Person:Dorothy Colby (1)

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Dorothy Colby
b.13 Nov 1668 Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA
d.Aft 1740
Parents and Siblings
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m. bef abt 1668
  1. Dorothy Colby1668 - Aft 1740
  2. Elizabeth Colby1670 - 1716
  3. Samuel Colby, Jr.1670/71 - Bef 1746
  4. _____ Colby1672 - 1672
  5. Unknown Colby1672 - 1716
  6. Philip Colby1674 - 1745
  7. Philip ColbyAbt 1674 - 1715
  8. John Colby1680 -
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  William Hoyt1660 - 1728
  • W.  Dorothy Colby1668 - Aft 1740
m. 12 Jan 1687/88
  1. Elisabeth Hoyt1689 - Aft 1730/31
  2. Dorothy Hoyt1691 -
  3. Abner Hoyt1693 -
  4. Maria Hoyt1694 -
  5. Susannah Hoyt1696/97 -
  6. Philip Hoyt1697 -
  7. William Hoyt1702 -
  8. Hopestill Hoyt1704 -
  9. Miriam Hoyt1710 -
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Facts and Events
Name Dorothy Colby
Gender Female
Birth? 13 Nov 1668 Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA
Marriage 12 Jan 1687/88 to William Hoyt
Death[2] Aft 1740
References
  1.   "Early Settlers of Essex and Old Norfolk", in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
    Vol 8 p. 50-51.

    William Sargent noted grandchildren Dorothy and Elizabeth Colby, as well as daughter Elizabeth, wife of Samuel Colby, in his 1670/1 Amesbury will. [For text of the will dated 24 Mar 1670/71, proved 13 Apr 1675, see Source:Holman, Mary Lovering. Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury and John Sargent Pillsbury, p. 1:120, "First Sargent Line".]

  2. ↑ Hoyt, David W. (David Webster). A Genealogical History of the Hoyt, Haight, and Hight Families: With Some Account of the Earlier Hyatt families, a List of the First Settlers of Salisbury and Amesbury, Mass. (Providence, R. I.: The Author (Printed by The Providence Press Co.), 1871)
    26.

    "His wife, Dorothy, survived him, and probably removed to Methuen with her sons, Wm. and Philip. A Dorothy Hoit was admitted to the Methuen church, 'by dismission from another church', in 1731; and was dismissed, to unite with another church, in 1740."

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