1763 - 1806

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• Birth	5 Oct 1763	,Newton,Rockingham,New Hampshire
  Gender	Male
  Died	29 Mar 1806	Litchfield,Me
  Person ID	I94750	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	12 Dec 2000 00:00:00
  Family	Eunice WATSON, b. Abt 1775, Canaan,Litchfield,Ct
  Married	16 Oct 1796	Litchfield,Me
  Children	1. Jane COLBY, twin, b. 7 Aug 1797, Litchfield,Me   2. Jenna COLBY, twin, b. 7 Aug 1797, Litchfield,Me   3. Eunica COLBY, b. 21 Mar 1799, Litchfield,Me   4. Betsey COLBY, b. 1 Feb 1801, Litchfield,Me   5. Stephen COLBY, b. 30 Dec 1802, Litchfield,Me   6. Sarah COLBY, twin, b. 19 Feb 1805, Litchfield,Me   7. Seviah COLBY, twin, b. 19 Feb 1805, Litchfield,Me
  Family ID	F41256	Group Sheet

• Notes

  Ancestral File Number: 18GS-00B Eunice Colby of Litchfield, Kennebec County, Maine, then aged 77 years, applied for a pension as the widow of Revolutionary veteran. She deposed, 23 February 1850, that she was the widow of Thomas Colby, who was a resident of New Hampshire in 1776. He served under Captain Samuel Nay, in 1780, and under Captain John Eastman in 1781, as one of the men raised to serve at West Point, that he had married her on 16 October 1796, and that he had died on 29 March 1806. We also learn from her deposition and those of others, that he was the son of Nathaniel Colby, and was born in Newtown, NewHampshire, that he removed from Warner, new Hampshire, and settled in Litchfield, Maine, about 1785, at which time he married to his first wife, Jane Neal. His sister, Rhode Colby, deposed that she was living at Salisbury, New Hampshire, 9 January 1819, and that she was the heir of David Colby, who had died a Newtown, New Hampshire, 29 July 1786, whose son Thomas Colby, her nephew, had alsoserved in the Revolution and had died of consumption soon after the war. No children of Thomas Colby are mentioned the the various depositions. SOURCES: (1)"The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts" by David W. Hoyt;(2) "The Colby Family in Early America" by Frederick Lewis Weis, Caledonia, The Colonial Press, pub 1970.

• Sources

  [S1555] GEDCOM File : colby-volkert.ged, Alice Volkert (alice@volkertservices.com), (http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GED&db=colby-volkert&id=I18178), 15 Jan 2005.