Bathsheba (Gibbs) Brown (1767 - 1819)

Born 22 Jan 1767 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Wife of Abel Brown — married about 1788 (to about 1818) in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States

Died 8 Aug 1819 at age 52 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States

Problems/Questions Profile manager: David Gibbs [send private message]

Biography

Birth and Parents

Bathsheba (Gibbs) Brown was born in Massachusetts.

Bathsheba, the daughter of Jesse Gibbs and Ruth Stone Howe was born on 22 January 1767 at Sudbury, Massachusetts.^[1]

Marriage and Children

Bathsheba married Abel Brown, the son of Hope and Ruth (Hosmer) Brown say 1788 at Massachusetts. They had nine children born at Massachusetts:

1. Susanna Brown (b. 31 May 1789; d. 1861)^[2] m. say 1822 at Woburn, MA, Samuel Cutter (1745-1843)
2. Bathsheba Brown (baptized 18 Feb 1791; d. 1832)^[3] m. 10 May 1812 at Lancaster, MA, Joel Rugg (1788-1836)
3. Elizabeth Brown (b. 30 Jan 1793; d. 1847)^[4] m. 26 Jul 1818 at Boston, MA, Nicholas Little (1792-1857)
4. David Brown (b. 28 Jun 1794; d. )^[5]
5. Abel Brown Jr. (b. 8 Jul 1796; d. 14 Nov 1865, Milford, MA)^[6][7] m. 17 Feb 1818 at Holliston, MA, Polly Pond (1799-1851)
6. Ruth Brown (b. 10 May 1798; d. )^[8] m. 18 Mar 1818 at Leominster, MA, Joseph Johnson (1795-)
7. Ezekiel Howe Brown (b. 23 Nov 1800; d. )^[9]
8. Mary Brown (b. 1802; d. )
9. Julia Brown (b. 1807; d. 13 Aug 1880, Grafton, MA)^[10]

Death and Burial

Bathsheba (Gibbs) Brown died on 8 August 1819 in her year at Concord. [Needs source].

Sources

1. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4DN-8MB : 20 May 2022), Bathsheba Gibbs, 1767.
2. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQ6W-NV1 : 5 January 2021), Bathsheba in entry for Susanna Brown, 1789.
3. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4D7-1YP : 20 May 2022), Bathsheba in entry for Bathsheba Brown, 1791.
4. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQ6D-PV6 : 5 January 2021), Bathsheba in entry for Elizabeth Brown, 1793.
5. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQ66-QF9 : 5 January 2021), Bathsheba in entry for David Brown, 1794.
6. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQ66-98M : 5 January 2021), Bathsheba in entry for Abel Brown, 1796.
7. ↑ "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915, 1921-1924," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NWVD-P8L : 2 March 2021), Basheba in entry for Abel Brown, 14 Nov 1865; citing Milford, Massachusetts, v 185 p 232, State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 960,187.
8. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQ6W-DQT : 5 January 2021), Bathsheba in entry for Ruth Brown, 1798.
9. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQ64-QQY : 5 January 2021), Bathsheba in entry for Ezekiel How Brown, 1800.
10. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHZN-R7Q : 10 November 2020), Bathsheba Brown in entry for Julia Brown Morey Hayden, 13 Aug 1880; citing Death, Grafton, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 004277219.

GEDCOM Junk Note

• WikiTree profile Gibbs-373 created through the import of Ancestors of PBHowe.ged on Jun 6, 2011 by Buck Howe. Until 2022 (11 years), there was no biography or proper sourcing for this GEDCOM upload.

Acknowledgements

• Biography written with inline sources following additional research by Carol Baldwin on 3 August 2022.