Children
birth of child
Date:
Apr 26 1731
Child Name:
Dorothy Colby
Description:
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.
Location:
Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USASources:
- Dorothy Colby - Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915
(birth, location, name, parents) - Dorothy Colby - New Hampshire Death Records, 1654-1947
(birth, death, gender, location, marriage, name) - Joseph Colby - The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts by David Webster Hoyt, 1897
(birth, children, death, location, marriage, name, sibling) - The Colby Family in Early America by Frederick Lewis Weis, 1970
(birth, children, death, gender, location, marriage, name, parents) - The Davis Family: Being and Account of the Descendents of James Davis of Haverhill, Thomas Davis of Haverhill, John Davis of Newbury 1938
(location, marriage, name, parents, sibling)