Macy-Colby House

07/01/2015

Hazel Kray and her daughter Ann Wilson at recognition ceremony for Hazel's late husband Milt Kray. June 2015

01/30/2015

anceSTORY archives: Sarah Alice Huntington of Amesbury MA

anceSTORY archives: Sarah Alice Huntington of Amesbury MA

Alice Huntington, Amesbury MA, Anna M Gove, Colby-Macy House, Religious Society of Friends, Estes, Whitridge, Quakers, The Captains Well, Valentine Bagley, John Currier

01/29/2015

Lowell's Boat Shop

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01/12/2015

Boston Herald 1858 Anyone know who J R Colby or Colby's Band might be?

01/10/2015

Lake Attitash Association

Beautiful moon over the frozen lake.

01/09/2015

City officials mull idea of buying Colby farm property

http://www.newburyportnews.com/news/local_news/city-officials-mull-idea-of-buying-colby-farm-property/article_b9cf1538-9445-5c4e-b53a-62d0ac9c1c89.html?mode=print

NEWBURYPORT — City officials seem to be having second thoughts about ignoring a first-refusal option to buy open space on Low Street.

01/08/2015

Historic Amesbury, Massachusetts | A Small-Town Community in the City - Yankee Magazine

Great Article on Amesbury Ma from Yankee Magazine

Amesbury, Massachusetts, is a complex place. Read about the city where bucolic country roads snake around historic landmarks bearing the time-worn stamp of the industrial age.

12/12/2014

Macy Colby House Wishes You & Yours A Happy Christmas, Good Cheer, & A Peaceful New Year! Thank You For all Your Support.
See You In The Spring!

11/29/2014

anceSTORY archives: Colby Family of Grand Rapids Michigan

http://ancestoryarchives.blogspot.com/2014/11/colby-family-of-grand-rapids-michigan.html

Arthur Wood, David Clay, Hannah Page, Haverhill NH, Hazen, John Ball, John Page, Luther Colby, Macy Colby House, Merrill, Michigan, Reuben Colby, Sarah F Colby,

11/27/2014

Happy Thanksgiving from The Macy Colby House!

11/25/2014

anceSTORY archives: Quakers in Newbury MA

http://ancestoryarchives.blogspot.com/2013/11/quakers-in-newbury-ma.html

Quakers, Persecutions, Newbury MA, Salem MA, Thomac Macy, Robert Adams, Hathorne, Endicott, Coffin, Folger, John Emery, William Leddra, William Brend, Nicholas Phelps, Hannah Phelps, 17th century, Melissa Berry, Macy-Colby Home Amesbury MA, Nantucket, Pike, Swain, Coleman,

11/23/2014

anceSTORY archives: Ancestors – Great Great Grandfather George Curwin Ward Colby 1801-1889

Author Mark Colby excellent share! http://ancestoryarchives.blogspot.com/2014/11/ancestors-great-great-grandfather.html

George Curwin Ward Colby. Harriet Taylor Colby, Isaac Newton Colby, Elizabeth Cushing Colby, Craven Langstroth Betts, Caleb Haskell, Dr. Azor Betts, Laurie Short Jarvis, Macy Colby House, Glorianna Purdy Betts, Harriet Kitching/Kitchen, Patti Clasen, Mark Colby, Robert and Margaret Mary (Dawson) Col…

11/20/2014

anceSTORY archives: Samuel Veazy Colby Gloucester MA

Samuel V Colby b in Maine son of Charles Pressey Colby and Hannah R Wentworth moved to Gloucester MA and a thanks to Cape Ann Museum for a photo share of Samuel's son Ben Colby sailmaking biz which he carried on from his father http://ancestoryarchives.blogspot.com/2014/11/samuel-veazy-colby-gloucester-ma.html

Gloucester MA, Samuel V Colby, Charles Pressey Colby, Hannah R Wentworth, Hannah Maria MARSTON, Gloucester MA, U S S Colorado, sail maker, Dennis & Colby,

11/19/2014

anceSTORY archives: William Jackson Colby and Nancy Lindley Colby

Need info for these pictures William Jackson Colby and Nancy Lindley Thanks http://ancestoryarchives.blogspot.com/2014/11/william-jackson-colby-and-nancy-lindley.html

Nancy Lindley Colby, William Jackson Colby, William Albert Colby Colby, Macon Missouri

11/18/2014

Civil War Ballooning During the Seven Days Campaign

Civil War Ballooning During the Seven Days Campaign

Learn more about the important role that balloons played during the Seven Days' Campaign outside of Richmond in the summer of 1862.

11/18/2014

anceSTORY archives: Quaker House Dartmouth Step Back in time with Starbuck, Folger & More!

anceSTORY archives: Quaker House Dartmouth Step Back in time with Starbuck, Folger & More!

Samuel Starbuck, Timothy Folger, William Ray, Dartmouth Nova Scotia, whaling, Quakers, Society of Friends, Dartmouth Heritage Museum, George Fox,

11/17/2014

Gardner Colby from Colby College Bicentennial Special Edition

11/15/2014

Love this! For Macy folks Thomac C Macy in honor of Abiah Folger Franklin

11/14/2014

Colby Magazine vol. 101, no. 4

Read about the Colby's in the Article In their footsteps In their worlds I have a pdf download and will be putting on anceSTORY archives blog soon http://issuu.com/colbycollegelibrary/docs/v101_n4_full/1

Winter 2013

11/09/2014

From Patti Clasen a descendant of the ColbyEllsworth Line. It was the photo album of Harriet Colby Ellsworth.

11/07/2014

anceSTORY archives: Robert Colby and Thomas Lunt Drowned 1842

Hoping to get some info on these two fellows Robert Colby and Thomas Lunt drowned 1842 any information please post Thanks! http://ancestoryarchives.blogspot.com/2014/11/robert-colby-and-thomas-lunt-drowned.html

Newburyport MA, Robert Colby, Thomas Lunt, Drowned, 1842, gunning float, Ipswich, Russett Islands,

11/07/2014

anceSTORY archives: Howard F Currier

http://ancestoryarchives.blogspot.com/2014/11/howard-f-currier.html

Amesbury MA, Howard Currier, Isaac M Currier, Mary, Tewksbury,

11/06/2014

From a photo album book at the house Quaker Lady1883 Amesbury MA Need to ID Please share and any information let us now. Thanks

11/06/2014

anceSTORY archives: Stoddard Benham Colby

Stoddard Benham Colby
ANTHONY COLBY
SAMUEL COLBY (abt 1638 - 1715/6) of Amesbury m. Elizabeth Sargeant
SAMUEL COLBY (b. 1671 - bef. 1746) of Amesbury m. Dorothy Ambrose
ENS. ENOCH COLBY (1702 - 1780) of Hampton Falls and Chester m. Abigail Sanborn
ENOCH COLBY (bp. 1728 - 1778) of Candia m. Abigail Blaisdell
SAMUEL COLBY (1766 - 1834) of Thornton and Derby m. Ruth French
CAPT. NEHEMIAH COLBY (1785 - 1862) of Derby m. Melinda Larrabee (1790 - 1842)
HON. STODDARD BENHAM COLBY (1816 - 1867) of Derby and Montpelier m. Harriet Elizabeth Proctor
LAURA MELINDA COLBY (1844 - 1921) m. Brig. Gen. Asa Bacon Carey http://ancestoryarchives.blogspot.com/2014/05/stoddard-benham-colby.html

Stoddard Benham Colby, Vermont, Peck, Proctor, Parker, Stokes, Redfield, Hunt, Upham, Cary, Sibert, Palmer, Luckey,

11/06/2014

anceSTORY archives: Letters to My Grandparents: Haunted Houses William Wallace and Mamie...

Sharing another W W Colby haunted house in Oregon http://ancestoryarchives.blogspot.com/2014/11/letters-to-my-grandparents-haunted.html

William Wallace Colby, Mamie (Hugunin) Colby, Oregon, haunted houses, Ada May McNay Colby, Ada Grace Colby Werst Branchflower, Sarah Amanda Hugunin, Aunt Grace Hugunin Bissell, Massey, King,

11/06/2014

Elizabeth Ann Florantha George (SEPT 4 1821-July 21, 1874) married William Wallace Colby (Ebenzer, Colman, Abraham, Abraham, Isaac, Anthony) This portrait is at the House in the Parlor Room
Elizabeth and William had 10 children. William was a funeral director in Lawrence MA. See Colby Family & Others http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~colby/colbyfam/b364.html

10/31/2014

American Scrapbook: Countdown to Halloween: John Greenleaf Whittier's "The Pumpkin" (1846)

Happy Halloween from The Macy Colby House! Countdown to Halloween: John Greenleaf Whittier's "The Pumpkin" (1846) http://americanscrapbook.blogspot.com/2012/10/countdown-to-halloween-john-greenleaf.html

10/30/2014

The spooky tale of a Newburyport ghost hunter

The spooky tale of a Newburyport ghost hunter

The Josiah Little House at 350 High St., Newburyport, was the magical edifice for John Cuthbert Parker, a famous paranormal investigator who bewitched a whole generation of New Englanders.

10/29/2014

Old Amesbury-Natives

Good morning from the top of Pow Hill. This picnic area / bandstand once stood at the top of Pow Hill.

10/29/2014

Mrs Edward Wood, North Hampton, NH Mrs Luther Colby & Mrs. James A Jackman both of Amesbury MA

10/29/2014

We have a file at the house Booklet of 100 Early American Colby Lines compiled by Bertha Colby Vincent and here is a picture of William C Flanders, overseer of Macy Colby House from 1979 Amesbury News

10/29/2014

William Osgood House

10/27/2014

Dorchester Historical Society

Jeff Gonyeau and Earl Taylor accepted the award for the restoration of the Clapp Family Barn, Dorchester Historical Society, at the Boston Preservation Alliance award ceremony 10-21-14. Photo by Julie Simmons.

10/25/2014

Ruth Stearns from Nebraska sent me some amazing photos which I will add to a blog post she read that I had worked on, but here is one from Haverhill MA with Blaisdell business Armistice Day. William Dennett Stearns worked at the Haverhill National Bank next door

10/25/2014

anceSTORY archives: Descendants of Thomas Macy Line in Arlington Florida

http://ancestoryarchives.blogspot.com/2014/10/descendants-of-thomas-macy-line-in.html

Macy-Colby House, Melanie MacLean Cross, Arlington Florida, Anson Macy, Theodore Macy, Judah Macy, Lewis W Macy, Thomas Macy, Colcord, Jaques, Johnson, Chase,