Individual Details

William Larrabee,’ the first of the name to settle in Arundel, now Wells, Me., was driven from North Yarmouth during the Indian war in 1676. He was another “loving kinsman " of William, mentioned in his will of date 1692. and one of the oldest sons of Stephen Larrabee. According to a deposition recorded in York county, he was born in 1668. His first wife, whose name is not known, was killed, with her three children, by Indians, Aug. 10. 1703. He married Catherine Adams, of Wells, Mar. 3, 1706. At the close of the Indian war he took up a grant of land near the mouth of the Kennebunlr river, on the Arundel side, and, in 1714., built a small timber house several miles from the settlement in what is now Kennebunk, on a point of land about forty rods below the “Roundabout,” on the eastern side of the stream. He made his will April 25, 1727, and died in 1728, aged 70. He was represented as a man of great fortitude and resolution and one of the most fearless and his three children who were victims of the tomahawk have not come down to us;
[ pages 838 & 839 Saco Valley Settlements}
Adrian Stanley_20 Sept 2014

===Sources===
* Saco Valley Settlements and Families: Historical, Biographical ..., Volume 1 By Gideon Tibbetts Ridlon

*Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, Vol. 3
Page 417_Larrabee

Birth	1657	North Yarmouth, York, Colony of Massachusetts Bay
Death	1728	Wells, York, Province of Massachusetts Bay
Reference No		870648
Reference No		890960
Reference No		60

Father	Stephen Larrabee (1630 - 1676)
Mother	Margaret Mains (1630 - )
Sibling	Mr Isaac Larrabee (1664 - 1755)
Sibling	Stephen Larrabee Jr (1652 - 1718)
Sibling	Mr Thomas Larrabee Sr (1662 - 1723)
Sibling	Mr Samuel Larrabee (1662 - 1727)
Sibling	Captain Benjamin Larrabee (1666 - 1733)
Sibling	John Larrabee (1670 - 1694)
Sibling	Jane "Jean" Larrabee (1672 - 1695)
Sibling	Ephraim Larrabee (1676 - 1676)