Catherine [Adams] Larrabee

Biography

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Noted: Bethia Larrabee [Look] and William Larrabee [Jr] are possibly step children of Catherine Ford [Adams] Larrabee. Both Bethia and William, are adults prior to 1713, and Catherine became Mrs. Larrabee in 1706.

Katherine Larrabee became a member of the First Church of Wells on 31 May 1713. On 14 June 1713, she had Stephen, Sarah and Esther baptized, First Church of Wells, Maine.

James Adams, of Wells [Maine], and his wife Catherine (Ford), taken 22 Aug., 1703, and in the service of M. Pierre Le Gardeur; they had Clement, born & and buried 11 Nov., 1704, in Montreal. http://books.google.com/books?pg=PA159&lpg=PA159&dq=%22catherine+fo... The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 28 [page 159]

James Adams ... alive in Montreal 2 June 1706, he may have died before reaching Boston. .. Children wiped out by Indians.. Genealogical Dictionary Maine & New Hampshire, Adams, page 58

Adams, James. Received --50 A. -[c. 1699] at the head of " the outer lots" on the road leading to Maryland section. [page 277, History of Wells, Maine by EDWARD E. BOURNE, LL. D.]

James Adams, signer of the Covent of the First Church of Wells in 1701. Page 288 History of Wells, Maine by EDWARD E. BOURNE, LL. D.

James Adams ... His widow, Catherine, m. Wm. Larrabee on 14 October 1706. First book of Town Records,page 260, Wells, Maine VR Wells, Maine, page 2; Picton Press.

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Catherine (Ford) Larrabee (bef. 1678 - aft. 1718) ID/Link/URL/Cite

Catherine Larrabee formerly Ford aka Adams

Born before 1678 [location unknown]

Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]

[sibling%28s%29 unknown]

Wife of James Adams — married 5 Jan 1696 in Charlestown, Mass

Wife of William Larrabee — married 14 Oct 1706 in Wells, Maine

Mother of Sarah (Larrabee) Evans, Esther Larrabee and Stephen Larrabee

Died after 17 Sep 1718 after age 40 in Wells, York, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ford-4551 created 22 Sep 2014 | Last modified 13 Jun 2021

Sources

Wells: The Frontier Town of Maine, Volume I, Esselyn Gilman Perkins Reference pages 87, 88, 110, 139, 142 Adrian Stanley_21 Sept 2014

WHERE was the "round about" ? [see map Image attached] Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection Maine Historical Topographic Maps http://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/maps/topo/maine/txu-pclmaps-topo-me-ke...