Person talk:Stephen Larrabee (3)

Origins [23 September 2008]

If Stephen was born 1625, I doubt that it was in Maine. Please provide sources. In Source:Genealogical dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire (33860), p. 416, he is called "emig. ancestor" and further it adds that his name "nowhere appears in the records during his lifetime."

Source:Our American ancestry, p. 216 says "Stephen Larrabee 1st. He with two brothers John and William, was perhaps remotely of French Protestant extraction. They bought lands of the Indians of North Yarmouth, Maine. Stephen and John were killed there by the Indians in 1689."

Source:Biographical review : this volume contains biographical sketches of leading citizens of Cumberland County, Maine says "Stephen Larrabee, who removed from Malden, MA to Cumberland County at a very early day, locating in North Yarmouth, where his son Thomas was born in 1660."

An article titled "The Larrabee Family" by Marcia W. Lindberg in Source:The Essex genealogist (Massachusetts), vol 19, no. 4, p. 224, says "Stephen Larrabee, cousin of William Larrabee, is the ancestor of all the Larrabees that settled in Maine and the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He was born about 1630 (first known child b. about 1652), probably in France, and possibly in the county of Larrabee. He died at North Yarmouth, Maine, September 1676, one of the men killed in the attack by Indians on Jewell's Island. He married, probably at North Yarmouth, a wife whose last name was Main or Mains, "probably a daughter of John Mains" [according to Noyes, Libby and Davis]."

Hardly a concensus... --Jrich 09:15, 23 September 2008 (EDT)