Family:William Larrabee and Elizabeth Felt (1)

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Marriage? 16 Nov 1655 Malden, Middlesex, MA
Children
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1.
Abt 1659
18 Jun 1731 Stoneham, , Ma

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References
  1.   Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
    3/58.

    WILLIAM, m. at Malden Nov. 1655, Elizabeth perhaps d. of George Felt was freem. 1690. Sometimes this name is pervert. to Leatherby, as very oft. it was sound.

  2.   Early Records of Malden.

    The New-England Historical & Genealogical Register, Vol, 19, (1865), page 128, has the following:—

    William Larrabec (written "Leraby" on the Maiden records), was married by Richard Bellingham in Nov. 1655, to Elizabeth Felt, perhaps"daughter of George Felt (born in 1600), who as early as 1640 "lived in a stone garrison at Broad Cove" in North Yarmouth, Maine, "on land which he purchased of John Phillips," a Welchman, who had probably before occupied it, and which in 1643 he repurchased of an agent of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, Proprietor of Maine. Here he reared a family. He had two sons : George, killed by the Indians on Munjoy's Island, 1676; and Moses, born in the year 1650, and living at Chelsea in 1733. George Felt, Senior, died at Maiden, after 1688." So says Shepley, in his Historical Notices or the Church and of the Town of North Yarmouth.

    What became of William Larrabee, of Maiden,'or his wife, we know not. There was a Stephen Larrabee who had wife "Izebel" and two children, born in Maiden, viz: Abigail, in Sept , 1694, and Benjamin, Feb. 11, 1696-7. Possibly, Stephen may have been a son of William. We have no evidence of it, however. In the History of North Yarmouth (Maine Hint. Coll., Vol. 2, page 173), it is stated, that Feb. 24, 1685, land was granted to the settlers. Among the uames mentioned are those of William, Samuel, Isaac and Benjamin Larrabee. It is possible that William, of Maiden, is the above mentioned, and that the four were brothers. If so, William probably returned to Maiden, where George Felt, his supposed father-in-law, died. There was a William Larrabee, of Maiden, made freeman. Mar. 22, 1681)-90. Was this the William who married Elizabeth Felt, as Mr. Savage has it? Willis, in his History of Portland, 2, 27, 299, states, that Benjamin Larrabee, the companiou of Major Moody, and the second in command at the fort at Casco, was born in 1666, and died in 1733, aged 67. "His father" (whom Savage calls Isaac) •'was one of the early settlers of North Yarmouth, who, with others of the name, having been driven uj1 the war of 1688 from that place, removed to Lynn. Some of the family returned and occupied their former possessions, where their posterity still remain."