Major Andrew Gilson

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Andrew GILSON (Andrew GILSON1) was born 1636 in Lancaster Co., VA, and died BEF 10 AUG 1698 in Stafford Co., VA.

Family

From https://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=thamm&id=I15784

He married Beheathland BERNARD ABT 1660, daughter of Thomas BERNARD and Mary BEHEATHLAND. She was born ABT 1635 in Warwick Co., VA, and died BEF 30 MAR 1720 in Westmoreland Co., VA.

	  Children of Andrew GILSON and Beheathland BERNARD are:

* i. Thomas GILSON was born 1660 in Stafford Co., VA, and died BEF 8 MAY 1707 in Stafford Co., VA.

• ii. Beheathland GILSON was born ABT 1666 in Westmoreland Co., VA, and died BEF 29 NOV 1693 in Westmoreland Co., VA

Comments

Per Dorman, Beheathland Bernard had only two Dade children, Francis and Mary. Her second husband, Andrew Gilson apparently had children when they married, one of whom married William Lane. I don’t find an Anne Dade.

Dorman says “the daughter Mrs. Buckner, named in Andrew Gilson’s will, and the wife of “my wel beloved sonn in law Mr. Wm, Lane” to whom Beheathland Gilson gave a power of attorney, 14 Nov 1667 (Old Rappahannock County Deeds, &c 3, 1663-1668, p. 312) appear to be his children by a previous marriage.” Dorman, Vol. 1, p.221

Notes

!He was justice of Lancaster County in 1652, sheriff of Old Rappahananock County in 1665, and justice of Stafford County. He was aged 50 on September 9, 1686.

From https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Gilson-59

Andrew Gilson was an early Virginia colonist, at least from the 1650s. He was a fairly wealthy man from his land holdings and participated regularly in civil affairs, having been a justice of Lancaster County, then "Old" Rappahannock County, and finally Stafford County as these various counties were formed. He was also the High Sheriff of Rappahannock in 1660.[1]

He died in 1698 and left a relatively detailed will proved in Stafford Co., Virginia.[2] The will names his son Thomas, a son [in law] Storke (widower of Behethland), and a son [in law] and daughter Buckner, who have not been positively identified but are presumably related to the Buckners who lived near him in Stafford (e.g. Phillip Buckner (d. 1700)).

J.B.C. Nicklin wrote a monograph on him in 1930 and at the time was unable to determine any firm information about his origins, which is somewhat puzzling since Gilson was a man of wealth and position even from his first appearances in colonial records. Nicklin estimated a birth year of 1628, probably based on the idea that Gilson must have been at least 21 years of age when he obtained his first land grant in 1650. By 1652, he was even sitting on the court of Lancaster County, so any birthdate after 1631 can be ruled out with high confidence. Gilson's will had not yet been discovered in Nicklin's time, so the article lacks some important information.[3]

References

• John Bailey Calvert Nicklin. “Major Andrew Gilson: And Some of His Descendants (1630-1930).” The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 38, no. 2, 1930, pp. 181–190. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/4244325
• https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I0260...