♀ Dorothy Colby

1731 - 1826

 

Dolly

Dorothy Colby
Parents
Joseph Colby
Joseph Colby
1700 - 1754
Spouse
Josiah Davis
Josiah Davis
1722 - 1796
Children
Mary Davis
Mary Davis
1752 - 1836

Dorothy and Josiah Davis had nine children.  After Josiah Davis's death, Dorothy married Thomas Cotton, a loyalist.

 

Timeline

1731


Apr 26
Joseph Colby - The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts by David Webster Hoyt, 1897

birth


Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA ⇓
It's likely the Dorothy who married Josiah Davis was the daughter of Joseph and Mary (Philbrick) Colby born in Amesbury. Along with living nearby siblings in Hampstead, she named her first son James Johnson, the name of her mother's first husband. Sarah Colby, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Philbrick) Colby, also married Obediah Davis, brother of Josiah - a sign that two brothers probably married two sisters. There was another Dorothy Colby born in Hampstead about the same time, a daughter of Enoch Colby, but Enoch's will shows that this Dorothy married into the Chase family.
5 Sources ⇓
1731 • The Treaty of Vienna is signed between the Holy Roman Empire, Great Britain, the Dutch Republic and Spain.

1647


Nov 6
Mary Davis - Find a Grave

birth of child


Mary Davis
Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA ⇓
On Mary's birth record her parents are Josiah Davis and Dorothy Colby. This record matches up exactly with her age at her death date (84 years 4 months). In 1797, her and her siblings granted land to their brother Jesse from their father "Josiah Davis, late of Hampstead". Her and her husband are described as "Edward Eastman and Molly Eastman of Corinth Vt."
3 Sources ⇓
1647 Aberystwyth Castle is razed to the ground by Parliamentarian troops.

1746


Dec 2
Age: 15y
Josiah Davis - Find a Grave

marriage


Josiah Davis
Hampstead, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA ⇓
They had nine children: James Johnson in 1747, Hannah in 1749, Mary in 1752, Edmund in 1756, Josiah in 1758, Anna in 1760, Dolly in 1763, Louis in 1765, and lastly Jesse, in 1767, all in New Hampshire.
4 Sources ⇓
1746 • Publication of Charles Batteux's Les beaux-arts réduits à un même principe in Paris, putting forward for the first time the idea of "les beaux arts": "the fine arts".

1790


Age: 58y
Josiah Davis - 1790 United States Federal Census

residence


Hampstead, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA ⇓
Two pages away, on page 17, Joseph Kimball is living with wife Martha Colby. She is likely the Martha that is the sister of Dorothy. There are also Eastmans living on the same page.
1 Source ⇓
1790 • The alleged London Monster is arrested in London: he later receives 40 years for 10 assaults.

1790


Age: 58y
Josiah Davis - 1790 United States Federal Census

residence


Hampstead, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA ⇓
Two pages away, on page 17, Joseph Kimball is living with wife Martha Colby. She is likely the Martha that is the sister of Dorothy. There are also Eastmans living on the same page, and Heaths.
1 Source ⇓
1790 • 11 minor states of the Austrian Netherlands which took part in the Brabant Revolution at the end of 1789 sign a Treaty of Union creating the United States of Belgium. Prime Minister of Great Britain William Pitt refuses to recognize the new confederation's independence.

1799


May 28
Age: 68y
1799 Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse becomess the first woman to jump from a balloon with a parachute, from an altitude of 900 meters.

1826


Mar 14
Age: 94y
1826 • The Eggnog Riot breaks out at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York during the early morning hours, but is squelched by Christmas chapel service.

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