Some Descendants of Hezekiah Colby (Samuel,Samuel,Anthony) and Sarah Cole of Newbury

  1. Susanna Colby was baptised in Mar 1730/1 in Newbury. [CFEA, p. 57] She died young. [CFEA, p. 57]
  2. Susanna Colby was born on 5 Sep 1732 in Newbury. [CFEA, p. 58]
  3. Sarah Colby was born on 28 Oct 1736 in Newbury. [CFEA, p. 58]
  4. Mary Colby was born on 5 Sep 1736 in Newbury. [CFEA, p. 58]
  5. Hezekiah Colby was born on 20 Dec 1738 in Newbury. [CFEA, p. 58] He died before 21 Jul 1768 in Haverhill. [CFEA, p. 110] He married Mary Wait on 25 Nov 1760 in Newbury. [CFEA, p. 110] Mary married second Jacob Ayer about 1770. [CFEA, p. 110]
    He was a fireman from 1762 to 1763 in Newbury. [CFEA, p. 110] He was a shipwright at Haverhill. [CFEA, p. 110] Either he or his father was a soldier in the French and Indian War and at Crown Point in 1756. [CFEA, p. 110]
    1. Elizabeth Colby was born on 27 Mar 1763 in Newbury. [CFEA, p. 110]
  6. Joshua Colby was born on 20 Feb 1740/1 in Newbury. [CFEA, p. 58] He married Sarah Peabody after 7 Apr 1761, when they published their intention in Newbury. [CFEA, p. 110]
    Joshua was a soldier in the French and Indian War and at Crown Point1756. [CFEA, p. 110]
    1. Ephraim Colby married Bernice Bartlett. [CFEA, p. 111]
      Ephraim lived in Rumford, Maine. [CFEA, p. 111]
    2. Robert Colby lived in Fryeburg, Maine. [CFEA, p. 111] He was a soldier in the War of 1812. [CFEA, p. 111]
      1. James Colby was born in 1800 in Fryeburg. [CFEA, p. 111] He married Mary Sterling. [CFEA, p. 111]
        1. Albert Colby was born in 1827 in Fryeburg. [CFEA, p. 111] He married Mary F. Dresser. [CFEA, p. 111]
          Albert had a bookstore in Boston. [CFEA, p. 111]
          1. Rev. John Stark Colby was born on 19 Nov 1851 in Exeter, New Hampshire. [CFEA, p. 111] He died on 26 Nov 1898 in Abbott, Maine. [CFEA, p. 111] He married Hattie Anne Fogg of Fryeburg on 2 Oct. 1873. [CFEA, p. 111]
    3. Lieut. Joseph Colby was born about 1770. [CFEA, p. 111]
  7. Makepeace Colby (probably) was born on 25 Mar 1743 in Newbury. [CFEA, p. 58] He was living in 1778. [CFEA, p. 111] He married Sarah Pressey of Amesbury on 23 Oct 1760 in Amesbury. [CFEA, p. 111] Sarah was the daughter of John and Mercy (Chase) Pressey, Jr. [CFEA, p. 112]
    Makepeace and Sarah renewed the covenant of the Second Church in Amesbury in 1762. [CFEA, p. 111] Makepeace was a soldier in the Frency and Indian War in 1759 and in the Revolutionary War. [CFEA, p. 111]
    1. Makepeace Colby was born on 8 Apr 1761 in Newbury. [CFEA, p. 112] He was baptised on 22 Apr 1762 in Amesbury. [CFEA, p. 112]
    2. Hezekiah Colby was born on 15 May 1763 in Newbury. [CFEA, p. 112] He was baptised on 15 Jul 1764 in Newbury. [CFEA, p. 112]
  8. Ambrose Colby was baptised on 3 May 1747 in Newbury. [CFEA, p. 58] He died young. [CFEA, p. 58]
  9. Spencer Colby was baptised on 2 Oct 1748 in Newbury. [CFEA, p. 58]
  10. Ambrose Colby (probably) was born on 3 Nov 1751 in Newbury. [CFEA, p. 58] He married Mary Pressey. [CFEA, p. 112] Mary, the daughter of John and Mercy (Chase) Pressey, Jr., was born in Amesbury in 1752, baptised there on 18 Jun 1758 and died about 1844 in Deer Isle, Maine. [CFEA, p. 112]
    1. Nehemiah Colby was born about 1770. [CFEA, p. 112]
    2. William Hogan Colby was baptised on 18 Mar 1770 in the Episcopal Church in Newbury. [CFEA, p. 112]
    3. Betsy Colby was born on 15 Aug 1772. [CFEA, p. 112]
    4. Ambrose Colby (maybe) was baptised on 16 Sep 1772 in the Episcopal Church in Newbury. [CFEA, p. 112]
    5. Hezekiah Colby was born on 16 Sep 1774. [CFEA, p. 112] He married first Unknown Babbidge. [CFEA, p. 112] He married second Mary Joyce. [CFEA, p. 112] He married third Hannah Marshall. [CFEA, p. 112]
    6. Daniel Colby was baptised on 11 Jul 1775 in the Episcopal Church in Newbury. [CFEA, p. 112] . He was buried on 9 Mar 1778 in Newburyport. [CFEA, p. 112]
    7. Mercy Colby was born on 26 Jan 1776. [CFEA, p. 112] She married first William Torrey. [CFEA, p. 112] She married second Amos Gordon. [CFEA, p. 112]
    8. James Colby [CFEA, p. 112]
    9. Josiah Colby [CFEA, p. 112]

References

CFEA Weis, Frederik Lewis, The Colby Family in Early America: Early Generations of Descendants of Anthony Colby of Boston, Cambridge, Salisbury, Massachusetts 1595-1661, Colonial Press, Concord, 1970.

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