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m. 29 Jul 1617
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m. 13 Apr 1629
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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."
[edit] WillIn 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
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