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MATTHEW GIBBS (d. 1697)
MARY BRADISH (say 1632–1660), daughter of Robert Bradish and Mary Howes
Matthew Gibbs died in 1697 in Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. [1] He married Mary Bradish by 1652. [2] Matthew and Mary are buried in the North Cemetery in Wayland, Middlesex County. [1]
Mary, the daughter of Robert and Mary Bradish, was born say 1632. [2] She died in 1660 in Sudbury. [1]
Mary Gibbs was admitted to the Charlestown Church on 23 September 1652. [2]
Matthew was one of the inhabitants of Sudbury who signed a petition for tax relief for the town during King Philip's War. [3]
During King Philip's War, the town of Sudbury distributed its ammunition to some of its residents, including Matthew. [4, 205]
Matthew was one of the inhabitants of Sudbury who asked the General Court for compensation after Sudbury men accompanied Sir William Phipps on his ill-fated expedition of 1690 to capture Quebec. The expedition failed and many men were lost to small pox. [4, 271]
Matthew's estate was settled in 1697. [5]
Children of Matthew Gibbs and Anne Bradish:
i Matthew Gibbs (twin) was born on 17 December 1656 in Sudbury. [5] Michael of Framingham married first Mary Moore in 1678. [5][6] Mary, the daughter of John Moore, died on 26 September 1705. [6] Matthew married second Mary's sister Elizabeth. [5][6]
On 22 November 1675, at the request of the Governor and Council, Sudbury impressed nine men for King Philip's War and Matthew was one of them. [4, 205]
Matthew Gibbs, Jr. was a soldier from Sudbury in King Philip's War in 25 November to 3 December 1675. [3] He was credited for service in King Philip's War on 24 April 1676. [3]
ii. Thomas Gibbs (twin) was born on 17 December 1656 in Sudbury. [5][7] He presumably died young.
iii. Thomas Gibbs was born on 10 April 1660 in Sudbury. [7]
iv. John Gibbs died on 2 April 1718 in Sudbury, Middlesex county. He married Ann Gleason.
v. Elizabeth Gibbs, the daughter of Matthew Gibbs, married John Russell of Duxbury. [5]
vii. Hannah Gibbs, the daughter of Matthew Gibbs, married Samuel Winch on 11 February 1674. [5]
viii. Mary Gibbs died on 6 January 1690/1. [8] She married first John Goodrich on 23 March 1674/5 in Sudbury. [8] John, the son of John Goodrich was born on 5 September 1647 and died about March 1676. [8] Mary married second Thomas Frost on 12 November 1678 in Sudbury. [8] Thomas was born about 1647 and died in 1724 in Framingham. [8]
References:
Map: Henry Francis Wallace, Map of Middlesex County, Massachusetts (portion) (Boston: Smith & Bumstead, 1856, https://www.loc.gov/item/2012592351).
1. "Mathew Gibbs," Findagrave (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/52117911/mathew-gibbs), photograph of what might be a memorial, rather than an original gravestone, with death dates.
2. "Great Migration 1634–1635, A–B," database with images, AmericanAncestors (2008.), 383. Originally published as: Charles Anderson, Robert, George F. Sanborn, Jr., and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634–1635, Volume 1, A–B (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1999).
3. George M. Bodge, "Soldiers in King Philip's War," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 39 (1885), 255–60, specifically 258 (Matthew, presumably, Jr.), 259 (Matthew, Jr.); 40 (1886), 391–406, specifically 399 (petition).
4. Alfred Sereno Hudson, History of Sudbury (Sudbury: the town, 1889).
5. James Savage, Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, vol. 2 (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1860), 246–7.
6. Ethel Stanwood Bolton, "Some Descendants of John Moore of Sudbury, Mass.," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 58 (1904), 176–8, specifically 177.
7. Andrew J. Ward, "Sudbury Records," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 17 (1863), 254–60, specifically 254–4.
8. George E. McCracken, "Thomas Butolph's Earlier Descendants," The American Genealogist 58 (1982), 231–42, specifically 232.
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