Margaret Gibson

Not a known wife of John Corley

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Catlett-56

Margaret was born about 1702 in Essex County, Virginia, the daughter of John Catlett and Mary Gaines.

At an unknown date and place in Virginia, she married Jonathan Gibson and bore him two-three known children:

1. Rachel, m. George Taylor
2. Alice, m. John Catlett IV
3. Jonathan, m. Susanna Harrison

In 1765, when she was probably in her mid-sixties, Margaret died of unknown causes in Orange County, Virginia.

Comments

Most of the first two generations of Catlett children in Virginia are fairly well documented, but there is a frustrating cloud of confusion over John Catlett II and Elizabeth Gaines's' daughter Margaret. No date of birth has been found, but was probably in the late 1690s or early 1700s; and no date of her marriage "late in life" to a John/Jonathan Gibson.

Neither Stubbs nor Hauk have much to offer other than the unusual bequeath Margaret's father made by passing his Green Hill estate to his seventh child and fourth daughter, provided she remain unmarried. William Fitzhugh Catlett said, "She preferred matrimony to patrimony and forfeited her right..." [1] [2]

The Taylor-Gibson family tradition has it that Margaret's husband was the Jonathan Gibson of Caroline County where he was a representative in the House of Burgesses 1736-41, and clerk of Orange County in 1740; [3] but further research showed that these were two different Jonathan Gibsons, and Margaret's husband was the latter (see Jonathan Gibson, Jr.'s profile).

Another Taylor-Gibson researcher believes that Margaret's husband was the Jonathan Gibson who was sheriff of King George County and died in 1729; [4] but that was Jonathan Gibson, Sr., the father of Jonathan Gibson, Jr. whom Margaret married.

To confuse matters even further...

• Margaret's niece Mary Catlett (daughter of Margaret's brother John Catlett III), married a Jonathan Gibson of King George County where he was sheriff in 1736, patented land in 1748, and served as a tobacco inspector for warehouses on the Rappahannock River; and...
• Margaret's nephew John Catlett IV married Alice Gibson (d. 3/15/1761 in Orange Co.), daughter of her husband's parents, Jonathan Gibson and Elizabeth Thornton.

Further research has demonstrated with reasonable certainty that Margaret married the Jonathan Gibson, Jr. (abt. 1700-1745) who was the son of Jonathan Gibson, Sr. (abt. 1670-abt.1729) and Elizabeth Thornton (1674-1732); and that Margaret had a daughter Rachel who married Col. George Taylor of Orange County. [5] [6] [7]

From Findagrave.com

Margaret Catlett Gibson

Birth: 1702 Essex County, Virginia; Death: unknown; Burial: Non-Cemetery Burial. Memorial #: 93846906.

Bio: Margaret was born around 1702, the daughter of John 2nd and Mary (Gaines) Catlett of Essex (now Caroline) Co., Virginia. (Her mother is often erroneously identified as Elizabeth Gaines.) She married Jonathan Gibson 2nd ca. 1725. (His wife is often erroneously identified as Mary Catlett; Mary, Margaret's sister, in fact married John Taliaferro.) Jonathan Gibson was a burgess of Caroline County during the 1730s and then second clerk of Orange County, where they moved ca. 1740. (Bio by Mark Hale)

Family Members: Parents: John Catlett (1658-1724), Mary Gaines Catlett ( ?-?): Spouse: Jonathan Gibson (1700-1745); Siblings: John Catlett (1685-1739); Half Siblings: Rebecca Catlett Conway Unknown-1760), Elizabeth (?-?), Catlett Thornton (1689-1751), Mary Catlett Taliaferro (1691-1771), Thomas Catlett (1707-1739); Children: Jonathan Gibson (1729-1791)[

Notes

https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/gibson/10974/

Jonathan Gibson, according to the Catlett records and the universal traditions of the Gibsons, married Margaret Catlett, daughter of Col. John Catlett, of "Green Hill Estate;" at or about where is now Port Royal. This Col. John Catlett came from Letterbaume Parish, Kent County, England, and owned lands there, which his grandchildren inherited. He was killed by the Indians in 1670, at the attack on the fort near Port Royal. Margaret Catlett was an aunt of Rebecca Catlett, who married Frances Conway, and was the mother of President James Madison; hence Jonathan Gibson became sponsor of the president.

Origins

1722-1730 Essex County, Virginia Wills, Bonds & Inventories, No. 4; [John Frederick Dorman]; Page 20-21. Will of John Catlett of Essex County, dated 18 Nov. 1724.

• To my two sons John and Thomas and my daughter Margarett 1860 acres of land in the Freshes of Rappa. River in the County of Essex, viz. to my son John the land he lives on and is divided from the other part as followeth beginning at the corner tree of the hundred acres of land I had in exchange of Charles Smith a little below the road in the line of Gillets patten... to the rolloing road ... to the land of Evans ...
• To my daughter Margarett during her natural life my dwelling plantation and the land adjacent.
• To my daughter Margaret, Negro Frank, Toney, Charles, Sarah, Cate and all her children, likewise her choice of my feather beds, bolsters, blanketts and quilt, and four pair of sheets, one diaper table cloth, and a dozen of napkins, a great trunk and what other things is called hers, a looking glass, fifteen head of old and young cattle and half my hoggs and half my corn, one old feather bed and covering, that is rugg and blanketts, and my mare and colt and the old horse Dull.
• To my daughter Margarett half my pewter, tin pans and earthen ware and three midling and large iron potts and hooks and two frying pans and a parcel of goods I have sent out for. The one half to her and the other half to my sons John and Thomas.
• To my daughter in law Alice Catlett all my land in the fork of Pewmansend dureing her life or day of marriege and also four Negroes Sambo and Jenny and her two youngest children provided she makes no claime or title to those Negroes given by her husband to her wich he said I give him. In case my said daughter in law Alice Catlett make any claime to those Negroes then I give all to be equally divided between my five children John and Thomas and Mary and Elizabeth and Rebecca.
• All what other Negros I have not given already to be equally divided between my said five children excepting the choice of two Negroes to my sons John and Thomas over and above their share. …
• My two sons John and Thomas executors.

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References

• https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I2633...
• Reference: FamilySearch Genealogy - SmartCopy: Sep 11 2018, 20:50:57 UTC
• = https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Catlett-56 cites

1. Stubbs, Dr. & Mrs. William Carter, A History of Two Virginia Families # transplanted from County Kent, England: Thomas Baytop, Tenterden, 1638 and John Catlett, Sittingbourne, 1622. Published in New Orleans, LA, 1918
2. Hauk, Carol A. Descendants of John Catlett of Virginia. Anderson, Indiana: Hauk Data Services, 1996
3. from Jouett Taylor Prisley and Sarah McIntosh Taylor family history and genealogy papers
4. Boyajian, Ned. No connect. between Jonathan GIBSON and the Bishop of London?, 11 June 2005, from a now-defunct GenForum.com web site
5. Espy, Willard R., Oysterville: Roads to Grandpa's Village, University of Washington Press, Aug 1, 1992
6. Stubbs, Dr. & Mrs. William Carter, A History of Two Virginia Families transplanted from County Kent, England: Thomas Baytop, Tenterden, 1638 and John Catlett, Sittingbourne, 1622. Published in New Orleans, LA, 1918
7. Hauk, Carol A. Descendants of John Catlett of Virginia. Anderson, Indiana: Hauk Data Services, 1996
8. Mark Hale (47665760), “Margaret Catlett Gibson,” Findagrave.com. Record added 19 Jul 2012. URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/93846906. Accessed 27 April 2018. See also:
9. RootsWeb: Jonathan Gibson (1700-1745), by Janet Ariciu, 12 Apr 2015
10. RootsWeb: Catlett-L Archives, "Catlett, Gibson, Taylor," by Lorraine Loudenslager, 30 Oct 1999
11. The Taylor Family of Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri: Information about Rachel Gibson, by Donna Hook
12. Find A Grave Memorial# 93846906, Created by: Mark Hale, Record added: Jul 19, 2012
13. Fall, Ralph Emmett, ed. The Diary of Robert Rose: A View of Virginia by a Scottish Colonial Parson, 1746-1751 (Verona, Va., 1977)
14. Fall, Ralph Emmett. Hidden Village: Port Royal, Virginia 1744-1981 (McClure Printing; 1st Edition, 1982)
15. Hale, Mark (47665760). “Margaret Catlett Gibson,” Findagrave.com. Record added 19 Jul 2012. URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/93846906. Accessed 27 April 2018.
16. Taylor, Francis Diary, 1786-1799, University of North Carolina Library