Davis Uriah I | Born 1707
COLBY, Samuel
1671 - 1746 (74 years)-
Name COLBY, Samuel Born 9/09 Mar 1670/1671 Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts 
Gender Male Died 1746 Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Person ID I13086 Uriah Davis I - Genealogy Last Modified 21 Jun 2018
Father COLBY, Samuel, b. Between 1638 and 1639, Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts , d. Yes, date unknown Mother SARGENT, Elizabeth, b. 22 Nov 1646, Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts , d. 5/05 Feb 1736/1737, Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts (Age 90 years) Family ID F4128 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family AMBROSE, Dorothy, b. 21 Sep 1673, Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts , d. Aft 1759, Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts (Age > 87 years) Married 1693 Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Children 1. COLBY, Elizabeth, b. 7 Dec 1694, Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts , d. Aft 1748, Chester, Rockingham County, New Hampshire (Age > 55 years)Last Modified 24 Jun 2018 Family ID F1303 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - He had administration granted for estate on 29 SEP 1746 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. In a letter to the Boston Transcript, a New England Genealogy publication, asks "I have read that three decendants of Anthony of Amesbury - Ruggles, Ambrose and Benjamin went to Wiscasset, Maine." This is true. In 1749, a petition was sent to the governor of Massachusetts (Maine was part of Mass untill 1820) asking that Wiscasset be made an independent town. This petition was signed by Ambrose, Ruggles, (Brothers) and Benj'n Colby. A similar petition was repeated in 1754 signed by Ambrose. The town was incorporated in 1760 as Pownalborough, in honor of Governor Pownall. It later was divided into three towns, Wiscasset, Dresden, and Alna. fron Lineage of Philander M. Colby of Arborville $ Bradshaw, Ne., and Spencer Colby of Hamilton County, Ne. by Claudia K. (Miller) Forster.
Widow Dorothy was appointed administratrix of the estate of Samuel, 29 September 1746, and the estate was divided, 1748/1750. As Samuel Colby of Amesbury, son of Samuel Colby, deceased, he petitioned the General Court of Massachusetts for a grant of land west of the Connecticut River in Massachusetts for the services of his father in King Philip's War: the petition was not granted.
SOURCES: (1) "The Colby Family in Early America" by Frederick Lewis Weis, Caledonia, The Colonial Press, pub 1970; (2) "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts" by David W. Hoyt; (3) Early Vital Records of Essex County, Massachusetts to 1850. Amesbury.
- He had administration granted for estate on 29 SEP 1746 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. In a letter to the Boston Transcript, a New England Genealogy publication, asks "I have read that three decendants of Anthony of Amesbury - Ruggles, Ambrose and Benjamin went to Wiscasset, Maine." This is true. In 1749, a petition was sent to the governor of Massachusetts (Maine was part of Mass untill 1820) asking that Wiscasset be made an independent town. This petition was signed by Ambrose, Ruggles, (Brothers) and Benj'n Colby. A similar petition was repeated in 1754 signed by Ambrose. The town was incorporated in 1760 as Pownalborough, in honor of Governor Pownall. It later was divided into three towns, Wiscasset, Dresden, and Alna. fron Lineage of Philander M. Colby of Arborville $ Bradshaw, Ne., and Spencer Colby of Hamilton County, Ne. by Claudia K. (Miller) Forster.