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Laura Ingalls-Wilder

Author of Little House on the Prairie

John Colby Jr.

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Laura Ingalls-Wilder — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 160 
  • Father:
  • John Colby 
  • Mother:
  • Frances Hoyt   
  • Birth Date:
  • 19 Nov 1656 
  • Birth Location:
  • Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 6 Apr 1719 
  • Death Location:
  • Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Eldridge
  • Marriage Date:
  • 25 Dec 1675 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Sarah Jane Colby

  Joseph Colby (Ahnentafel No:80 )

• Sources for John Colby Jr.

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Amesbury Deaths, Vol. 1, p. 534.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Salisbury Births, Vol. 1, p. 54.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Amesbury Marriages, Vol. 1, p. 314.
  • ⁴ The Essex Genealogist, 1994, Vol. 14, p. 173.
  • ⁵ Dunbar, Edith Flanders, The Flanders Family From Europe to America: Being a History of the Flanders Family in America . . ., Rutland, Vermont: Tuttle Publishing Company (1935), 43.
  • ⁶ Hoyt, David W., The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts: with Some Related Families of Newbury, Haverhill . . . Part 1, Providence, Rhode Island: Snow and Farnham, Printers (1897), 106.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 111.
  • ⁸ Stearns, Ezra S., ed., Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire: A Record of the Achievements of Her People . . ., Vol. 4, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company (1908), Page 1566, [Birth].