Guy the statement that Weis makes is this: Anthony Colby was born in England (perhaps at Beccles, co. Suffolk, or Banham, co. Norfolk), 1595, and he died at Salisbury, Massachusetts, 11 February 1660/1. He married Susannah (perhaps Haddon), who died at Salisbury, 8 July 1689. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 11:33 PM Subject: [COLBY] Anthony Colby's Parentage Revisited John G. Hunt's June 1974 NGSQ article, recently posted to the list in its entirety by Ron Colby, contains the following statement: "Frederick Lewis Weis, "The Colby Family" (Concord, Mass., 1970), page 3, shows that Anthony (1) Colby was born in 1595." I do not have the Weis book, so I do not know what proof he adduces for this claim. It would appear, however, that he is adopting the suggestion made by David W. Hoyt in "Old Families of Sailsbury and Amesbury" (page 1059), that the immigrant Anthony Colby may have been the son of Christopher Colby and Anne Thorold of Grantham, Lincolnshire. The Hunt article also notes an alternate supposition in the Banks manuscripts that the immigrant is to be identified with an Anthony Colby from Aswardby, Lincolnshire. In another recent posting, Bob Colby quotes from John Brooks Threlfall's 1990 work "Fifty Great Migration Colonists to New England," in which Threlfall emphatically argues that the immigrant Anthony Colby is to be identified with the son of Thomas Colby and Anne Jackson, christened 8 Sep 1605 at Horbling, Lincolnshire. This is the identification which seems currently to enjoy general acceptance. I have met John Brooks Threlfall personally and listened to him discourse upon this subject, and I share Bob Colby's admiration for his closely documented research. However, I do have a question. In arguing his case for the Horbling candidate as the immigrant Anthony Colby, Threllfall makes the following statement: "All the other known contemporary Anthony Colbys in Old England can be eliminated from consideration for one reason or another." My question is this: Does anyone know on what basis Threlfall rejects the Grantham and Aswardby candidates mentioned in the Hunt article? I concur that the claims made on behalf of the Anthony from Beccles in Suffolk have been thoroughly discredited, but it would seem on the face of it that some of the same arguments made in favor of the Horbling candidate can be offered in support of these other two Lincolnshire candidates as well. Guy I. Colby IV Irving, TX ==== COLBY Mailing List ==== 2005 COLBY CLAN REUNION Aug 20, 2005 East Hartford, Connecticut For more information contact: Adeline S. Stack 26 Coolidge Ave South Portland, Maine 04106-5013 Phone (207) 799-1648 ============================== Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. New content added every business day. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx