Abraham D. Colby

A Patriot of the American Revolution for NEW HAMPSHIRE. DAR A 024070 DAR Ancestor # A024028

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Abraham COLBY was born about 1720 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He was baptized on 25 JAN 1735/36 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. (SOURCE: Early Vital Records of Essex County, Massachusetts to 1850 for Amesbury.) He died in 1809 at Bow, Merrimack County, New Hampshire. Abraham, with his five sons, settled on Wood Hill in Bow, NH in 1768. On August 16, 1768, he bought of John Leavitt of Stratham part of lots No. 3 and 4 in the 14 range, being 120 acres, for £45, lawfull money. The road through Bow was only a bridle path from the hill where the first meeting house was built, and extending on to where Bow Mills village is now located (1895). The Colby purchase included the land on Wood Hill, both sides of the path, and that portion east of the bridle path was seperated by the road running easterly from Wood Hill to Great Hill.

Here his five sons settled, --Elijah, where P. Green now (1895) lives; Thomas, in the valley, fourty rods west of the road; Willaby, north of the junction of the road east, where Sterling Colby now (1895) lives; John, on the southwest corner of the lot, and Abraham, the father, with his ypungest son, Jonathan, between the lots of John and Thomas, near the Elliot house.

Signed Association Test in Bow, NH.

Comment 2:

His name, and that of his wife Elizabeth, are noted at the Rocky Hill Meeting House in Amesbury, Massachusetts. He was a husbandman (farmer). On 16 August, 1768, he bought 120 acres of land on Wood Hill in Bow, NH for £45 (about $150 at that time). The property was bought from John Leavitt of Stratham, and was located on the westerly side of Wood Hill Road about opposite the intersection of Woodhill-Hooksett Road. It was comprised of Lots 3 and 4 in Range 14 and was divided between his sons. Abraham and his wife spent the rest of their lives there. He signed the Association Test at Bow on 3 Sep 1776 and in the 1790 census, his family was noted as 2-4-3 (meaning himself, 1 son over 16, 4 sons under 16, his wife, and 2 daughters). The "Association Test" stated that "We, the subscribers, do solemnly engage, and promise that we will, to the utmost of out power, at the risque of our lives and fortunes, with arms, oppose the hostile proceedings of the British fleets and armies against the United American Colonies." He marched to Montreal with Gen. Richard Montgomery in 1775. In the latter years of his life, he gave his house to his son Jonathan. In 1791, "The road from Wood Hill easterly between land of Abraham Colby & Willaby Colby thence extending to John Colby's, thence on to Dunbarton line was laid." He died in Bow in 1809, his wife died that same year.

SOURCES: (1) "A Genealogy of the Descendants of Abraham Colby and Elizabeth Blaisdell, his wife Who settled in Bow in 1768" By one of them, Concord, NH Printed by the Republican Press Association 1895; (2) "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts" by David W. Hoyt; (3) Early Vital Records of Essex County, Massachusetts to 1850. Baptizim, Amesbury. Marriage listed as Collby; (4) "The Colby Family in Early America" by Frederick Lewis Weis, Caledonia, The Colonial Press, pub 1970.

Parents: Thomas COLBY and Frances (COLBY).

Spouse: Elizabeth BLAISDELL. Abraham COLBY and Elizabeth BLAISDELL were married on 23 MAR 1741/42 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. (SOURCE: Early Vital Records of Essex County, Massachusetts to 1850 for Amesbury.) Children were: Elijah COLBY, Willoughby COLBY, Anna COLBY, John COLBY, Hannah COLBY, Lieut. Thomas COLBY, Eli COLBY, Jonathan COLBY.

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