Genealogy of Patty Rose
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| Notes for Matthew LIBBY | ||||||||||
| - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Matthew, b. 1663, 72 in Dec. 1735, 75 in Aug 1738. In Portsm. aft. 1690 he hired Cutt's farm. Altho he joined with his nephew and others in erecting the first sawmill on Nonesuch River in Scarb., he sent his sons to and spent the rest of his life in Eliot. The graveyard near his ho. in 1880 held 6 generations (since been removed to the cemetery). His ho. was a garrison. Tr.j. 1703, 1711. He m. Elizabeth Brown, by his will given use of half of ho., by cod. altered to 1/3 of moveables indoors. In q.c. deed dated 5 Mar. 1742-3 she recited 'having for several months past been under great indisposition of body not capable of helping myself and my son Samuel Libby having taken the whole care of attending on me in my helpless condition.' Ch: William, Matthew, Mary, Hannah, Elizabeth, John, Andrew, Sarah, Nathaniel, Dorcas, Samuel, Mehitable, Lydia. [ref 22] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - MATTHEW LIBBY, born in Scarborough, in the year 1663; married ELIZABETH BROWN, daughter of Andrew Brown, one of the principal inhabitants of Black Point. Matthew went to Portsmouth in 1690, and thence to Kittery, in the winter of 1699-1700. He built his house close by the one now occupied by Thomas Adlington. It was built with hewn timber, and the upper story projected over the lower one for protection against the Indians. In that house he lived until his death. It was taken down in the early part of this century, and the present one built. Some time before the second organization of the town of Scarborough, he, with Roger Deering, John Libby, 1-1, and Roger Hunnewell, went down to Black Point and built a sawmill on Nonesuch River, a short distance above the present Congregational church. His interest in that mill he afterward gave to his three sons, William, John and Andrew, and it is doubtful if he ran the mill himself longer than a very short time. He died in March, 1740-1, leaving his homestead to his son Samuel. His widow died two or three years later. In the family burying-ground lie Matthew Libby and his wife and five generations of their descendants, with nothing but rough stones to mark their graves. Their children--the first six born in Scarborough and Portsmouth, and the rest in Kittery--were: William, Matthew, Mary, Rebecca, Hannah, John, Andrew, Sarah, Nathaniel, Dorcas, Samuel, Mehitable, Lydia, Elizabeth. [ref 25:32] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - MATTHEW(2) LIBBY (John(1) was born in Scarborough about 1663 and was a boy of about thirteen or fourteen during the exciting days which preceded his family's flight to Boston during King Philip's War. His young manhood was spent in Scarborough between wars and there he married Elizabeth Brown whose family, like the Libbys, lived on a neck of land jutting out into the Scarborough marshes. All of the five Libby brothers wanted more land than they originally held in Scarborough and an opportunity to obtain it seemed at hand in 1687. Sir Edmund andros, the highly unpopular governor of New England, claimed all of the land in the king's name and demanded from those who occupied it the payment of a quit-rent to secure a survey and grant to confirm all former titles. This procedure outraged the owners of land whose titles under the old patents had never been questioned and few of them knuckled under to Sir Edmund. Some of the inhabitants of Scarborough, including the Libbys, did so, however. They stated that they had not more than six or eight acres of upland apiece and no meadow, that there were great quantities of land vacant and unimproved in the town, and they asked for new grants of fifty or sixty acres of upland and ten acres of meadow each. sir Edmund signed an order for a survey in Boston on January 19, 1687. Probably these hopes did not bear fruit in view of the popular uprising which resulted in Andros's expulsion. When Scarborough was abandoned in 1690, Matthew Libby took his family to the thickly settled town of Portsmouth where he hired a farm from the Cutts family. Here he lived for ten years until, as more fully set forth in the account of his brother David, he bought a large tract on the Piscataqua River at Long Reach in the town of Kittery, now Eliot. Six years before this purchase, Matthew was fined, on May 19, 1693, with other careless townsmen of Portsmouth, for neglecting his duty to turn out for musters, the necessity for which his past experiences should have taught him. Matthew Libby was on trial juries in 1703 and 1711, his only recorded public service. Although he joined his nephew John Libby and others in buildings g the first sawmill on the Nonesuch River when Scarborough was again inhabited, Matthew did not himself return to the old town but conveyed to his son William Libby, "late of Kittery now of Scarborough," all his rights to lands and marshes in the latter place on May 1720. In the last years of his life Matthew Libby's age was extimated as seventy-two in December, 1735, and seventy-five in August, 1738. Children: William, Matthew, Mary, Hannah, Elizabeth, John, Andrew, Sarah, Nathaniel, Dorcas, Samuel, Mehitable, Lydia. [ref 46:2-474] [child Rebecca not mentioned] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - WILL of MATHEW LIBBY, 13 Jan 1734 - 11 Mar 1740: In the Name of God Amen the thirteenth Day of January in ye Year of Our Lord one Thousand seven Hundred & thirty four I Mathew Libbey of Kittery in ye County of York & Province of ye Massachusets Bay in New-England Yeoman haveing upon me the Infirmities of old age but of perfect mind & memory and Considering it as a Duty to set my House in Order before I Die Do make & Ordain this Instrument & none Other to be my last Will & Testament in manner following Vizt. Imps I Comitt my Soul into ye hands of God who gave it and my Body to ye Earth to be Decently buried at the Discretion of my Executor hereafter named, and as to such Worldly goods as God in his providence hath given me I Do dispose in manner following after my Just Debts & Funeral Charges are paid and Discharged. Item. I Give to Elizabeth my Dearly beloved Wife one half ye Improvement of my Homestead where I now Dwell in Kittery aforesd Excepting what I have given in this my Will to my Son Mathew Libbey during her Life with the Eastermost half of my Dwelling House besides her Thirds of my Personal Estate at her disposing. Item. I Give & bequeath unto my beloved Son Mathew Lebbey his Heirs & assigns for ever that Tract of Land where he now dwells Containing Twenty four Acres bounded by ye Country Road or Highway runing ye whole breadth of my Lot between the Lands of James Staples & ye Land of Solomon Libbey & runing back North East & by East untill Twenty four Acres be Compleated Excepting one Rod which I Reserve for a way Adjoyning to Solomon Libbeys ye whole length back and my meaning is that he run so far as will make Twenty four Acres Excludeing sd way. Item. I Give & bequeath unto my beloved Son William Libbey his Heirs & assigns for ever one third part of my Interest in ye Sawmill which he & his Brothers John and Andrew now Improve in ye Town of Scarborough besides ye Land I formerly give him by Deed in Scarborough aforesd. Item. I give & bequeath unto my Sons John Libbey & Andrew Libbey their Heirs & assigns for ever all my Lands & Meadows which I have or Claim in Scarborough aforesd Except what I gave to my Son William aforesd Together with two third parts of ye aforesd Mill to be Equally Divided between them, and also all my Right of Comonage or any after Division of Lands which might Accrue to me in Scarborough aforesd to be Equally Divided between them. Item. I Give & bequeath unto my beloved Son Nathaniel Libbey five pounds in Cattle or other Specie besides what I have already given him to be paid by my Executor within a Year after my Decease. Item. I Give & bequeath to my beloved Daughter Mary Libbey one Acre of Land in Kittery where her husband Samuel Libbey formerly built & dwelt provided it be not sold to any person Except to my Son Samuel Libbey & ye price not to exceed twenty pound. Item. I Give & bequeath to my beloved Daughters Hannah Hanscom & Sarah Libbey fifteen pounds Each of them in specie at money price to be paid within two Years after my Decease by my Executor always provided that what shall appear by my accot to have been paid them after ye Date of this my Will shall be accounted as part of said Legacies. Item. I Give to my beloved Daughters Dorcas Staples and Lydia Stacie Eight pounds Each of them to be paid by my Executor in Specie at money price within three Years after my Decease provided always that what shall appear by my Accot to have been paid after ye Date of this my Will shall be accounted as part of said Legacies. Item. I Give & bequeath unto my beloved Daughter Mehitable Kaight Ten pounds besides what She has already had to be paid in Specie by my Execur at money price within four Years after my Decese provided that, what shall appear to be paid after ye Date of this my Will shall be accounted as part of said Legacie. Item. I Give & bequeath to my Daughter Elizabeth Libbey Ten shillings to be paid by my Execur. Item. I Give & bequeath unto my beloved Son Samuel Libbey all my Land where I now Dwell with ye Houses buildings Orchards &c. thereon in Kittery and all other my Lands whatsoever or wheresoever with ye Comon Rights & all other my Estate Real & Personal to him ye sd Samuel Libbey his Heirs & assigns for ever. And Lastly I Nominate Constitute & appoint my said Son Samuel Sole Executor of this my last Will & Testament. In Testimony, whereof I have hereunto set my Hand & affixed my Seal ye Day & Year first above written Matthew (his mark) Libbey (seal) Signed Sealed Published & Declared by Mathew Libbey to be his last Will & Testament/ after ye words their Heirs & assigns for ever were Interlined. In presence of Us. Jos: Hammond Jos: Hammond Jur Geo: Hammond. In the Name of God Amen I Matthew Libbey above named haueing a further Consideration of my Devises in this my Last Will & Testament. Do hereby make this Alteration in ye Article therein relateing to what I have given to my Wife Elizabeth Vizt That She have the whole of my Personal Estate within Doors of what sort soever; and the third part of my Personal Estate without Doors after my Just Debts & Funeral Charges are paid: all the other Articles I Do hereby Ratifie & Confirm this 28th Day of February Anno Domini: 17 40/41. Mathew (his mark) Libbey (seal) Signed sealed & pronounced by ye Testator to be an addition to his Will before written In presence of Test. Jos: Hammond Ephraim Libbey James Fogg. Probated 11 March 1740. Inventory returned 11 July 1740, at �543: 6: 9, by Abraham Townsend, Batchelor Hussey and Humphrey Scammon, appraisers. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - picture: signature - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | ||||||||||
| Notes for Elizabeth BROWN | ||||||||||
| - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Elizabeth, daughter of Andrew Brown; m. Matthew Libby. [ref 22] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Elizabeth; m. Matthew Libby, son of John Libby of Scarborough. Two years after her husband's death Elizabeth Libby, old and ill, quitclaimed her interest in the estate to her youngest son Samuel, he having had the whole care of attending her in her helpless condition, the deed being dated March 5, 1742/3. [ref 46:1-230;2-476] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | ||||||||||
| Last Modified 24 Aug 2004 | Created 4 Jan 2005 |