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2. HANNAH, b. Oct. 21, 1779; m. Asahel R. Seaver; res. W .; 9 chn .; d. Mar. 5, 1853.
3. REBECCA, b. Sept. 9, 1781; m. Jeremiah Wood; res. Gr. and Stg .; sev. chn.
GARFIELD.
Edward Garfield1 was an early resident of Watertown, coming there soon after its settlement and remaining through life. He d. June 14, 1672, at the great age of 97. His s. Edward2 was made a freeman in 1635, and located in that part of the town afterwards set off to form Waltham. with which place the family for several generations was largely identified. Another s. of the first Edward1 was named Samuel2, of whom no extended record is extant. Capt. Benjamin Garfield8, a notable citizen of Watertown in his day, was the s. of one of these, presumably of the former, though the authorities differ on that point. He had a s. Samuel4, who m. Mary, dau. of Nathaniel. and niece of Joseph, Bowman, an early proprietor and resident of Nar. No. 2. Of this union came
I. GARFIELD, BENJAMIN5, b. Waltham, March 6, 1715-16. He m. Abigail, dau. of George and Hepzibah (Fiske) Herring- ton and sr. of Seth Herrington, soon after arriving at his major- ity, and came to this place in 1740 or 1741, having purchased lot No. 74, the Dike place, near Sch. Ho. No. 3, Nov. 8, the former year. Prob. he did not locate there, inasmuch as he sold the lot a few months later to Samuel Smith, who was paid a bounty for clearing, building, and settling upon it. In Jan., 1741-2, he bought lot No. 58, the Graves (now Geo. M. Davis) place, of Fairbanks Moor, and there made for himself a home. Two years afterward he conveyed the farm to Richard Graves, and located upon the adjoining lot, No. 57, of which he was the owner (see A. H. No. So), where he also seems to have erected
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a dwelling house. He was not long in town, however. He sold in Feb., 1744-5, to Wm. Baldwin, as elsewhere narrated, and left for parts unknown. He was evidently somewhat of an adventurer and speculator, and was prob. here simply to serve his own temporary personal interests. Three chn. only are reported, though there were very likely others of a later date.
2. MARY6; bap. Jan. 17, 1739.
4. ELIJAH6; bap. July 5, 1741. 3. BENJAMIN6; bap. April 23, 1740.
5. GARFIELD, SOLOMON6, was s. of Thomas5 of Lincoln, b. in 1743. Thomas5 was s. of Thomas+, and gd.s. of the distinguished Capt. Benjamin3 of Waltham, spoken of above. Hence it ap- pears that Thomas5, the f. of Solomon6, was cousin of Benjamin5, just described. He, the former, was an O. P. of Nar. No. 2, and in the first division of lots drew No. 110, on which the Messrs. Hurd now res. This property he conveyed, in 1773, by proper title deeds to his s. Solomon6, who had already been upon it for several yrs. That son m. May 29, 1766, Sarah Stimson of Sud- bury. They came to W. not long afterward, and here their chn.,
named below, were b. If they had others, the record of them has not been found. In 1781 Mr. Garfield sold his farm to Caleb Parker, Reading, but remained in town until 1788 or '89, when he rem. to Cherry Valley, N. Y. The family, no doubt, was greatly burdened by the poverty of the times, on account of which an entire abatement of taxes was voted by the town at different dates, while in 1786 the privilege of paying them in shingles was granted, as the records show. Mr. and Mrs. Garfield were the gt .- gd.pts. of Jas. A. Garfield, the widely-lamented martyr Presi- dent of the U. S., through their s. Thomas7, the f. of Abram8, who m. Eliza Ballou, of which union Jas. A.9 was b. Nov. 19, 1831. There is no reason for doubting that Mr. Garfield was a man of worthy character, and a useful and respected citizen, but the rep- resentations that have been made in sundry publications con- cerning his prominence in public affairs, and his elevation to im- portant positions of responsibility, trust, and honor by the suf- frages of his fellow-townsmen, chiefly in connection with the story
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of the career of his illustrious descendant, are purely apocryphal and without any warrant whatever in the records. Through the kindness of the Am. Antiquarian Soc., Worc., a cut of the Gar- field dwelling house, as it has appeared in recent years, is here- with presented. Chn. of Solomon and Marv, b. in W., were:
6. REBECCA™, b. June 2, 1770.
7. THOMAS7, b. March 19, 1773; grandfather of the President.
8. SOLOMONT, b. June 23, 1779. 9. HANNAH7, b. June 2, 1781.
10. LUCY7, b. Feb. 19, 1785.
11. GARFIELD, SAMUEL, a distant relative of the preceding, and a native of Waltham, m. (1) Eunice, dau. of Samuel and Phebe (Keyes) Mosman, March 18, 1810. After res. in Wal- tham and W. Boylston ab. 5 yrs., he came to W. and set. on or near the May place, in the north part of the town. He subse- quently lived on the late Israel Dickinson farm, and elsewhere in these borders. His w., Eunice, d. March 31, 1829, a. 50, and he m. (2) May 8, 1831, wid. Ruth (Puffer) Darby Byam, residing a few years at her house, where George Harris now lives. He d. May 16, 1848, a. 68., and his second w., Ruth (Puffer), d. April 15, 1834, a. 58. Chn. :
12. MARTHA K., b. Nov. 21, 1810; m. Stephen Bathrick; res. W .; no chn .; d. Nov. 29, 1873.
13. MOSES, b. at unkn. date; m., had 4 chn., and d. Saxonville, 1862.
14. SAMUEL, b. at unkn. date; m., had 3 chn., and d. California, 1887.
15. EUNICE, b. Dec. 5, 1814; m. George Smith; res. W .; 3 chn .; d. Feb. 3, 1864.
16. JANE, b. Sept. 24, 1816; m. three times; 4 chn .; now living Lunenburg
17. MARY, b. March 8, 1818; m. Amos Pond; 5 chn .; d. Greenfield, 1885.
18. ASAPH, b. April 17, 1820; m. Phebe Smith; 2 chn .; d. Waltham, 1886.
I. GATELY, MARTIN, one of the early Celtic settlers in W., a native of the Emerald Isle, b. 1813, was here with his w., Mary, ab. the year 1844, and after res. elsewhere awhile, finally located on the Beard place, near the Gr. line. He appears to have d. Sept. 2, 1882, a. 69. The names of only 4 chn. are found in the . records, though it is understood there were others not reported to the Town Clerk. Those at hand are :
2. MARTHA M., b. July 25, 1845. 3. OLIVER J., b. Oct. 14, 1849.
4. THOMAS H., b. Dec. 8, 1853. 5. MARTIN, b. Jan. 8, 1856.
[3.] GATELY, OLIVER J., s. of the last, by his w., Jane -, had :
6. NELLIE A., b. May 14, 1878.
8. Unnamed, b. May 5, 1881.
7. JOHN J., b. July 21, 1879.
[4.] GATELY, THOMAS H., bro. of the last, m. Mary E. Sweeney, and had :
9. MARY JANE, b. Sept. 20, 1883. IO. SADIE G., b. March 20, 1889.
[5.] GATELY, MARTIN, another bro., m. Julia Whealen, and had :
II. FRED J., b. Dec. 20, 1881.
13. WALTER H., b. Jan. 20, 1887. 12. MARY A., b. June 2, 1883.
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14. GATELY, PATRICK, perhaps bro. of Martin (I), and his w., Bridget, were in tn. quite early, and are credited with 3 dau. :
15. CATHARINE, b. Nov. 21, 1852. 16. MARY, b. Oct. 17, 1854.
17. MARGARETTE, b. Oct. 7, 1859.
GATES.
Stephen - sometimes spelled Steeven-Gates1, the immigrant ancestor of this family in N. E., was son of Thomas of Norwich in the mother country. In 1638 he with his wife, two sons, Stephen2 and Simon2, and dau., Eliza- beth2, come over in the Diligent and settled in Hingham. Another son, Thomas2, was b. after reaching these shores. From Hingham Stephen1. the elder, moved first to Camb. and thence to Lancaster, where he was made freeman in 1753, and with others petitioned for the incorporation of the town in 1754. He started out zealously in the work of the new settlement, but being of an impulsive, or perhaps irascible, temperament, soon got into trouble with his fellow-incorporators and finally left them, in disgust and indignation, going back to Camb., where he d. in 1662. In his will, still ex- tant, he signs his name Steffene Gates.
His s. Stephen2, upon becoming of age, set. in Boston, but in 1673 bought 300 acres of land on the Elsabeth (Assabet) river in Stow, and was among the first proprietors of the town. Thomas Gates?, another s. of the first Stephen, located awhile in Sudbury, then in Marboro', but finally estab- lished himself permanently near his brother in Stow. Both of these had large families whence have sprung a great multitude scattered far and wide through the land. From one of the Stow settlers the Gateses of W., Gr .. and vicinity no doubt descended. but a careful search of the records there and elsewhere failed to make sure the connecting links. Some authorities state that Stephen2 had a son Simon8, the father of an Amos4, b. ab. 1700. This Amost may have had a s. by the same name, who was the first Gates in this town, it being a matter of record that the earliest of the family here was so related. as shown below. On this supposition, the lineage given is based.
I. GATES, AMOS5, according to the Stow records, was s. of Amost and Nancy, b. April 15, 1735. On the 14th of Sept., 1758, he purchased lot No. 20, 2d Div., the old town farm on Beech Hill, though he does not appear to have occupied it for some years afterward. He was here, however, in 1763, his name appearing in the list of resident tax payers at that date. He was, no doubt, the first occupant of the lot named, though he had no family at the time. In 1765 he sold to James Ross, Jr., of Lanc., and lived for a time on the Josiah Jackson, now J. Brown, place, on the Winchendon road, prob. the first resident there. In 1772, Dec. 24, he bought lot No. 24, on which Leon- ard M. Gates, his kinsman, now lives, and there the remainder of his days was spent. In 1771 he m. Elizabeth Laws of Littleton, by whom he had 3 daus. He d. in 1804, a. 69. His wid. d. April 18, 1825, a. 75 (?). Chn .:
2. MARY6, b. Aug. 26, 1772; m. Ezekiel Flint; res. W .; no chn .; d. June 12, 1863. 3. OLIVE6, b. July 24, 1774; m. Ephraim Sampson; res. Ash .; sev. chn.
4. LOICE6 (Lois), b. April 4, 1789; m. Ezra Simonds; res. Hub.
5. GATES, SIMON5, presumably bro. of Amos5, b. ab. 1740, m. Susannah Reed of Stow, and had I chd. before coming to W. He bought, Sept. 4, 1765, lot No. 26, 2d Div., situated just
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over the line in Gr., and recently occupied by his gd.s., Horace Gates, but did not locate upon it before 1768. When Gr. was incorporated he was assigned to the new town at his own request, "because," he said, "he was most needed there," though another version of the story is that he was promised a deacon- ship, -a promise, however, which was never kept, and one, per- haps, "more honored in the breach than in the observance." He was the ancestor of most of those who have ever borne the name of Gates in W., Gr., and vicinity. He d. March 11, 1803, a. 63. His wid., Susannah, d. Dec. 18, 1833, a. 88. Chn .:
6. NATHAN6, b. 1767; m. Abigail Knowlton; res. Gr. and elsewhere; 15 chn.
7. ELIZABETH6, b. Sept. 14, 1769; d. Jan. 21, 1791.
S. SUSANNAH6, b. May 19, 1772; d. Sept. 13, 1778.
9. SIMONS, b. Nov. 7, 1774; d. Sept. 10, 1778.
IO. ANNA6, b. Aug. 24, 1777; d. Sept. 17, 1778.
11. SIMON6, b. July 28, 1779; m. twice; res. Gr .; 7 chn.
12. DANIEL6. b. July 23, 1782; m. Phebe Mosman; res. Gr. and W .; 7 chn.
1 3. GERRY"?, b. 178.1; d. young.
14. REUBEN6, b. April 21, 1786; m. Anna Mosman; res. Gr .; & chn.
1 5. EZEKIEL6, b. Oct. 31, 1789; d. Aug. 2, 1809.
16. ELIZABETH6, b. Jan., 1791; d. Jan. 21, 1791.
17. ELIZABETH6; d. unm.
[12.] GATES, DANIEL6, s. of the last, m. Phebe, dau. of Samuel and Phebe (Keyes) Mosman, May 27, 1805, and set. for a time in Gr. Later he rem. to this town and located on the David Child place, now owned by Hugh Carey, where he d. Sept. 17, 1847, a. 65. His wid., Phebe, d. Aug. 1, 1850, a. 65. Chn .:
IS. DANIEL M.7, b. April 22, 1806; m. Arvilla Lawrence; res. Northboro'; d. Oct. 13, 1861.
19. SOPHRONIA", b. April 18. ISOS; m. John Stickney; res. W. and Fg.
20. LEONARD M.7, b. July 28, 1810; m. twice; res. W.
21. Lucy7, b. Feb. 8, IS13; m. George Smith.
22. PHEBE D.7, b. Aug. 26, 1815; m. Gamaliel S. Beaman; res. W.
23. CHARLOTTE7, b. Aug. 11, 1818; m. Stillman Sawyer; res. W .; d. Aug. 30, 1842.
24. SOLOMON K.7, b. May 16, 1821; m. and had chn .; d. Jan. 2, 1891.
[20.] GATES, LEONARD M.7, s. of Daniel and Phebe, m. (1) Martha J., dau. of Amasa and Martha (Seaver) Leland, Gr., Dec. 24, 1837. She d. Jan. 2, 1852. He m. (2) Eliza Ann Pea- body of Nashua, N. H., Oct. 26, 1854. Both are still living. Chn. :
25. EUGENE", b. Jan. 2, 1839; in. Helen Ray; res. W.
26. . LEONARD8, b. Oct. 30, 1846; went to Iowa.
27. J. ELDORA8, b. March 8, 1856; m. Cecil Whitney; res. Fg.
28. LOTTIE M.8, b. Dec. 27, 1860.
29. MARY E.8, b. Jan. 3, 1864; m. Chauncy L. Smith.
[25.] GATES, EUGENE8, s. of Leonard M. and Martha J., m. Helen, dau. of Anson and Emily (Jackson) Ray, Sept. 2, 1862. He is a farmer and res. on the former Caleb Wetherbee place, near Beech Hill Sch. Ho. He was in the service during the war of the Rebellion. (See Chap. XX.) Chn. :
30. LUELLA F.9, b. Sept. 18, 1864; m. George A. Sargent.
31. ALBERT E.9, b. Jan. 9, 1871.
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32. GATES, ASAPH7, S. of Nathan6 (6) and Abigail (Knowlton) Gates of Gr., and gd.s. of Simon5, was b. Dec. 7, 1794. He m. (1) Rachel Ray, Sept. 13, 1816, and had 4 chn. She d. July 25, 1853, and he m. (2) Alice, wid. of Moses Mosman, and dau. of Wm. Rider, Fg., Sept. 30, 1859. He lived on the Winch. road, half a mile N. W. of the village. He d. June 25, 1877. a. 82. His wid., Alice, d. Jan. 18, 1883, a. 88. Chn., all by Ist w .:
33. EDWIN8, b. Dec. 16, 1816; d. Dec. 27, 1839.
34. HEMAN8, b. Feb. 8, 1820.
35. CYNTHIA8, b. Oct. 28, 1823; m. Marcus L. Wright; res. Gr.
36. HARRIET8, b. April 2, 1834; m. Ezra Osgood; res. Gr.
37. GATES, JEREMIAH KNOWLTON7, bro. of the last, was b. Gr., Sept. 28, 1808. He m. Sally Spalding, Dec. 25 (?), 1834, and set. in W., where he d. June 22, 1845. His wid. m. (2) Lyman Wilson, Leom. Chn. :
38. SALLY A.8, b. May 26, 1837; d. May 28, 1837.
39. EMORY K.8, b. July 13, 1838; d. July 27, 1838.
40. PARKER K.8, b. Nov. 9, 1841; d. Jan. 30, 1859.
41. GATES, JAMES ELLIOT7, bro. of the last, b. Gr., June II, 1810, m. Sept. 24, 1835, Ann Maria, dau. of Josiah and Nancy (Bolton) Jackson, and res. on what is now Elliot St., near Bacon St. He d. July 3, 1875, a. 65, leaving 5 chn. :
42. LUCY ANN8, b. Sept. 13, 1836; m. Luman E. Carter; res. W .; d. April 25, 1886.
43. LUCINDA8, b. Jan. 18, 1838; m. George R. Walcott; res. Somerville; I chd.
44. MARIA8, b. Dec. 17, 1839; m. George E. Rice; res. W .; no chn.
45. EMORY8, b. April 5, 1842; m. twice; res. W.
46. MASON", b. May 11, 1848; d. Oct. 8, 1867.
[45.] GATES, EMORY8, s. of the last, m. (1) Amelia, dau. of Robert and Susan (Howe) Huff of Cooper, Me., Sept. 14, 1867. She d. Jan. 18, 1883, and he m. (2) Hezzie, dau. of John and Mary (Crabtree) Butterfield, Danforth, Me., April 24, 1886. He is a chairmaker. Chn .:
47. MASON E.9, b. April 22, 1868; m. Ella L. Holden; res. Boston.
18. HENRY W.9, b. May 15, 1871; d. Nov. 19, 1889.
49. EDGAR F.9, b. March 16, 1873. 50. JOHN E.9, b. May 17, 1887.
51. HAROLD B.9, b. Nov. 24, 1888. 52. CLAUDE L.9, b. Sept. 11, 1892.
53. GATES, PHINEAS, s. of Phineas and Sarah of Stow, b. at unkn. date, came into town in the latter part of the last cen- tury, and purchasing lands of his bro .- in-law, Asa Farnsworth, built a house near where Samuel H. Sprague now lives, and started a tannery on the intervale below. His w. was Sally , who, after his d. in 1803, m. Mr. Farnsworth. She d. prob. in 1830, leaving a will dated Aug. 12, of that year. Chn., as far as found :
54. WINSLOW, b. Nov. 22, 1791. 55. RACHAEL, b. unknown date.
[54.] GATES, WINSLOW, just named, m. and had a family. He res. in the Narrows neighborhood awhile, and at the S. W. part of the town. Name of w. unkn. Chn. :
56. PHINEAS. 57. WILLIAM H. 58. HARRIET.
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59. GATES, SAMUEL, S. of Jonathan of Gr., distantly related to those above, was b. Dec. 18, 1790. He set. on the Taft place, now Fred. Graham's, in west part of the town. Was never m. Died Aug. 11, 1866.
1. GAUT, THOMAS, from Dedham, a native of Halifax, Ply- mouth Co., b. May 17, 1790, lineage unkn., came to W. ab. 1810, and served as apprentice to Jesse Warren, the village black- smith. Having acquired the trade, he bought out his employer Feb. 11, 1812, and continued the business while he lived. His purchase included the recent dwelling house of Josiah Page and land adjoining, westward as far as the store of Geo. W. Bruce, near the site of which the shop stood, as the older inhab- itants can remember. He m. the same year Lucy, dau. of Levi and Rebecca (Wood) Graves, who bore him 7 chn. He d. July 25, 1830, a. 40. His w. survived him in respected widowhood more than half a century, dying Oct. 1, 1885, a. 92. Chn .:
2. CAROLINE, b. March 8, 1813; m. S. M. Humes; res. Greenfield; I chd .; d. Oct. 2, 1846.
3. JULIA ANN, b. Dec. 12, 1814; d. June 24, 1815.
4. LUCY ANN, b. Aug. 17, 1816; d. June 17, 1817.
5. J. RUSSELL, b. Aug. 8, 1817; m. Ellen Greenleaf; res. W. and Phila.
6. THOMAS W., b. Aug. 20, 1819; d. Oct. 19, 1820.
7. HARRIET, b. June 9, 1822; living unm. W.
S. LUCY ANN, b. June 28, 1826; d. Dec. 23, 1845.
[5] GAUT, JOSEPH RUSSELL, s. of the last, was of studious tastes and ambitious for self improvement, fitting for college at W. Academy and grad. at Amherst in the class of 1842. After 5 yrs.' experience in teaching elsewhere, he came back to his native place and took charge of the Academy, as successor of A. Holden Merriam,-a position held by him for 6 yrs., the duties of which were performed with conscientious fidelity and zeal. He subsequently rem. to Philadelphia and engaged in the book trade, dying there April 6, 1875, a. 57. He m. Ellen Green- leaf of Brattleboro', Vt., who d. June 17, 1887. They had 2 chn. :
9. GEORGE ABBOT, b. W., Aug. 20, 1850.
IO. FREDDIE, b. Phila., date unknown; dec'd.
GERRISH.
Capt. William Gerrish1, came from Bristol, Eng., ab. 1640, and set. in Newbury, where several generations of descendants succeeded him and whence sprang in due time Samuel of W., whose lineage, however, has not been traced with absolute certainty. Capt. Wm. had a s. Moses2, b. 1656, the father of Joseph3, b. in 1682. This Joseph3 was prob. the father of Moses+, Enoch4. and Samuel4, who severally located in Lancaster before the breaking out of the Revolution. The first of these was so pronounced and violent a royalist that he was obliged to leave the colony, going first to the British Provinces, but finally settling on an island near Grand Menan, giving it his own name, which it bears to this day. His bro. Enoch4 also expatriated himself for the same reason, but his subsequent history is unknown.
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I. GERRISH, SAMUEL4, sup. s. of Joseph3 of Newbury, was b. ab. 1740, and, as stated, lived for a time in Lanc. He m. (1) Abigail Moor of that town, Dec. 26, 1771, and seems to have gone back to Newbury for a season, his first child having been b. there. But he soon returned to Lanc., being a resident of that town in May, 1777, when he bought of Dr. Harvey the greater part of lot No. 4 in this place, bounding on Main St., from Bacon St. to Dr. Bartlett's (Estey's), in the central village. On that lot he soon located, opening a store and building up a considerable trade in this and surrounding towns. He was a man of ability, character, and education, and grew rapidly in the esteem and confidence of the public. Two yrs. after coming here he was chosen Assessor, and in 1781 was elected Town Clerk, to fill the vacancy caused by the absence in the army of the previously elected incumbent, Michael Gill. He was also Selectman at the same time. His w., Abigail, d. June 11, 1782, a. 35. Ten yrs. later he m. Ruth, wid. of John Woodward, who had d. in the army, and, selling his estate to Nathan Whitney, res. thereafter in her former home, at the corner of Main St. and the Hub. road -the house occupying the site where now stands the residence of Francis Nichols. Mr. Gerrish in his earlier life was connected with the militia, and bore the title of Lieut. He was the largest man, physically, that ever lived in W., weighing 360 lbs. at the time of his decease, Feb. 6, 1797. He was 56 yrs. of a. His second w., Ruth, d. Jan. 8, 1822, a. 78. Chn .:
2. POLLY5, b. Newbury, April 24, 1772; m. Edward Kendall; d. Oct. 31, 1844.
3. BETSEY5, b. Lanc .? , date unknown; m. Benjamin Barrett; res. Royalston, etc .; Il chn.
4. SAMUEL5, b. W., Dec. 28, 1779; d. April 15, 1783.
GIBBS.
The early families of this name in W. descended from Matthew Gibbs1, the immigrant ancestor who appeared in Charlestown in 1654. but who located in that part of Sudbury set off to Framingham, the following year. He had a son Matthew2, from whom sprung two families resident in W.
I. GIBBS, SAMUEL3, s. of Matthew2, was b. in Fram. March I, 1685. He m., says Barry (Hist. of Fram.), Lydia Bellows of Marlboro', Aug. 26, 1724, by whom he appears to have had in that town at least 2 chn. Ab. 1730 he rem. to Lanc., where he res. for many years. His w. d. at an unkn. date, but prob. before his removal, and he m. (2) Lydia, sr. of Fairbanks Moor of Lanc. In May, 1748, Mr. Gibbs came here and bought lot No. 20, which included the easterly portion of the central cem- etery and a much larger tract of land lying S. W. of the same, and, having erected buildings upon it, took up his residence there. The house, whose site may be still recognized, near the burial place of the family of Geo. Smith, was finally destroyed by fire. (See A. H. No. 62.) In the following year he pur-
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chased lot No. 2, bounding S. W. on the old Common, of which his s., Elijah4, was subsequently the owner and occupant. Mr. Gibbs d. Jan. 19, 1758, a. 72. Second wife's d. unascertained. The following table represents all that is known of his chn. :
2. SAMUEL4, b. Sudbury, June 13, 1725; prob. d. young.
3. JOHN4; mentioned in records 1752 and 1772.
4. ELIJAH4, b. Lanc., April 18, 1732; m. twice and had chn .; res. W.
5. AMASA4, b. Lanc., March 18, 1734; prob. d. young.
6. PAUL+, b. Lanc., Jan. 19, 1736; m. Eunice Brocklebank.
7. MARY4, b. Lanc., Oct. 8, 1739; d. May 30, 1759.
[4] GIBBS, ELIJAH4, s. of the last, located first on lot No. 2, as indicated above. He had land cleared there in 1751, before he was of age, and a house built in 1762, when he sold to Joseph Holden, Jr. The house stood towards the N. E. extremity of the estate. (See A. H. No. 39.) There are no proofs, however, that he had a family until ab. 1760, when he m. Abigail, wid. of Henry Stevens, who d. 1758, and of whose will he was executor. After disposing of lot No. 2 he res. a few years on the Stevens homestead, lot No. 112, at the upper part of Wachusettville, owning principally and running the sawmill in connection with the farm. He subsequently purchased lot No. 43, and prob. spent his last years there. (See A. H. No. 38.) His w., Abi- gail, d. ab. 1768, and he m. (2) Mary, dau. of Samuel and Abigail Whitney (pub. Oct. 24), 1769. He d. in 1774, and his wid. m. (2) Edward Scott, Fg., Oct. 22, 1781. Chn., of whom little is known :
8. SAMUEL5, b. Sept. 28, 1761; { twins; ¿ no record.
j prob. went to Dummerston, Vt.
9. EDMUND5, b. Sept. 28, 1761; 5
IO. ELIJAH5, b. Nov. 10, 1764. II. AMASA5, b. 1766 ?; d. Aug. 6, 1771.
12. MARY5, b. May 6, 1768.
13. SUSANNAH5, b. July 9, 1770.
[6.] GIBBS, PAUL4, bro. of the last, was pub. to Eunice Brocklebank, June 23, 1771. He seems to have come into pos- session of his f.'s estate after the latter's death, and to have occupied it (perhaps jointly with his bro. John), but dividing it into three lots in 1772, and selling, respectively, to Jeremiah Gager, Nathaniel Brown, and Capt. Wm. Edgell. He then left the place and his name disappears from both the town and county records. He was prob. f. of Paul, named below, of a dau., who was burned to death, and of Elizabeth, who d. Feb. 17, 1823.
14. GIBBS, PAUL5, untraced, but prob. s. of the last named, lived and d. in Whately, whither his f. may have moved from WV. What renders this supposition credible is the fact that the family of Paul Gibbs of Whately became a town charge in 1817, and that, subsequently to that date, his wid. and chn. were brought here at the public expense and supported, wholly or in part, by the tn. The name of the mother has not been found ; those of the chn. appear below :
15. DENNY6, b. Whately, Dec. 25, 1810.
16. AMASAG, b. Whately, Oct. 20, 1815; res. Hub.
[5 chn .; dec'd.
17. MEHITABLES, b. Whately, Aug. 27, ISIS; m. Joshua A. Whitney; res. Gr .;
18. LYDIA ANN6, b. May 20, 1822; prob. d. town farm, May 14, 1844.
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HISTORY OF WESTMINSTER, MASS.
19. GIBBS, JOSEPH4, s. of Joseph3 of Sudbury, who was bro. of Samuel3, mentioned above, was bap. Sept. 13, 1719. He was in the place some years before his uncle came, having as early as 1742 signed a petition to the Gen. Ct., as a resident proprie- tor. He located on lot No. 102, in the east part of the town- ship. His house was near the original proprietors' road to Lanc., on the highlands, half a mile east of the present highway. Some traces of the site, it is said, are still to be seen, and a Gibbs pas- ture in the vicinity perpetuates the original owner's name. (See A. H. No. 87.) He was an intermittent inhabitant of the place, being reported absent in 1751. He hailed from Nar. No. 2 in 1757, when he enlisted in Capt. Benjamin Ballard's Co., for ser- vice in the F. and I. War. His homestead passed into the hands of his bro., Clark Gibbs, who sold it to Timothy Hoar of Concord, f. of the Timothy who afterwards occupied it. About 1760 Mr. Gibbs and his family moved to Pn., where he eventually d., May 12, 1774. His w., whose name was Hannah (Howe), d. 2 yrs. before, May 22, 1772. Of his chn. little is known, their birth- places and dates not being definitely determined, except in the case of the three youngest, natives of Pn. Very likely most, if not all the others were b. in this town. What has been learned of the family is thus tabulated :
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