Other source:

"Descendants of Francis LeBaron of Plymouth Massachusetts"
Mary LeBaron Stockwell, 1904

• Page 450 (from Dr. Lemuel LeBaron):
   "The privateer, through stress of weather or some other cause, fell into Buzzard's Bay, and was shipwrecked on a ledge of rocks near the western shore of the town of Sandwich; the ship was lost, the crew saved. This took place about the year 1696."
   

• Page 455 (from Pilgrim Republic, by John A. Goodwin)
  "In 1694 there was no surgeon in Plymouth, and the wife of Goodman Hunter is said to have been in much suffering for want of one. A French privateer had just been wrecked in Buzzard's bay, and her accomplished surgeon, only twenty-six years old, was Francis LeBaron...."
   

• Page 456 (from Boston Advertiser, April, 1881, signed by the initials of W.T. Davis, Plymouth):
  "The arrival (of Francis) at Plymouth could not have been earlier than 1694; for it was in that year that Sir William Phipps was removed from the office of Governor, and Lieut.-Governor Stoughton placed in power. Nor could it have been later than January, 1695, for in that month Dr. LeBaron appears in the records as the witness to a deed from Thomas to William Clark"

 

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Current situation of my research

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My researches on the Eagle confirm the remarks of W.T. Davis.

Francis LeBaron arrived at Plymouth in 1694 for the following reasons:

1. Before 1694, William Stoughton was not Governor of Massachussetts.

2. In January, 1695, Francis LeBaron is the witness to a deed.

3. September 6, 1695, he married Mary Wilder.

4. James LeBaron was born on May 23, 1696.