Is anyone related to the Pennsylvania Colby's ? Specifically to the line of Ephraim Colby and his wife Catherine Gift and their son Geoge Colby of Fayetteville/Chambersburg area of Pennsylvania ? If so please contact me. Gordon Crooks

Gordon -- Both Ron Colby and Alice Volkert document the ancestry of Ephraim COLBY on their respective websites, and they have a fair bit of information on his descendants as well. He was apparently married twice, his other wife being listed as Judith CALL (or CAUL). Guy I. Colby IV ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gordon Crooks" <gordoncrooks@worldnet.att.net> To: <colby@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, December 26, 2008 6:25 AM Subject: [COLBY] Pa. Colby's > Is anyone related to the Pennsylvania Colby's ? Specifically to the line of Ephraim Colby and his wife Catherine Gift and their son Geoge Colby of Fayetteville/Chambersburg area of Pennsylvania ? If so please contact me. > > Gordon Crooks

Hi Guy: Yes I know that and have the entire line, he apparently had some debts and fled NH with his kids by his first wife and settled in Pa. and married Catherine Gift who came from a prominent German settler family, their son George Colby had 9 children with Anna Fox. It is the 9 children who scattered all over the place. My late father was fond of telling about visiting his Colby cousins around 1920 with his father and in the families Stanley's Steamer from Carroll Co., Md. (a distance of about 45 miles) it took them all day and they took 14 extra tires for blowouts, roads were few and mostly they used cow paths etc. I long ago found Goerge Colby's house in Fayetteville, Pa. it was and still is a huge 2 1/2 story nall brick house which was originally on several acres of land. Today a bunch of red necks live it it and the pl;ace looks like hell. Gordon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Guy I. Colby IV" <guycolbyiv@verizon.net> To: <colby@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2008 1:08 AM Subject: Re: [COLBY] Pa. Colby's > Gordon -- > > Both Ron Colby and Alice Volkert document the ancestry of Ephraim COLBY on > their respective websites, and they have a fair bit of information on his > descendants as well. He was apparently married twice, his other wife > being listed as Judith CALL (or CAUL). > > Guy I. Colby IV > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gordon Crooks" <gordoncrooks@worldnet.att.net> > To: <colby@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, December 26, 2008 6:25 AM > Subject: [COLBY] Pa. Colby's > > >> Is anyone related to the Pennsylvania Colby's ? Specifically to the line >> of Ephraim Colby and his wife Catherine Gift and their son Geoge Colby of >> Fayetteville/Chambersburg area of Pennsylvania ? If so please contact me. >> >> Gordon Crooks > > > ============================= > Colby list archives: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/COLBY/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > COLBY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.10.0/1865 - Release Date: 12/26/2008 1:01 PM