Family:Samuel Colby and Mary Sims (1)

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Parents: Edmund Colby and Susannah Unknown
Samuel Colby
b. 2 May 1761 Edgecomb, Lincoln, Maine, United States
d. 1 Feb 1847 Westport, Lincoln, Maine, United States
 
Mary Polly SIMS
b. 11 May 1766 New York, USA
d. 15 Oct 1849 Westport, Lincoln, Maine, USA
m. 18 May 1782 West Point, Orange, New York, United States
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Marriage[1] 18 May 1782 West Point, Orange, New York, United States
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▼ Revolutionary War

Mary Colby's affidavit, dated 25 Feb 1847, states she "was married to the said Samuel Colby at West Point on the eighteenth day of May seventeen hundred and eighty two, where he was stationed, after our marriage he served in the army about thirteen months and was discharged in Jun 1783 I think. We were married by the Rev'd Enos Hitchcock a Chaplain in the army, whose original certificate we have always kept, and which is hereunto annexed as proof of our marriage, it being the only evidence that can now be pr[ovided?]..."

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  1. ↑ Colby, Samuel, in United States. Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files. (Washington D.C.)
    Pension No. W. 20,907 1/2.

    Mary Colby's 25 Feb 1847 affidavit says married at West Point, 18 May 1782.

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