Elisha, eldest child of John and Sarah (Libby) Libby was born in Scarborough in 1725 and died March 18, 1791. He grew up in his native town and settled on land which his father gave him. He cleared up a farm, recently and perhaps now owned by Osgood Libby. He married (first) February 9, 1748, Esther Fogg, (second) November 28, 1753, Abigail Meserve, daughter of John and Jemima (Hubbard) Meserve, of Scarborough. She died June 5, 1817. His children, all by the second wife, were: Elisha, Moses, Esther, Benjamin, Abigail, Dorothy, Anna, Jane, Lucy, Rufus, and Martha.
