William Gibbons

Not a known son of Elizabeth Gibbons & Thomas Gibbons

Biographical Summary:

William Gibbons was Mr. Wyllys's steward, and came to Hartford in 1636, with twenty men, to build a house and prepare a garden for his employer. He was an original proprietor of Hartford, and in the distribution of 1639 received a home-lot on the east side of the highway now Governor St., south of Charter Oak St. Chosen juror, 1643; townsman, 1643, 1652; constable, 1647; surveyor of highways, 1648. He died in 1655; will dated February 28, 1654—5; inventory December 2, 1655, £1499. 14. 5. He mentions his wife, Ursula; daughters Mary and Sarah; brothers, Richard, Jonathan or John, and Thomas G. in England; sister Hidgcoke, brother Hidgcoke, and their son, John; gave land at Pennywise "towards ye maintenance of a Lattin schoole at Hartford "; 40 p. to the Artillery in Hartford.

Children:

i. William, born about 1639 (aged about 54, March, 1693); not named in his father's will.

ii. Mary.

iii. Sarah, born August 17, 1645; married (1) Honorable James Richards, of Hartford (q. v.); (2) as his second or third wife, Humphrey Davie, Esquire, of Boston, son of Sir John Davie, Bart., of Creedy, Co. Devon; (3) May 30,1706, Colonel Jonathan Tying, of Dunstable, Massachusetts; died February 8, 1714. One of her daughters, Jerusha Richards, was the wife of Govorner Gurdon Saltonstall; and another, Elizabeth Richards, married John Davie, Harvard College, 1681; he settled in Pequonnock, now Groton, in 1693; in 1707 he received the news of his accession to the Baronetcy, and went to England to take possession of his inheritance, Creedy, near Exeter, Co. Devon. Elizabeth, Lady Davie, died at Creedy, 1713; Sir John died 1727.

SOURCE: James Hammond Trumbull, editor, The memorial history of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884, Volume 1 (Boston, Massachusetts: Edward L. Osgood, 1886), page 239. Retrieved: 3 May 2011 from Google Books

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References

• https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:William_Gibbons_%2823%29
• William Gibbons, in Barbour, Lucius Barnes. Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1977), 258-59. William Gibbons died 1655 mar Ursula. Early member 1 Ch. Name on Founders Monument. Was Mr, Wyllys' steward and came to Hartford in 1636, with twenty men to build a house and prepare a garden for his employer. He was an original proprietor of Hartford and in the distribution of 1639 received a home lot on the east side of the highway now Governor St. south of Charter Oak St. Chosen juror 1643; townsman 1643-1652; constable 1647; surveyor of highways 1648. Will dated Feb 28, 1654-5 5; inv. Dec 2, 1655 £1499-14-5 mentions his wife Ursula, daughters Mary and Sarah, brothers Richard, Jonathan or John, and Timothy Gibbones in England, sister Hidgcoke, brother Hidgcoke (Hitchcock) and their son John; gave land at Pennywise "towards ye maintenance of a Lattin schoole at Hartford"; 40 p to the Artillery.
• Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862), 2:245. “WILLIAM, Hartford 1639, sent with 20 men by George Wyllys, 1636, as agent to prepare a sett. for his employer, was in good esteem, liv. 1647; had w. Ursula, and only ch. Sarah, b. 17 Aug. 1645, wh. m. James Richards.
• William Gibbons, in Manwaring, Charles W. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records. (Hartford, Conn.: R. S. Peck & Co., 1904-06), 1:115-16.
• Early Generations of the Founders of Old Dunstable: Thirty Families By Ezra S. Stearns. Page 84. GoogleBooks
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Gibbons-205