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Solomon Larrabee, brother of preceding, born about 1825, in Knox, Me .; married Nancy Stevens, Aug. 13, 1848, and died in April, 1863, from a stab by one Foster with whom he disputed when cutting timber. Issue :
1. FIDELIA A.,3 b. June 18, 1853; d. Jan. 6, 1860.
2. MARY E.,8 b. 1855.
3. FREDERICK F.,3 b. 1858.
4. ALDEN H.,3 b. Dec., 1862; d. Oct. 27, 1869.
Elias Larrabee, 2 brother of Solomon, born in Knox, Me., Nov. 6, 1829; married Elizabeth Brown, of Rockland, Me., June 11, 1853; she d. June 4, 1862. Issue :
I. CORA E.,8 b. Aug. 3, 1857.
2. ALBERT J.,3 b. Jan. 25, 1860.
3. ALFRED,3 b. June 1, 1862.
NATHANIEL, of Knox or Unity, Me., Dec. 3, 1843, married Mary E. Gary, and settled in Searsport.
JOHN, Jr., married Mary L. Day, in Knox, Me., March 2, 1849 ; "both of Unity, Me."
STEPHEN, married in Knox, Me., and lived in Searsport.
* One account makes her husband a Mr. Erskine.
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JEFFERSON, married Ruth Cowan, in Knox, in 1842 ; was of this family. HULDAH, born in Monroe ; died in 1892, aged 89.
LARRABEES OF LIMINGTON, ME.
Samnel Larrabee,5 the head of this branch, was a son of Samuel 4 and Sarah (Brown) Larrabee, of Scarborough, where he was b. July 1, 1753. He married Elizabeth Blake, of Gorham, Me., Apr. 11, 1776, and soon after set- tled in the plantation of Little Ossipee, now Limington. He at first sat down in the eastern section of the township on the farm afterwards owned by Israel and Ezekiel Small. He built the old house taken down by Dr. Brag- don. He was the owner of 300 acres of land on Richmond's island, on the coast, and moved from his clearing in the new settlement in Ossipee to that estate ; but he subsequently exchanged this (now) valuable land for a "wild tract" in Limington and moved back. A large farm was cleared about a mile west of the present village, and there he passed the remainder of his days. He died June 9, 1836, aged 84 years, and the old slate headstone that marks his grave was found under the bushes and tangled briars near the highway in the Limington public cemetery. The names of his children follow :
I. NABBY,6 b. Nov. 16, 1777, in Scarborough; m. Seth Blake and lived in Limington.
2. CAPT. SAMUEL,6 b. July 3, 1779, in Scarborough; m. Patty Irish, of Gorham, June 5, 1802, and settled in Limington, on the great hill a mile west of the present village, where his son James now resides. He was an officer in the old militia ; was a man of superior ability and a useful citizen. He d. July 11, 1849, aged 70 years. Patty d. Mar. 7, 1846, aged 66 years. Children's names presently.
3. SUSAN,6 b. in 1781, in Limington; m. Elisha Davis, of Steep Falls (in Standish?), and had issue, Orren7 and Elisha.7
4. SARAH,6 b. in 1783, in Limington; m. Noah Davis, brother of Elisha, and had issue, Samuel" and John."
5. BETSEY,6 b. in 1785, in Limington ; did not marry.
CHILDREN OF CAPT. SAMUEL AND PATTY:
I. EZEKIEL,7 b. Jan. 30, 1804, in Limington; m. Mary O., dau. of Robert Davis, Apr. 25, 1828, and settled near where his brother James resides. He d. Feb. 26, 1885, aged 81 ; wife d. Feb. 5, 1872 (April 13, 1872 ?). She was b. Feb. 5, 1808. Children :
1. DORCAS,8 b. Dec. 15, 1828; m. George Shaw, Jan. 10, 1848; d. July 30, 1868, at Monterey, Mich.
II. LUCRETIA O.,8 b. Nov. 23, 1830 ; m. Sylvester Ferguson, Nov. 11, 1849.
III. GEORGIA A.,8 b. Sept. 23, 1832 ; d. Oct. 15, 1833.
IV. HENRY L.,8 b. Sept. 1, 1834; m. Caroline J. Nelson, Sept. 2, 1860, at Brooklyn, N. Y., and d. there Feb. 28, 1873.
V. ROBERT D.,8 b. Feb. 28, 1836; d. Sept. 5, 1838.
VI. ANNETTE M.,8 b. Jan. 30, 1838; m. John B. Moore, Nov. 17, 1859.
VII. BENJAMIN F.,8 b. Aug. 29, 1841; m. Elizabeth G. Bosson, Aug. 4, 1868, in Boston, Mass. He m. second, at Chicopee, Mass., Aug. 7,
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1887, Lucy C. Ashley. Mr. Larrabee has for many years been in the dry goods business in Boston, and is well known as one of the lead- ing merchants there.
VIII. MCIVAH,8 b. Sept. 4, 1843; m. Abbie J. Glover, Boston, Mass., Jan. 30, 1870, ceremony by Rev. Alonzo A. Miner, D. D., at 70 Waltham street. Mr. Larrabee is a merchant in Boston in the firm of Wilson, Larrabee & Co., Bedford street, where an extensive dry goods busi- ness is carried on.
IX. GEORGE C.,8 b. July 17, 1845; m. Georgia A. Nelson, at Brooklyn, N. Y., May 2, 1867; d. at Harrison, Me., in Dec., 1886.
X EZEKIEL W.,8 b. June 24, 1849; d. July 7, 1869, in Limington.
2. NANCY,7 m. Andrew Staples, of Limerick, Jan. 21, 1828 (town records, Feb. 25, 1829). Both d. in Limington.
3. ELIZA,7 m. Dea. Parmeno Libby, Feb. 20, 1830 (town records, Feb. 23, 1831); d. in Limington, April 22, 1861.
4. EBENEZER 1.,7 b. Jan. 12, 1810 ; m., in Limington, May 23, 1837, Mary S. Thaxter, and settled at Limington Corner, where he carried on the harness business many years. Here he had a beautiful seat now occu- pied by his widow. He d. May 20, 1890. Children :
I. ROYAL T.,8 b. Jan. 22, 1838; m. Mary L. Lewis, and had two children, Lizzie B.9 and Lilly.9 He m. second, Margaret, dau. of Joseph Larra- bee, his cousin, by whom a son Harry.9 He was a stage-driver and commercial traveler ; a fine looking, kind-hearted, jovial fellow, famil- iarly called "Rod Larrabee." He d. Apr. 9. 1882.
II. SARAH,8 b. Dec. 4, 1839 ; m. Benjamin Small, of Limington.
III. ABBIE,8 b. July 23, 1842; m. Moses Calkins; d. April 26, 1894, in Portland.
IV. LOUISA H.,8 b. Oct. 9, 1843; in. J. Ralph Libby, Nov. 24, 1870, the well-known dry goods merchant of Portland, Me., and resides in the celebrated Morse mansion, on Danforth street.
V. MANSON G.,8 b. May 15, 1850, in Limington ; attended the town school and Limington Academy until 1863 ; then purchased a stage line from Limington to Buxton Centre and drove one year. In 1866 went to Bangor to work in the grocery business for his uncle, Greenleaf Thax- ter, for whom he was named. In 1868 returned to Limington and learned the harness maker's trade of his father; went to Boston in 1869 and engaged in the dry goods business with Spaulding, Hay & Wales, with a salary of $3.00 per week and a dollar extra for sweep- ing the store between six and ten o'clock at night, sleeping in the store. At that time it was customary for a man to serve in each department of the store, which required from three to five years; at the end of that time he was considered competent to do buying for the department. In 1872 he went to St. Louis with his brother-in- law, J. R. Libby, and helped to establish a large dry goods business. The climate not agreeing with him, he returned to Boston the same year and entered the silk department of R. H. White & Co., where he remained until Jan., 1874, when he was engaged with Farley, Har- vey & Co., as traveling salesman and continued in their employ
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twelve years. In Dec., 1886, with J. R. Libby he purchased a dry goods business in Richmond, Me. In March, 1888, he purchased the stock of Horatio Staples, of Portland, consolidating the two stocks. After three years the partnership was dissolved, and Mr. Larrabee has since carried on the business alone. The year the stock was purchased of Staples the firm did a $40,000 business; the sec- ond year a business of $60,000; the third year, $75,000, and in 1892 a business of $150,000, all that could be attended to in the building. Mr. Larrabee was m. Apr. 2, 1873, to Eva A. Laiken, of Boston.
VI. LIZZIE D.,8 b. July 21, 1855 ; d. Oct. 17, 1866.
5. MARTHA D.,7 b. May 4, 1813; m. James Carlisle, of Biddeford, Nov. 13. 1836; now living, a widow, there with her children.
6. RUHAMA, d. May 11, 1862, unmarried.
7. JOSEPH,7 m. Mary Ann Malloy and had issue, six children. He kept a general store at Limington Corner; was a man of good business capacity. His personal appearance was attractive, his temperament genial and humorous. He was married to the same woman twice by the same clergyman, within a few weeks' time, without quarrel or separa- tion, both marriages being valid. He d. at Limington and was buried in the public cemetery there.
I. EDWARD,8 d. in California.
II. CHARLES A.,8 was wounded in the army during the Civil war; he returned home and d. from injuries.
III. MARY A.,8 d. in Gorham, Me.
IV. ALBERT,8 d. young.
V. MARGARET,8 m. Royal T. Larrabee.
VI. JOHN,8 now in Denver, Col.
8. DANIEL J.,7 d. young ; unmarried.
9. ABIGAIL J.,7 b. May 7, 1820; m. Lemuel Davis, of Limington, stage- driver, who d. in Harrison, Feb. 9, 1878, aged 64 years. She is still living at Harrison with her son Sumner.8
IO. JAMES J.,7 b. Dec. 25, 1823 ; m. Sarah L. Thompson, July 3, 1851; she b. May 9, 1831, d. Feb. 12, 1876. He m. a second wife ; lives on the old Larrabee homestead, a mile west of Limington Corner, a fine old seat with mansion some distance from the highway, fronted by a broad terraced lawn, and shaded by grand trees. Children :
1. MARTHA A.,8 b. Apr. 2, 1852 ; d. Sept. 12, 1867.
II. JAMES W.,8 b. Oct. 9, 1860; at home, unmarried.
III. ELLA A.,8 b. Sept. 7, 1867 ; at home, unmarried.
LARRABEES OF SEBAGO, ME.
Isaac Larrabee 5 was the third son of Samuel Larrabee 4 and wife Sarah Brown, of Scarborough, Me., and was baptized there May 18, 1755. He m. a Miss Freeman; served in the Revolutionary war seven years. His children were all born in Scarborough. He settled in Standish, where he was living in 1812 ; moved thence, in 1815-16, to a farm in Sebago, now in Naples, where
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he lived with his son Benjamin until his death in the summer of 1843 at the age of 92. He was a brother of Samuel Larrabee who heads the Limington family. Children :
I. BENJAMIN,6 b. June 14, 1791, in Scarborough, Me .; m. Hannah, dau. of Robert Martin, Jan. 1, 1817, in Baldwin. She was b. Dec. 7, 1797, and d. in Bridgton, Me., April 15, 1869. He settled in Baldwin or Sebago, now in Naples, and there I suppose his- children were born. He d. April 9, 1860.
I. ELIZA J., b. June 3, 1818; d. Aug. 14, 1889.
II. CATHERINE,7 b. Feb. 9, 1820; d. Sept. 16, 1865.
III. DANIEL P.,7 b. Oct. 13, 1821 ; m. Nov. 1, 1848, to Eliza Senter and has three children. He is a resident of Bridgton, Me., where he has lived for many years; shoemaker by trade; a good citizen, honest man, and devoted Christian. Issue:
(1). Frank M.,8 b. Jan. 24, 1852 ; m. Lizzie Hale and has three sons, Henry,9 Earl,9 and Homer.9 Frank is a commercial traveler.
(2). Herbert L.,8 b. July 16, 1863 ; m. Hattie Grimes.
(3). Lutie B.,8 b. Mar. 24, 1866; m. Prof. Merret Richmond, June 25, 1891, of St. Joseph, Mo.
IV. WILLIAM H.,7 b. Aug. 30, 1823 ; m. Francina Bradstreet, of Bridg- ton, Apr. 22, 1851. She was the dau. of David Bradstreet and wife Wealthy Gilbert; was b. Jan. 29, 1825, and d. Jan. 22, 1886. Mr. Larrabee is a farmer in Bridgton, Me. Five children as follows :
(1). Emma C.,8 b. May 22, 1852; m. Page Howard, of Bridgton, and d. Jan. 28, 1874. One child.
(2). Addie F.,8 b. Dec., 1853; m. Rev. Charles S. Cummings, of Bridg- ton, in April, 1886, and has four children.
(3). Charles L.,8 b. Feb. 27. 1856; m. Jan. 26, 1879, Bertie E. Marri- ner, of Bridgton, and has a dau., Mabel F.9
(4). Horace G.,8 b. Mar. 24, 1861 ; m. Hildred B. Plummer, of Bridg- ton, in June, 1887, and has two sons.
(5). George H.,8 b. in 1866; m: Grace D. Evans, of Denmark, Me., in 1889, and has two children, Roland E.9 and Philip H.9
v. ISABELLA,7 b. July 10, 1825 ; d. June 3, 1826.
VI. HANNAH,7 b. Feb. 17, 1827 ; m. George Bradstreet, of Bridgton, and had sons who became distinguished men.
VII. BENJAMIN F.,7 b. Dec. 23. 1828 ; m. Jan. 9, 1855, Marietta Staples, dau. of Elliot and Mary, of Naples, Me., and had two children. She d. May 23, 1864, aged 32 years, and he m. second, Oct., 1865, Caro- line, dau. of George and Wealthy Rogers, of Bridgton, by whom one child. Mr. Larrabee has long been a respected citizen of Bridgton.
(1). Everett S.,8 b. July 15, 1857; d. Oct. 17, 1863.
(2). Edna M.,8 b. Mar. 6, 1859; d. Oct. 26, 1867.
(3). Edna M.,8 b. Dec. 10, 1866; living at home.
VIII. ISAAC," b. Nov. 10, 1830; d. May 26, 1843.
IX. STEPHEN,7 b. Oct. 11, 1832; d. Aug. 20, 1834.
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X. MEHITABLE,7 b. Feb. 10, 1835 ; d. Sept. 12, 1835.
XI. ELLEN M.,7 b. June 8, 1836; m. S. A. Porter. One child.
XII. SARAH A.,7 b. Apr. 13, 1839; m. Fred Marble. One son.
XIII. LINDIA,7 b. Dec. 19, 1841; d. Feb. 3, 1889.
2. ISAAC,6 b. in Scarborough; m. Sally, dau. of Robert Martin, Sept. 17, 1818, and settled in Sebago as farmer; d. Mar. 19, 1873. He had five children named as follows: Sarah,7 Freeman, Robert L.,7 m. Susanna Wiggin, in 1843, and d. in Baldwin, Me., Sept. 19, 1891, aged 60 years ; Samuel, and Julia A.
LARRABEES OF BALDWIN, ME.
Zebulon Larrabee 5 was the second son and third child of William 4 and Mary Larrabee, of Scarborough, Me. He was born in that town March 11, 1757 ; married Susan Goodwin. He and two brothers made their way through the wilderness to Flintstown, now Baldwin, about the year 1782 and were among the earliest who cleared land there. He was a man of enormous phys- ical proportions, weighing nearly 300 pounds. He was so strong that no two men in town could hold him down. He was found dead in his bed by the side of his wife; was buried a little way back of the mansion which he built, now owned by Timothy Brown. Children named as follows :
I. WILLIAM,6 m. Lydia Holt; removed to Portland when a young man with a family, where he engaged in business. He d. in 1844; his wife d. in Portland, when advanced in life, in 1866. Children:
1. RHODA A.,7 b. in 1814-15; m. Capt. Enoch Wallace, of Portland, where she d. Oct., 1893, aged 79 years. She had several children, nearly all living in Portland, and many grandchildren there.
II. WILLIAM B.,7 b. in 1819, in Baldwin, Me .; m. June 11, 1840, Eliza B. Holt, who was b. Aug. 8, 1820, and d. Aug. 14, 1876. He d. of yellow fever in Havana, Cuba, Sept. 3, 1851. He lived where the Grand Trunk R. R. roundhouse was subsequently built. For some years during his minority he worked as a rigger of vessels. He went master of a brig and the owners were so well pleased with his con- duct that they built a bark for him. He was long master of merchant vessels sailing from Portland and Boston to Liverpool and to German ports ; also from Portland to Baltimore, Charleston, Wilmington, and New Orleans. To William B. and Eliza were born the following :
(1). Emily M.,8 b. Mar. 23, 1841; m. James Mansfield.
(2). Charles F.,8 b. June 14, 1843; drowned at Savannah, Ga., Dec. 30, 1865.
(3). William H.,8 b. Dec. 26, 1845 ; m. April 9, 1870, to Maria E. Fickett, of Cape Elizabeth, a descendant of Jonathan Larrabee, of Scarborough, and had issue, eight children. His early years were passed in Portland, but in his seventh year, on the death of his father, he went to live in Cape Elizabeth, where he made his home until, April, 1861, at the age of sixteen, he joined the 5th Maine Regiment, and was in all the brilliant battles, being twice wounded, at Malvern Hill and Gains' Mill. He was taken
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prisoner at Spottsylvania and spent eleven months in Anderson- ville and Florence, S. C., reaching home a year after his time had expired. He went to Califorina in 1865 and remained there and in Arizona until 1868, when he came East and engaged in the business of photographer at South Paris, Me. He lived in Hud- son, Mass., from 1872 to '76, when he removed to Foster county, Dakota, where, on the James river, he was the first permanent settler and his wife the first white woman in the county. He became a prominent man, and the township and post-office were named in his honor. He was appointed postmaster at Larrabee, Sept. 4. 1882, and resigned when Cleveland was elected. He was reappointed and served till he moved East. Health failing, he removed, in 1886, to Westminster, Mass., where he died of pneu- monia, Dec. 4th, leaving his wife and children among strangers. He was a man of fine natural ability and liberal education. Those who knew him best loved him most; to his family and friends the personification of all that was good and noble. Children :
(1). Mamie A.,9 b. Feb. 8, 1871, at South Paris, Me.
(11). Harry A.,9 b. Apr. 22, 1873 ; d. Oct. 4, 1873, at Hudson, Mass
(III). Emily M.,9 b. Aug. 30, 1874, at Hudson, Mass.
(IV). Berkley T.,9 b. May 12, 1877, at Larrabee, Dakota.
(v). Charles E.,9 b. May 12, 1879. at Larrabee, Dakota.
(v1). Effie B.,9 b. Feb., 1881, at Larrabee, Dakota.
(VII). Roland W.,9 b. May 23, 1882, at Larrabee, Dakota.
(VIII). I'alter S.,9 b. April 29, 1885, at Larrabee, Dakota.
(4). Joseph F.,8 b. May 8, 1848; d. July 4, 1859.
III. JOSEPH,7 d. young.
2. BENJAMIN,6 b. in 1788; m. Sarah L. Parker, Nov. 24, 1814, who had three children. He lived for some years on the homestead in Baldwin, but sold the farm and bought a tavern stand in Standish, near Baldwin line, on a gore of land only forty rods wide, extending from Saco river to Sebago lake, a distance of four miles. After a few years, in 1831, he removed to Portland, where he and his wife d. in 1861. Issue :
I. JOHN A.,7 b. Aug. 17, 1815. in Baldwin; m. Harriet --- , who d. in 1888. He early engaged in business in Portland, and spent the most of his life in a store there; was at one time engaged in navigation, being an owner in forty different vessels; was long in the grocery and shipstores business on Commercial wharf, having commenced there in 1840. He is now an inmate of the Home for Aged Men in Portland, but spends his summers in the country. He is the oldest living descendant of Zebulon Larrabee, and remembers him well.
II. GEORGE,7 b. in 1820, and d. in 1840.
3. RICHARD,6 b. July 4. 1790; m. Oct. 3, 1814, Joanna Skillings, who was b. Oct. 23, 1786, in Cape Elizabeth, and d. in Limington, Jan. 30. 1855. He m. second, Mrs. Clarinda Fisher, a daughter of Elder Buzzell, June 10, 1862. He d. July 20, 1866, in Limington, Me. His nine children were all born in Baldwin.
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I. THOMAS W.,7 b. Mar. 20, 1816; m. 'Olive C. Ayer, of Cornish, Me., July 4, 1841, and d. Feb. 9, 1890, in Sebago. Children as follows :
(1). Plaintville P.,8 d. in childhood.
(2). Evetta,8 d. in childhood.
(3). Plaintville P.,8 resides in Sebago as farmer; is a man of consid- erable ability ; has Ethel M.,9 Winnifred,9 Evetta L.,9 Ulmer,9 and two sons.
II. EMILY J.,7 born May 16, 1817 ; m. Benjamin Clark, of Naples, Feb., 1838; second, John Green, and her son, Rev. Freeman R. Green is pastor of Wabash Avenue M. E. church in Chicago.
III. JULIA A.,7 b. Jan. 11, 1819; m. James Clark, of Naples, Me., April 29, 1841, and had six children.
IV. SUSAN, b. Jan. 15, 1821 ; d. Dec. 10, 1839, at Portland.
V. RICHARD S., b. June 25, 1822; m. Margaret Riley, of Louisiana, in 1855, and is now living near Galveston, Texas, with four children.
VI. SARAH,7 b. Jan. 21, 1824; m. Nathaniel Critchett, of Saccarappa, Me., May 12, 1850, at the Cornish village parsonage by Rev. Noah Hobart. Her husband was born in Barrington, N. H., Oct. 29, 1821, died in Chemung, Ill., May 12, 1890. He entered the ministry in 1860, but by reason of failing health was superannuated in 1881. They re- moved from Maine to Illinois, in 1867, and he united with the Rock River Conference. Three surviving children : Justin H.,8 Charles I.,8 Clara A.8
VII. REBECCA S.,7 b. Aug. 25, 1825 ; m. Lucien D. Hunkins, of Goffstown, N. H., April 26, 1864, now of Evansville, Ill.
VIII. JOHN S.,7 b. Mar. 28, 1827 ; d. April 16, 1827, in Baldwin.
IX. MERCY E.,7 b. June 11, 1828 ; d. Aug. 15, 1829, in Baldwin.
4. THOMAS,6 d. young, unmarried.
5. SUSAN,6 b. May 15, 1794; m., in 1816, Lot Davis, of Baldwin, and d. Mar. 26, 1846, the mother of eight children. See Davis family history in this book.
6. BETSEY,6 b. in 1798; m. William Pierce, of Baldwin, June 10, 1818, and had eight children.
7. MARY," d. unmarried.
Joshua Larrabee," the third son of William4 and Mary Larrabee, was born in Scarborough, Me., Aug. 4, 1759; married Esther Noble and had sev- eral children, as will appear. He went to Flintstown, now Baldwin, with his two brothers, Zebulon and James, and cleared a farm adjoining theirs. His "long grave" may be seen, with others, in the pasture near the barn of Ephraim Richardson, neglected, and downtrodden by cattle. He is said to have been a very tall and brawny man. He died in the prime of life, and his widow became the wife of Luther Usher. The father of Mr. Elisha Flint now living on the adjoining farm, was appointed guardian for Joshua Larra- bee's orphan children. Mr. Flint thinks the children of Joshua that died in infancy are buried by his side in this pasture lot. Others suppose the graves to be those of the Usher family.
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I. BETSEY,6 b. Jan. 8, 1806; m. Thomas Binford, of Baldwin, May 10, 1832, and had issue.
2. NANCY,6 b. in 1808 (?); m. Ezekiel Kennard, Apr. 6, 1831, and was mother of Russell Kennard, the well-known "river driver."
3. LYDIA,6 b. in 1808 (?), twin to Nancy; probably d. young, nnmarried.
James Larrabee,5 the fourth son of William + and Mary, of Scarborough, was born in that town July 23, 1761 ; married Jane Rowe, of Baldwin (b. Jan. 1, 1785-6, and d. at the age of 91, Sept. 19, 1876), in 1801, by whom twelve children, six sons and six daughters. Mr. Larrabee d. Oct. 21, 1842. These are buried on a hill, near the house where they lived in Baldwin, in sight of the highway. The dwelling, now in a somewhat dilapidated condition, is standing upon a steep elevation some distance from the carriage road, from which it was approached by a lane. It is certainly a beautiful situation, and even now the deserted farm-house and environments have an enchanting in- fluence upon the imagination. The "best room" of the dwelling must have been considered something handsome when finished, being wrought in moulded panel work and ornamental carving about the mantel-shelf. The barn has been taken down. Cows were grazing about the door-yard. On the hill brow, within a stone's throw of the door, are the graves of departed members of the family, marked by some old-fashioned monuments. Loving hands have more recently placed a marble shaft and beautiful headstones here, suitably in- scribed. A visit to this lonely spot, where life's joys and sorrows were expe- rienced, where a large household band once gathered, must revive many interesting memories to those who once lived here. Children :
I. FERDINAND," d. in early manhood.
2. ZEBULON,6 d. in Baldwin, Apr. 8, 1864, aged 37.
3. JANE,6 d. in early womanhood.
4. MARY,6 b. 1805; m., in 1834, Zebulon Wescott; d. June 10, 1866, in Baldwin.
5 BENJAMIN,6 b. Dec. 31, 1805; m. Mary Thurston, of Otisfield, Me., at Lowell, Mass., in 1842; d. in Baldwin, June 10, 1869, aged 63 years. His widow d. Oct. 14, 1886, aged 73 years. He was styled "Captain." These had two children:
I. BENJAMIN, b. Sept. 14. 1843; served in Co. L, ist Maine Heavy Artillery; unmarried ; drowned Aug. 13, 1872.
II. LYDIA M.,7 b. May 3, 1853; m. Sept. 30, 1876.
6. LYDIA,6 m. - Leonard, of Windham ; d. Oct. 25, 1866, aged 55 .*
7. A. JOHNSON,6 d. in Manchester, N. J., in Nov., 1873.
8. SARAH,6 m. - Billings and d. at Pigeon Cove, Mass., Dec. 22, 1873, aged 60 years.
9. CAROLINE M.," m. - Parsons, of Salem, Mass .; d. in Feb., 1877, aged 55 years.
10. JAMES," of North Berwick, Me., d. at North Conway, N. H., in 1887, aged 82 years.
* INSCRIPTION .- "She was remarkably patient and sweet tempered in her distressing illness and died in the hope of a better and endless life through Jesus Christ."
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LARRABEE FAMILY.
II. CHARLOTTE,6 b. Sept. 17, 1819; m. Benjamin Sweetsir, in Salem, by Rev. Mr. Emerson, D. D., Aug. 17, 1843.
12. JOSHUA,6 b. Dec. 11, 1829 ; m. Grace A. Stevens, in 1857, and has had four children. He is the youngest of the twelve children; now living in Alfred, Me .; has been a dealer in lumber. Children :
I. JAMES O., b. June 21, 1858; unmarried; jeweler in Oakland, Cal.
II. ROSALIA A.,7 b. Feb. 24, 1860; m. Dr. Joseph L. Bennett, Nov. 21, 1886, and has issue. She has been a teacher.
III. ELLEN A.,7 b. Nov. 24, 1864 ; d. Sept. 22, 1885.
IV. EMMA DE V.,7 b. July 6, 1866 ; a teacher.
LARRABEES OF TROY, N. Y.
James Larrabee lived in Troy, N. Y., and there reared a family. He re- moved to Marion county, Ohio, in 1817. His wife's maiden name was Wicks. Their children were:
I. JOSEPH W., m. Lucy A. Sampson, in 1819; she was dau. of Judson Sampson, who emigrated from Connecticut to Ohio in 1817, and settled in Knox county. These had six children: Elizabeth, H. P., George, William, Charles, and Louisa.
2. HARVEY, went to Texas at the time of the revolt and enlisted under General Houston. He fell in battle.
3. CHARLES, was m. three times and had a family of four daughters.
4. MARY, m. Allen Boynington.
CHILDREN OF JOSEPH W. AND LUCY :
I. ELIZABETH, m. Joseph Munn. in 1835, and removed from New York state to Ohio in 1832. Mr. Munn went to California in 1849, and died there in 1851.
2. H. P., b. July 22, 1826, in Marion county, Ohio; in Feb., 1849, went to California overland, and remained on the Pacific until the fall of 1868 ; was m. to Catherine Phillips, of Marshall county, Ind., Feb. 14, 1869, and moved to the southwestern part of Missouri. In the spring of 1875, he went to Kansas and is now living at Arkalon, Seward Co., Kansas, where he is serving as under sheriff .* Children as follows :
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