John Darby

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹³³⁶
John Darby, fisherman, resided at Marbledhead, Massacusetts. Nothing is know of his origin, birth or marriage. The earliest mention that has been relating to him occurs in the Coffin's Copy of Essex county, Massacusetts Court Records, Vol. II, p. 300. He is named there as a creditor of John Clay, a Marblehead fisherman who had been slain by the Indians. The amound of the debt was £3; the date of entry in Coffin is 8 Nov 1677.

All we know about his wife was that her name was Alice. The inventory of John Darby's estate, bearing the dat of 17 Jun 1690, is found in Coffin's Copy of Essex County Court Records, Vol. III, p. 419.

John Darby's widow, Alice, married John Woodbury, of Beverly, son of John and Elizabeth Woodbury and the grandson of John and Agnes Woodbury, emigrants.

John Darby, 15 Mar 1683, bought of the selectmen of Marblehead, a lot of land in that town for 20s. The lost was sold, 26 Oct 1713, to Ebenezer Ingall, of Marblehead, cooper, for £15 [Essex Co. Deeds, V. 27, p. 77]

The children of John and Alice Darby:
• Alice, b. 22 Oct 1679; d. 23 Apr 1758; 21 Sep 1700 Jonathan Piper of Ipswich, Massachusetts.
• John, b. 8 Oct 1681; d. 7 May 1753, Concord, Massachusetts; m. Deborah, daughter of John & Gethiah (Mansfield) Conant, b. Beverly Massachusetts, 20 Feb 1688; d. Concord, 13 Apr 1763.
• Mary, b. 29 Sep 1683; d. before 1753; m. 2 Mar 1704, Jeremiah, son of Joseph and Eliza Hebberd (Hubbard), of Beverly, Massachusetts
• Joseph, bapt. 18 Oct 1685; Last notice of him 26 Oct 1713, then a "coaster," of Gloucester, Massachusetts
• Benjamin, bapt. 16 Oct 1687; d. before 26 Oct 1713 (?)
• Patience, b. 19 May 1691
• John, b. 6 Feb 1693; was alive in 1721; m. Lydia of Lynn, Massachusetts
• Daniel, b. 27 Jan 1695, was of Rowley, 1726
• Richard, b 6 Jul 1696; was a weaver of Rowely, 1722
• Humphrey, b. 3 Jul 1698
• Joanna, b. 16 Nov 1699; m. 28 Mar 1734, Eldad Cheney of Bradford, Massachusetts
• Ebnezer, b. 9 Nov 1701; was of Salem
• Samuel, was alive, 1726

~John Darby of Marblehead, Mass., and His Descendants, pp.1-2

John married Alice.¹³³⁶