Person:Ambrose Gibbons (1)
Ambrose Gibbons
b.Est 1592 England
d.Aft 11 Jul 1656 Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, United States
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  1. Rebecca Gibbons - 1667
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Name Ambrose Gibbons
Gender Male
Birth[3] Est 1592 England
Marriage to Elizabeth Unknown
Death[1][2] Aft 11 Jul 1656 Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, United States
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  1. ↑ New Hampshire; Albert Stillman Batchellor (ed.); Otis Grant Hammond (ed.); and Henry Harrison Metcalf (ed.). Probate Records of the Province of New Hampshire. (New Hampshire: The State [et al], 1907–1941)
    1:32.

    Will of "Ambrose Gibbins of Oyster River in the Toune of Dover in New England", dated 11 Jul 1656, proved 9 May 1657, names as heir "Grandchild samuel sherburne the son of Henry sherburne", paying to "Henry Sherborn's children Elizabeth Mary Henry John Ambrose Sarah and Rebeckah or any more which may be lawfully begotten by rebeckah sherborne the wife of Henry sherborne being the daughter of Ambrose Gibbins" £21 when they come of age. "Henry sherburne be executor wth his son samuell".

  2. ↑ Davis, Walter Goodwin.; Mary Sloper.; John. Wentworth; and Lewis W. Brewster. Mary Sloper's Family Record. Ancestry of Joseph Waterhouse, 1754-1837, of Standish, Maine.

    My grandfather Ambros Gibbins, Dyed the 1st July, 1656.
    [This is clearly an error, since the will is dated 11 Jul 1656.]

  3. ↑ Ambrose Gibbons, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995).

    ORIGIN: Unknown MIGRATION: 1630 FIRST RESIDENCE: Piscataqua REMOVES: Dover 1641
    BIRTH: By about 1592 based on estimated date of marriage.
    DEATH: Dover between 11 July 1656 (date of will) and 9 May 1657 (probate of will). (The Sloper record has 1 July 1656 [ Waterhouse Anc 62, Rambles 2:52], which Davis puts down to the vagaries of human memory.)
    MARRIAGE: By about 1617 Rebecca _____; she died at Dover 14 May 1655 [ Waterhouse Anc 62; Rambles 2:52]. She was sent by the Laconia Company to her husband in Newichawannock before the last of May 1631 [NHPP 1:61-62].

  4.   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.

    GIBBONS, or GIBBINS, AMBROSE, Portsmouth 1630, factor of the Comp. of Laconia, came that yr. and his W. came the foll. of Dover, 1648, a selectman, liv. at the part, call. Oyster river, d. 11 July 1656, and May 1657, his Admor. sold the est. His d. Rebecca m. Henry Sherburne.

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