Jacob Colby^[1]

1688 - 1739  (50 years)

• Name	Jacob Colby
  Birth	13 Apr 1688	Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA
  Gender	Male
  Death	22 Feb 1739	Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA
  Person ID	I27141	Master
  Last Modified	21 Feb 2017

  
  

  Father	Thomas Colby, Sr,   b. 8 Mar 1650, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. 30 Mar 1691, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA (Age 41 years)
  Mother	Hannah (Colby) Rowell,   b. 11 Jan 1653, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. 9 Aug 1707, Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA (Age 54 years)
  Marriage	16 Sep 1674	Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA
  Family ID	F6895	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Hannah Hunt,   b. 23 Mar 1688, Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. 1714, Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA (Age 25 years)
  Marriage	9 Apr 1711	Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA   [2]
  Children	1. Jacob Colby, Jr,   b. 20 May 1714, Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. 1760, Newton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA (Age 45 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F6893	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Aug 2020

  
  

  Family 2	Elizabeth Elliot,   b. 11 Nov 1691, Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. 5 Feb 1737, Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA (Age 45 years)
  Marriage	11 Nov 1724	Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA   [3]
  Children	+ 1. Sarah Anita Colby,   b. 13 May 1724, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA d. 1 Jun 1768, , Loudoun, Virginia, USA (Age 44 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Edmund Colby,   b. 8 Dec 1725, Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. 1825 (Age 99 years)   3. Valentine Colby,   b. 29 May 1728, Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. 2 Nov 1805, Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA (Age 77 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   4. Thomas Elliot Colby,   b. 31 Jan 1734, Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. 4 Oct 1760, Crown Point, Essex, New York, USA (Age 26 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F6894	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Aug 2020

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 13 Apr 1688 - Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Marriage - 9 Apr 1711 - Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Marriage - 11 Nov 1724 - Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Death - 22 Feb 1739 - Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Info on Colby Family from Genealogical and family history of the state of New Hampshire:Volume 4 Available online: http://books.google.com/books?pg=PA1566&dq=hannah%20colby&id=PHPLT1QY9LQC&output=text (I) The founder of the family in America was Anthony Colby, who came with Rev. John Winthrop's colony in 1630, his name being the ninetythird on the list of church members. He came from the eastern coast of England, and was one of the many driven by persecution to seek a home in the New World. He is found of record in 1632, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he married Susannah, supposed to have been a daughter of William Sargent. He removed to Salisbury in 1634, and in 1647 he sold his house and two-acre lot to William Sargent, and settled on the west side of the Powow river, in what is now Amesbury. He was recorded as a "planter," and received land in the "first division," in 1640 and 1643; was one of the first commoners of Amesbury, where he received land in 1654 and 1658, and his widow in his right in 1662 and 1664. He died in Salisbury, February 11, 1661. His widow Susannah, married (second) William Whitridge (or Whitred) in 1663, and was again a widow in 1669. She died July 8, 1689. "or thereabout." The children of Anthony and Susannah were: John, Sarah, a child died young, Samuel, Isaac, Rebecca, Mary, and Thomas. (II) Thomas, youngest child of Anthony and Susannah Colby, was born in Salisbury, March 8, 1651, and died before March 30, 1691. He took the oath of allegiance and fidelity in December, 1677, He married, September 16, 1674, Hannah, daughter of Valentine and Joanna (Pindor) Rowell (see Rowell, II), born in Salisbury, January, 1653, and they had five children: Thomas, Hannah. Isaac, Abraham and Jacob. After the death of her husband Hannah Colby married (second), probably about 1691, Henry Blaisdell. (III) Jacob, youngest child of Thomas (1) and Hannah (Rowell) Colby, was born in Amesbury, April 13, 1688, and lived in Amesbury, East Parish. He married (first), in Amesbury, April 9, 1711, Hannah Hunt, born March 23, 1688, fourth daughter of Edward and Ann (Weed) Hunt; (second), at Amesbury, November II, 1724, Elizabeth Elliot, born in Amesbury, November 11, 1691, third child of John and Naomi (Tuxbury) Elliot. A Mrs. Elizabeth Colby died in Amesbury. February 5. 1737- Their children were: Bekius, Jacob, Edmund, Valentine and Thomas Elliot.

  
  

• Sources

  [S761] Yates Publishing, Ancestry Family Trees, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.), Ancestry Family Tree. http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=89949837&pid=69 [S102] Dodd, Jordan, Liahona Research, comp., Massachusetts, U.S., Compiled Marriages, 1633-1850, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.). [S32] Yates Publishing, U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.), Source number: 624.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: LDR.