Family:Simon Crosby and Ann Brigham (1)

Parents: Thomas Crosby and Jane Sotheron Simon Crosby b. Est 1609 Holme-on-Spalding-Moor, East Riding of Yorkshire, England d. Sep 1639 Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States	Parents: Thomas Brigham and Isabel Watson Ann Brigham b. Cal 1606 Holme-on-Spalding-Moor, Yorkshire, England d. 11 Oct 1675 Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States

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Marriage^[3]

21 Apr 1634

Children

		Birth	Death
1.	Rev. Thomas Crosby	chr. 26 Feb 1634/35 Holme-on-Spalding-Moor, Yorkshire, England	13 Jun 1702 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
2.	Simon Crosby	Aug 1637 Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States	22 Jan 1725/26 Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
3.	Joseph Crosby	Feb 1638/39 Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States	26 Nov 1695 Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States

References

Pioneers of Billerica Settling the Shawshine Wilderness 1654-1660
2005.

pp. 58,59 lists founding father of Billerica MA, Simon Crosby, as the son of Simon Crosby and Ann Brigham who emigrated to Cambridge MA Apr 1635 aboard the ship "Susan and Ellen" with their first son, Thomas, then 8 weeks old.
Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
1/477.

SIMON, Cambridge, came in the Susan and Ellen, 1635, aged 26; with w. Ann, 25; and s. Thomas, 8 wks.; freem. 3 Mar. 1636; had Simon, b. Aug. 1637; and Joseph, Feb. 1639; selectman 1636 and 8, d. Sept. 1639. His young wid. m. Rev. William Tompson of Braintree. His est. by sev. mesne conveyances pass. 1707, to Rev. William Brattle, being that partly occup. now by the Brattle ho.
↑ Crosby, Eleanor Davis. Simon Crosby the Emigrant: His English Ancestry, and Some of His American descendants. (Boston: Geo. H. Ellis Co., 1914)
p 56.

Simon⁶ Crosby married in Holme-on-Spalding-Moor, 21 Apr. 1634, Anne Brigham, born there about 1606, daughter of Thomas and Isabel (Watson) Brigham (and younger sister of Constance Brigham, wife of Robert⁶ Crosby, a fourth-cousin of Simon⁶ Crosby, who also came to New England with her children and settled at Rowley, Mass.).