Giles Gibbs

Abt 1600 - 1641

• Name	Giles Gibbs
  Born	Abt 1600	England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Died	May 1641	Windsor, Hartford Co, Connecticut   [2]
  Will	18 May 1641	Windsor, Hartford Co, Connecticut
  	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 ... ¹5 at age twenty-one years"; and bequeathed to "my two sons Samuel & Benjamin" ¹20 each; to "my daughter Sarah" ¹20 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. [ Manwaring 1:14-15; CCCR 1:504-05].
  Buried	21 May 1641	Windsor, Hartford Co, Connecticut   [3]
  	The church records give his burial as May 21, 1641. They did not place a headstone on the grave because they did not want the Indians to know they had lost a man.
  Notes	He came from England but probably not aboard the Mary and John which brought the first group of settlers to Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay, in 1629/1630. The baptisms of two of his children in Exeter has been found in 1630 and 1631 which makes it likely he arrived in Dorchester in 1632 aboard the ship Abigail. He became freeman 4 Mar 1632/33. Giles was also granted land that same year. Additional text available in GMB (Anderson).
  Person ID	I29726	Bryant
  Last Modified	29 Jun 2003

  
  

  Family 1	Katherine Carwithyn,   b. Est 1610,   d. 24 Oct 1660, Windsor, Hartford Co, Connecticut
  Married	13 Apr 1629	St. Sidwell, Exeter, Devon, England   [1, 4, 5]
  Children	1. Jacob Gibbs,   d. 1708   2. Sarah Gibbs,   d. Abt 01 Nov 1689   3. Samuel Gibbs,   b. 1633, probably, Dorchester, Suffolk Co, Massachusetts ,   d. 08 Feb 1719/20, Windsor, Hartford Co, Connecticut   4. Benjamin Gibbs,   b. Abt 1635, probably, Dorchester, Suffolk Co, Massachusetts ,   d. 1677
  Family ID	F2482	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family 2	Helen Cary,   b. Abt 1600, England ,   d. 1629, Crewkerne, Somerset, England
  Married	29 Jul 1617	Alford, Somerset, England   [5]
  Children	1. Mary Gibbs,   d. Yes, date unknown   2. Margaret Gibbs,   d. Dec 1620, Crewkerne, Somerset, England   3. Elizabeth Gibbs   4. Gregory Gibbs,   d. 15 Mar 1707, Suffield, Hartford Co, Connecticut
  Family ID	F2484	Group Sheet

  
  

• Event Map		Born - Abt 1600 - England Married - 29 Jul 1617 - Alford, Somerset, England Married - 13 Apr 1629 - St. Sidwell, Exeter, Devon, England Died - May 1641 - Windsor, Hartford Co, Connecticut Will - 18 May 1641 - Windsor, Hartford Co, Connecticut Buried - 21 May 1641 - Windsor, Hartford Co, Connecticut  = Link to Google Maps   = Link to Google Earth
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• Sources

  [S260] GMB, Anderson, Robert Charles, (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts, 1995), p. 757. [S260] GMB, Anderson, Robert Charles, (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts, 1995), p.757. [S260] GMB, Anderson, Robert Charles, (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts, 1995), p. 756. [S32] TAG, The American Genealogist, 61:33. [S351] Gibbs Bulletin, Veron Gibbs, et. al., (2003(?)), p. 40.