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GIBBONS
Ambrose
Gibbons (my 11th great grandfather) was involved with John Mason as
early as 1620 as part of his plan to settle northern New England. He was an early settler in Maine, and one of
the first settlers in the Piscataqua Region.
In 1630 he arrived aboard the ship Warwick
with Roger Knight and Thomas Spencer. Their wives arrived the next year. He was first granted land at Sanders Point
(Newcastle) in 1634, and then he removed to Oyster River (Durham, New
Hampshire). I have another ancestor, Alexander Gould, who
lived in the Newcastle, Maine area until 1672.
http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2011/10/surname-saturday-gould.html
According
to Anderson in his Great Migration series, Ambrose Gibbons was well educated,
and many letters survived that he sent back and forth to Mason in London. The “Gibbons Papers” describe to John Mason a
detailed account of life in New England, and many forgeries of letters exist. You can see many of these letters in the New
Hampshire Provincial and State Papers and in the Records of the Governor and Company
of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, 1628 – 1686.
Gibbons
built the “Great House at Newichawannock”, which was a garrison on the South Berwick, Maine
side of the Piscataqua River. He was
succeeded as steward of the region by Humphrey Chadbourne. The settlement did not flourish, and demands
from London for goods and trade items were not met with success. Ambrose Gibbons’ will bequeathed his entire
estate to his grandson Samuel Sherburne (my 9th great grandfather),
with 21 pounds each to his other grandchildren Elizabeth, Mary, Henry, John,
Ambrose, Sarah and Rebeckah.
His only
child, Elizabeth Gibbons (1620 – 1667) married Henry Sherbourne as his first
wife.
GIBBONS
resources:
Ancestry of Joseph Waterhouse 1754
– 1837 of Standish Maine, by
Walter Goodwin Davis, 1949 (available to
read online at www.archive.org)
The Great Migration Begins, Robert Charles Anderson, (New
England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), Volume II, pages 745 – 749.
My
GIBBONS genealogy:
Generation
1: Ambrose Gibbons, born about 1590 in
England, died between 11 July 1656 (date of will) and 9 May 1657 (date of
probate) in Oyster River, New Hampshire; married to Rebecca Unknown by about
1617 in England. She died 14 May 1655 in
New Hampshire. One child.
Generation
2: Rebecca Gibbons, born about 1620 in England, died 3 June 1667 in
Portsmouth, New Hampshire; married 13 November 1637 to Henry Sherborne as his
first wife. He was the son of Joseph
Sherborne and Amy Cowelln, baptized on 28 March 1611 in Oldham, Hampshire,
England, and died before 7 December 1680 probably on the Isles of Shoals, New
Hampshire. Eleven children.
Generation
3: Samuel Sherburne, born a twin on 4
August 1638 in Portsmouth, died 4 August 1691 in Casco Bay, Maine; married on
15 December 1668 in Haverhill, Massachusetts to Love Hutchings, daughter of
John Hutchins and Frances Unknown. She
was born 16 July 1647 in Newbury, Massachusetts and died February 1739 in
Kingston, New Hampshire. Ten children.
Generation
4: Elizabeth Sherburne m. Jonathan
Sanborn
Generation
5: Margaret Sanborn m. Moses Sleeper
Generation
6: Hepzibah Sleeper m. Samuel Lane
Generation
7: Sarah Lane m. Elisha Batchelder
Generation
8: Jonathan Batchelder m. Nancy Thompson
Generation
9: George E. Batchelder m. Abigail M. Locke
Generation
10: George E. Batchelder m. Mary
Katharine Emerson
Generation
11: Carrie Maude Batchelder m. Joseph Elmer Allen
Generation
12: Stanley Elmer Allen m. Gertrude Matilda Hitchings (my grandparents)
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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Surname Saturday ~ GIBBONS of Oyster River, New Hampshire", Nutfield Genealogy, posted May 7, 2016, ( http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/05/surname-saturday-gibbons-of-oyster.html: accessed [access date]).
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