William Darby

Generation 11 back

In brief

Born February 28, 1646, in Yarmouth, Barnstaple County, Massachusetts. He married 1688 in Scotch Plains, Union County, New Jersey. He died 1701 in Scotch Plains, Union County, New Jersey.

Family

Father

John Derby

Mother

Alice Chipman

Spouse

Elizabeth Jane Hawkins

m. 1688

Children

William Darby · in this line
b. 1693 in Scotch Plains, Union County, New Jersey
m. 1721, in Scotch Plains, Union County, New Jersey
m. August 20, 1761, in Scotch Plains, Union County, New Jersey
d. February 26, 1775, in Scotch Plains, Union County, New Jersey

Siblings

Mary Darby
John Darby
Anne Darby
Abraham Darby
b. 1640 in England
Sarah Darby
b. 1642 in America

Life story

An East Jersey Petitioner

William Darby was born February 28, 1646, in Yarmouth, Massachusetts, and settled around 1684 in Elizabeth, in what is now Union County, New Jersey, where he traded parcels of land through the 1680s and '90s. He was one of 230 colonists who signed the Remonstrance of the Inhabitants of East Jersey, a formal protest against the colony's proprietary landlords. William settled finally in Scotch Plains, New Jersey, mortgaging land there in 1701, the year he died.

Sources (1)

Estate of Edward Burnice Kipp, “Ancestors of Edward Burnice Kipp”; 2024; pdf publication (http://www.kipp-blake-families.ca/publications/Ancestors%20of%20Edward%20Burnice%20Kipp.pdf : accessed 17 January 2025).