1. John Libby was born about 1615 in England and died May 1683 in Scarborough, Maine. He married first a woman whose name is not known. He married secondly a Mary (---) who survived him. By his first wife he had twelve children: John, James, Samuel, Joanna, Henry, Abigail, Anthony, Sarah, Mary, David, Hannah, and Rebecca. By his second wife Mary he had: Matthew and Daniel.
2. Anthony Libby was born about 1652 at Scarborough, Maine and died about May 1718 at Hampton, New Hampshire. He married about 1682 to Sarah Drake, born 29 December 1656 at Hampton, New Hampshire and died there 12 June 1716, daughter of Abraham and Jane (---) Drake. Anthony and Sarah had Sarah, Abraham, Mary, Isaac, Hannah, Jacob, and Jane.
3. Abraham Libby was born about 1688 and died about 1767 at Epsom, New Hampshire. He married on 14 January 1713 at Hampton, New Hampshire, Sabina Philbrick, born about 1691, daughter of Joseph and Tryphena (Marston) Philbrick. Abraham and Sabina had eight children: Elizabeth (Betty), Joseph, Sarah, Phebe, Abraham, Anthony, Mary, and Ephraim.
4. Phebe Libby was born 15 April 1720 at Portsmouth, New Hampshire and died before 1754 at Barrington, New Hampshire. She married on 23 June 1737 at Greenland, New Hampshire, Samuel Wallis, born about 1715 and died before 1 January 1793 at Barrington, son of William and Martha (---) Wallis. Phebe and Samuel had five children: Sarah, Joseph, Abraham, Nathaniel, and Martha.
Sources:
Genealogical Dictionary of ME and NH by Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby, and Walter Goodwin Davis (Portland, 1939, reprinted Baltimore, 1988), p. 431-33.
Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis by Walter Goodwin Davis (Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1996), II:466-71.
A Genealogy of the Philbrick and Philbrook Families, Descended from the Emigrant, Thomas Philbrick, 1583-1667 by Rev. Jacob Chapman (Exeter, NH, the author, 1886).
New England Historical & Genealogical Register 38 (1884):282-283 et seq.
Boston Transcript for June 10, 1907 #992.
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