Excerpt from A Genealogy of the Descendants of Abraham Colby and Elizabeth Blaisdell, His Wife, Who Settled in Bow in 1768 There is an innate desire in all inquiring minds to learn everything that can be obtained of their ancestors, from rec ords and tradition. Owing to the nomadic life of the early settlers of New England, the records of families in many cases are imperfect, the children having been born in different towns, and some were not entered on record anywhere. We now propose to trace the ancestry and descendants of Abraham Colby, born in Amesbury, in 1715. In 1628 and 1629 about three hundred. Puritans from England had settled in Salem and Charlestown.. In July, 1630, about fifteen hundred more arrived, under the lead of John Winthrop, and settled on the peninsula they named Boston. Among this last arrival was Anthony Colby, from the east coast of England; he had espoused the Puritan faith and was No. 93 on the list of church members. In 1632 we find him in Cambridge, where he married Susanna, prob ably a_ daughter of William Sargent; in 1634 he removed to Salisbury, Mass; in 1647 he sold his house and two-acre lot to William Sargent, a seaman, and removed west of the Powow river, that separates Salisbury from Amesbury, where in 1658 he had sixty acres of land given him, and in 1660 his son John had forty, and a town lot for his son John, west of the pond. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.