Lemuel Edmund Crosby

"In 1760-1763, Barrington was settled by about 80 families from Nantucket and Cape Cod, and in 1767 the township was granted to 102 persons. Among the grantees was LEMUEL CROSBY who with his wife and children, except the two eldest daughters Mary and Abigail, and the infant Joshua, had gone there in 1761 from Yarmouth, Mass.

Mr. Crosby died there about 1769, and in 1772, Mrs Crosby removed with her children to Yarmouth, where they at first lived in a house which stood not far from where the courthouse stands now. It is said that Knowles married and died without issue, and that Ansel died unmarried, and that Sarah married a Mr. Coggins and settled in Digby Neck. Mrs. Crosby married Elishama Eldridge and died about 1809.

In the course of a few years, after their arrival with their mother in Yarmouth, the three brothers THEOPHILUS, LEMUEL, and JAMES CROSBY settled upon that high ridge of land northerly from Session Hill and on the western side of Lake Hebron, now called Lakeside and there probably they remained for the rest of their lives, cultivating productive farms and rearing three of the finest families in all America. The writer speaks from a personal acquaintance with them and with their descendants to this day."

(This genealogy is written by John Brown, editor of the Yarmouth Herald, probably in 1897)