Paul, Thank you for your excellent suggestions. I will follow up on links to the National Maritime Museum and the Newfoundland Maritime History Archive. I suspect my original message about Greenfield LARRABEE didn't really stress enough how exhaustive my research has been in American sources and what light they shed on the relationship between the various branches of the LARRABEE family in America. Therefore I suspected that the link to the will of John LARRABEE (d. 1694) would prove to be fruitless. He was the son of Stephen LARRABEE, of North Yarmouth, Maine. (Greenfield LARRABEE also had a son John, but he died in 1725.) I don't believe a relationship (if any) between Stephen LARRABEE of Maine and Greenfield LARRABEE of Connecticut has ever been established. Nevertheless, I took a look at the John LARRABEE will and the only person it names if Elizabeth CRAWFORD, of London, whom he designates has his Attorney and Executor. No property in England is named. A couple of documents at the National Archives look promising, including a 1636 bill of lading for George Tam's ship The Phoenix (close in time to the 1647 voyage referenced in Connecticut colonial records) and Logs, including those for the Phoenix, True Love, and Young Lady, 1648-1707 (which would cost a fortune to have copied, I suspect). There are also wills of mariners about to embark on voyages on the Phoenix; the sailors are from various places around London as well as the West of England. These resources might shed light on the home port of the Phoenix and from whence the crews came. I still have a hunch that Greenfield LARRABEE was from the West of England, but so far no one has come up with an instance of the name Greenfield used as a Christian name or an instance of the surname LARRABEE in Devon. Regards, David Langenberg Newark, Delaware, USA Begin forwarded message: > From: Paul Hockie <paul.hockie@talk21.com> > Subject: Re: [DEV] Greenfield LARABEE > Date: January 28, 2014 3:36:47 PM EST > To: devon@rootsweb.com > Reply-To: devon@rootsweb.com > > J haven't really been following this thread but: > > The National Archives has the following will > http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/s/res?_q=larabee > > Reference: PROB 11/420/349 > Description: > Will of John Larabee of New England, North America > Date: 19 June 1694 > > This is available as a download. > > There are around a 100 references to the ship Phoenix for the 18c > > The other places to try are the National Maritime Museum. > http://www1.rmg.co.uk/national-maritime-museum and the Newfoundland Maritime > History Archive http://www.mun.ca/mha/ > > Paul > > > -----Original Message----- > From: devon-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:devon-bounces@rootsweb.com] On > Behalf Of David L. Langenberg > Sent: 28 January 2014 14:36 > To: devon@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [DEV] Greenfield LARABEE > > Bev, > > Plenty has been written about Greenfield LARRABEE and his American > descendants. None of them delve into, or even speculate about, his English > origins. I am familiar with the references you sent, and they do not > include any mention of his English origins. Hence my query to the list. I > just thought here had to be somewhere who has tripped over a > LARRABEE-GREENFIELD marriage in Devon or the use of GREENFIELD as a > Christian name in Devon. > > The first Greenfield LARRABEE married a woman who was born in Rusper, > Sussex, but I don't think the colonial settlers were too picky about > marriages within their own county affiliations. > > BTW, I am also a PARKE descendant (as per the last references), The family > was from Suffolk, I believe. > > Right now I think the tack to take is to determine the home port of the > Phoenix, on which Greenfield LARRABEE was a sailor. I have a feeling it > might be Plymouth or Falmouth. And then the assumption would be that > sailors would be recruited from the nearby area. > > David Langenberg > Newark, Delaware, USA > > > ------------------------------------------ > The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon > ( http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/ ) > and > the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) > List archive for Devon can be found at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/DEVON/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DEVON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message