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William Darby

Generation 11 back

Born

February 28, 1646, in Yarmouth, Barnstaple County, Massachusetts

Died

1701 in Scotch Plains, Union County, New Jersey

Married

1688 in Scotch Plains, Union County, New Jersey

Family

Father

John Derby

Mother

Alice Chipman

Child in this line

William Darby

Spouse

Elizabeth Jane Hawkins

Siblings

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

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.

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.

At a glance

Lived

Scotch Plains, Union County, New Jersey

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).