GENEALOGY OF COLBY FAMILY IN MONT VERNON NH

Information from a web site "History & Genealogy of Mont Vernon, New Hampshire"
located at http://www.nh.searchroots.com/HillsboroughCo/Montvernon/

Source: HISTORY of the TOWN of MONT VERNON, New Hampshire;
Blanchard Printing Co., Boston, Mass. 1907

Disclaimer: We are not responsible for typographical errors, nor do we claim 
that these genealogies are accurate.

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COLBY

John Colby, son of John and Prudence (Dane) Colby [NOTE: The History of Weare NH
states he was the son of John and Eunice (Dane) Colby, which is probably correct, 
b. Weare [NH] April 1801, m. April 29, 1831, Mary H. Holt of Lyndeboro' [NH]. 
[Note: The History of Weare NH states that Mary H. Holt was the dau of Benjamin & 
Bathsheba (Barker) Holt]. He d. Nov 5, 1849. She d. at her daughter's Mrs. John 
M. Haggett in Wilton [NH] in 1880. Children b. in Bennington.
1. Samatha A., b. March 7, 1832; m. Nov 11, 1851, John M. Haggett, son of
James and Charlotte (Merrill) Haggett of Lyndeboro' [Note: History of Weare NH
states that John Haggett, was the son of Joseph & Charlotte (Merril) Haggett,
and res. Wilton NH, Milford NH and Boston MA.] She d. Boston [MA] May 16, 1884, one child, Carrie A., b. April 30, 1858.
2. *John Freeman, b. March 3, 1834.
3. Augustus Grosvenor, b. May 23, 1838, m. Dec 31, 1859, Sarah M. Ames of
Milford [NH]. She d. Aug 26, 1867. One child, Charles F., b. Jan 31, 1861,
d. July 17, 1881. Mr. A.G. Colby attended the academy here, and lived some years
in Mont Vernon. He enlisted in the army from Milford in May 1861, discharged for
disability in Aug 1861. He enlisted at Lowell in 1862 in Second Mass. Cavalry
under General Butler. Was wounded in engagement at Port Hudson in summer of 
1863, carried to hospital at Baton Rouge, La., where he d. Sept 2, 1863.

John Freeman Colby, son of John and Mary H. (Holt) Colby, b. Bennington,
March 3, 1834, d. while visiting in Hillsborough [town] June 7, 1890.
He m. Jan 24, 1861, *Ruthey F., dau of Thomas and Nancy (Stevens) Cloutman.
She was b. Mont Vernon, Feb 20, 1830. For extended account of John F. Colby,
see Chapter on "Prominent Men" in History Manuscript. Their children were:
1. John Henry, b. Randolph, Mass., June 13, 1862; m. 1891, Annie E. Cornelius
of Boston [MA]; is a Boston lawyer; spends his summers at Mont Vernon; one
child, John. 
2. Charles Dane, b. Mont Vernon June 30, 1865; d. Sept 2, 1865
3. Arthur Stevens, b. Boston [MA] March 23/24, 1869, d. Mont Vernon Aug 25, 1889.

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