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About Martha Colby
Martha Parrat, daughter of Francis Parrat and Elizabeth Northend. was born on 9 October 1649 in Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts. She died on 13 July 1730 at Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts, and is buried at Golgotha Burial Ground, Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States.
Marriage and Children
Martha Parrat married Isaac Colby (1640 - 1684) in 1668 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. Children were:
- Anthony Colby (1669 - 1735)
- Elizabeth Colby (born 1671) married Henry Dow of the Thomas Dow family of Newbury and Haverhill
- Martha Colby (born 1672/3), probably died young
- Sarah Colby (born 1674/5) married Samuel Silver
- Dorothy Colby (born 1677) married Samuel Hadley
- Isaac Colby, Jr. (born 1680) married Mary Fowler
- Abraham Colby (born 1683) married Sarah Buckman
- Rebecca Colby (born 1684) married Jeremiah Fowler
The Parrat-Jewett House
This house stood on the original house lot of Dea. Francis Parrat, and may have been built by him. Parrat went to England and died there in 1656. The house was later occupied by his daughter Martha who married Isaac Colby. They were living there in 1677. After his death in 1684 his widow married Thomas Tenney, and sold the house and lot to her son Abraham Colby, who in turn sold to Lieut. Joshua Jewett in 1746. After being occupied by four generations of the Jewett family it was taken down in 1875. Mr. Wendell P. Hale describes the house as he knew it during the middle of the nineteenth century. He says it was of two stories, about forty by twenty feet on the ground with a peaked roof and immense chimney in the center. It faced south and the fron door opened into the back yard. To the right of this door was the living room and to the left the parlor, between them a small entry have a trap door which led to the cellar where the supply of apples and vegetables was stored for winter use. This was evidently built like the Chaplin-Clark house as Mr. Hale writes: "Once when a clapboard was blown off on the north side, a solid brick wall was seen on which the clapboards had been nailed with hand-made wrought iron nails over two inches long." Apparently this was originally a four room dwelling to much the type of the Platts-Bradstreet house.
Alternate Dates and Places
- Hoyt lists place of death as Amesbury, Mass.
Sources
- Find A Grave Memorial# 64820465
- http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~colby/colbyfam/b6...
- Amos Everett Jewett and Emily Mable Adams Jewett. The Jewett Family of America Rowley, Massachusetts. 1946. page 195
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Martha Colby's Timeline
| 1649 |
October 9, 1649
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Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America
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| 1668 |
January 24, 1668
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Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
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| 1671 |
October 30, 1671
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Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
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| 1672 |
February 7, 1672
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Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
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| 1674 |
January 28, 1674
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Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
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| 1677 |
June 15, 1677
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Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
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| 1680 |
July 15, 1680
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Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America
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| 1683 |
October 7, 1683
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Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
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| 1684 |
1684
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Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
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