Davis Uriah I | Born 1707
CANBY, Thomas
1667 - 1742 (75 years)-
Name CANBY, Thomas Born 9 Apr 1667 Thorne, Yorkshire, England 
Christened 19 Apr 1667 Thorne, Yorkshire, England Gender Male Died 20 Sep 1742 Solebury Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania Buried 1750 Buckingham Mtg Cem, Bucks County, Pennsylvania Person ID I10894 Uriah Davis I - Genealogy Last Modified 21 Jun 2018
Father CANBY, Benjamin, b. 6 Sep 1637, Thorne, Yorkshire, England , d. Oct 1681, Liverpool, Lancashire, England (Age 44 years) Mother BAKER, Mary Married 1663 England Family ID F3580 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 OLIVER, Mary, b. 9 Oct 1667, Radnorshire, Radnorshire, Wales , d. 20 Oct 1721, Solebury, Bucks County, Pennsylvania (Age 54 years) Married 2 Jun 1704 Abington, Montgomery, Pennsylvania Children 1. CANBY, Jane, b. 12 Apr 1710, Bucks, Pennsylvania, Unites States , d. 1789, Buckingham Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania (Age 78 years)2. CANBY, Rebecca, b. 10 Jul 1711, Abington, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania , d. 18 Aug 1766, Bucks, Pennsylvania, Unites States (Age 55 years)3. CANBY, Hannah, b. 3/03 Jan 1712/1713, Abington, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania , d. 23 Oct 1722, Solebury Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania (Age 9 years)4. CANBY, Joseph, b. 3/03 Mar 1713/1714, Abington, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania , d. 9 Apr 1718, Solebury Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania (Age 4 years)5. CANBY, Oliver, b. 24/24 Jan 1716/1717, Abington, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania , d. 30 Nov 1754, Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware (Age 37 years)6. CANBY, Ann, b. 16 Jul 1718, Abington, Montgomery, Pennsylvania , d. 7 Nov 1763, Bucks, Pennsylvania, Unites States (Age 45 years)7. CANBY, Lydia, b. 25 Oct 1720, Solebury, Bucks County, Pennsylvania , d. 1821, Bucks, Pennsylvania, Unites States (Age 100 years)Last Modified 24 Jun 2018 Family ID F3578 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 2 DEYNE, Jane, b. Abt 1667, d. Yes, date unknown Married 9 Oct 1722 Solebury, Bucks County, Pennsylvania Last Modified 24 Jun 2018 Family ID F3585 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 3 DOYN, Jane, b. 1671, Cloverdale, Yorkshire, England , d. Bucks, Pennsylvania, Unites States Last Modified 24 Jun 2018 Family ID F3614 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 4 OLIVER, Mary, b. 12 Dec 1677, Radnorshire, Radnorshire, Wales , d. 20 Oct 1721, Solebury, Bucks County, Pennsylvania (Age 43 years) Married 2 Jun 1704 Abington, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania Children 1. CANBY, Rachel, b. 8 Sep 1715, Abington, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania , d. 9 May 1771, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Age 55 years)2. CANBY, Ann, b. 16 Jul 1718, Abington, Montgomery, Pennsylvania , d. 7 Nov 1763, Bucks, Pennsylvania, Unites States (Age 45 years)Last Modified 24 Jun 2018 Family ID F3615 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 5 JARVIS, Sarah Jervis Or, b. 1673, Thorne, Yorkshire, England , bur. 1708, Abington, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania (Age ~ 35 years) Married Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Notes
July 29, 1693 - Minutes of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting.
Elizabeth Kelly and Mary Sibthorp having presented Thomas Canby and Sarah Jervass to this meeting in order to take each other in marriage, and it being the first time, friends here have received a Certificate concerning the ypung man, and were well satisfied therewith.
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August 27, 1693 - Minutes of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting.
Elizabeth Kelly and Mary Sibthorp presented Thomas Canby and Sarah Jervis who declared their intentions for marriage a second time, and there appearing nothing to hinder the same, they are left to their liberty to consummate their said intentions.
(The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, Volumes 1-39, 1650-1900s
Volume IV, Minutes of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, Page 176).
Children 1. CANBY, Benjamin, b. 24 Jul 1694, Cheltenham Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania , d. 25 Jun 1695, Cheltenham Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania (Age 0 years)2. CANBY, Sarah, b. 23 Oct 1695, Cheltenham Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania , d. 17 Nov 1749 (Age 54 years)3. CANBY, Elizabeth, b. 24 Dec 1696, Cheltenham Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania , d. 1745, Bucks, Pennsylvania, Unites States (Age 48 years)4. CANBY, Mary, b. 14 Dec 1697, Cheltenham Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania , d. 4 Aug 1784, Wrightstown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania (Age 86 years)5. CANBY, Phebe, b. 19 Jul 1699, Cheltenham Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania , d. 19 Jan 1774, Buckingham, Bucks County, Pennsylvania (Age 74 years)6. CANBY, Esther, b. 16/16 Feb 1700/1701, Cheltenham Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania , d. 12 May 1777, Middletown Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania (Age 76 years)7. CANBY, Thomas, b. 12 Aug 1702, Solebury, Bucks County, Pennsylvania , d. Bef 11 May 1764, Kent County, Maryland (Age < 61 years)8. CANBY, Benjamin, b. 18 Jul 1704, Solebury, Bucks County, Pennsylvania , d. Feb 1748/9, Solebury Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania (Age 44 years)9. CANBY, Martha, b. 9/09 Mar 1704/1705, Solebury, Bucks County, Pennsylvania , d. Between 1748 and 1800 (Age 42 years)Last Modified 24 Jun 2018 Family ID F3586 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - Thomas Canby, was a distinguished member of the Society of Friends, and many years a member of Colonial Assembly. (A Historical Narrative of the Ely, Revell and Stacye Families, p. 284).
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CANBY, Thomas (1668-1742; Son of Benjamin Canby, m Mary Baker), from Eng. in the "Vine," arriving September 17, 1684 in the Delaware River. The ship sailed from Dolgelly, Wales. He then went to Bucks Co., Pa. as an indentured servant of his uncle Henry Baker.; mem. Pa. Assembly and justice several yrs.; m 1709, Mary Oliver, she came from wales in the Welcome," with William Penn, 1682. (ABRIDGED COMPENDIUM, Frederick Virkus, p. 3463) and (The Compendium of American Genealogy, 1600s-1800s
Volume VI, Immigrant Ancestors, Biographies, Page 762).
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Emigrated to America 7th month,17,1684 on "The Vine" from Yorkshire, England.
Bonded to Uncle Henry, brother of his mother.
From the History of Bucks County: Thomas was an orphan of 16 years of age when in 1683 he came with his uncle and guardian to Bucks county. The family were Friends, and the youth, in connection with his guardian and Bucks quarterly meeting, settled a claim of five years' service due in payment of his passage over. After the expiration of this service young Canby settled near Jenkintown, Montgomery county, and in 1693 married Sarah Jarvis, by whom he had nine children. His wife died in 1708, and about two years thereafter he married Mary, daughter of Evan Oliver, who came from Radnorshire, in Wales. By her he had eight children. She died in 1721. He moved from Abington shortly after and purchased land below Centerville, in Bucks county. He remained there some time, but finally disposed of it and purchased three hundred acres on the Street road, in Solebury township. We find him again marrying his third wife, Jane Preston, a widow, and living at the mill on the Great spring above New Hope, on the Delaware. It does not appear that he had any children by his third wife. Some time afterward he removed to Wilmington, Delaware, where some of his children had located, but returned to Solebury, where he died in 1742, aged 75 years. In the life of Thomas Canby there is much to admire. Starting in the humble walks of life a poor and friendless orphan boy, we find him working his way by industry and perseverance into general confidence, while his sterling character, his usefulness as a citizen, and his many acts of Christian kindness and charity endeared him to the community at large. In the home circle and the religious society, of which he was an active member, his influence for good was widely felt. He and his descendants served Buckingham monthly meetings as clerks almost continuously after its establishment in 1720 for a period of over one hundred years, and in important appointments in church matters the name of Canby often appears. The Canby name is not very common in our county at the present day. This is partly owing to the fact that of Thomas Canby's seventeen children twelve were girls. Most of them changed their names and were blessed with large families.
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Will: Thomas Canby of Solebury Twp., Yeoman. 9th mo., (November)18, 1742. May 25, 1750. Wife Jane. Sons Benjamin and Oliver, exrs. Son Thomas. Daus. Sarah Hill, Elizabeth, Mary, Phebe, Esther, Lydia, Rachel, and Ann. Martha, Jane and Rebecca
Wilson. Son Benjamin, Real estate in Partnership with Anthony Morris, Land, Mill, and Saw Mill. Benj. being December'd. and Oliver a non-resident and also having renounced Executorship. Letters granted to Wm. Hill, Wm. Yeardley, and Thos.
Yeardey (sic), Jr., exrs. of Benj. Canby.
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Benjamin left to his son Thomas, his land in the Parish of Thornes in the county of York and in the Parish of Roote in County Lancaster(His son to be tutored by his wife Jane (second wife) & if not inclined to follow the calling of distillation, he could choose a more fitting one.--Canby of Thorne, Yorkshire.
(Delaware Quaker Records: New Castle County, p. 74.)
- Thomas Canby, was a distinguished member of the Society of Friends, and many years a member of Colonial Assembly. (A Historical Narrative of the Ely, Revell and Stacye Families, p. 284).