David The merchant Ship PHOENIX is mentioned here. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/1810/131691/lon69.txt?sequence=1 I have a Phoenix EDMONDS died in Plymouth Devon. Love the name. Bev Edmonds -------------------------------------------------- From: "David L. Langenberg" <gallienus@mac.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2014 9:11 AM To: <devon@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [DEV] Complete Records of All Fighting Ships RN - Phoenix > Edna, > > Tracking down the home port of the vessel is a good idea. However, the > Phoenix was not a Royal Navy vessel. Presumably it was a commercial > vessel engaged in shipping between the British Isles, the American > colonies, and the Caribbean. I am not sure what resources exist for ships > in the 17th century. That's a line of research I will pursue someday. > For now, my query was primarily to see whether anyone on the list has > encountered the surname LARRABEE in their research in Devon and > particularly in relation to a Christian name > Greenfeild/Grenfell/Grenville/etc. > > Regards, > > David Langenberg > Newark, Delaware, USA > > On Jan 27, 2014, at 12:28 PM, liverpud wrote: > >> You could google for e-book >> Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of All Fighting Ships >> might be handy. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Edna - Ottawa >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: elizabeth howard >> Sent: Monday, January 27, 2014 11:23 AM >> To: devon@rootsweb.com >> Subject: [DEV] Greenfield LARRABEE >> >> Hi, given the quote and its idiosyncratic spellings. >> Greenfield Larrabee could be anything !! Does anyone know of the >> Phoenix >> ship ? who owned it where it came from ? >> >> >> >> life is hard . soften it with a cat \\\=^..^=/// >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "David L. Langenberg" <gallienus@mac.com> >> To: <devon@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2014 2:54 PM >> Subject: [DEV] Greenfield LARRABEE >> >> >>> This is going to be a very long shot! One of the classic problems in >>> American (specifically New England) genealogy is the English origins of >>> Greenfield LARRABEE, who shows up out of nowhere in colonial >>> Connecticut, >>> in 1647. (He went on to settled permanently in Connecticut and left >>> many >>> descendants on this side of the Atlantic.) Here is an extensive quote >>> about his appearance in court: >>> > > > ------------------------------------------ > 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 > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2012.0.2247 / Virus Database: 3681/6538 - Release Date: 01/27/14 >