This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wQJ.2ACEB/652.1.1.1.1.2 Message Board Post: The highly probable origin of Anthony Colby of Amesbury is provided by John Brooks Threlfall in his _Fifty Great Migration Colonists to New England and Their Origins_ (Madison, WIsc., 1990), 121 ff. He shows that the immigrant was the Thomas Colby baptized on 8 Sept. 1605 in Horbling, Lincolnshire, son of Thomas and Ann (Jackson) Colby. Threlfall does not provide a ldiscussion of the evidence, which is in part circumstantial, but a valuable discussion is in Robert Charles Anderson, _The Great Migration Begins_, 1:416; Bob Anderson (who is one of my Coeditors of _The American Genealogist_ [TAG]) accepts Threlfall's identification. As happy as I am to have Glade Nelson's TAG article praised, I must point out, in justification to both Glade and TAG, that it is improper to post an entire article (or substantial portion) online without permission of the author and the journal. Facts, of course, are a different matter. DAVID L. GREENE, FASG Coeditor and publisher _The American Genealogist_ [TAG]