Twin of John Crosby

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New Plymouth Colony existed until 1685 when Plymouth, Barnstable, and Bristol counties were formed from it.

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Simon Crosby and Anne (Brigham) Crosby brought [Thomas Crosby] to New England, arriving in "The Susan & Ellen" which put into Boston in the month of July, 1635. They settled in Cambridge...

(Research):Boston was founded on September 17, 1630, by Puritan colonists from England. The Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Colony are sometimes confused with the Pilgrims, who founded Plymouth Colony ten years earlier in what is today Bristol County, Plymouth County, and Barnstable County, Massachusetts. The two groups, which differed in religious practice, are historically distinct. The separate colonies were not united until the formation of the Province of Massachusetts Bay in 1691.
On 10 May 1643 Suffolk County was created as one of four original counties in Massachusetts; It included territory in the northeast corner of present Rhode Island. (Mass. Recs., 2:38)

Thomas married Sarah (wife of Thomas Crosby) [?] before 1663 in Eastham, Barnstable Co, Massachusetts. Sarah and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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May p233: "...it is possible that [Thomas Crosby] returned to England to select his bride. Or she may have come from one of the neighboring colonies. Many people have tried to identify her, but without success. We know that her name was Sarah ------- and that she bore her first child in 1663."

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Simon Crosby and Anne (Brigham) Crosby brought [Thomas Crosby] to New England, arriving in The Susan & Ellen which put into Boston in the month of July, 1635. They settled in Cambridge... - New York Genealogical and Biographical Record

(Research): The site for what would become Cambridge was chosen in December 1630, because it was located safely up river from Boston Harbor, which made it easily defensible from attacks by enemy ships. Also, the water from the local spring was so good that the local Native Americans believed it had medicinal properties.[citation needed] The first houses were built in the spring of 1631. The settlement was initially referred to as "the newe towne". Official Massachusetts records show the name capitalized as Newe Towne by 1632. Located at the first convenient Charles River crossing west of Boston, Newe Towne was one of a number of towns (including Boston, Dorchester, Watertown, and Weymouth) founded by the 700 original Puritan colonists of the Massachusetts Bay Colony under governor John Winthrop. The original village site is in the heart of today's Harvard Square. The marketplace where farmers brought in crops from surrounding towns to sell survives today as the small park at the corner of John F. Kennedy (J.F.K.) and Winthrop Streets, then at the edge of a salt marsh, since filled. In 1636, Harvard College was founded by the colony to train ministers and the new town was chosen for its site by Thomas Dudley. By 1638, the name "Newe Towne" had "compacted by usage into 'Newtowne'." In May 1638 the name was changed to Cambridge in honor of the university in Cambridge, England

Simon married Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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