TITLE: Notice of Early Families of Candia:  

SOURCE: HISTORY OF CANDIA: Once known as Charmingfare; 
	with notice of Some of the Early Families, by F.B. Eaton, Press of 
	the Granite Farmer, James O. Adams, Printer, Manchester, N.H.  ©1852

				COLBY, ENOCH

Came to Candia about 1750.  His grandfather, whose name was also Enoch, came 
over at an early period from England in the Mayflower, which vessel was 
employed several times in bringing over passengers after her first famous 
voyage with the Pilgrims.  He at first settled in Salisbury, Mass., and died 
soon after moving to Chester, NH. His father, named Enoch, married Sarah 
Sargent, and died in Chester.  He married Abigail Blaisdell, by whom he had 
nine children:  John, Enoch, Nehemiah, Jethro, Abner, Samuel, Abigail, 
William, Mary Clemens.
	John, Enoch and Jethro were soldiers in the Revolution.  The first
named died at Valley Forge, sinking under the hardships of that memorable 
winter, having served four years from the commencement of the War.  Jethro 
was in Rhode Island and died in 1780, on the "dark day," six months after his
return home.
	Enoch married Lydia Worthen, of Amesbury, Mass., and moved to 
Thornton, NH, where he for some years was a member of the House of 
Representatives and of the State Senate.  It is told of John that being one 
of the first of his division at the battle of Stillwater to attack the enemy,
he jumped on a piece of cannon which had been so heated by repeated discharges 
as to burn his feet.
	Nehemiah married Mary Rowe, and settled on the home farm.  He died in
1840, aged 82.  Abner married Ruth Cheney, of Thornton, NH  Samuel married 
Ruth French, and carried her behind him on horseback to Derby, VT, then a 
wilderness, where he died leaving a family in prosperous circumstances.  
William died in Ohio, in 1846.  Abigail married John Colby, of Amesbury, 
Mass.  Mary died in 1780.

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