Anthony Crosby
"Anthony CROSBY, born about 1545, in Holme-on-Spaulding-Moor, England. Married about 1570, Alison _____. He died in 1599. Their children born in Holme-on-Spaulding-Moor:
The will of Anthony CROSBY in its original
form is still preserved in the Probate Registry at York,
England.
Anthony CROSBY was a man of energy and acquired considerable
property. He lived at the time of the Reformation, an era of
progression and advancement for England. It was about this time
that England became the acknowledged mistress of the seas, and
establisher her supremacy as a mercantile nation. This period
was also the golden age of English literature made famous by
Shakespeare, Spenser, Jonson, Bacon, and others. Next in order
followed a period of religious unrest and dissention among the
Protestants, which in turn, gave rise to the Puritan beliefs and
standards that eventually brought about the settlement of New
England, a generation later, in which three Crosbys
participated, thus bringing the family to our attention in the
New World."