The Canby families in America go back to Thomas Canby, b. 1667. The History of
Bucks County, Pennsylvania states that his father was Benjamin Canby, b. 1637.
"Thomas Canby, son of Benjamin, of Thorne, Yorkshire, England, born about
1667, came to Pennsylvania in 1683 as an indentured apprentice of Henry Baker,
and was in Buckingham before, or by, 1690. He bought part of the Lundy tract,
near Centreville, and married Sarah Garvis [Jarvis*] in 1693.
He was married three times, and was the father of seventeen children.
Selling the Lundy property to Samuel Baker, he purchased part of the Scarborough
tract in Solebury, including the Stavely farm, which he sold to his two sons,
Thomas and Benjamin, and afterwards bought Heath's mills on the Great Spring
creek, near New Hope, where he died in 1742. His descendants are nearly
numerous enough to people a state. Among the families who have descended, in
part, from this ancestry are the Laceys, Hamptons, Smiths, Elys, Fells,
Staplers, Gillinghams, Paxtons, Wilsons, Eastburns, Johnsons, Watsons,
Pickerings, Parrys, Newbolds, Magills, Duers, Prices, Tysons, etc."
THE HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, CHAPTER XVII, BUCKINGHAM, 1703.
from the discovery of the Delaware to the present time by W.W. Davis,
A.M.,
1876 and 1905* editions..
My 2nd gr-grandparents, Elizabeth Canby & Thomas Jenks, both descend from Thomas
Canby. Elizabeth Canby descends from Thomas and his first wife Sarah Jarvis.
Thomas Jenks descends from Thomas Canby & his second wife, Mary Oliver.
Thomas Canby b. 1667
+ Sarah Jarvis
Benjamin Canby b. 1704
+ Sarah Yardley
Thomas Canby b. 1739
+ Beulah Cary
Samuel Canby b. 1772
+ Elizabeth Woolston
Elizabeth Canby
b. 1820
+ Thomas Jenks
Thomas Canby b. 1667
+ Mary Oliver
Rebecca Canby b. 1711
+ Samuel Wilson
Stephen Wilson b. 1753
+ Sarah Blackfan
Rachel Wilson b. 1781
+ Thomas Jenks
Thomas Jenks b.
1817
+ Elizabeth
Canby
So, who do you descend from?