AT TIME OF CHILDRENS BIRTHS , NORTH YARMOUTH WAS IN MASS. PROVINCE OF MAINE.
JOB OF 1ST CHURCH-8 MAY 1747 (147)
SARAH OF 1ST CHURCH-CAT. SAYS "LEFT TOWN"
TRADITION SAYS THAT AS A LAD, PETER WAS SHIPWRECKED ON CAPE COD, ABOUT 1680, AND GIVEN THE NAME OF PIERRE CRAPEAU. HE LIVED WITH FRANCIS COOMBS IN MIDDLEBORO, MASS. THE WILL OF PETER CRAPO OF ROCHESTER, MASS., YEOMAN, DATED 20 FEB. 1756 AND PROVED 3 MAY 1756, NAMES HIS WIFE, ANN, SONS, FRANCES, PETER, JOHN, AND HEZEKIAH- "THEY TO PROVIDE FOR THEIR MOTHER IN LAW (STEPMOTHER) , MY WIDOW," AND SONS NICHOLAS AND SETH; FOUR DAUGHTERS, SUSANNAH DEMERANVILLE, MARY SPOONER, ELIZABETH LUKE, AND REBECCA MATTHEWS,. RECEIPTS OF HEIRS NAME THE HUSBANDS OF HIS DAUGHTERS; JAMES LAKE, LOUIS DEMARANVILLE, JONATHAN SPOONER, AND JOHN MATTHEWS.
SCITUATE, MASS. ALSO CALLED PEMBROKE, MASS.
HANNAH WAS BURIED AT OLD CEMETERY IN PLYMPTON,PLYMOUTH,MASS AT 90 YEARS AND 12 DAYS
MR. DURFEE ADMITTED AS FREEMAN IN 1775