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I am not sure there are different person of Winthrop.
Winthrop b 1807 NY and death 11 Feb 1885 IN.
In Census daughter Mariam Colby b: 24 JAN 1836 in New York.
Find A Grave revealing:
B 1812 and death 11 Feb. 1885 IN.
Daughter Marion Julia Colby Yates (1839 - 1873)
Where and when did Winthrop's wife Betsy bury?
Where can I obtain death certificates or records?
Thanks in advance.
Harry H Colby b. 20 Mar 1925 MA d. 27 Nov 2003 MA
Harry married abt 1956
Jean Phillips b. 13 Jun 1938 MA d. 23 Sep 1967
I would like to find an obituary to see what happened to her. Was she in an
automobile accident?. Her death record says: Multiple fractures of the
skull; laceration of the brain; laceration over right eye.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Ron
Ronald Colby
ronaldcolby(a)gmail.com
Kearns, Utah
801-680-1317
"I finally got my head together, now my body is falling apart."
COLBY FAMILY & OTHERS:
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Our daughter, Lauren, a colby descendant (who just had another), received an MA in US history. She says there are many interpretations of why there was such a frenzy of witch hunts but that women who were perceived as a threat to the patriarchal society - either single women or widows who owned property were apt to be accused of being witches. I found this online, which certainly fits that pattern.
"Martin figures in historian Carol Karlsen's account of the Salem outbreak as an example of a woman who was easily targeted as a threat to the orderly transmission of property down the paternal line because of Martin's role in an ongoing court dispute over her father's will."
Another version is that some children found a lot of power in testifying against various women. Some of them had lost parents on the frontier during Indian warfare, (Indians being likened to the devil), and were now being used as servants which did not sit well with them. When they began accusing people of being witches, all of a sudden they were listened to.
Having lived 73 years, I suspect that it was a combination of both of the above in addition to is being dark outside (no street lights in those days) that led to the crazed frenzy of witch hunts.
Jeanne
On Nov 7, 2015, at 6:10 AM, robert via <colby(a)rootsweb.com> wrote:
For those new to Colby-L and connection to Colby's.
Book: The Witches: Salem, 1692
http://www.stacyschiff.com/the-witches-salem-1692.html
Susannah Martin: Accused Witch from Salisbury
Posted on February 14, 2012 by Rebecca Beatrice Brooks
Susannah North Martin was one of a handful of accused witches during the
Salem Witch Trials who did not actually live in Salem.
Born in 1621 in Buckinghamshire, England to Richard and Joan North, Susannah
relocated with her father and stepmother to the Merrimack plantation in
Salisbury, Massachusetts in 1639.
The North family were some of the first settlers of Salisbury, which is
located 40 miles north of Boston and was originally called Colchester before
being renamed Salisbury in 1640.
The family lived with the other settlers on plots along the "circular road,"
now known as the triangle formation of Elm street, School street and Bridge
road in Salisbury square. At the time, the area was inhabited by Penacook
Native Americans, wolves and wild animals.
After Susannah grew up, she married a blacksmith from Salisbury named George
Martin in 1646 and eventually gave birth to eight children. In 1654, George
and Susannah moved to nearby Amesbury.
http://historyofmassachusetts.org/susannah-martin-accused-witch-from-salisbu
ry/
http://www.macycolbyhouse.org/Susannah-Martin/
Mary MARTIN was born on 10 MAR 1709/10 in Amesbury, Essex County,
Massachusetts. She was living in 1744 in Amesbury, Essex County,
Massachusetts. She died before 1753 at Amesbury, Essex County,
Massachusetts. She has Ancestral File Number K807-3L. Mary's great
grandmother, Susannah Martin, was wrongly tried and executed for witchcraft
during the Salem witch trials in 1672.
SOURCE: Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, pg. 110 & 666
Parents: John MARTIN and Mary WELLS.
Spouse: Isaac COLBY. Isaac COLBY and Mary MARTIN were married on 3 JAN
1727/28 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. Children were: Eliphalet
COLBY, John COLBY, Isaac COLBY, Elizabeth COLBY, Nehemiah COLBY, Nehemiah
COLBY, David COLBY, Richard COLBY.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~colby/colbyfam/b600.html
Bob Colby
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For those new to Colby-L and connection to Colby's.
Book: The Witches: Salem, 1692
http://www.stacyschiff.com/the-witches-salem-1692.html
Susannah Martin: Accused Witch from Salisbury
Posted on February 14, 2012 by Rebecca Beatrice Brooks
Susannah North Martin was one of a handful of accused witches during the
Salem Witch Trials who did not actually live in Salem.
Born in 1621 in Buckinghamshire, England to Richard and Joan North, Susannah
relocated with her father and stepmother to the Merrimack plantation in
Salisbury, Massachusetts in 1639.
The North family were some of the first settlers of Salisbury, which is
located 40 miles north of Boston and was originally called Colchester before
being renamed Salisbury in 1640.
The family lived with the other settlers on plots along the "circular road,"
now known as the triangle formation of Elm street, School street and Bridge
road in Salisbury square. At the time, the area was inhabited by Penacook
Native Americans, wolves and wild animals.
After Susannah grew up, she married a blacksmith from Salisbury named George
Martin in 1646 and eventually gave birth to eight children. In 1654, George
and Susannah moved to nearby Amesbury.
http://historyofmassachusetts.org/susannah-martin-accused-witch-from-salisbu
ry/
http://www.macycolbyhouse.org/Susannah-Martin/
Mary MARTIN was born on 10 MAR 1709/10 in Amesbury, Essex County,
Massachusetts. She was living in 1744 in Amesbury, Essex County,
Massachusetts. She died before 1753 at Amesbury, Essex County,
Massachusetts. She has Ancestral File Number K807-3L. Mary's great
grandmother, Susannah Martin, was wrongly tried and executed for witchcraft
during the Salem witch trials in 1672.
SOURCE: Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, pg. 110 & 666
Parents: John MARTIN and Mary WELLS.
Spouse: Isaac COLBY. Isaac COLBY and Mary MARTIN were married on 3 JAN
1727/28 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. Children were: Eliphalet
COLBY, John COLBY, Isaac COLBY, Elizabeth COLBY, Nehemiah COLBY, Nehemiah
COLBY, David COLBY, Richard COLBY.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~colby/colbyfam/b600.html
Bob Colby