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Wharton Family
Sept. 10.
Mr. URBAN,
THE lady, concerning whom a correspondent enquires in a note
in p.283 was Dorothy Colby, daughter of --- Colby *,
and his wife, first, [to] --- Tamworth; and, 2dly, to Philip
third Lord Wharton, whose second wife she was, and to whom
she bore a son surnamed Henry. Allow me to request some
information relative to the barony of Wharton, granted by
King Henry VIII. to Sir Thomas Wharton, knt. for his signal
services against the Scotch at the battle of Sollom-moss, in
1543. This baron de-
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