dorothy (all b. Amesbury): Elizabeth b.Dec. 7, 1694 m.John Rowell
                o Keziah b.May 11, 1696 d.1754 m.(1)David Currier (2)Jacob Hagley
                o Samuel b.Apr. 19, 1698 m.1718 Nanna Nichols
                o Ambrose b.May 11, 1700, a blacksmith, m.1720 Elizabeth Lawrence and had 10 children
                o Enoch b.Nov. 7, 1702 m.(1)Abial Sanborn (2)Sarah Sargent; had 10 children
                o Susannah b.Aug. 15, 1705 m.Micah Hoyt
                o Obidiah b.July 15, 1706; living 1748 Boston
                o Dorothy May 25, 1708 m.Samuel Watts
                o Hezekiah b.March 25, 1710 moved to DI, ancestor of the Ambrose Colby line
                o Ruggles b.June 10, 1711 move to Wiscasset, Me. where he was a shipwright. By Abigail Davis he left a family.
                o Abigail b.Apr. 29, 1713 m.(1)David Blaisdell, (2)Titus Wells.
          * Daughter, b.Apr. 3, 1672, in Haverhill; not in will 1716
          * Philip b. ?, pub. 1705 to Anne Webster, d.before 1715 had 5 sons and one dau.
   4. Isaac Colby b. July 6,1640 d.1684 m.Martha Parrat (progenitor of the Joseph Colby line, settler in the No. Stonington part of DI not far from 1766-BLN)
   5. Rebecca Colby b.Mar.11, 1643 m.1661 John Williams at Haverhill
   6. Mary Colby b.Sept. 19, 1647 m.1668 William Sargent
   7. Thomas Colby b.Mar. 8, 1650 d.bef.March 30, 1691 Amesbury, MA m.1674 Hannah Rowell b.Jan. 1652/23 Salisbury, MA d.Aug. 9, 1707 Amesbury,MA

NOTES: Anthony Colby came to America from England with John Winthrop's fleet in 1630.

Near the end of her life, Susannah Wittredge was described by the selctmen of Amesbury 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 subsistance...she living alone, wanting such help and attendance as may be convenient, continually laboring under such infirmities of body as usually 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...September Term 1682. The court ordered that her sons, Samuel, Isaac and Thomas Colby, provide for her and sell what land was necessary to maintain her from the Colby estate. [Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts. 1636-1686, 9 volumes (Salem 1911-1975) 8:388]

From Directory of the Ancestral Heads of New England Families 1620-1700 by Holmes: COLBY, ANTHONY: Came with Winthrop from the eastern coast of Eng. to Boston, 1630; removed to Cambridge, Mass., 1632, and to Salisbury, Mass., 1634, finally to Amesbury, Mass., 1647. ARTHUR, a brother to the preceding, was at Ipswich, Mass., 1637.