Gershom Gibbs (1721 - 1776)

Born 28 Jul 1721 in Litchfield, Litchfield, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Tabitha (Moore) Forward — married 1747 (to 29 Dec 1776) in Litchfield, Litchfield, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 29 Dec 1776 at age 55 in Prison Ship Grosvenor, New York, United States

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Biography

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Gershom Gibbs served with Col. Philip Burr Bradley's Battalion, Wadsworth's Brigade, Continental Army during the American Revolution.

Gershom Gibbs is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A044585.

Gershom Gibbs was a Prisoner of War during American Revolution.

Died aboard the Prison Ship Grosvenor.

Gibbs, Gershom (born in Litchfield, Litchfield County, CT, on July 28, 1721; died in Wallabout Bay, New York Harbor, New York City, NY, on December 29, 1776), son of Benjamin Gibbs and Abigail Marshall, the granddaughter of Samuel Marshall who was killed in 1637 in the Great Swamp Fight (at Sasqua Swamp in Southport, Connecticut) that ended the Pequot War.

Gershom Gibbs was the first white male born in Litchfield, Connecticut. He married Tabitha Moore (1731-1815) and they had six known children:

1. Gershom Gibbs, Jr. (b. July 18, 1750)
2. Ruth Gibbs (b. May 25, 1752)
3. Moore Gibbs (b. January 12, 1757)
4. Isaac Gibbs (b. May 18, 1759 - January 17, 1777)
5. Oliver Gibbs (b. May 23, 1762)
6. Lovell Gibbs (b. August 23, 1765)

During the Revolutionary War, he was a member of Captain Beebe's Company.^[1] He was one of the 36 men chosen from Litchfield for the defense of Fort Washington. Of the 36, only 6 returned. At the age of 55, he died of starvation and disease as a prisoner of war on the Grosvenor prison ship in Wallabout Bay, New York Harbor, New York City, NY. He is buried at Milton Burying Ground, Litchfield, Connecticut.

Note: Gershom and Tabitha's son Isaac Gibbs also served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. He was taken prisoner and also died of starvation and disease on January 17, 1777 at age 17 on the Grosvenor Prison Ship, one of at least 16 of these floating prisons anchored in Wallabout Bay on the East River in New York City for most of the war.^[2]

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Gershom Gibbs was a soldier in the Revolution, was taken prisoner and died of starvation and disease on the British prison ship "Grosvenir" in New York Harbor, 29 Dec 1776.

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Sources

1. ↑ "United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1783," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS3Q-C3Z8-H?cc=2546162&wc=WD6Q-RM3%3A1588792203 : 24 January 2018), Connecticut > image 439 of 977; citing various published state rosters, United States.
2. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #42069263

See also:

• Woodruff, George C. A Genealogical Register of the Inhabitants of the Town of Litchfield, Connecticut (Case Lockwood & Brainard Co., Hartford, Conn., 1845) Page 85, Page 87
• Boswell, George Copeland. The Litchfield Book of Days (Alex B. Shumway, Litchfield, 1899) Page 122-3 & Page 212
• Notes and Queries, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 1897) Vol. 51, Page 70.
• White, Alain Campbell. The History of the Town of Litchfield, Connecticut, 1720-1920 (Enquirer Print., Litchfield, Conn., 1920) Page 76.
• Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 18 Jul 2023), "Record of Gershom Gibbs", Ancestor # A044585.