My father, George Henry Tobey, was given the names, "George" and "Henry", by my grandmother, Susan Colby Tobey, for her father, George Henry Colby. My grandmother was one of two children of George Henry Colby by his second wife, Lulu Etta Mitchell. Grandmother was born in Campton, N. H. immediately northwest of Plymouth, N. H.

George Henry Colby was the eighth generation of Colby line in America, Anthony Colby being the immigrant ancest, identified with a land grant in 1640.

These relationships are layed out in Stearns (cite below).

Ezra S. Stearns, The History of Plymouth, New Hampshire, 2 vols., Printed for the town by the University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1906. Reprint edition. The New England Historical Society in collaboration with the Plymouth Historical Society, 1987. Volume I. Narrative. Volume II. Genealogies. The Colby genealogy appears in Volume II, pages 138-139.

The project to commission a history of Plymouth was passed in 1895 at the annual town meeting. Ezra Stearns, who had previously researched the history of Rindge, N.H., and revised the genealogies in the history of Littleton, N.H., was hired.

It is likely that Stearns began with a list of current taxpayers in the village and then interviewed families, as well as doing documentary research. George Henry Colby lived in Campton on a farm, but worked as station master of the Plymouth railroad depot.

At the time, my grandfather, Fred Charles Tobey, whom my grandmother Susan Colby married after the History of Plymouth New Hampshire was published, did not live in Plymouth, having left the village to work in the woods.

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