"Abraham Colby, son of Thomas 8, b. probably 1720. m. March 23, 1742, Elizabeth Blaisdell, b. about 1722, dau. of Jonathan and Hannah (Jameson) Blaisdell, of Amesbury. With their eight children b.m Amesbury, Mass., the family removed to Bow, 1768, where his five sons res. In the register of the family by Harrison Colby, published 1894, nine children are named. It is reasonably certain that Sarah, b. Jan. 27, 1739, was not a child of this Abraham. He d. in Bow, 1809."