Genealogy of the Marshall Family,
including Medieval and Ancient Lines

Updated: 02-03-2022.

Submitted and Maintained by Bill Marshall, bill.marshall@verizon.net.


Additions and corrections appreciated (especially with sources). My current list of sources is here. Homepage here.

Index of Medieval and Ancient Lines is here, notable people here, and Gedcom may be downloaded here.

Index of Modern Lines (immigrants to America and their descendants) is here, notable people here, and Gedcom here.


Individual Page

    Person Info
  • Name: John COLBY
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: 8 Sep 1633 in Boston b
  • Death: 11 Feb 1673/4 d


    • Parents:
  • Father:
  • Anthony COLBY Death: 11 Feb 1660/1 in Salisbury, Massachusetts
    • Mother:
  • Susanna (COLBY) Death: 8 Jul 1689

Family:
Marriage:
  • Frances HOYT on 14 Jan 1655/6 at Salisbury, Massachusetts .m1
  • Frances HOYT Birth: Abt 1637 in England Death: 2 Jan 1720/1 in Amesbury, Massachusetts
Children:
  1. Elizabeth COLBY
  2. John COLBY Birth: 19 Nov 1656 in Salisbury, Massachusetts
  3. Sarah COLBY Birth: 17 Jul 1658 in Salisbury, Massachusetts

Bibliography
  1. Davis, Walter Goodwin, Ancestry of Lydia Harmon, 1755-1836, wife of Joseph Waterhouse of Standish, Maine. Boston, MA: Stanhope Press, 1924. G4066. Available at http://archive.org/details/ancestryoflydiah00davi Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Davis HARMON p[0-9]*].
  2. Holman, Mary Lovering, Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury and John Sargent Pillsbury, Concord, NH: Rumsford Press, 1938. NEHGS CS71/P643/1938. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/29865. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p[0-9]*].
  3. Hoyt, David W, The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts. Baltimore: Gen Pub Co, 1982. Available at http://archive.org/details/oldfamiliesofsal01hoyt, http://archive.org/details/oldfamiliesofsal02hoyt, and http://archive.org/details/oldfamiliesofsal03hoyt. Volume 1 also available at http://archive.org/details/cu31924025963772. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Hoyt S&A p[0-9]*].
  4. Hoyt, David W, A Genealogical History of the Hoyt, Haight, and Hight Families, Providence, RI:Providence Press Co, 1871. UMI #G2468. Available at http://books.google.com/?id=JzxVAAAAMAAJ Information from this source tagged as [Ref: HoytDW HOYT p[0-9]*].
  5. Vital Records of Salisbury, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849. Topsfield, MA:Topsfield Historical Society, 1915. M-LH #PS163. Available at http://archive.org/details/vitalrecordsofsa00salisb Information from this source tagged as [Ref: SalisburyMA vitals p[0-9]*].
  6. 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, MA: Little Brown & Co, 1860. Available at http://archive.org/details/genealogicaldic01savarich. Reprinted Baltimore, MD, Genealogical Published Co, 1965. Scanned and corrected by Robert Kraft, 1994, and available at http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/newengland/savage/. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Sav-age [A-Z][A-Z]* [A-Z][a-z]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
[Ref: Hoyt S&A p104],
place:
[Ref: Hoyt S&A p104],
parents:
Anthony COLBY & Susanna ___ [Ref: Hoyt S&A p104]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: Davis HARMON p57, Hoyt S&A p104]
Sources with Information about marriage to Frances HOYT
date:
[Ref: Davis HARMON p57, Hoyt S&A p205, HoytDW HOYT p20, SalisburyMA vitals p393, Sav-age HOYT John]
14 Jan 1655 [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p581],
place:
[Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p581, Hoyt S&A p205, SalisburyMA vitals p393],
child:
[Ref: Hoyt S&A p104]
Research Notes:
1654: original commoner of Amesbury [Ref: Hoyt S&A p104]

received land in Amesbury in 1658, 59, 62, 66, and 68 [Ref: Hoyt S&A p104]



Pedigree of John COLBY
 /-----Anthony COLBY
John COLBY
 \-----Susanna (COLBY)



Descendants of John COLBY
1. John COLBY m. Frances HOYT
m. Frances HOYT father: John HOYT mother: Frances TUXBERRY