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- From: "Fifty Great Migration Colonists To New England" By John W. Threfall, Madison, Wisconsin, 1990, page 131:
"MATTHEW COLBY lived in Pointon, a village or chapelry in the parish of Sempringham, Lincolnshire. He was probably born about 1530. Her married Mary -------, probably about 1555. He had a least two brothers and a sister also living in Sempringham. the names of his parents are unknown. Matthew Colby was buried 10 October 1591, his wife Mary on 18 December 1591, followed soon by their two youngest children, four in all dying within a three month period. Both parents left deathbed wills in which they stated that they were sick. One can wonder at what sort of epidemic struck this family. Horbling is just to the north of Sempringham."
"8 October 1591 - the will of MATHEW COLBY of Poynton, Sempringham parish, county Lincoln, husbandman...sick in body... to be buried in the churchyard of Sempringham...to John Colbye my son one cow & a quoye, to Edward Colby one cow & a quoye, to Elizabeth Colby one cow & a quoye, to Thomas Colby the younger one a cow & a quoye, to Thomas Colby the elder half a quarter of barley and a half a quarter of pease, to Robert Colby my brother one stricke of barley, to Alisr my syster one stricke of barley, to Agnes Colby the daughter of Thomas Colby of Horbling two stricks of barley...all the rest of my goods & cattells...to Mary Colby my wife...she to be sole exexutrix...Roger Lawrence to be supervisor. Witnesses: Robert Baxter, Roger Lawrence, Thomas Colbye and Francys Barton. Proved 22 October 1591. (Ref: C.C. of Lincoln. 1591. Book 1:2350.
*quoye= quey= a heifer (Scot.)
*burling=a yearling heifer
From site. [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~colby/colbyfam/b406.html], "COLBY FAMILY & OTHERS" by owner Ronald M. Colby. Mar 2011.
- The first record of a Colby in Sempringham is a deed dated 3 Febuary 1421/2 by which William Stanenstone of Pointon conveyed to John oche and his wife Alice three selions of land in the fields west of Pointon, two of which parcels were bounded by William Colby. This William Colby was undoubtedly an ancestor of the Colbys who lived in the village of Pointon in the parish of Sempringham several generations later. On 7 May 1505 Robert Rogerson of Pointon granted to John Huchyson and Robert Colby of Pointon "one messuage and 20 acres of land and meadow with all of the appurtenances in the village and the fields of Pointon, which lately was inherited after the decease of William Rogerson his father and Alice his wife." This Robert Colby was probably the great grandson of the above william Colby and was probably the grandfather of Matthew Colby, the father of Thomas, and grandfather of Anthony. The name of the father of Matthew is a mystery.
From site. [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~colby/colbyfam/b406.html], "COLBY FAMILY & OTHERS" by owner Ronald M. Colby. Mar 2011.
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Est 1530 - Est 1591 (~ 61 years)