A genealogy of the descendants of Joseph Bixby, 1621-1701 of Ipswich and Boxford, Massachusetts, who spell the name Bixby, Bigsby, Byxbie, Bixbee, or Byxbe and of the Bixby family in England, descendants of Walter Bekesby, 1427, of Thorpe Morieux, Suffolk . ingly was established in 1728. Thefirst parish meeting was held 25 Nov., 1728, and Benjamin Bixby,one of the five leading men of the district, was elected one of thefour townsmen. He was appointed one of the committee to erect His letter dated 8 May, 1721, is in Connecticut State Papers, E^clesisistical Series, 1 question of relief
A genealogy of the descendants of Joseph Bixby, 1621-1701 of Ipswich and Boxford, Massachusetts, who spell the name Bixby, Bigsby, Byxbie, Bixbee, or Byxbe and of the Bixby family in England, descendants of Walter Bekesby, 1427, of Thorpe Morieux, Suffolk . ingly was established in 1728. Thefirst parish meeting was held 25 Nov., 1728, and Benjamin Bixby,one of the five leading men of the district, was elected one of thefour townsmen. He was appointed one of the committee to erect His letter dated 8 May, 1721, is in Connecticut State Papers, E^clesisistical Series, 1 question of relief was referred to the General Assembly which refused the grant. Bixby refersto the £17 obtained by Deacon Aspinwall from the Indians. Larned: History of Windham County, i: 178. • In May, 1728, Connecticut granted to Peter Aspinwall, Benjamin Bigsby and the rest of thepresent proprietors being inhabitants of Killingly, all that land between the old and new boundaryline of Massachusetts, north of Killingly, except what had been previously granted. (PublicRecords of Connecticut.) The same year the bounds of the North Society of Killingly werefixed; north by Massachusetts, east by Rhode Island, west by Woodstock, south by Killingly andPomfret. (.Ibid.). PAGE FROM THE BIBLE OFJACOB BIBXY (134-4) DESCENDANTS OF JOSEPH BIXBY 63 a meeting-house and settle a minister.^ He was one of the twenty-eight signers of the covenant under which a church was formed,and at its organization, 25 March, 1730, was chosen was selected as a name for the new district in honor ofa non-resident proprietor, Sir Robert Thompson, first president ofthe English Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in ForeignParts. It is said that the well-known Bixby apple, which for a centuryand a half furnished the neighborhood with a very pleasant earlyand juicy fruit, was introduced by Benjamin Bixby. He was notthe only Bixby to appreciate a good apple. In 1793, JonathanBixby of Newton paid £6-6 to obt
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