Submitter is Phyllis D Purdy This is for Trails Use only Will of Robert Clements of Haverhill Sept 6th 1658 I Robertt Clements of Haverhill being of perfitt memory blessed be God for itt, doe ordaine & make this my last will, in manner & forme following ffirst I Committ my soule into the hands of God my Creator & maker, beleeving thorough the mirritts Rightousnesse & obedience of Jesus christ my redeemer to have & enjoy life & Salvation Everlastingly by him. ffor my goods I give first unto my wife my house & house lott & all the accomadato's that belonged to itt which shee is to have during her life & after her decease to returne to my childorns childorne that are in new england each his pportio to be delivered into ye hands of their parents for their childorns vse. I give alsoe to my wife my best yoake of oxen I have & three of my best cowes & my mare which broght the mule & alsoe my swine & two of my best brass pott & three of my best kittles, and two spining t--rnes, and all haugles on the fire, with fire shoules & tonges & two of ye best coushens, one ---- & a cupp, with all my wooden & Earthen vessellss & all manner of clothing the belong to her, as also my byble candlestick & chamber pott. My will is that if there be any goods of mine come out of England this yere or the next my wife shall have five pounds of itt according to ye bill of lading. alsoe I give my wife all ye Lining in my house //excepting two paire of sheets yt are for my bed// & all the Corne in my house barne & growing on the land & also a debt of seaven pounds & sum odd money in the hands of John Hutchins for the repaireing the house & fenceing ye home lott. I give to my wife alsoe what is due to mee //or will bee// from mr Dumer by bills or Covinants & alsoe the Cloth that is att the weavers with what woolen yerne & fllaxe is in the house & alsoe three pounds which is in the hands of mr Cooke of boston I giuve her two skillitts, two stockes off the best beese & two chests with locke & caie to them. I give to my wife the boards I bought at Salisbury to repaire the house. It is my will that one halfe of the goods which I give my wife that if shee spend not, at her deceased it shall returne to my executors to be equally devided among them. I give to my sonne Job Clement one fellee which will be two yer old next may. allsoe I give him my best uit of apparell & my best cloake & best hatt, my best paire of shewes & stockens. I give to my sonne Robert twenty pound due to mee out of my rentt in England & which rentt is due to mee more I give to my three sonns John, Abraham & Dannell. All the rest of my estate in new england due to mee upon bonds or bills or any accounts land or goods whatsoever I give to my sonnes Moses Pengrow & Abraham Morrill & John Osgood whim I make my executors to see this my will performed & my debts paid & my body laid in ye grave. That which is struck out on the other side at the lower end betweene the 4th & 5th line it ws done before it was seald to & her unto I sett my hand & seale. I give to mr ward or minester five pounds Robert Clement (seal) (his mark) Witness Bartell: B H Heath william white Proved in Hampton court 11:8:1658 by the witnesses Estate of Robert Clements of Haverhill Mr Robert Clements late of Haverhill, gave to his grandchildren that were then in England, after the decease of his wife, this house, houselot and orchard in Haverhill, to be divided equally by the disposal of their parents; therefore, Job Clements, Moses Pengry, John Osgood and Thomas Mudgett being the surviving parents of the grandchildren, have divided it into three parts, there being fifteen heirs, that is to say, two of Job Clement's, six of Moses Pengry's five of Abraham Morrill's and two of John Osgood's, and thus the heirs are divided into three parts and their protions are as follows: Job Clement's two children, John Osgood's two children and Moses Pengry's eldest son to have the second division of upland, the oxe common land, half of the east meadow the upper end, together with one third part of the fourth division laid out, as also all common priviledges thereunto belonging: Moses Pengry's other five children to have the third division of upland, Haukes meadow, and one third part of the fourth division not yet laid out, together with one third of all common priviledges thereunto belonging; Abraham Morrill's five children to have the house and house lot, orchard, the plain lot and half the east meadow the lower end, with one third part of the fourth division not yet laid out and one third of all common priviledges there unto belonging. Signed Oct 8, 1669 Witness: Robert Clement Jno (his X mark) Heath, Sr John Redman Thomas Mudget owned this agreement or division Dec 18, 1684. Acknowledged April 2, 1672, by Moses Pengry and John Osgood. George Brown and Daniell Ella were chosen by the Hampton court to consider of and survey a division of land that Mr Rob Clement gave to his grandchildren which they have done and consider the above division just and right as witness our hands Oct 6, 1685 (Norfolk Deeds, Vol 3, p 341) 50 Great Migration Colonists to NE & Their Origins p 123-28 Anthony Colby, son of Thomas and Anne (Jackson) Colby was baptized at Horbling, Lincolnshire, England on 8 Sept 1605. He was apparently named for his uncle Anthony Jackson. He came to America with the Winthrop Fleet, landing in Boston in June or July 1630. He apparently married about 1632, probably at Cambridge, to Susanna Waterman, a widow. They had seven children. TAG Vol 51 p 66 Anthony Colby married after coming to New England, probably between 1630-1632, the widow Susannah Waterman of Boston, MA. She married 3rd, about 1663/4, William Whitridge, a carpenter from Gloucester who died 5 Dec 1668. She died 8 July 1689 in Salisbury, MA. Various sources state her name to have been Haddon and make her either a sister or a daughter of Jared Haddon of Salisbury; others claim she was a daughter of William Sargent, and still others say she was a Nutting. None of these claims are backed by any documentary proof so her maiden name remains unknown. Bio: Anthony Colby died at Salisbury, Essex Co, MA, 11 Feb 1660/1 and was probably buried in the old graveyard called "Golgatha" on the western bank of the Pow Wow River in Amesbury, Essex Co, MA. His widow, Susanna married (3rd) about 1663/4, William Whitridge, who died 5 Dec 1668. Susanna died at Salisbury, Essex Co, MA on 8 July 1689. The fact that Anthony Colby married the widow Waterman is proven by a deed given by John Steevenson, 20 Aug 1652, to Mary widow of Peter Thornton and to Joseph Thornton, eldest son of Peter, which recites: "Whereas there is a parcel of Land lying neere the Lands of mr John New in Boston which at first was granted to [blank] Waterman who dec'ed. Anthony Colbye married his Widdow & they two sold the sd Land unto James Pennyman, and hee sold it to William ffeild and the sd ffeild sold it to Henry Vayne and Henry Vayne sold it unto Theodore Atkinson and Atkinson sold it to William Tilley and Tilley sold it to William Ludkine and the sd Ludkine sold it to Jeremiah Houchin by his writing bearing date the third day of the second month in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred fforty and eight sold the sd parcel of land unto me"{John steevenson], etc [Deeds, Suffolk County, 11-176] Anthony Colby came to America with the Winthrop Fleet in 1630. He signed the 1st Church Boston covenant at Charlestown, Suffolk Co, MA on 27 Aug 1630 as number 93. His name appears beside that of his life long friend Jared Haddon. The clerk, however, has mistakenly put his name in the records as Anthony Chaulby. He went to Cambridge, Middlesex Co, MA in 1632, and while there was admitted freeman 14 May 1634. he owned two houses and six acres of land in Cambridge (on Brattle Street), which he sold to Simon Crosby in 1639. Anthony Colby was the father of eight children. Many have placed a 4th child, who died young, into the list of the children of Anthony and Susannah Colby. This child was assumed because Anthony Colby is supposed to have reported as having four children by the time the Salisbury records egan. James Savage states that there were 4 children older than Isaac Colby. James Colby describes Anthony Colby's life as follows: "Anthony Colby, Puritan exile from England, pioneer of Boston, Salisbury and Amesbury, father of most American Colbys, was perhaps the original planter of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Winthrop's company came to Salem, th Charlestown and to Boston in the summer of 1630 and Saltonstall's company came to Watertown that fall. During the winter, the assistants selected Cambridge as the best place to fortify, they all agreeing to build there. By the fall of 1631 only eight families are known to have gone to cambridge; three from Boston - those of Anthony Colby, Jared Haddon and Joseph Redding - the last named coming later. In 1632 the settlers came in large numbers and the town was laid out in compact form, from the college grounds to the river, so as to be surrounded by palisades. As early as 7 Jan 1632, the erection of houses outside the village was prohibited. Anthony's farm was up in the Watertown road, where the river comes nearest the high ground beyond Ash Street, and away from the village, and he must have entered before the prohibition. He was called upon to build only four rods of the great garden fence, over a mile in length. He, therefore, got what he apparently did not want -- a garden right in the enclosure. But four rods was not in proportion to his ownings; and I judge he was considered an outsider equally by Watertown and Cambridge. By the time the Cambridge records began, some three years later, the Watertown line had been readjustted and his name appears on every page of that book, the boundaries showing that he was now surrounded by neighbors. And so he built him a second house, up by the Observatory hill, owning both for several years. I judge that he kept the first for his work people, while he drew the leafy veil of seclusion about his new home. And when two-thirds of the townsmen departed to distant regions from sheer disgust at the grab game of a few ringleaders -- from fifty to two hundred acres apiece while they had three -- I do not think he removed for larger allotments, but for solitude. "Then again, although a chuch was built in Cambridge in 1632, his church relation was not transferred from Boston to Cambridge. Together the names of Anthony and his lifelong friend Jared Haddon had been affixed by the minister to the roll of the Boston First church while yet they all tarried in Charlestown, in August 1630. But their membership had so been allowed to lapse that by the new law they were abliged to take the freeman's oath in 1634. Yet just as soon as the Rev Mr Cotton arrived in this country, Sep 1633, Anthony took his two children to Boston for baptist, [a girl, (eldest), who died young, and John, born 1633]; and his personally presenting them before the great congregation settles forever all suspicion that this constant habit of voluntary seclusion and isolation was the result of any shady record of ill-standing. He loved ever the solitude of the backwoods, and while other timorously hugged the village blickhouse and feared the Indians, he dwelt undaughted in the forests of Cambridge, of Rowley, of Amesbury, going thither before others went and flitting when others came." He has commonly been considered as a resident of Boston, Suffolk Co, MA during 1631, but I now incline to believe his boat was then moored just above Windmill hill in Cambridge, Middlesex Co, MA. In 1637, he was in Ipswich, Essex Co, MA; and in that year he sued John Hall of Saugus, Essex Co, MA, calling himself of "Ipswich". When Salisbury, Essex Co, MA, was settled in 1640, twelve Ipswich families were among the newcomers, and Anthony Colby received a lot in the first division, also a sweepage lot valued at 20 pounds. In this year he was appointed appraiser. he was one of the first group entitled to the use of the common lands at Amesbury, Essex Co, MA and was grandted land there in 1654 and 1658. His widow received a further grant in 1662 and 1664. Jarrett haddon sold to Samuel Fellows his dwelling and eight acres of land in Salisbury bounded on one side by land of Anthony Colby, 5 April 1644. This deed was acknowledged 28:4:1652. Anthony traded land on the west side of the Pow-wow bounded on one side by land of William Sargent 25:1:1645. In 1649 he moved again. All this time his friend jared Haddon was with him; their homes were side by side in Salisbury, and together they moved to Amesbury and occupied adjoining properties. In 1647 he sold his house and two acre lot in Salisbury to William Sargent. Thos Bradbury of Salisbury sold 23 Oct 1647 a lot of meadow adjoining land of Anthony Colby's. Mr Colby witnessed a deed from John Weed to Wm Osgood of land on the Powwow river in Salisbury in 1648. Thomas Macy, 23:11:1654, sold his dwelling house to Anthony Colby, and the barn and garden near the barn of Roger Eastman, and the well and bucket and rope belonging to it; and colby agreed to convey to Macy a mare, foal, boards, corn and pipe or hogshead staves or cattle. Ten years later Macy returned and sued Anthony's widow for the possession of his former homestead, but without success; and the very dwelling is occupied today by the ninth generation of his descendants of the name. In the course of the suit which was tried 12:2 mo:1664, John Colby testified as to the sale and adds that the price was 38 pounds; Thomas Barnat testified he had heard Macy say that he had received the payment for it. Anthony Colby's estate was distributed by order of the Court held at Salisbury 9 April 1661. He died intestate and Capt Thomas Bradbury and Capt Robert Pike, both of Salisbury, were trustees. Anthony's widow Susanna conveyed to Samuel Colby three acres at Salisbury next Jarett Haddon's land 24 Dec 1662; she acknowledged the deed 12:2 mo:1664, as Susanna Whitrid, having married again. Susanna on the same day 24 Dec 1662 also conveyed to Isaac for 10 pounds in board sixty acres of upland in Salisbury near the Haverhill line, bounded by land of William Sargent and Jarret Haddon. This deed was not acknowledged till 21:3:1671. 26:5:1664, Samuel Colby of Salisbury, planter, conveys "to my brother, Isaac Colby of Salisbury, planter, 3 acres of fresh meadow purchased of my mother Susanna Colby, now ye wife of Willi Whitrid." Land formerly granted by the town of Salisbury to Anthony Colby was sold 20 Oct 1660 for 3 pounds 10 sh by John Nash. jarett Haddon of Salisbury, tailor, for 35 sh sold his 8 acres adjoining widow Colby's land in the Lion's Mouth 10 Paril 1662. Jarrett Haddon 9 April 1662 of Salisbury sold twp pieces of land in salisbury both adjoining Colby's land in Salisbury; Colby had acquired both from Samuel Winsley. April 17, 1663, Haddon still of Salisbury sold to Anthony's son Isaac a 40-acre lot next to the lot of Anthony Colby, "late deceased." Macy Colby Home in Amesbury, MA The Thomas Macy home in Amesbury, MA, purchased by Anthony Colby in 1654, is now known as the Macy-Colby museum and the Descendants of Anthony Colby have contributed money for its restoration and upkeep. During "Old Home Week", 1904, the Amesbury Improvement Association, many of whom were descendants of the early settlers, erected as a memorial to the early settlers of the town a large boulder bearing a bronze tablet on which are the names of the first eighteen settlers. This memorial takes its name, the "Golgatha" boulder from it's position in the ancient burying ground locally known as "Golgatha", situated on a terrace overlooking the Powwow River. This spot was first selected as a burial place by those who had removed from the town of Salisbury to the west bank of the Powwow, and it has been estimated that the forty persons had been buried there previous to 1663, when the new cemetery was established. The names on the tablet are as follows: Richard Currier Thomas Barnard Orlando Bagley Anthony Colby Thomas Macy John Bailey John Hoyt Philip Challis George Martin Valentine Rowell henry Blaisdell William Sargent Edward Cattle jarret Haddon John Weed John Colby William Barnes William Huntington Jeanne/jmh