Giles Gibbs

Will: 18 MAY 1641 Witness by John Warham,Ephraim Huitt Event: Freeman 4 MAR 1632/33 Old Oath Note: Giles, Dorchester, Co . of Devon, England,1630, probably came in the Mary and John, granted land and settled in Dorchester, Mass. in 1632, freeman 4 Mar. 1633, was selectman 1634, moved to Winsor Conn., there died 21 May 1641. ORIGIN: St. Sidwell, Exeter, Devonshire MIGRATION: 1632 FIRST RESIDENCE: Dorchester REMOVES: Windsor 1636

CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to Dorchester church prior to 4 March 1632/3 implied by freemanship. FREEMAN: 4 March 1632/3 [MBCR 1:367]. EDUCATION: The widow's inventory included 12s. in books. OFFICES: Committee to make Dorchester rate, 3 November 1633 [DTR 4]; chosen Dorchester selectman (as "Go[odman] Gibbes"), 28 October 1634 [DTR 7]. ESTATE: Ordered to build twenty feet of fence, for one cow, 3 April 1633 [DTR 2]; granted three acres of land, 22 November 1634 [DTR 9]; granted two acres of meadow, and lot formerly Simon Hoyt's to be divided between Giles Gibbs and Mr. Roger Williams, 17 April 1635 [DTR 11]; granted ten acres of land, 1 February 1635/6 [DTR 15]; received Lot #31, four acres, in meadow beyond Naponset [DTR 321]. In the Windsor land inventory of 28 February 1640/1, Giles Gibbs had been granted four parcels, and had purchased one: seven acre homelot; ten and a half acres at the Great Meade; a parcel over the Great River, thirty rods in breadth by three miles in length; forty-seven acres of upland above Rocky Hill; and (purchased of George Hull) "half an acre of the west end of his homelot." This was annotated to show that Gregory Gibbs had received by bequest from Giles Gibbs the lot over the great river thirty rods in breadth and in length three miles and that Katherine Gibbs had purchased this lot from Gregory Gibbs. Two other purchases had been made (perhaps by the widow Gibbs): four acres from Thomas Stayres and half an acre from Steven Terry [WiLR 1:94]. In his will, dated 18 May 1641 (but date of probate not known), "Gyles Gibbs, of Wyndsor, on Connecticutt, yeoman, being weak in body" ordered "my son Gregory" to be apprenticed to "some godly man for the space of five years" and if he stay out his time he is to have my lot over the great river, also if "my overseers have any encouragement to judge him worthy ... œ5 at age twenty-one years"; and bequeathed to "my two sons Samuel & Benjamin" œ20 each; to "my daughter Sarah" œ20 at age twenty-one; to "Jacob, my son, ... my house and lots, meadows, home lot and great lot and lots whatsoever on this side the great river after his mother's life"; to "my wife" all my lots, houses, household goods, cattle, chattels, discharge of my debts; "provided that in case my said overseers have no good encouragement concerning the disposition of my son Gregory, but do judge him unworth a father's blessing under their hands, my will is that my executor shall have the said lot toward the education of my children until my son Jacob shall attain the age of twenty-one years, and then my will is that my son Jacob shall have it"; "Katharine my wife" executrix; the deacons of the church of Windsor overseers. In a postscript he bequeathed to "Elizaphatt Gregory ten bushels of corn"; and to "Richard Wellar" 40s. [Manwaring 1:14-15; CCCR 1:504-05]. BIRTH: By about 1600 based on estimated date of first marriage. DEATH: Buried Windsor 21 May 1641 [WiVR]. MARRIAGE: (1) By about 1625 _____ _____; she died by 1629. (2) St. Sidwell, Exeter, 13 April 1629 Katherine Carwithe [TAG 61:33]; she died Windsor 24 October 1660 [TAG 61:32]. In 1986 James A. Rasmussen published the marriage record and the two baptisms from St. Sidwell, Exeter, Devonshire, which settle much of the chronology of the Gibbs family [TAG 61:32-34]. These three records show that Giles Gibbs and his family could not have come on the Mary & John, and, in conjunction with the will of the widow Katherine Gibbs, determine unequivocally the birth order of all five children. As Rasmussen notes, the minister at St. Sidwell, Exeter, when the Gibbs family appeared there was Rev. JOHN WARHAM, and it may be that Gibbs was attracted to that minister, and followed him to New England in 1632. On 4 August 1635 Massachusetts Bay court ordered "Will[ia]m Wills to pay to Gyles Gibbs the sum of 16s., for felony by him committed" [MBCR 1:153]. In the years after Giles Gibbs died, the family was often in court for unacceptable behavior. In one court on 7 March 1650/1 Jacob Gibbs was complained of for several misdemeanors and fined 40s., Samuel Gibbs was "to be corrected by his master" and Sarah Gibbs "the daughter of the widow Gibbs hath carried herself very sinfully and disorderly the court judges it necessary that she should be put to service, and therefore if her mother does not provide her a good service ... Sarah Gibbs is to appear at the court ... and from thence be sent to the house of correction" [RPCC 97]. She was still in trouble in 1660 [RPCC 217].

Sources: Title: The Bouton Papers on the Patchin Family from Schoharie Co.NY. Page: P290 Title: Ancestery .com Title: Ancestery .com - A Digest of Early Connecticut Probate Records 1635 to 1650 Page: p504 of Gyles Gibbs' Will Text: That I Gyles Gibbs, of Wyndsor, on Connecticutt, yeoman, being weake in body but of perfect understanding and memory, doe ordain this my last will and testament as followth. Title: The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620 - 1633 Page: CD Text: MARRIAGE: (1) By about 1625 _____ _____; she died by 1629. (2) St. Sidwell, Exeter, 13 April 1629 Katherine Carwithe

ORIGIN: St. Sidwell, Exeter, Devonshire

MIGRATION: 1632

FIRST RESIDENCE: Dorchester

REMOVES: Windsor 1636

CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to Dorchester church prior to 4 March 1632/3 implied by freemanship.

Freeman of Mar 4, 1632/33 [MBCR 1:367].

Grantee of lands at Dorchester, 1633, Selectman, 1634;

COMMENTS: In 1986 James A. Rasmussen published the marriage record and the two baptisms from St. Sidwell, Exeter, Devonshire, which settle much of the chronology of the Gibbs family [TAG 61:32-34]. These three records show that Giles Gibbs and his family could not have come on the Mary & John, and, in conjunction with the will of the widow Katherine Gibbs, determine unequivocally the birth order of all five children.

As Rasmussen notes, the minister at St. Sidwell, Exeter, when the Gibbs family appeared there was Rev. JOHN WARHAM, and it may be that Gibbs was attracted to that minister, and followed him to New England in 1632.

On 4 August 1635 Massachusetts Bay court ordered "Will[ia]m Wills to pay to Gyles Gibbs the sum of 16s., for felony by him committed" [MBCR 1:153].

In the years after Giles Gibbs died, the family was often in court for unacceptable behavior. In one court on 7 March 1650/1 Jacob Gibbs was complained of for several misdemeanors and fined 40s., Samuel Gibbs was "to be corrected by his master" and Sarah Gibbs "the daughter of the widow Gibbs hath carried herself very sinfully and disorderly the court judges it necessary that she should be put to service, and therefore if her mother does not provide her a good service ... Sarah Gibbs is to appear at the court ... and from thence be sent to the house of correction" [RPCC 97]. She was still in trouble in 1660 [RPCC 217].

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GILES GIBBS Birth 1602 in Exeter, Devon, , England Death 21 May 1641 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States

Family Members Parents

William Gibbs 1575 – 1641

Mary Newcourt 1550 – 1616

Show siblings Spouse & Children Katherine CARWITHE 1604 – 1660 Mary GIBBS 1617 – 1644

Cutbury Gibbs 1628 – 1667

Jacob Gibbs 1630 – 1708

Sarah Gibbs 1631 – 1689

Samuel Gibbs 1635 – 1719

Benjamin Gibbs 1637 – 1676

( View details ) 1602 Birth Exeter, Devon, , England 4 source citations 1629 13 Apr Age: 27 Marriage to Katherine CARWITHE Exeter, Devon, , England 2 source citations 1641 21 May Age: 39 Death Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States

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