Person:Giles Gibbs (1)

Giles Gibbs
b.Est 1595
  • HGiles GibbsEst 1595 - 1641
  • WHelena Cary - Bef 1629
m. 29 Jul 1617
  1. Mary Gibbs1618 -
  2. Margaret Gibbs1620 - 1620
  3. Elizabeth Gibbs1621/22 -
  4. Gregory Gibbs1623/24 - 1707
m. 13 Apr 1629
  1. Jacob Gibbs1629/30 - 1708/09
  2. Sarah Gibbs1631 - 1689
  3. Samuel GibbsEst 1633 - 1719/20
  4. Benjamin GibbsAbt 1635 - Abt 1677
Facts and Events
Name Giles Gibbs
Gender Male
Birth[2] Est 1595
Marriage 29 Jul 1617 Alford, Somerset, Englandto Helena Cary
Marriage 13 Apr 1629 Exeter, Devon, EnglandSt. Sidwell
to Katherine Carwithe
Immigration[2] 1632 New England
Burial[1] 21 May 1641 Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut

Admitted as a freeman in Dorchester on 4 March 1632/3 and served in various minor capacities there before moving to Windsor about 1636.

By 1640 in Windsor, he owned four parcels: a seven acre homelot; ten and a half acres at the Great Meade; a parcel over the Great River, thirty rods in breadth by three miles in length; forty-seven acres of upland above Rocky Hill; and (purchased of George Hull) "half an acre of the west end of his homelot."


Will

In his will, dated 18 May 1641 (but date of probate not known), "Gyles Gibbs, of Wyndsor, on Connecticutt, yeoman, being weak in body" ordered "my son Gregory" to be apprenticed to "some godly man for the space of five years" and if he stay out his time he is to have my lot over the great river, also if "my overseers have any encouragement to judge him worthy ... £5 at age twenty-one years"; and bequeathed to "my two sons Samuel & Benjamin" £20 each; to "my daughter Sarah" £20 at age twenty-one; to "Jacob, my son, ... my house and lots, meadows, home lot and great lot and lots whatsoever on this side the great river after his mother's life"; to "my wife" all my lots, houses, household goods, cattle, chattels, discharge of my debts; "provided that in case my said overseers have no good encouragement concerning the disposition of my son Gregory, but do judge him unworth a father's blessing under their hands, my will is that my executor shall have the said lot toward the education of my children until my son Jacob shall attain the age of twenty-one years, and then my will is that my son Jacob shall have it"; "Katharine my wife" executrix; the deacons of the church of Windsor overseers. In a postscript he bequeathed to "Elizaphatt Gregory ten bushels of corn"; and to "Richard Wellar" 40s. (Great Migration, citing Manwaring 1:14-15; CCCR 1:504-05).

References
  1. Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1638-1925.

    Gyles Gibbs was buryed May 21st 1641 (Bk I p. Forty-Four)

  2. 2.0 2.1 Giles Giles, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)
    2:756-58.

    Origin: St. Sidwell, Exeter, Devonshire
    Migration: 1632
    First Residence: Dorchester
    Removes: Windsor 1636
    Birth: By about 1600 based on estimated date of first marriage (by about 1625)
    Death: Buried Windsor 21 May 1641 [WiVR]
    First wife unknown; second wife Katherine Carwithe m. 1629

  3.   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)
    2:246.

    Gibbs...GILES, Dorchester 1630, prob. came in the Mary and John, freem. 4 Mar. 1633, was selectman 1634, rem. to Windsor, there d. 21 May 1641. His will, of three days bef. names w. Catharine, and ch. Gregory, b. 1640, Samuel, Benjamin, Sarah, and Jacob, all minors; and perhaps all b. on our side of the ocean. Sarah m. John Share, it is said; but wh. he was, is undiscov.