TRIBUTARIESJohn/1 Libby 
M, #25231, (circa 1602 - )
| Last Edited | 8 Aug 2006 |
John/1 Libby was born in England circa 1602.1 During the years 1635–39 he left his family in England to work as a seasonal fisherman on the Maine coast. There he was in the employ of John Winter, agent for the patentees, at a trading post established on Richmond's Island, off the coast of Cumberland County, about a mile offshore of Cape Elizabeth.2 Probably in 1640 he sent for his wife, and settled on the mainland in the plantation of Thomas Cammock, the patentee of Black Point. He built his house in what is now Scarborough.2
After Black Point was attacked in the first year of King Philip's War, Libby and other outlying settlers were compelled to abandon their homes and shelter in the garrison. "Their crops had to be harvested under the protection of soldiers who went from Boston. The burning of John Libby’s house was recorded in the diary of Capt. Joshua Scottow, who had charge of the Boston soldiers, as follows: ‘Sept. 7th, 1675. Being Lord's day…* the enemy…before of their designs early in the morning burnt those houses and barnes our Capne saved the day before—they burnt also 8 or 9 deserted houses belonging to Libby and children.3'
"John Libby with his wife and younger children were [sic] in Boston 10 July 1677, and on that date petitioned the Governor and Council there assembled, that his sons Henry and Anthony, on whom he stated he was dependent for support, might be discharged from the Black Point garrison. The petition was granted the same day.4
"In his will, dated 9 Feb. 1682, he gave 'unto my [his] Children five Shillings Apeece, to every one of them, & to my [his] two younger sonns namely Mathew and Daniell, fivety Shillings out of ye Estate when they come [should come] to age'; and willed that 'my [his] wife shall [should] have it all to her disposeing to Mantayn the children.5'"
See Charles T. Libby, The Libby Family in America, 1882.6
After Black Point was attacked in the first year of King Philip's War, Libby and other outlying settlers were compelled to abandon their homes and shelter in the garrison. "Their crops had to be harvested under the protection of soldiers who went from Boston. The burning of John Libby’s house was recorded in the diary of Capt. Joshua Scottow, who had charge of the Boston soldiers, as follows: ‘Sept. 7th, 1675. Being Lord's day…* the enemy…before of their designs early in the morning burnt those houses and barnes our Capne saved the day before—they burnt also 8 or 9 deserted houses belonging to Libby and children.3'
"John Libby with his wife and younger children were [sic] in Boston 10 July 1677, and on that date petitioned the Governor and Council there assembled, that his sons Henry and Anthony, on whom he stated he was dependent for support, might be discharged from the Black Point garrison. The petition was granted the same day.4
"In his will, dated 9 Feb. 1682, he gave 'unto my [his] Children five Shillings Apeece, to every one of them, & to my [his] two younger sonns namely Mathew and Daniell, fivety Shillings out of ye Estate when they come [should come] to age'; and willed that 'my [his] wife shall [should] have it all to her disposeing to Mantayn the children.5'"
See Charles T. Libby, The Libby Family in America, 1882.6
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Source Citations/Notes:
- [S471] Libby Family in America, 2, "The Immigrant."
- [S471] Libby Family in America, 2, 22–23, "The Immigrant."
- [S471] Libby Family in America, 23–24, "The Immigrant."
- [S471] Libby Family in America, 24, "The Immigrant."
- [S471] Libby Family in America, 24–25, "The Immigrant."
- [S471] Libby Family in America, 2–25, "The Immigrant."
- [S471] Libby Family in America, 25–26, "The Immigrant" and John (1).
Agnes (–?–)
F, #25232
| Last Edited | 8 Aug 2006 |
Agnes (–?–) married John/2 Libby, son of John/1 Libby.1
"She was probably not a Scarborough woman. In a joint deposition of herself and husband, taken 15 Mar. 1717, her husband testified that one Joseph Winnock had lived at Black Point between sixty and seventy years before, but she limited her testimony to fifty years. It would seem that her recollection of Winnock reached back only to the time of her marriage."2 She probably died before her husband.2
"She was probably not a Scarborough woman. In a joint deposition of herself and husband, taken 15 Mar. 1717, her husband testified that one Joseph Winnock had lived at Black Point between sixty and seventy years before, but she limited her testimony to fifty years. It would seem that her recollection of Winnock reached back only to the time of her marriage."2 She probably died before her husband.2
Family | John/2 Libby b. 1636, d. a 1719 |
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Daniel/4 Libby
M, #25233, (say 1705 - circa 1740)
Daniel/4 Libby|b. say 1705\nd. circa 1740|p2524.htm#i25233|Daniel/3 Libby|b. circa 1678\nd. before Jun 1712|p2523.htm#i25227|Elizabeth Kirke|d. before Oct 1735|p2523.htm#i25228|John/2 Libby|b. 1636\nd. after 1719|p2523.htm#i25230|Agnes (–?–)||p2524.htm#i25232|||||||
| Father* | Daniel/3 Libby1 b. c 1678, d. b Jun 1712 |
| Mother* | Elizabeth Kirke1 d. b Oct 1735 |
| Last Edited | 30 May 2010 |
Daniel/4 Libby Jr. married, as her 1st husband, Eleanor Meader, daughter of Nathaniel Meader and Eleanor (–?–).2,1 A miller, he died at Biddeford, ME, "where he had lived many years, in about the year 1740.1 His inventory mentioned five yokes of oxen and 46,442 feet of pine boards. … In the settlement of the estate, mention is made of children, but nothing further of them appears."1 His widow married (2), by Aug 1740, John/2k Brooks Jr.2
Family | Eleanor Meader b. 3 Jun 1704 |
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